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Read full descriptionThis panel discussion brings together youth leaders from several Richmond organizations and initiatives to share the ways in which they are planning the city’s future.
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Join artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, along with UC Berkeley faculty, for an evening of conversation focused on BLKNWS, an ongoing project that blurs the lines between art, journalism, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique.
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Computational design and creative coding specialist Tom White talks about his work creating art by AI, for AI, as a way of understanding how machines perceive the world.
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A talk by Chicago-based artist William Pope.L, whom the New York Times called “inarguably the greatest performance artist of our time.”
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Russian scholars Margarita Kuleva and Natalia Samutina talk about questions of fairness, inclusion, and cultural innovation in post-Soviet societies.
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Join us for an evening of fierce readings and conversation with renowned poets Danez Smith and Patricia Smith.
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John K. Wilson, a fellow with the University of California National Center on Free Speech and Civic Engagement, discusses the past and present problem of art censorship on college campuses.
Interdisciplinary artist Autumn Knight discusses her performance projects and artistic strategies for survival in institutional space.
Poet, scholar, and new media artist Margaret Rhee talks about robots, the racialization of Asian Americans, and the relationship between technology and difference in modern society.
Join Oakland-based artist Drew Bennett, the founder of Facebook’s artist residency program, as well as UC Berkeley faculty for a discussion of careers in creative fields.
Faculty and students from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism present documentaries, photography, and innovative multimedia projects from the J-School.
The director of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab at UC Berkeley discusses the challenges of developing expressive robotic systems to integrate with natural counterparts.
Ruthie Dineen, Ciera-Jevae Gordon, Ptah Tracey Mitchell, and Dalia J. Ramos-Mucino discuss the city of Richmond—its colorful past and shifting present, and how art and health play an integral role in its future.
Egypt-born, Los Angeles–based artist Sherin Guirguis discusses her work, which investigates narratives and histories that have often been forgotten, marginalized, or erased.
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Cornell University robotics researcher Guy Hoffman talks through some of the paradoxes involved in the development of social robots designed for connectedness.
Artist Nigel Poor presents collaborative projects she has worked on inside San Quentin Prison, including the work on view in The San Quentin Project and the award-winning podcast Ear Hustle; Michael Nelson, whose work is featured in the exhibition, joins her in conversation.
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Can a machine create its own art? Artist Leonel Moura considers the question, which is at the core of his work with robotics and artificial intelligence.
Celebrating UNESCO’s International Year of Indigenous Language, visual artists, dancers, and writers celebrate the creative pulse of the languages sustaining their works.
Artist Nona Faustine discusses her work at the intersection between past and present, individual identity and collective history.
Beirut- and Bay Area–based, internationally acclaimed author Rabih Alameddine joins BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder for a conversation on concepts of “strangeness.”
In this talk, artist Marisa Morán Jahn weaves together her interest in creative technology as myth-making and her practice of co-designing with and for historically underserved communities.
Multidisciplinary artist Patrick Martinez talks about his work, which excavates language, belonging, and the visual-cultural systems of the city of Los Angeles as a means of creating dialogue about gentrification and injustice.
Multidisciplinary designer Madeline Gannon discusses how art and technology are merging to forge new futures for human-robot relations.
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This screening is presented as part of Arts + Design Mondays. Tongues Untied also screens Wednesday, October 23 (with Elena Gross and Vivian Kleiman in conversation; regular admission prices apply).
Riggs’s riveting combination of interviews, performance, stock footage, autobiography, poetry, and dance reveals the revolutionary potential of black men loving black men.