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Visiting Berkeley, California. Checking out Habitot Children's Museum, Adventure Playground in the Berkeley Marina, and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
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Avante-garde Anthem for the Future for Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's new space
For the occasion of the celebration for the new BAM/PFA building (designed by DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO), the director of the BAM/PFA asked me for an avant garde anthem of the new millenium. Inspired by that provocation, I thought to combine throat singing and excerpts from the Latin text from Nuper Rosarum Flores, which was sung on the occasion of the consecration of the Duomo in Florence, with an industrial electronica track by Ilya Rostovtsev (which fit the vibe of the graffiti-filled space).
The ceremony included speeches by Larry Rinder (director of BAM/PFA), Chancellor Birgeneau, and UC Berkeley benefactor, Barclay Simpson, who was awarded the Berkeley Medal during the event.
Text excerpted from Nuper Rosarum Flores:
Nuper rosarum flores - Recently garlands of roses
Hieme licet horrida - despite a terrible winter
Grandis templum machinae - a temple of great ingenuity
Condecorarunt perpetim - to be a perpetual adornment
Devotus erat populus - devoted as a people
Ut qui mente et corpore - together in mind and body
Terribilis est locus iste - Magnificent is this place
Alumni Panel of Curators Across Disciplines
Alumni Panel of Curators Across Disciplines
with Patricia Cariño Valdez, René de Guzman, and Deena Chalabi
Wed Nov 29, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Three alumni curators from different organizations explore the process of curating objects, new technologies, and public experiences with different goals and in varied locations. Speakers will also discuss their Berkeley education and share ideas for further collaboration with the university and with Berkeley students. Biography: Patricia Cariño Valdez is the Curator and Director of Public Programs at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). At this California institution, she oversees exhibition coordination including research, interpretation, and presentation of 810 contemporary art exhibitions per year. Additionally, she develops public engagement initiatives including ICA Live!, a performance art program, and Talking Art, a series of panel discussions and artist lectures, portfolio reviews, and workshops. Prior to her current role at the ICA, Cariño worked at the intersection of arts and sciences as the Public Programs Coordinator and Development Specialist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Cariños curatorial projects have been held at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium, Oakland Museum of California, Pro Arts, California College of the Arts, and numerous independent galleries and art spaces in San Francisco and Oakland. She was born in Manila, Philippines and grew up along the West Coast of the United States. Cariño earned a BA in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts. René de Guzman is Director of Exhibition Strategy and Senior Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California. Previously, he was a founding staff member at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where he provided early support for some of the Bay Areas leading artists and worked with national and international emerging and mid-career artists. His artworks are in collections, including at the Berkeley Art Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Division of the Curatorial Studies Program at the California College of the Arts. Deena Chalabi is the Barbara and Stephan Vermut Associate Curator of Public Dialogue at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. From 2009 to 2012, she was the founding Head of Strategy at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. She created the Pop-Up Mathaf program for collaborative international partnerships, curating Interference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in July 2011. She guest curated three additional Pop-Up Mathaf programs internationally, and has written for Bidoun, ArtAsiaPacific, and The New Inquiry, among other publications.
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Fall 2017: Curation Across Disciplines
Wednesdays at 12pm, Free and open to the public
What does it mean to curate? How has the role of the curator changed in our contemporary moment? Does the curator function differently in the performing arts, the visual arts, film, and in the fields of science and technology? And, how has curating changed as it responds to new forms of cultural and digital participation? When curation has become a popular metaphor in many domains --from food, to music, to social media -- how do we define this expanded practice?
Co-taught by Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor of the Arts + Design; Natasha Boas, independent curator, art historian and critic; and Eric Siegel, Director of the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkley, Arts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA will explore this theme with some of the most innovative and incisive writers, artists and scholars of our time.
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BAM/PFA New Building Topping Out Celebration -
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) New Building Final Beam Installation - 17 July 2014
BAM/PFA New Building Topping Out Celebration:
Yesterday, I attended a block party on Addison Street below Oxford, celebrating the topping out of the new Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive building of University of California, Berkeley, in the ceremony traditionally held when the last beam is put in place.
According to the press release, the new BAM/PFA is designed by renowned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, integrates a repurposed building, the former UC Berkeley printing plant, at the corner of Oxford and Center Streets, with a dramatic new structure. Opening in early 2016, the new building will anchor Berkeley's downtown Arts District, engaging diverse audiences in groundbreaking art, film, performance, and education programs.
California Countercultures: Hippie Modernism with Greg Castillo
On February 22, 2017, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Architecture Greg Castillo spoke at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) about the alternative cultural geography of hippie society, whose “liberated territories” converted social critique into lived practice. Greg specializes in the architectural history of interwar and postwar America and Europe, and is also the guest curator of BAMPFA's exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.
Building and Metaphor: The New BAMPFA and Architecture of Life
Lawrence Rinder, Director of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), discusses the new BAMPFA building in Downtown Berkeley as well as the inaugural exhibition Architecture of Life.
BAMPFA Hippie Modernism Forum: Fluid Identities
Kaleidoscopic reinventions of identity gave the hippie movement propulsive force and permeated its cultural output, as reflected in rock music, performance art, and a flamboyant spectrum of public self-expression. In conjunction with the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), three panelists came together to discuss the influence of the counterculture's fluid identities on mainstream conceptions of identity today.
The discussion took place on April 15, 2017, and included Fayette Hauser, an original member of the San Francisco–based Cockettes theatre troupe; Lauren Onkey, former vice president of education and public programs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; and Brontez Purnell, an Oakland-based writer, dancer, and musician who produced the influential zine Fag School.
Symposium: Against the Static: New Perspectives on the Art of Harvey Quaytman
Complementing BAMPFA’s major new Harvey Quaytman retrospective, this symposium brought together critical perspectives on the painter from scholars and artists, positioning Quaytman’s innovations within the history of abstraction in the United States and abroad.
Participants:
Apsara DiQuinzio, BAMPFA curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator, provides a critical and historical overview of Quaytman’s work, situating him within American and European art movements of his day.
R. H. Quaytman, noted artist and Harvey Quaytman’s daughter, offers insight into her family’s history, her father’s life and career, his studio, and his influence on her own practice.
Suzanne Hudson, associate professor of art history and fine arts at the University of Southern California, examines aesthetic issues in Quaytman’s art, especially his shaped canvases of the 1970s and his relation to the post–Clement Greenberg New York milieu.
David Carrier, a philosopher who has written on Quaytman, addresses the artist’s relationship to late modernist abstraction, both American and European.
Jennifer Gross frames and moderates the symposium. Formerly deputy director of curatorial affairs and senior curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Gross knew Quaytman personally.
BAMPFA Hippie Modernism Forum: Creative Communes
Communality supported not only counterculture lifestyles, but also new economic and creative ventures. In conjunction with the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) convened a panel to discuss whether the rural commune model may again offer a template for creative production as the Bay Area's urban spaces become prohibitively expensive for young artists.
The discussion took place on May 13, 2017, and included Ramón Sender Barayón, a Bay Area composer, visual artist, and writer who cofounded the San Francisco Tape Music Center; Erin Elder, an independent contemporary art curator interested in land use, experimental collaboration, and nontraditional modes of expression; and Fritz Haeg an artist known for itinerant urban projects including Edible Estates, an international series of domestic edible landscapes.
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson
Mon Oct 29, 2018
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and in partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One and sponsored by the Horst Rittel Endowment and Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA.
Free and open to the public. No ticket required. Doors open at 6pm and lecture starts at 6:30pm.
Robinson reminds us that the Anthropocene is a name in a periodizing scheme, or in more than one periodizing scheme. He suggests that, to understand it more fully, we need first to discuss periodization itself. After that, Robinson considers whether it is possible to consider the conditions for creating a good Anthropocene.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awardsa first for any book. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundations Antarctic Artists and Writers Program in 1995, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008 he was named a Hero of the Environment by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers Workshop, and UC San Diegos Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages, and won a dozen awards in five countries, including the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named Kimrobinson. In 2017 he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.
Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at the Berkeley Center for New Media; College of Environmental Design; Department of Art Practice; African American Studies Department; Graduate School of Journalism; Townsend Center for the Humanities, and in collaboration with the Headlands Center for the Arts; Fort Mason Center/ COAL + ICE; Art21; and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The 2018-19 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks a generous donation from Jacqueline Jackson and other supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design.
Arts + Design Mondays is a public lecture series with the theme of Fact and Fiction.
Berkeley Arts + Design features, fortifies, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley, while fostering dynamic collaboration, innovation, and public access across all arts and design fields, on campus and in public life.
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Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger
Professor Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley, keynote speech
L@TE: TURF Inc. Presents Turf Dance Battle featuring The Mekanix
L@te Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA presents an all-style dance tournament featuring the best of Bay Area turf dancing, hosted by Johnny5 of Oakland-based dance crew TurF FeinZ and founder of Turf Inc., which focuses on building community through dance battles as an act of unity.
To find out more about L@te Friday Nights, please visit:
Rattle Your Cage by krackatoa is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Additional footage generously provided by Javier from Turf Inc.
Architecture of Life - Philippa Kelly and Pierluigi Serraino
Architecture of Life
Philippa Kelly and Pierluigi Serraino
Thursdays 3:15–5 p.m. from April 7 to April 28, BAM/PFA
Architecture of Life, the inaugural exhibition in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s landmark new building, explores the ways that architecture illuminates various aspects of life experience: the nature of the self and psyche, the fundamental structures of reality, and the power of the imagination to reshape our world. Course fee includes four admission tickets to the museum.
Philippa Kelly has worked as the resident dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater and the Napa Shakespeare Festival. She has received awards from the Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Walter and Eliza Hall Foundations and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America. She has published 12 books, including The King and I.
Pierluigi Serraino is an architect, educator, and author. He holds multiple professional and research degrees in architecture from Italy and the United States and is principal of his own design practice. He has lectured extensively on postwar American architecture, California modernism, architectural photography, changes in architectural practice, and digital design.
Berkeley, California | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Berkeley, California
00:00:56 1 History
00:01:04 1.1 Early history
00:04:08 1.2 Late 19th century
00:07:42 1.3 Early 20th century
00:10:06 1.4 1950s and 1960s
00:12:56 1.5 1970s and 1980s
00:13:06 1.5.1 Housing and zoning changes
00:14:11 1.5.2 Political movements
00:15:32 1.6 1990s and 2000s
00:15:41 1.6.1 Demographic changes
00:17:38 1.6.2 Protests
00:18:21 1.7 2010s
00:19:25 1.7.1 Protests
00:20:32 2 Geography
00:21:54 2.1 Geology
00:23:17 2.1.1 Earthquakes
00:25:30 2.2 Climate
00:29:06 3 Demographics
00:34:12 4 Homelessness in Berkeley
00:34:21 4.1 History
00:35:03 4.1.1 1960s
00:36:30 4.1.2 1970s
00:37:10 4.1.3 1980s
00:38:48 4.1.4 1990s
00:40:33 4.2 21st century
00:45:24 5 Transportation
00:47:36 5.1 Transportation history
00:51:15 6 Economy
00:51:23 6.1 Top employers
00:51:39 6.2 Businesses
00:52:27 7 Places
00:52:36 7.1 Major streets
00:54:29 7.2 Freeways
00:54:47 7.3 Bicycle and pedestrian paths
00:55:35 7.4 Neighborhoods
00:58:25 7.5 Points of interest
00:59:46 8 Parks and recreation
01:00:44 8.1 Landmarks and historic districts
01:02:21 9 Arts and culture
01:03:18 9.1 Annual events
01:03:57 10 Education
01:04:06 10.1 Colleges and universities
01:04:59 10.2 Primary and secondary schools
01:06:44 10.3 Public libraries
01:07:04 11 Government
01:09:11 12 Politics
01:09:53 13 Notable people
01:10:14 14 Sister cities
01:11:14 15 See also
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- Socrates
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Berkeley ( BURK-lee) is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580.
Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California system, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the University. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is one of the most socially liberal cities in the United States.
Colloquium—The San Quentin Project: Narratives of Incarceration
Contextualizing The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State Prison, this colloquium brought together leading UC Berkeley faculty from the fields of law, social welfare, and literature, along with artist Nigel Poor, to discuss the power of personal narrative and how narratives of incarceration have taken shape across disciplines. Faculty presenters include Genaro Padilla, Tina Sacks, and Jonathan Steven Simon; Jody Lewen of the Prison University Project moderates.
Malcolm Margolin and Lawrence Rinder introduced by Michael Anzalone at David Brower Center
This movie is only one minute and 35 seconds because my intention was to show the vibrancy of these gentlemen and my thanks to everyone involved in presenting an evening of delightful and thought-provoking moments on Wednesday, March 4, 2015.
Jackie Hasa welcomed guests at the reception; Michael Anzalone welcomed the audience with a brief history of the David Brower Center and announcements of programs, introduced Malcolm Margolin and Lawrence Rinder - the two gents whose names are synonymous with art, books, culture.
Thank you to my dear friend Sue who had invited me!
Sincerely,
Author and Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
A World in Flux: Lawrence Rinder and Malcolm Margolin in Conversation
Presented by the David Brower Center in partnership with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Heyday Books
The Brower Center (Berkeley, CA) hosts a conversation between two of Berkeley’s most treasured cultural statesmen: BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder and Heyday Publisher Malcolm Margolin. In a wide-ranging discussion, they will share insights gained in their decades as the heads of an internationally-renowned art museum and trailblazing publishing house in one of the world’s most radical cities. Among other topics, Rinder and Margolin will explore the role of imagination in social and environmental change and the past, present, and future of the arts in California.
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Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Art Across Cultures - Lawrence Rinder
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Lawrence Rinder, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum, challenges our Western conceptions of art by contrasting them with the art sense of a very different culture, the Maisin tribe of Papua New Guinea.
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Lawrence Rinder discusses Art Life: Selected Writing 1991--2005.
Art Life brings together for the first time in a single publication many of the important essays on contemporary art written over the past 15 years by Rinder, one of America's most influential curators. This significant publication, which combines intellectual rigor with accessible prose, is an exciting and welcome reminder, especially in today's market-driven art world, that contemporary art can and should be experienced as a natural part of all of our lives - Codys
Dean of Graduate Studies at California College of the Arts, Lawrence Rinder was previously Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he organized exhibitions including The American Effect, BitSteams, the 2002 Biennial, and Tim Hawkinson. Prior to his work at the Whitney, Rinder was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and assistant director and curator for twentieth-century art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. His art criticism has been published in Flash Art, Artforum, Nest, The Village Voice, Fillip, and Parkett.
Artist and Curator in Conversation: Susan Rothenberg and Michael Auping
This conversation was part of a series of public programs celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the MATRIX Program.
Michael Auping, inaugural curator of the MATRIX Program at BAM/PFA, once described MATRIX as a process of inquiry, a space to question, learn, and establish value within the new. Susan Rothenberg, one of the first artists exhibited in MATRIX (in 1978), embraced a similar experimental attitude when she employed the figure of a horse to explore the essence of painting.
Fifteen years after painting her first horse, Rothenberg moved from her native New York to a ranch in New Mexico where she still lives and works. Drawing on a wealth of associations and using imagery from daily life, she continues to examine the meaning and mechanics of painting. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, and is held in collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Michael Auping is chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Across his thirty-year career at museums in California, Florida, New York, and Texas, he has organized important exhibitions and publications of the work of artists including Philip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jess, Robert Bechtle, and Bruce Nauman, and a major mid-career survey of Susan Rothenbergs paintings and drawings.