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In 2001, the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley established the Arts Research Center (ARC), the first Organized Research Unit at UC Berkeley to focus exclusively on the arts. The core faculty are drawn from Architecture, Art Practice, English, Film Studies, History of Art, Music, New Media, Rhetoric, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.The mission of ARC is to create a deeper appreciation within the academic community of art-making as a vital form of research that both interprets and re-imagines our world. ARC provides a forum where faculty, graduate students, and artists-in-residence can engage in dialogue about shared concerns, create new collaborative work, and pursue projects across disciplinary and departmental boundaries.ARC activities include an ambitious artists' residency program, an ongoing seminar series for faculty and graduate students, academic conferences, and support for innovative curriculum development in the arts.Artists-in-residence are selected from nominations by UC Berkeley faculty and curatorial staff.
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2007/08 Artist-in-Residence
DIRECTOR MARIANNE WEEMS
The ARC Artist-in-Residence for 2007-2008 is Marianne Weems, artistic director of The Builders Association
(http://www.thebuildersassociation.org),
an award-winning New York-based performance and media company that uses contemporary technologies to extend the boundaries
of theater and explore the impact of technology on human presence and human connection. Weems will be in residence for
the Fall 2007 semester, and will be joined by three other members of The Builders Association. Together they will collaborate
with students and faculty from a number of disciplines–including theater, dance, performance studies, visual arts, and
new media–on The Builders Association's current work-in-progress Continuous City. Described as “looking at the sense of ‘place’ within a global context,
and how electronic connection contributes to and complicates that sense,” the project will include a social
networking site where uploaded videos can become part of the performance. Visit http://www.continuouscity.org to participate.
A workshop version of Continuous City will be presented as part of the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
mainstage season. A symposium will be held in conjunction with this work, and Weems and her collaborators will present and discuss
their work in a variety of public and classroom forums. For complete details, please see our Arts Research Center Events page.
Recent articles on Marianne Weems and the Continous City project have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and in the East Bay Express.
Please visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/02/DDH1SGFAT.DTL to read the Chronicle article.
Please visit: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-08-29/culture/tenuous-connections/ to read the Express article.
This project is made possible with support from BAM/PFA, Cal Performances, Berkeley Center for New Media, College of Engineering, College of Environmental Design, Department of Anthropology, Department of Art Practice, International & Area Studies, LEF Foundation, L&S Division of Arts & Humanities, School of Information, Townsend Center for Humanities, and UC Institute for Research in the Arts.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS RESIDENCY AND RELATED ACTIVITIES ON OUR VISITING ARTISTS PAGE
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