Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Podcast

Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia -- Interdisciplinary Panel: Borderlandia in Mind / Panel interdisciplinario: La frontera en la mente

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:25:10 PST

More than a geopolitical line dividing Mexico and the United States, the border is also a condition, a state of mind, “a world of hybrids and collisions,” in Enrique Chagoya’s words. Contributing perspectives from literature, ethnic studies, and visual culture, UC Berkeley scholars and other practitioners consider a variety of concepts and meanings of the border along with Chagoya.

Más que una división geopolitica que separa a México de los Estados Unidos, la frontera es tambíen una condición, un estado mental, “un mundo de híbridos y colisiones,” en las palabras de Enrique Chagoya. Aportando puntos des vista de la literatura, estudios étnicos, y cultura visual, estudiosos de UC Berkeley y otros considerarán múltiples conceptos y significados de la frontera junto con Enrique Chagoya. Duration: 1:36:00

Naut Humon of Recombinant Media Labs, V. Vale of REsearch Publications, and Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs -- Attention Depiction Disorders

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:18:51 PST

A benefit for Todd Blair, this special event included discussions by Naut Humon of Recombinant Media Labs, V. Vale of REsearch Publications, and Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs. Duration: 1:28:00

BAM/PFA Podcast - February 2008 -- Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:56:40 PST

Listen to the BAM/PFA podcasts for stimulating conversations about exhibitions and film series. In this second podcast installment, Chief Curator and Director of Programs and Collections Lucinda Barnes talks with artist Enrique Chagoya about his life and work on the occasion of the first major museum retrospective of his work, an exhibition entitled Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia. Chagoya draws on the European canon, Mexican folk arts, and U.S. pop icons to create paintings, drawings, and prints that are politically charged, formally sophisticated, and often scathingly funny. Duration: 0:28:00

Goya: The Disasters of War -- Lecture by Janis Tomlinson

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:42:21 PST

This special talk by art historian and Goya expert Janis Tomlinson contextualizes Goya’s art following the Napoleonic Wars, examining it in relation to that of French artist Théodore Géricault. From 1814 onwards, the work of both artists was part of a unique era of transition. Tomlinson’s lecture considers their individual, yet parallel, attempts to find direction in that changed world, as they experimented with new imagery and new audiences. Their quests, undertaken without knowledge of each other, epitomize the search for meaning in a modern world that would become synonymous with Romanticism.

Janis Tomlinson is director of university museums at the University of Delaware and author of Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1994), as well as many other writings on Goya.

Co-presented by the Spanish Studies Program and Portuguese Studies Program of the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley. Duration: 1:01:00

Greg Lynn, Architect, Los Angeles/Vienna -- Giant Robot Architecture

Fri, 8 Feb 2008 9:51:32 PST

Greg Lynn is a pioneer at the intersection of computing, design, and architecture. His architectural designs have been exhibited at both architecture and art venues, including the 2000 Venice Biennale of Architecture, where he represented the United States in the American Pavilion. His work is in the permanent collections of the California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has has been exhibited at the Pompidou, Beyeler, Cooper Hewitt, MAK, MoCA, NAI, Carnegie, ICA, and Secession museums, among others. In addition to his architectural work, his Alessi “Supple” Mocha Cups and his Vitra “Ravioli” Chair are in production and have been inducted into the Museum of Modern Art’s Permanent Collection. He received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Architecture Award in 2003. In 2002, he left his position as the Professor of Spatial Conception and Exploration at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and became an Ordentlicher University Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is studio professor of Architecture at UCLA and the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University. Greg Lynn holds degrees in architecture and philosophy and received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In 2001, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most innovative people in the world. In 2005, Forbes magazine named him one of the ten most influential living architects. Duration: 1:14:00

Kristin Lucas, Artist, San Francisco -- If Lost Then Found

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:57:02 PST

A paradoxical and insubstantial explanation of the inherent problem of simplifying a complex set of relevant concerns related to the phenomenon of over-identification with an inanimate object and its consequent animations and manifestations. A lecture that unfolds into a coming-of-age story about the largely undocumented and unfinished work of the artist Kristin Lucas, including documentation of an attempt to embody the digital medium by reversing the popular notion of infusing humanity into machines, and instead applying familiar strategies of electronic media to her own life⎯told by the most current version of herself. The lecture will include the screening and possible live restaging of fragments of video, performance, and difficult-to-categorize works, such as “Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive” (2007) and “Refresh” (2007). Duration: 1:10:00

Performance by Patty Chang -- A Chinoiserie Out of the Old West

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 9:58:27 PST

Known for her mesmerizing performances and video works that blur the boundary between fact and fiction, Patty Chang is inspired by “catalysts for specific situations,” as she calls them. One such catalyst was the 1928 meeting of cultural theorist Walter Benjamin and Hollywood actress Anna May Wong in Berlin. In this program, Chang presents a new performance work-in-progress—part of her long-term investigation of Wong, translation, and transculturation at the advent of sound film. Duration: 0:35:00

Yael Kanarek, Artist, New York -- And I was Both Tongues

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 9:57:03 PST

Yael Kanarek has developed a unique vocabulary of artistic networked interfaces that combine photography, graphics, hypertext, sculpture, and performance. Kanarek generates complex networked “story spaces” that combine multiple media forms with multiple languages, including Hebrew and Arabic. Online visitors move through and explore charged issues of land, space, and language. Recognizing that languages shape space by defining cultural territory and sovereignty, Kanarek explores the question of space on the internet.

Kanarek presents several of her award-winning net art projects, including her most recent net art project, Object of Desire, accessible through the Jewish Museum in New York, and her installation Warm Fields, exhibited at the bitforms gallery, where a dynamic physical space is constructed with formalistic tools of configuration, shape, and shadow. Duration: 1:01:00

BAM/PFA Podcast - October 2007 -- The films of Sergio Leone; Tomás Saraceno; RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:21:19 PST

Listen to the BAM/PFA podcasts for information and news about upcoming exhibitions and film series. In this inaugural edition, Will Viharo and Steve Seid discuss the films of Sergio Leone, Charles Kremer and Liz Thomas look at the work of artist Tomás Saraceno, and Jane Metcalfe and Rick Rinehart talk about the Digital Art exhibition RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA. Duration: 0:23:00

Will Viharo and Steve Seid -- Once Upon a Time in Widescreen: The Films of Sergio Leone

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 9:09:28 PST

Speakeasy Theaters programmer Will "The Thrill" Viharo and Pacific Film Archive Curator Steve Seid discuss the films of Sergio Leone featured in the PFA film series Once Upon a Time in Widescreen: The Films of Sergio Leone Duration: 0:09:00

MATRIX: Artist's Talk by Rosalind Nashashibi -- MATRIX: Artist's Talk by Rosalind Nashashibi

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:49:44 PST

Rosalind Nashashibi makes quiet, deliberate films that luxuriate in incidental details of the everyday. It could be said that nothing much happens in her films, but the same could be said for most days of our lives. What happens in her films is important, but even more important is the way in which she and her camera frame our view of it. As she has said, "All of these things I have filmed go through my filter on the world, and they are very stubbornly from my point of view, look at it like this, from here, collaborate with me on that. That's the position: to get the viewer to collaborate with me on a particular way of seeing things." Nashashibi shoots on 16mm, and she makes use of long takes and static camera angles, involving less an insinuation of action than a purposeful collection of images, and referencing the history of avant-garde structuralist film. Her work Eyeballing (2005), for example, frames details of the built environment that resolve as the most basic suggestion of a human face: two buzzers arrayed above an intercom speaker, or two nail holes and a knot in a worn wooden floor. The images of abstracted faces are intercut with passages observing police outside a precinct station in lower Manhattan, subtly implicating issues of voyeurism and surveillance that are at the core of any observational film and our experience of it. Although the world at large is her frequent subject, Nashashibi implicates the formal within the narrative, so her films are equally poetic and descriptive, allusive and associative. This talk was in conjunction with her exhibition Bachelor Machines Part I, part of the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art. Duration: 0:22:00

Artist's Talk and Demonstration by Binh Danh -- Artist’s Talk and Demonstration by Binh Danh

Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:46:42 PST

Exploring personal and public histories of the Vietnam War and his own relationship to both the United States and Vietnam, San Jose–based artist Binh Danh combines photosynthesis and found photographs to make the fragile and evocative artworks he has named "chlorophyll prints." In an interactive program, the artist discusses his works in the exhibition and demonstrates his art-making process. Duration: 1:00:00

Asian American Art Now -- Interdisciplinary Panel

Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:45:28 PST

An interdisciplinary panel about what it means to make art within, alongside, and against a discourse of shifting interpretations of Asian American identity. With UC Berkeley English professor Colleen Lye; exhibition artists Anna Sew Hoy and Michael Arcega; exhibition co-curators Susette S. Min and Karin Higa; and Intersection for the Arts program director Kevin Chen. Duration: 1:52:00

Trevor Paglen, Artist and Geographer, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA -- Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Geography of Nowhere

Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:38:06 PST

Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen takes us on a road trip through the world of hidden budgets, state secrets, covert military bases, and disappeared people: through a landscape that military and intelligence insiders call the "black world." Over the course of his talk, Paglen leads us from "non-existent" Air Force and CIA installations in the Nevada desert to secret prisons in Afghanistan and to a collection of even more obscure "black sites" startlingly close to home. Using hundreds of images he has produced and collected over the course of his work, Paglen shows how the black world's internal contradictions give rise to a peculiar visual, aesthetic, and epistemological grammar with which to think about the contemporary moment. Duration: 1:02:00

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Thank You

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:32:13 PST

The following .mp3 files can be downloaded individually by right-clicking the icon to save it to your computer for transferring to your iPod or any other MP3 player.
Alternately, you can download the entire 60MB collection by clicking here.

To use the audioguide while visiting the BAM Galleries, look for the iPod icon on the wall labels for selected works in the exhibition. You can view the exhibition website by clicking here. Duration: 0:01:00

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Wasim, Saira - student track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:31:21 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Wasim , Saira - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:30:33 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Tajima, Mika - Extruded Plaid Suicidal Desires - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:29:40 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Som, Indigo - student track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:28:52 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Som, Indigo - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:28:01 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Som, Indigo - artist track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:27:16 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Shin, Jean - Unraveling - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:26:15 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Sew Hoy, Anna - Dreamcatcher - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:25:16 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Oshiro, Kaz - student track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:24:07 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Oshiro, Kaz - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:23:14 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Nakadate, Laurel - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:22:29 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Nakadate, Laurel - curator track_2

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:21:41 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Moon, Jiha - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:20:58 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Lau, Geraldine - student track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:20:08 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Lau, Geraldine - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:17:08 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Kaino, Glenn - Graft - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:16:17 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Ganesh, Chitra - student track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:15:33 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Ebtekar, Ala - Elemental - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:14:19 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Ebtekar, Ala - artist track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:13:23 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Eastman, Mari - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:12:11 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Danh, Binh - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:08:07 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Danh, Binh - artist track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:07:16 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Chang, Patty - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:06:11 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Cha, Xavier - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:05:08 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Arcega, Michael - Eternal Salivation - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:03:52 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Arcega, Michael - Eternal Salivation - artist track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:02:52 PST

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Introduction - curator track

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:01:02 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Shirley Shor

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:48:59 PST

Since its inception, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts has been dedicated to the promotion and support of the arts and art-centered research system wide. The State of the Arts conferences promote and celebrate the Institute's mission to broaden discussion of the current role and future of the arts in California and beyond.

This conference's focus on the digital arts provides a broad umbrella under which to explore the digital mediation of performance, space, sound, and other embodied experiences; showcase faculty and graduate student research projects that exemplify interdisciplinary and intermedia arts practice; and consider the impact of new media on the research functions and modalities of arts practice. Taken together, the arts practitioners and departments in the UC system represent an invaluable set of resources and a significant investment for the future of our state. We hope this conference demonstrates UCIRA'S potential as a major platform for presenting, discussing, and advocating for the arts and arts-centered research. Duration: 0:45:00

Matrix Artists -- Allison Smith: Notion Nanny
MATRIX 222

Thu, 24 May 2007 9:57:48 PST

Duration: 0:50:00

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Conference Wrap-Up [Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 13:01:26 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- UCIRA Funded Projects Showcase and Panel [Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 13:00:19 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- DIY => DIT: New Social Practices and Digital Distribution [PFA Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:58:04 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Music and Aurality: Sounding Across Disciplines [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:56:55 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Disrupting Expectations and Provoking Public Art [PFA Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:55:30 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- The Body and Performativity: Issues of Performance Across Disciplines [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:52:45 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Art As Research: Dean's Panel [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:35:59 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- State of the Arts [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:33:29 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Panel: Activating Space [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:22:04 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Panel: Creating Space [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:20:15 PST

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Welcome and Opening Remarks [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:15:19 PST

Measure of Time -- Alan Rath

Thu, 10 May 2007 9:12:02 PST

Time is of the essence in American art of the past century. Measure of Time showcases the museum's important 20th-century collection along with some significant loans to explore, over time, how artists have worked with temporality and duration. In two galleries of paintings, sculptures, and media (both analog and digital), time and motion are compressed, fragmented, mechanized, sped up, and slowed down to an almost imperceptible pace. Duration: 1:00:00

Measure of Time -- Jim Campbell

Thu, 10 May 2007 9:11:36 PST

Measure of Time -- Bill Berkson

Thu, 10 May 2007 9:11:07 PST

Measure of Time -- Peter Galison, Physics, Harvard University Pamela Lee, Stanford Art Historian

Thu, 10 May 2007 9:10:26 PST

Measure of Time -- Linda Henderson

Thu, 10 May 2007 9:08:09 PST

Measure of Time -- Albert Pisano and Ken Goldberg

Thu, 10 May 2007 9:05:06 PST

Matrix Artists -- Tobias Rehberger/MATRIX 180

Wed, 2 May 2007 11:48:36 PST

Duration: 0:03:00

Matrix Artists -- Katy Schimert/MATRIX 181

Wed, 2 May 2007 11:35:38 PST

Duration: 0:03:00

Matrix Artists -- Teresita Fernández/MATRIX 182

Wed, 2 May 2007 11:21:48 PST

Duration: 0:03:00

Matrix Artists -- Ken Goldberg/MATRIX 186

Wed, 2 May 2007 11:21:00 PST

Duration: 0:01:00

24h00 -- Theresa Duff

Tue, 1 May 2007 11:49:58 PST

Twenty-four UC Berkeley Students from a variety of departments — from Art Practice and Art History to Molecular and Cell Biology — worked with the artist, the curator, and the museum's Information Systems Manager, Rick Rinehart, to realize 24h00. Every hour of one entire day, the students took a photogographic portrait according to their own criteria for subject, composition, setting, and lighting, asking the subjects to describe in one word their state of mind at that precise moment. All of the images are represented on the screen by a grid of numbers from 1 to 24, each number corresponding to a photograph in the order it was taken. Duration: 0:02:00

24h00 -- Tom Webster

Tue, 1 May 2007 11:48:49 PST

24h00 -- Alice Park

Tue, 1 May 2007 11:47:16 PST

24h00 -- John Choe

Tue, 1 May 2007 11:46:44 PST

24h00 -- Valery Grancher

Tue, 1 May 2007 11:42:16 PST

Rudolf Frieling, Media Arts Curator, SFMOMA -- Stop Making Sense: Contextualizing Media Art

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:24:34 PST

The Google generation now expects to find everything it ever wanted to know online. Undoubtedly, our knowledge society is offering completely new perspectives of learning and connecting, but black holes spoil the overall picture in a dramatic way. 404 Not Found has become a keyword for those searching online. But even the material that is found has to be questioned seriously. Given the lack of a sustained critical scientific discourse for new media, the found material is often a mere replication of uncritical praise of art works. The present is getting richer and richer, yet more and more detached from any notion of context in terms of continuity or disruption. Theories and blogs are mushrooming: but what do we learn about the history of media art?

This talk will exemplify the difficulties and ambiguities in "making sense" of one's findings, and it will discuss artistic but also art historical ways of coping with this dilemma. Curatorial as well as artistic strategies concerning the collection, sorting, linking and distribution of data will be examined within the context of the portal site "Media Art Net

Rudolf Frieling is Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA, San Francisco. He studied Humanities at the Free University of Berlin and received a Ph.D. from the University of Hildesheim; 1988 to 1994 he was curator of the International VideoFest Berlin (today transmediale) and from 1994 to 2006 curator and researcher at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he was until 2001 the Head of the Video Collection; he has lectured internationally on media and art a. o. at the University of Art and Design Zurich and at the Academy of Art Berlin, and he was professor at the media faculty, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz; from 2001 to 2005 he headed the Internet project "Media Art Net" at ZKM and from 2004 to 2006 the restoration and exhibition project "40yearsvideoart.de", funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation; other projects as curator include a.o. the Biennale Sao Paulo 2002 (Net Art section) and "Sound-Image", Laboratoria Arte Alameda, Mexico City 2003; he has published and co-edited with Dieter Daniels for Springer Vienna/New York a series of multimedia and book publications on the history and current context of media art: Media Art Action (1997), Media Art Interaction (2000) and Media Art Net 1/2 (2004/2005).

Duration: 1:02:00

Doug Aitken, Artist, LA -- Can You Say...2007?

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:20:21 PST

Widely known for his innovative fine art installations, Doug Aitken is at the frontier of 21st century communication. Utilizing a wide array of media and artistic approaches, Aitken’s eye leads us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts.

Aitken’s work effortlessly slips into our media-saturated cultural unconscious allowing the viewer to experience cinema in a unique way by deconstructing a connection between sound, moving images and the rhythms of our surroundings. Treating the world as his studio, he edits together frenetic and unique models of contemporary experience.

Aitken employs a number of post studio artistic mediums – photography, sculpture, architecture, sound installation, and multi channel video installation. In each of his artworks, Aitken chooses01 the medium or combination that amplifies and visually articulates the subject’s qualities. The scale of the work can vary from a simple photograph to a complex moving sculpture of infinitely reflective automated mirrors. Quasi-narrative films create intricate mazes of open-ended stories told across reinterpreted physical architecture. To this end, his 2007 'sleepwalkers' installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York re-imagines the museum's outdoor walls and façade as a screen onto which a film is projected. Recently, Aitken also produced “Broken Screen”, a book of interviews with 26 artists pushing the limits of linear narrative. The project inspired two “happening” events in New York and Los Angeles.

Aitken lives and works in Los Angeles. His non-stop and extensive explorations inform his work with a modern nomadic existence, where travel and movements are folded into our daily experience. Aitken has had numerous screenings, solo and group exhibitions around the world including the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he won the International Prize for his acclaimed installation “electric earth.” He’s exhibited work in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Duration: 1:00:00

-- Jim Campbell

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:00:31 PST

Duration: 1:54:00

-- Bill Berkson

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:58:17 PST

Duration: 46:51:00

Steve Wilson, San Francisco State University -- Liberating the Lab: Art in a Techno-Scienific Era

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:09:51 PST

Duration: 0:06:00

Symposium: Nauman in Context -- Dr. Anne Wagner, Professor of History of Art, UC Berkeley

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:25:38 PST

Duration: 1:00:00

Symposium: Nauman in Context -- Part One: Sculpture: Presences and Absences;
Part Two: Mediums and Media

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:00:45 PST

Duration: 0:35:00

Matmos, Musicians and Sound Artists, San Francisco -- The Re-Dematerialization of the Art Object

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:48:28 PST

Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, aided and abetted by many others. In their recordings and live performances over the last nine years, Matmos have used the sounds of: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, a bowed five string banjo, slowed down whistles and kisses, water hitting copper plates, the runout groove of a vinyl record, a $5.00 electric guitar, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, violins, rat cages, tanks of helium, violas, human skulls, cellos, peck horns, tubas, cards shuffling, field recordings of conversations in hot tubs, frequency response tests for defective hearing aids, a steel guitar recorded in a sewer, electrical interference generated by laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions and balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones on a dinner plate, Polish trains, insects, ukelele, aspirin tablets hitting a drum kit from across the room, dogs barking, people reading aloud, life support systems and inflatable blankets, records chosen by the roll of dice, an acupuncture point detector conducting electrical current through human skin, rock salt crunching underfoot, solid gold coins spinning on bars of solid silver, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal. Duration: 1:00:00

Pierre Huyghe, Artist, Paris -- Time Score and Timing

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:45:21 PST

Beginning with an introduction to the Association of Freed Time, this talk by Pierre Huyghe focuses on time based projects and exhibitions, scripted situations, and the construction of scenarios. While presenting his work, Huyghe discusses a variety of methodologies, taking into consideration the exhibition as a form, the formats of representation as exhibition venues (theater, cinema, books, newspapers, parks...), placement and timing, the 'becoming image' of things, the exhibition versus the show, the principle of equivalence. Representation as a performative means, the activation of space, the rules of the game. Comedy, the recent mainstream attraction, celebration and celebrity. Duration: 1:00:00

Robert Gitt -- Presentation by Robert Gitt, UCLA Film & Television Archive

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:18:39 PST

Duration: 1:00:00

Michel Brault -- Workshop with Michel Brault

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:16:32 PST

Duration: 0:30:00

Guy Maddin -- The Heart of Guy Maddin, 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:49:03 PST

Duration: 0:45:00

Peter Kubelka -- Metric Films and Poetry and Truth

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:47:38 PST

The great Austrian avant-garde filmmaker presents his famous lecture on cooking as a communicative art, "the ancestor of physics, chemistry, and philosophy." Duration: 0:40:00

Peter Kubelka -- The Edible Metaphor

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:46:29 PST

The great Austrian avant-garde filmmaker presents his famous lecture on cooking as a communicative art, "the ancestor of physics, chemistry, and philosophy." Duration: 0:42:00

Anne Wagner, University of California, Berkeley, Art History -- Video as Messenger

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:22:56 PST

Duration: 0:05:00

Debra Solomon, Artist, Art Race in Space Ltd, Amsterdam -- Artist-Astronaut: What the Future Told Us

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:20:48 PST

Debra Solomon's project "Artist-Astronaut" was installed in 2000 and 2001 at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Ferens Gallery in Hull, England. Her mission was to investigate the effects of artist intervention into space exploration. Solomon put out a general call to select participants. During a series of closed sessions, she selected applicants that possessed the Right Stuff to play the role of Artist-Astronaut.

Her goal was to get perspectives on a mythical 50 years of Artist involvement in space exploration. To achieve this, she took the Artist-Astronaut participants on a mission several decades into the future using hypnotic techniques. In her highly suggestive 'holodeck' installation, participants were guided through time to the year 2050 as they were led to believe that they had either witnessed or participated in, a number of Artist missions. Participants were later given time to reflect upon this experience and discuss at length their own contributions to the field with their peers.

In addition to presenting her findings, Solomon will present audio and video from the Artist-Astronaut "future-sessions". She will also discuss future plans and the present spin-off of Artist-Astronaut as manifested in Art Race In Space's Experimental Directorate for the Arts for the European Space Agency and Industry. Duration: 0:15:00

Constance Lewallen on Bruce Nauman -- Constance Lewallen, BAM Senior Curator for Exhibitions

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:49:36 PST

During BAM's "Nauman Night" at the San Francisco Art Institute, Senior Curator for Exhibitions Constance Lewallen gave a lively introduction to the work of Bruce Nauman, one of today’s most influential artists. Nauman spent his formative years in Northern California, during which time he created some of his most strikingly innovative works. He began making sculpture in fiberglass, polyester resin, neon, and other nontraditional materials, and creating casts of negative space and parts of his own body. Slides and video clips were shown to help illustrate this fertile period in Nauman’s development as an artist. Duration: 1:00:00

Lucinda Barnes and Lawrence Rinder on Irene Pijoan -- Lucinda Barnes and Lawrence Rinder on Irene Pijoan

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:25:54 PST

Composed of intricately designed cutouts on paper and featuring beautiful, organic silhouettes cascading down the wall, Irene Pijoan's Kick Count Chart (1994) immediately impresses the viewer upon entering Gallery 6. This work in the BAM collection was the topic of an informal conversation between Lucinda Barnes, Associate Director for Art, Film, and Programs, and former BAM curator Lawrence Rinder. Pijoan, who died in August 2004, was an internationally exhibited artist known for her striking mixed-media works combining blocks of color, organic shapes, text, and autobiographical imagery. From 1983 to 2004 she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was an associate professor of drawing and painting.

Lawrence Rinder is dean of graduate studies at California College of the Arts. He was formerly curator of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute. From 1988 to 1998, Rinder was curator of the MATRIX Program and curator of twentieth-century art at BAM/PFA. Duration: 0:36:00

Louise Bourgeois -- Drawings Slide Show

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:22:46 PST

Louise Bourgeois's drawings are a revelation. Known for the boldness and physicality of her sculpture, Bourgeois, in these works, reveals her masterful ability to command emotions even with the most modest means. In her own view, drawings are secondary to sculpture insofar as they "lack the power of exorcism." Yet her work in drawing preceded her professional entry into the field of sculpture in the late 1940s, and the drawings she has continued to produce quite prolifically over the past fifty years comprise an aspect of her oeuvre that is as compelling thematically as it is visually rewarding.

View a video slide show. Duration: 1:08:00

Liza Dalby on Taisho Chic -- "Modern Girls (Unless They're French) Don't Wear Kimono"

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:21:29 PST

Liza Dalby On Taisho Chic
September 25, 2005
58:09

Modernity had an impact on the traditional kimono, and vice versa, as cultural anthropologist and author Liza Dalby explains: "The first two decades of the twentieth century in Japan saw the kimono burst forth in a creative last gasp of fashion for the masses. Since this time, its place in Japanese culture has always been linked to the question of modernity. Just at the point where kimono began to lose ground to Western clothing on its home turf, its exotic design and form as seen through Western eyes impacted fashion in Paris, London, and New York."

Dalby's slide-illustrated talk considers historical precedents in Japan for the very notion of fashion, and how the Japanese themselves reincorporated the West's fashion of "japonisme." She also looks at paintings in Taisho Chic from the standpoint of a Taisho-era audience.

Dalby, who received her Ph.D. from Stanford, is the author of several notable books: Geisha; Kimono: Fashioning Culture (a cultural history of Japanese attire); and the novel The Tale of Murasaki. She has the distinction of being the only American ever to have worked as a geisha. Recently, Dalby served as script consultant and on-set advisor for the film adaptation of Arthur Golden's novel Memoirs of a Geisha.

Lecture cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Institute for East Asian Studies.

Duration: 1:00:00

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Bruce Sterling

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:29:44 PST

On January 18, 2007, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presented New Media & Social Memory, a public symposium to discuss strategies for preserving digital art at at time when digital technologies are evolving and becoming obsolete at an astonishingly rapid pace. While focusing on digital art, the symposium also addressed larger concerns about the long-term conservation of our increasingly digital culture, including how we decide what digital content--from websites to video games--are worth saving. The full day included presentations and panel discussions by leading experts in the field of digital preservation. The entire symposium was videotaped and is presented below for your viewing. Duration: 0:50:00

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Jeff Rothenberg, Richard Rinehart

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:28:48 PST

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Marisa Olson, Michael Katchen

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:27:09 PST

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Alexander Rose, Kurt Bollacker

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:19:18 PST

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Jon Ippolito

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:17:30 PST

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Stewart Brand, President, Long Now Foundation

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:14:46 PST

New Media & Social Memory Symposium -- Richard Rinehart, Jane Metcalfe

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 8:57:25 PST

Audioguide for A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s -- Failing to Levitate in the Studio

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 8:45:58 PST

The following .mp3 files can be downloaded individually by right-clicking the icon to save it to your computer for transferring to your iPod or any other MP3 player.
Alternatively, you can download the entire 60mb collection by clicking here.

To use the audioguide while visiting the BAM Galleries, look for the iPod icon on the wall
labels for selected works in the exhibition.
Duration: 2:20:00

Audioguide for A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s -- Flour Arranging

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 8:44:46 PST

Audioguide for A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s -- Slant Step

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 8:44:27 PST

Audioguide for A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s -- Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 8:43:24 PST

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Podcast

Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia -- Interdisciplinary Panel: Borderlandia in Mind / Panel interdisciplinario: La frontera en la mente

Naut Humon of Recombinant Media Labs, V. Vale of REsearch Publications, and Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs -- Attention Depiction Disorders

BAM/PFA Podcast - February 2008 -- Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia

Goya: The Disasters of War -- Lecture by Janis Tomlinson

Greg Lynn, Architect, Los Angeles/Vienna -- Giant Robot Architecture

Kristin Lucas, Artist, San Francisco -- If Lost Then Found

Performance by Patty Chang -- A Chinoiserie Out of the Old West

Yael Kanarek, Artist, New York -- And I was Both Tongues

BAM/PFA Podcast - October 2007 -- The films of Sergio Leone; Tomás Saraceno; RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Will Viharo and Steve Seid -- Once Upon a Time in Widescreen: The Films of Sergio Leone

MATRIX: Artist's Talk by Rosalind Nashashibi -- MATRIX: Artist's Talk by Rosalind Nashashibi

Artist's Talk and Demonstration by Binh Danh -- Artist’s Talk and Demonstration by Binh Danh

Asian American Art Now -- Interdisciplinary Panel

Trevor Paglen, Artist and Geographer, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA -- Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Geography of Nowhere

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Thank You

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Wasim, Saira - student track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Wasim , Saira - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Tajima, Mika - Extruded Plaid Suicidal Desires - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Som, Indigo - student track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Som, Indigo - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Som, Indigo - artist track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Shin, Jean - Unraveling - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Sew Hoy, Anna - Dreamcatcher - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Oshiro, Kaz - student track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Oshiro, Kaz - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Nakadate, Laurel - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Nakadate, Laurel - curator track_2

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Moon, Jiha - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Lau, Geraldine - student track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Lau, Geraldine - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Kaino, Glenn - Graft - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Ganesh, Chitra - student track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Ebtekar, Ala - Elemental - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Ebtekar, Ala - artist track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Eastman, Mari - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Danh, Binh - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Danh, Binh - artist track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Chang, Patty - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Cha, Xavier - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Arcega, Michael - Eternal Salivation - curator track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Arcega, Michael - Eternal Salivation - artist track

Audioguide for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now -- Introduction - curator track

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Shirley Shor

Matrix Artists -- Allison Smith: Notion Nanny MATRIX 222

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Conference Wrap-Up [Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- UCIRA Funded Projects Showcase and Panel [Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- DIY => DIT: New Social Practices and Digital Distribution [PFA Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Music and Aurality: Sounding Across Disciplines [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Disrupting Expectations and Provoking Public Art [PFA Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- The Body and Performativity: Issues of Performance Across Disciplines [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Art As Research: Dean's Panel [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- State of the Arts [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Panel: Activating Space [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Panel: Creating Space [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) State of the Arts conference -- Welcome and Opening Remarks [BAM/PFA Museum Theater]

Measure of Time -- Alan Rath

Measure of Time -- Jim Campbell

Measure of Time -- Bill Berkson

Measure of Time -- Peter Galison, Physics, Harvard University Pamela Lee, Stanford Art Historian

Measure of Time -- Linda Henderson

Measure of Time -- Albert Pisano and Ken Goldberg

Matrix Artists -- Tobias Rehberger/MATRIX 180

Matrix Artists -- Katy Schimert/MATRIX 181

Matrix Artists -- Teresita Fernández/MATRIX 182

Matrix Artists -- Ken Goldberg/MATRIX 186

24h00 -- Theresa Duff

24h00 -- Tom Webster

24h00 -- Alice Park

24h00 -- John Choe

24h00 -- Valery Grancher

Rudolf Frieling, Media Arts Curator, SFMOMA -- Stop Making Sense: Contextualizing Media Art

Doug Aitken, Artist, LA -- Can You Say...2007?

-- Jim Campbell

-- Bill Berkson

Steve Wilson, San Francisco State University -- Liberating the Lab: Art in a Techno-Scienific Era

Symposium: Nauman in Context -- Dr. Anne Wagner, Professor of History of Art, UC Berkeley

Symposium: Nauman in Context -- Part One: Sculpture: Presences and Absences; Part Two: Mediums and Media

Matmos, Musicians and Sound Artists, San Francisco -- The Re-Dematerialization of the Art Object

Pierre Huyghe, Artist, Paris -- Time Score and Timing

Matrix Artists -- Allison Smith: Notion Nanny
MATRIX 222

Symposium: Nauman in Context -- Part One: Sculpture: Presences and Absences;
Part Two: Mediums and Media