ATC Lecture Series
Encyclopedia
ATC lecture series at UC Berkeley is an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom
about technology
and culture
. The series is held by the Berkeley Center for New Media
(BCNM) and is free of charge and open to the public.
Speakers are chosen from a diverse range of fields, artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective. Since its founding in 1997, the series has presented more than 120 speakers, including Billy Kluver
, Laurie Anderson
, David Byrne
, Miranda July
, Gary Hill
, and Bruno Latour
. See the list of past speaker for more information.
(BCNM) and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
(CITRIS). Additional Sponsors include
Conventional wisdom
Conventional wisdom is a term used to describe ideas or explanations that are generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field. Such ideas or explanations, though widely held, are unexamined. Unqualified societal discourse preserves the status quo. It codifies existing social...
about technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
and culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
. The series is held by the Berkeley Center for New Media
Berkeley Center for New Media
-Berkeley Center for New Media:The Berkeley Center for New Media is a research, teaching, and public events program at UC Berkeley...
(BCNM) and is free of charge and open to the public.
Speakers are chosen from a diverse range of fields, artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective. Since its founding in 1997, the series has presented more than 120 speakers, including Billy Kluver
Billy Klüver
Billy Klüver Johan Wilhelm Klüver was an electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Klüver lectured extensively on art and technology and social issues to be addressed by the technical community. He published numerous articles on these subjects...
, Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
, David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
, Miranda July
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
, Gary Hill
Gary Hill
Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...
, and Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
. See the list of past speaker for more information.
Past speakers
- Aaron BetskyAaron BetskyAaron Betsky is an architect, critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August 2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. From 2001 to 2006 Betsky served as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands....
- Charles RayCharles RayCharles Ray was a silent film star. Extremely popular in a series of films casting him in juvenile roles, primarily rural young men, Ray's career faded as he lost his youthful looks- he also had a reputation of being demanding and having an outsized ego...
- George LegradyGeorge LegradyGeorge Legrady is a multidisciplinary, interactive media artist. He began his photographic artistic practice in Montreal. In 1973, he received his first major project, a photo documentary in northern Quebec of four James Bay Cree communities in response to the James Bay Cree hydroelectric conflict...
- Lynn Hershman
- Paul Haeberli
- Martin JayMartin JayMartin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research interests have been groundbreaking in connecting history with other academic and intellectual activities, such as the Critical Theory of...
- Julia ScherJulia ScherJulia Scher is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art and performance art works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction....
- Hubert DreyfusHubert DreyfusHubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley....
- Bruce Tomb
- John RandolphJohn RandolphJohn Randolph may refer to:* John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray , 3rd Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland.* Sir John Randolph , Virginia colonial politician, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses...
- Billy KluverBilly KlüverBilly Klüver Johan Wilhelm Klüver was an electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Klüver lectured extensively on art and technology and social issues to be addressed by the technical community. He published numerous articles on these subjects...
- Lev ManovichLev ManovichLev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new media art and theory, software studies, and digital humanities...
- Carlo Sequin
- Luc Courchesne
- Margaret Morse
- Margaret Crane
- Jon Winet
- Woody Valsulka
- Michael Joaquin GreyMichael Joaquin GreyMichael Joaquin Grey is an American artist, inventor, educator, and toy designer based in New York City....
- David RossDavid RossDavid Ross may refer to:*David Ross , British actor who played Kryten in the second series of BBC sitcom Red Dwarf*David Joseph Ross , American environmentalist...
- Douglas DavisDouglas Davis-Arts and music:*Douglas Davis , American media artist, theorist, teacher, and writer. He is the first Web-artist that is included in a Museum collection.*Doug E. Fresh , born Douglas E...
- Erik DavisErik DavisErik Davis is a North American writer, social historian, cultural critic and lecturer.He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era...
- Barbara London
- Janet Cohen
- Keith FrankKeith FrankKeith Frank is a zydeco musician from Louisiana. Frank started his band, The Soileau Zydeco Band, in 1990 and was active as of 2010. Frank is a 1998 graduate of McNeese State University.Frank records on Soulwood Records.-Studio Albums/EP:...
- Jon IppolitoJon IppolitoJon Ippolito is an artist, educator, new media scholar, and former curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ippolito studied astrophysics and painting in the early 1980s, then pursued Internet art in the 1990s...
- Mark DeryMark DeryMark Dery is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture" From 2001 to 2009, he taught media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University...
- Gail Wight
- Valery GrancherValéry GrancherValéry Grancher is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.- Biography :Grancher is best known for selling Internet art in the contemporary art mainstream....
- Diana ThaterDiana ThaterDiana Thater is an American artist, curator, writer, and educator. She has been a pioneering creator of film, video, and installation art since the early 1990s...
- Gary HillGary HillGary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...
- Katherine Hayles
- Steve Dietz
- Alex Galloway
- Jordan Crandall
- Amy FranceschiniAmy FranceschiniAmy Franceschini is a contemporary American artist and designer. Her practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, sculpture, design, net art, public art and gardening.She is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow....
- Jeffrey ShawJeffrey ShawJeffrey Shaw is a pioneering new media artist and researcher. From 1965 to 2002 he lived in Milan, London, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe, and returned to Australia in 2003 to assume the Directorship of the iCinema Research Centre at the University of New South Wales...
- Eduardo KacEduardo KacEduardo Kac is an American contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio-art. Kac was born in 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He lives and works in Chicago....
- Rafael Lozano-HemmerRafael Lozano-HemmerRafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal...
- C5
- Natalie BookchinNatalie BookchinNatalie Bookchin is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is well-known for her work in new media, and serving as the co-Director of the Photography and Media Program in the Art School at California Institute of the Arts...
- Will Wright
- George LewisGeorge LewisGeorge Lewis may refer to:*George Lowys or Lewis , mayor of Winchelsea*George Lewis , track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago*George Lewis , New Orleans jazz clarinettist...
- Christiane PaulChristiane Paul (curator)Christiane Paul is a scholar in the field of digital art and an historian of art and technology. She is Professor of Visual Arts at The New School and author of the seminal book Digital Art. Dr...
- Debra Solomon
- Leonard ShlainLeonard ShlainLeonard Shlain was an American surgeon and writer; he authored three books.Dr. Shlain was Chairman of Laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and was an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF.He was a speaker at such venues as the Smithsonian, Harvard...
- Sara DiamondSara DiamondSara Rose Diamond is an American sociologist and attorney, and the author of four books that "study and expose the agenda and tactics of the American political right wing." .-Biography:...
- Steve WilsonSteve WilsonSteve Wilson may refer to:* Steve Wilson , baseball player* Steve Wilson , former NFL player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers* Steve Wilson , former NFL player for the Denver Broncos...
- Michael NaimarkMichael NaimarkMichael Naimark is a media artist and researcher who often explores “place representation.”- Biography :Naimark helped found a number of prominent research labs including the MIT Media Laboratory , the Atari Research Lab , the Apple Multimedia Lab , Lucasfilm Interactive , and Interval Research...
- Paul D. Miller
- Victoria Vesna
- Paul Kaiser
- Oliver GrauOliver GrauOliver Grau is a German art historian and media theoretician with a focus on image science, modernity and media art as well as culture of the 19th century and Italian art of the Renaissance.-Works:...
- Robert AtkinsRobert AtkinsRobert Atkins may refer to:* Robert Atkins , American physician noted for the Atkins diet* Robert Atkins , British film and theatre actor...
- Anne M. Wagner
- Chip Lord
- Constance Lewallen
- Pamela Lee
- Mark Hansen
- Shawn Brixey
- Richard Rinehart
- Jim CampbellJim CampbellJames Tower Campbell is a retired American professional ice hockey player. He played 285 games in the National Hockey League for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, St...
- Nina Katchadourian
- Marie Sester
- Peter Selz
- Vivian SobchackVivian SobchackVivian Sobchack is an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic.Sobchack's work on science fiction films and phenomenology of film is perhaps her most recognized. She is a prolific writer however, and has authored numerous books and articles across a diverse range of subjects; from...
- Jane McGonigalJane McGonigalJane McGonigal, Ph.D. is a game designer, games researcher, and author, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games ....
- Sean KellySean KellySean Kelly may refer to:* Sean Kelly , Professor of philosophy at Harvard University* Sean Kelly , Irish professional road bicycle racer...
- Mimi Nguyen
- Rirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary artist residing in New York. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element...
- Sonya RapoportSonya RapoportSonya Rapoport is an American conceptual/digital artist and New media artist who has created computer-assisted interactive installations and participatory web-based artworks.-Early life:...
- Katie SalenKatie SalenKatie Salen is a game designer, animator, and design educator. She is a professor in the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media. She has taught at Parsons The New School for Design the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and the Rhode Island School of Design...
- Eric ZimmermanEric ZimmermanEric Zimmerman is a game designer and the co-founder and CEO of Gamelab, a computer game development company, which is known for the game Diner Dash. Each year Zimmerman hosts the Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference...
- Rachel GreenRachel GreenRachel Karen Green is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends, portrayed by Jennifer Aniston. Aniston received an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe for her performances.-Background:...
- David ByrneDavid ByrneDavid Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
- Marko Peljhan
- Jaron LanierJaron LanierJaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, best known for popularizing the term virtual reality .A pioneer in the field of VR, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves...
- Cobi van Tonder
- Bruno LatourBruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
- Tom Marioni
- Miranda JulyMiranda JulyMiranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
- Mark PaulineMark PaulineMark Pauline is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs. He is a 1977 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
- Stephen Beck
- Michael ReesMichael ReesMichael Rees is an American artist doing sculpture, installation, animation, and interactive computing. He has exhibited his works widely, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT , The MARTa...
- Shirley Shor
- Marina Grzinic
- Okwui EnwezorOkwui EnwezorOkwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
- JODI
- Peter LunenfeldPeter LunenfeldPeter Lunenfeld is a critic and theorist of digital media. He is a professor in the department at UCLA, director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics , and founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Group.Lunenfeld is a leading figure in digital aesthetic theory, set on...
- Rich Gold
- Pamela ZPamela ZPamela Z is an American composer, performer, and audio artist who works primarily with her voice and live electronic processing.-Music career:...
- Marianne Weems
- Cory ArcangelCory ArcangelCory Arcangel is a Brooklyn, New York artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance,, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known...
- Jonathon KeatsJonathon KeatsJonathon Keats is an American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher known for creating large-scale thought experiments. Keats was born in New York City and studied philosophy at Amherst College...
- Rudolf Frieling
- Pierre HuyghePierre HuyghePierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
- MatmosMatmosMatmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...
- Kaja SilvermanKaja SilvermanKaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining...
- Doug AitkenDoug Aitken-Early life and career:Doug Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968. In 1987, he initially studied magazine illustration with Philip Hays at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena before graduating in Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to New York in 1994 where he had his first solo...
- Trevor PaglenTrevor PaglenTrevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author.He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.Paglen is the author of three books...
- Bill FontanaBill FontanaBill Fontana is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound art.Fontana attended New School for Social Research in New York and studied both music and philosophy. He traveled to Australia, and also stayed in Japan and Germany composing. Fontana began making sound sculptures in 1976...
- Geert LovinkGeert LovinkGeert Lovink is a Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam , a Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School, and an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam...
- Yael KanarekYael KanarekYael Kanarek is an artist based in New York City.Kanarek has been developing an integrated media project called since 1995. At the core of World of Awe is “The Journal”—an original narrative that uses the ancient genre of the traveler's tale to explore connections between storytelling, travel,...
- Kristin Lucas
- Greg LynnGreg LynnGreg Lynn is owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, an o. Univ. Professor of architecture at University of Applied Arts Vienna, a studio professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and the Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He was the winner of the Golden...
- Naut HumonNaut HumonNaut Humon is the adopted name of Mark Sprague. He serves on the Digital Musics jury of the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria every year. He is the founder of Recombinant Media Labs and was head of A&R for Asphodel Records, both based in San Francisco. He is featured in the 2001...
- V. ValeV. ValeV. "Valhalla" Vale is a writer, keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer, prior to that band becoming famous as a power trio. He is the publisher and primary contributor to books and magazines published by his company, RE/Search Publications...
- Golan LevinGolan LevinGolan Levin is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.-Biography:...
- Kota Ezawa
- Heidi Z. Jacobson
- Perry HobermanPerry HobermanPerry Hoberman , is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson and the USC Interactive Media Division....
- Steve KurtzSteve KurtzSteve Kurtz is a professor of art at the SUNY Buffalo, former professor of art history at Carnegie Mellon University and a founding member of the performance art group, Critical Art Ensemble. He is known for his work in BioArt, and Electronic Civil Disobedience, and because of his arrest by the FBI...
- Hasan Elahi
- Laurie AndersonLaurie AndersonLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
- R. Luke DuBoisR. Luke DuBoisRoger Luke DuBois is an American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.-Biography:...
- Anne Pasternak
- Joseph DeLappe
- Ray Beldner
- Marcia Tanner
- Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
- Neighborhood Public RadioNeighborhood Public RadioNeighborhood Public Radio is an independent, artist-run radio project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members. The group was founded in 2005, is based out of Oakland, California...
Sponsors
Primary sponsors for the series include the Berkeley Center for New MediaBerkeley Center for New Media
-Berkeley Center for New Media:The Berkeley Center for New Media is a research, teaching, and public events program at UC Berkeley...
(BCNM) and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society is an institute operated by the State of California to facilitate the real-world application of technological research...
(CITRIS). Additional Sponsors include
- Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
- College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Intel Research
- Consortium for the Arts
- BAM/PFA
- Townsend Center for the Humanities
External links
- Berkeley Center for New MediaBerkeley Center for New Media-Berkeley Center for New Media:The Berkeley Center for New Media is a research, teaching, and public events program at UC Berkeley...
- ATC Lecture Series