Humanities and Culture are a vital part of the CITRIS mission. To encourage experimentation and broader dialogue, we propose to expand UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium.
This public lecture series, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, is an internationally renowned lecture series that brings artists, scientists, scholars, curators, students, faculty, and the public to the UC Berkeley campus to discuss contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, all in the "interest of society".
- "Open Source" the ATC program: create ATC Colloquia on other campuses UCSC would be the first pilot campus, with the series linked to UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media Program (see below). Cross-list speakers, share videos/podcasts, Develop tools/systems for other campuses/faculty.
- Design and prototype graduate seminar courses around the program Weekly meetings and curricula design based on the ATC lectures.
- Create a comprehensive online archive with PHP/MySQL database detailed pages for each speaker / event videos, podcasts threaded discussions / blogs essays, links to related sites/campuses.
- Develop a fundraising campaign for permanent endowment ($2-3M) for the ATC program: budget, materials, and strategy.
- Design a possible seed grants program in art and humanities open to all faculty.
2009 Update:
Key Achievements and Societal Impact
Humanities and Culture are a vital part of the CITRIS mission. UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally renowned public lecture series founded in 1997. It brings artists, scientists, scholars, curators, students, faculty, and the public to the UC Berkeley campus to discuss contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history in the "interest of society". To encourage experimentation and broader dialogue, this seed funding was successfully used to expand UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (http://atc.berkeley.edu) in the following ways:
(1) "Open Source" the ATC program: We created a pilot ATC Colloquium on the UCSC campus linked to UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media Program (see below). We cross-listed speakers and share a video archive:
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1684
(2) We design a graduate seminar around the ATC program, entitled NWMEDIA 201 / IEOR 298-3: Questioning New Media, this 2-unit seminar has been offered every semester attracting 15-20 students since F08 and will be extended in F09 to a 3 unit course:
http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/lecs/cnm201/
(3) We created a comprehensive online archive with PHP/MySQL database with: detailed pages for each speaker / event, videos, podcasts, and links to related sites/campuses. http://atc.berkeley.edu/
(4) We developed a fundraising campaign for permanent endowment ($2-3M). While we have not yet been able to attract an endowment solely for the series, the ATC was a key component in our efforts to attract a donor for a distinguished Chair: In Jan 2008, craigslist.org agreed to establish the craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media with a $1.5M gift which was matched by the Hewlett foundation to create a $3M endowment for a faculty chair at UC Berkeley. craigslist.org also donated $100,000 to the BCNM to support associated lectures and public programs.