ATC Lecture Series

ATC lecture series at UC Berkeley is an internationally known forum for presenting new IDeaS that challenge conventional wisdom AbOUT technology and culture. This 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.

Past Speakers

  • Aaron Betsky
  • Charles Ray
  • George Legrady
  • Lynn Hershman
  • Paul Haeberli
  • Martin Jay
  • Julia Scher
  • Hubert Dreyfus
  • Bruce Tomb
  • John Randolph
  • Billy Kluver
  • Lev Manovich
  • Carlo Sequin
  • Luc Courchesne
  • Margaret Morse
  • Margaret Crane
  • Jon Winet
  • Woody Valsulka
  • Michael Joaquin Grey
  • David Ross
  • Douglas Davis
  • Erik Davis
  • Barbara London
  • Janet Cohen
  • Keith Frank
  • Jon Ippolito
  • Mark Dery
  • Gail Wight
  • Valery Grancher
  • Diana Thater
  • Gary Hill
  • Katherine Hayles
  • Steve Dietz
  • Alex Galloway
  • Jordan Crandall
  • Amy Franceschini
  • Jeffrey Shaw
  • Eduardo Kac
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
  • C5
  • Natalie Bookchin
  • Will Wright
  • George Lewis
  • Christiane Paul
  • Debra Solomon
  • Leonard Shlain
  • Sara Diamond
  • Steve Wilson
  • Michael Naimark
  • Paul D. Miller
  • Victoria Vesna
  • Paul Kaiser
  • Oliver Grau
  • Robert Atkins
  • Anne M. Wagner
  • Chip Lord
  • Constance Lewallen
  • Pamela Lee
  • Mark Hansen
  • Shawn Brixey
  • Richard Rinehart
  • Jim Campbell
  • Nina Katchadourian
  • Marie Sester
  • Peter Selz
  • Vivian Sobchack
  • Jane McGonigal
  • Sean Kelly
  • Mimi Nguyen
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Sonya Rapoport
  • Katie Salen
  • Eric Zimmerman
  • Rachel Green
  • David Byrne
  • Marko Peljhan
  • Jaron Lanier
  • Cobi van Tonder
  • Bruno Latour
  • Tom Marioni
  • Miranda July
  • Mark Pauline
  • Stephen Beck
  • Michael Rees
  • Shirley Shor
  • Marina Grzinic
  • Okwui Enwezor
  • JODI
  • Peter Lunenfeld
  • Rich Gold
  • Pamela Z
  • Marianne Weems
  • Cory Arcangel
  • Jonathon Keats
  • Rudolf Frieling
  • Pierre Huyghe
  • Matmos
  • Kaja Silverman
  • Doug Aitken
  • Trevor Paglen
  • Bill Fontana
  • Geert Lovink
  • Yael Kanarek
  • Kristin Lucas
  • Greg Lynn
  • Naut Humon
  • V. Vale
  • Golan Levin
  • Kota Ezawa
  • Heidi Z. Jacobson
  • Perry Hoberman
  • Steve Kurtz
  • Hasan Elahi
  • Laurie Anderson
  • R. Luke DuBois
  • Anne Pasternak
  • Joseph DeLappe
  • Ray Beldner]]
  • Marcia Tanner
  • Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
  • Neighborhood Public Radio

Sponsors

Primary sponsors for the series include the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (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