Shannon Jackson: Video Across the Arts: Framing a Cross-Disciplinary Conversation

Shannon Jackson: Video Across the Arts: Framing a Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
Recorded at BAMPFA on Thursday, January 19, 2023
What is video art’s place in art history? And which art history? Launching our Thursday series, Shannon Jackson considers video art’s connections to a range of art forms. Introducing artists such as Marina Abramovic, William Kentridge, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, and many more, she considers how video art’s conceptual, durational, and screen-based processes recall and revise a variety of artistic movements.
Shannon Jackson is Hadidi Professor at UC Berkeley and a scholar of cross-media and socially engaged art. A past Guggenheim Fellow, her books include Social Works (2011), The Builders Association (2015), Public Servants (2016), and Back Stages (2022). Jackson served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts and Design from 2015 to 2021, is a trustee of several arts organizations, and serves as program director for the Kramlich Art Foundation.
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Arts + Design Thursdays: Video Art in Context
How have artists made use of the screen? What are the opportunities and hazards of using the screen as a vehicle for connection?
A stunning roster of artists, curators, designers, and critics consider these questions and more. Developed from mixed media experiments of the 1960s through to new digital and virtual aesthetics of our current moment, video and media artists cross-pollinate amongst many art forms-including cinema, photography, painting, sculpture, dance, theater, performance art, design, and even in literature. In addition to experimenting artistically, video artists have also intervened politically, often addressing pressing issues such as climate change, racial equity, gendered power, and the ethics of technology itself. Join us every Thursday noon to hear from cross-disciplinary speakers. For more information, visit bampfa.org/pro....
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This public course and lecture series is funded entirely by a generous grant from the Kramlich Art Foundation, including funds for event programming and the tuition and salaries of Graduate Student Instructors.
Arts + Design Thursdays is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley. In-kind technical support and presentation offered by BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities.