Lecture Series Archives

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2025

Allison Leigh Holt

Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault

Mary Graham

Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa 

Carla Fisher Schwartz

Key Jo Lee

Paola de la Calle

 

2024

Dr. Ciara Ennis

Elena Gross

Tommy Martinez: The Musical Web

Genevieve Quick: Artist Talk

Charles Eppley: Disability & Accessibility in Contemporary Art: Reconsidering Strategies of Inclusion & Compliance in US Museums, 1960-present

Michael Laundry: The Swimmer: Hydro-choreography, VR, and Storytelling

Gay Outlaw

Experimental Democracies: A Game Workshop with Jonathon Keats, James Morgan and Steve Durie

Sarah Mills: Towards A Media Language of Textile Art

Christy Chan in Conversation with Binh Danh

Lorenzo Balbi

Renny Pritikin: Forty Years in the Arts in Northern California, 1979-2018

 

2023

Vanessa Chang

Lauren Schell Dickens

Jolie Ngo

Sarah Mackay: Museum Curation and Cultivating Local Identity

James Lord - Material Landscapes: Authenticity, Innovation and Collaboration

Adia Millett in Conversation with Simone Gage about her exhibition at San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art

Juan Carlos Araujo: Art is Life - Life is Art

Sama Alshaibi

Karl Jean-Guerly Pétion: Provisional Accommodations

Katerina Kopytina: Building an independent design career vs working in a studio

Alyssarhaye Graciano: Artist and Curator: An Accidental Arts Career

Michael Eden : Form and Transform

Cheryl Derricotte

Anna Kipnis: Some Intriguing Experiments with ML in Games

Sofía Córdova

Dorothy Santos

 

2022


Raphael Noz: The Fabulation of Saint Apophenia

Jordan Stein: Jay DeFeo’s Post-Rose, Edge-Oriented Electromagnetism

Futurefarmers: Bones, Tones, and Phones - Artist Walk-through & Opening Reception

DeWayne Barton: Rebuilding Affrilachia

James Angus: Sculpture

Robin Lasser - Breathing Fire: The Voices of Those Left Standing

Jonathon Keats: Prototyping Future Democracies

Anna Lehner: Time, Temperature, and Fracture

Rajorshi Ghosh: I Don't Know

Frances Guerin - Seeing Differently: Gerhard Richter’s Seascapes

Trinh Mai, Understory: as retold by Trinh Mai & Birds

Mel Day, Re:Sounding

James G. Leventhal: "Why an ICA?"

Marissa Saneholtz: Practice and Pearls of Wisdom

William Camargo: Photography, Process and the Movement to Decolonize Photography

Kamau Patton: Tombs, Exhibition Opening and Lecture

Mona Caron

Leah Nichols: What Is Easy?

Verona Carpenter Architects - Spatial Agency: Redesigning The Environment To Support Neurodiversity

Daniel Faust

 


2021


Zoom Lectures

Shaun O'Dell: Ghost Extraction Dialogue for Beyond When the Golden Portal Can Come

Shaun Leonardo: From Seeing to Witnessing

Jacqueline Gordon: Sound Sense

Nada Shabout

Tamiko Thiel

Patrick Lydon and Suhee Khang

Valerie Cassel Oliver and Howardeena Pindell

Mindy Seu

Refik Anadol

Wafaa Bilal Panel: Wafaa Bilal, Andrew Blanton, Nada Shabout, Alena Sauzade

Jorge Ozorno

Karolina Karlic

People's Kitchen Collective

Chelsea Thompto

BFA student showcase

Tosha Stimage: You are at all times a Revolution

Where We Are: Opening Reception

Sophie Kahn: Dematerialized

Lola Malavasi Lachner - Forms of resistance: art and education in Central America

Kathryn Wade: Museums and Media Art

Asma Kazmi: After Jahangir and other works

Masako Miki: New Methodologies

Matthias Kohler: Digital Materiality in Architecture

New Kinships: Community Dialogues and Interdisciplinary Connections

Miguel Monroy: We Are a Way for the Cosmos to Know Itself

Rhiannon Alpers - Fieldwork: Papermaking as a Reflection of Our Surroundings 

Patricia Albers: Joan Mitchell, Painter

 

 

2020


Jimin Lee & Paula Levine: BoundarySpan

Lark Alder: Virtually Conflicted Reality: Reconciling Utopia vs. Dystopia

Jamil Hellu: Hues

Dr. Ceci Moss: Expanded Internet Art

Raven Halfmoon: Between Seen & Unseen

Rosa Menkman: Beyond Resolution: From Shadow Knowledge to Impossible Images

(Zoom) Troy Chew: Out the Mud

(Zoom) Matthias Kohler: From Paradigm to Practice: Towards a Digital Building Culture

(Zoom) Shaun O’Dell: Ghost Extraction Dialogue for Beyond When the Golden Portal Can Come

(Zoom) Rosa Menkman: Shadow Knowledge

(Zoom) South Bay Arts Organizations Panel

(Zoom) Sondra Sherman

(Zoom) Beatriz Cortez in Conversation with Erin Christovale (Sponsored by ConSortiUm, a collaborative of CSU art museums and galleries)

(Zoom) Renee Billingslea

(Zoom) Dana Frankfort

(Zoom) Cate White

(Zoom) Postcommodity (Sponsored by ConSortiUm, a collaborative of CSU art museums and galleries)

(Zoom) Jiabao Li

(Zoom) Hidden Histories Project

(Zoom) Gelare Khoshgozaran

(Zoom) Forensic Architecture (Sponsored by ConSortiUm, a collaborative of CSU art museums and galleries)

(Zoom) Stephanie Dinkins

(Zoom) Anuradha Vikram

 

2019

Woody DeOthello, Lucy Puls: Planned Obsolescence

Greg Niemeyer: A Bell, A Core, A Node

Terry Berlier: Constructed Histories

Dee Hibbert-Jones: Art, Film, & the Public

Ala Ebtekar: Nightfall - If the Stars Should Appear One Night in a Thousand Years

Gideon Bok: Wave

Michael Ogilvie: Public Art - A Cure and A Career

Binh Danh: Living a Creative Life

Jonathan Keats: Robotic Democracy

Vagner Whitehead: Is That For Me?

Abel Barroso: Upgrading

Nathaniel Stern: The World After Us - Art, Technology, and Ecology

Terry Powers: Home School

Fall 2019 Digital Media Arts Faculty: Exhibition Walk-through

Dionicio Mendoza: Artist Tool Box (Artist-in-Residence Programs)

Ann Weber: Art and Life

Jenny Sabin: Matter Design Computation - Biosynthesis and New Paradigms

Karl Daubmann: From Hand to Mouth

Aspen Mays: Approaching Infinite Limits

Mads Lynnerup: Playful Manner

Ebitenyefa Baralaye: Material Lives

Rebeca Bollinger: A Shortcut Through Spacetime

Tom Killion: Woodblock Prints of the California Landscape

James Voorhies: I Call This Work Research

Sherwin Rio: BoundarySpan

Michael Arcega: BoundarySpan

Ranu Mukherjee: A Completely Matter of Fact Acceptance of the Agency of Non-Humans

 

2018

Time Tunnel Curatorial Panel: Bruce Nauman's Corridor 'San Jose Installation'

Magdalena Barrera: Russell Lee & the Study of the Spanish-Speaking People of Texas

The Art of Time: Discussing Bruce Nauman's 'San Jose Installation'

Enrique Leal: Presing Matter(s)

Rhonda Holberton: Immaterial Reality

Olalekan Jeyifous: Speculative Futures (Imminence and Immanence) and Fred Scruton: American Sites

Richard Meyer: Contact Warhol - Photography Without End

J. John Priola: Form & Idea

Dante Marioni: Classical Forms Reinterpreted in Glass

Heather Roberge: Engaging by Design

Tess Vinnedge: Lalla Essaydi - Les Femmes du Maroc

Meghana Bisineer: Shifting Ground

Kevin Snipes: Unconventionally Drawn

 

2017

Pictorial Arts Faculty Exhibition Walk-through

Ron Rael: Borderwall as Architecture

Lauren Gallaspy: Skin Deep

Robert Dawson: On Reading

Lava Thomas: A Timely Conversation

Barry Threw: Synergizing Totalities

Diane Miliotes: José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Penny Press

Pamela Z: Crossing Disciplines

Surabhi Saraf: An Attentive Pause

Joyce Burstein: The Epitaph Project

Laura Cunningham: Powers of Observation

Mel Day and Michelle Wilson: Interdiscplinary Practices

Erik Scollon: Upending Ceramic Traditions

Prajakti Jayavant: Bending Painting