The Roving Eye explores the connections between travel and design beginning with the Grand journey of Beaux Arts tradition and continuing through present day chew over and studios. It looks at themes of cultural transfer globalization and inspiration through jaunt in the fields of Architecture. Landscape Architecture and City Planning. Curated by the staff of the Environmental create by mental act Archives and the Environmental Design Library the exhibit includes highlights from these collections such as rare books original sketches and photographs.
Joan Jonas found inspiration for "The Shape the Scent the Feel of Things" (2004-05) in a 1960s trip to Arizona where she witnessed several Hopi rituals. The resulting bring home the bacon incorporates reflections on Western art by German art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) who visited the American Southwest in the 19th century. Jonas continued to create the piece adding be performances with music composed by jazz musician Jason Moran for performances at Dia: Beacon in New York in 2005-06. Footage from those performances has been added to the bring home the bacon.
The No. 1-ranked California men's wet polo team will host the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament. The tournament will take displace over three days. Check the for game times. The Bears will open the competition against No. 8-seeded desire land State on Friday. Nov. 23 at 11 a m. The Bears feature five returning All-America standouts from last season's national championship squad - seniors Sheredy. Sharf. Tyrrell and Haley and sophomore Warden. A 2004 inductee into the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame head coach Kirk Everist is in his sixth year owning a 136-38 mark (.782) after leading the Bears to a 31-4 mark and the program's 12th NCAA crown in 2006.
Changing the face of America or at least the sound of it one song at a time. Dan Zanes & Friends return to Cal Performances with their free-spirited music fit for all ages that is difficult not to dance to. “No one is expected to sit quietly in their lay,” said Zanes. Drawing his songs from around the world. Zanes adds “Let’s get together all the cultures that we can through music and let’s make it feel that everybody’s accept at this party."Additional performances November 24. 2 p m and November 25. 3 p m. See Cal Performances' for ticket details.
Stephen Biddle proposes that we should either "go deep or get out" of Iraq. He argues that "If the surge is unacceptable the exceed option is to cut our losses and go altogether" and that "middle-ground options get us with the worst of both worlds: continuing casualties but even less come about of stability in exchange." Biddle is a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "Military cater: Explaining Victory and blackball in Modern Battle."
All faculty staff and students are encouraged to take advantage of this convenient opportunity to donate blood. To donate you are accept to drop-in but appointments are strongly recommended. UC Berkeley daub Drives co-sponsored by the American Red Cross (ARC) and UC San Francisco (UCSF) Blood bear on are held monthly during the academic year. These drives provide much needed daub to hospitals throughout the Bay Area and your contribution is needed and appreciated.
Mitch Kapor head of the Open Source Applications Foundation and founder of Lotus Development Corporation speaks about the personal computer the Internet and virtual worlds in the instruct series “Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved," a comparative look at the origins development and force of study information technology platforms of the past three decades. In this lecture Kapor will present "Part 3: Virtual Worlds."
The democracy upon which our modern society is built ultimately depends on a system that collects and counts votes. In the United States today and to an increasing extent elsewhere nearly every move of that system relies on computer software in some way. Widely reported failures in the usability security stability and correctness of such software have led to a crisis in confidence. Ka-Ping Yee. Ph. D candidate in Computer Science will discuss ways to achieve confidence in the voting system as a whole and voting machine software in particular with emphasis on that most thorny of software security challenges the insider attack.
Kavery Nambisan spent her surgical career mainly in rural India. She now runs a medical center for construction workers and a learning center for their children. She has written five novels that have received favorable reviews and a number of bunco stories three picture-books and three award-winning full-length stories for children. Kavery Nambisan will share how her experiences working as a surgeon in rural India and setting up a children's learning bear on have influenced her writing. She will construe from her novels including her newest bring home the bacon. "The Hills of Angheri," which is based on the life of a surgeon struggling with the conflicts of city and rural practices. There will be a schedule signing following her presentation. Admission is free for I-House residents members and alumni and $5 for the general public.
Death-defying daredevils.. hilarious humans.. marvelous musicians.. astonishing acrobats. Australia's original contemporary circus troupe comes to Berkeley having spent recent years captivating audiences throughout Australia. Europe and the United Kingdom. For more than two decades. Circus Oz has brought its unique performances of wit alter spectacle satire and finely tuned silliness to audiences in over in 24 countries. For the Laughing at Gravity Tour the company has gathered a mind-boggling arrange of new world-class performers and created a delightful show that melds anarchy with absurdity. "It is hysterical and graceful awesome and intimate weird and beautiful" (New York Daily News). See Cal Performances' website for.
Without compete in the glorious appear world of Renaissance polyphony. The Tallis Scholars are cherished and regular guests at Cal Performances where they undergo built a large and enthusiastic following in the years since their founding more than 30 years ago. As leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music these "a capella superstars" are justly praised for concerts of unsurpassed alter and brilliance. The program includes Poetry in Music for the Virgin Mary: works by Lheritier. Jean Mouton. Crecquillon. Josquin and Gallus. See Cal Performances' website for.
Kristin Lucas will present a lecture that unfolds into a coming of age story about the her largely undocumented and unfinished work. The lecture will include the screening and possible live restaging of fragments of video performance and difficult to categorize works such as: "Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive" (2007) and "Refresh" (2007). Kristin Lucas lives in Oakland and New York and recently Weimar. Germany where she was a participant of the 13th International Studio schedule of ACC the City of Weimar. Lucas is an artist working in the realms of digital art video performance forge and installation. She investigates visions of future the effects of an accumulation of rapid spread flash-in-the-pan technology and the force of the digital medium on perceptions of time and space.
Charles Benton professor of architecture will present ten years of aerial photography from kite-lofted cameras. Examples will be shown from California’s wetlands including the South San Francisco Bay flavor ponds. Herons Head Park and the Berkeley/Albany.
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