Hear from artists, curators, scholars, and community members speak on a range of topics related to the arts.

UCR ARTSblock podcasts are supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation. For more information, visit: http://www.gluckprogram.ucr.edu

Domesticating Disturbances: New Work by Nathan Huff

Interrogating Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Clem Albers, Dorothea Lange, and Tōyō Miyatake

Interrogating Manzanar: Tōyō Miyatake

Interrogating Manzanar: Photography, Justice, and the Japanese American Internment

Interrogating Manzanar - History of the Camps

CMP Projects: Heather Rasmussen - Bruised Fruit

Daniel Hawkins: Desert Lighthouse Ultimatum

Adriana Salazar: Perpetuity

Sponsored by a generous grant from the Templeton Foundation, the Immortality Project’s Capstone Conference was a three-day academic forum for the presentation of research funded by the UC Riverside Immortality Project, which took place at UCR's Culver Center of the Arts on May 28-30th, 2015.

This talk features John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of California, Riverside and Project Leader of the Immortality Project; Dr. Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside; and Heinrik Hellwig, a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Immortality Project Capstone Conference - Public Session

"Saving Mes Aynak" follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site from demolition. A Chinese mining company is closing in on the site, eager to harvest billions of dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. After the screening a panel discussion was held with Massimiliano Gatti, Professor Fariba Zarinebaf, Chair of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at UCR, and ARTSblock Executive Director, Jonathan Green, focusing on Gatti's work in relationship to politics and photography and the ongoing destruction and erasure of cultural heritage artifacts in the Middle East.

From May 30th, 2015

Saving Mes Aynak Post-Screening Panel Discussion

University of California, Riverside, has recently brought together its three premier art institutions to create a new cultural complex: UCR ARTSblock. ARTSblock is composed of the California Museum of Photography, the Sweeney Art Gallery, and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts. Located on a single block in adjacent historical buildings in downtown Riverside, easily accessible to the public as well as the campus, ARTSblock's mission is to provide a cultural presence, educational resource, community center and intellectual meeting ground for the university and the community. 

ARTSblock's programs investigate the art of our time, media arts, and the history and practice of photography through exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, artist residencies, permanent collections, and creative laboratories. ARTSblock presents significant national and international art and photography, and showcases UCR student artwork and regional artists. 

ARTSblock's activities embody University of California, Riverside's commitment to broadly-based public education and cutting-edge research. ARTSblock offers innovative programs that engage diverse audiences, nourish the imagination and challenge assumptions.