Composer and performer Matthew Taylor is a new faculty member in Music. He has released his first full-length album, Life Returns, written during the pandemic to signal the coming of spring and celebrate human resilience. The evening-length work was recorded live in 2022.
The Art and Ethnography working group is an experimental research collaborative focused on the ethnographic exploration of global art and media with perspectives from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, ethnomusicology, and political science.
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Bear's-Eye View is a chronicle of students' engagement with the vibrant humanities culture at the Townsend Center and across the Berkeley campus.
Our Spring 2025 writer was Emma Murphree, a senior from Monterrey. She tackled topics including illness and isolation in the films of Todd Haynes, Jaron Lanier's skeptical relationship to A.I. and social media, and the ways in which digital media affects our perception of war.