Kwame Braun and Catherine Cole

Take Five is an invitation to curate a mini-exhibition of Fiat Lux photographs or images that you create yourself depicting the UC’s future.

"Take Five" is a series of filmed interviews with UC faculty, staff, alumni, and students as well as members of the general public in relation to the Fiat Lux photographic collection. We ask our narrators to select five images from the collection that speak to that person--for whatever reason. Sometimes narrators' choices arise out of their disciplinary focus, or their personal views about education or the UC. Other times their choices are quite personal. We then edit each interview down to about five minutes, and the finished pieces will appear both on this website and also in the "Fiat Lux Redux" exhibition at The Bancroft Library in the Fall 2012.

Designed to provoke conversations about the past, present and future of the University of California, "Take Five" is an art-based social practice designed to catalyze conversations about what we see and don't see in these images, about what we like and want to keep alive from our institution's past, and also about what might be wrong and need to be changed. It's also about our aspirations: what sort of pictures of the UC's future do we want to see?

Current Take Five Feature

Ansel Adams: Conclusion

Take Five Videos

Ansel Adams, Photographer
            "On the FIAT LUX Commission"
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1YeKFec-Uc&feature=plcp

            "On Contrivance"
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmJ-flM36ZU&feature=plcp

            "On a Close Call"
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSn1Cqbr4W4&feature=context-cha

            "The Conclusion"
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjvCZvq6mnI&feature=plcp
 
Nezar AlSayyad, Architecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkwdacgtzLA&feature=youtu.be
 
Aaron Bady, English
            Libraries: http://youtu.be/-v_lja1rrNE 
            Photobooth Banners: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtCFCV-cgA&feature=plcp

Michael Ball, Patricia Lee, and Vanessa Matalon, Students from a Photography Class
http://youtu.be/QRS-jyJRjVs
 
Brian Barsky, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
http://youtu.be/4IK1c529mYY
 
Gray Brechin, Geography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyjJPCT2pM&feature=youtu.be
           
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb99pV_OAVw&feature=youtu.be
 
Georgina Kleege, English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evB7ni5VPUo&feature=youtu.be
 
Ken Light, Photographer
http://youtu.be/o_yu15CTLZ4
 
Dante Noto, Educational Partnerships, UC Office of the President
            "Breadth of the UC":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1aqkh_W2E
            "Hearts and Minds":   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpi_J22EHaM&feature=relmfu
 
Gina Patnaik, English
http://youtu.be/7D7Cp06QxaE
 
Michael Pollan, Journalism
http://youtu.be/d60XsE0Imik
 
Leigh Raiford, African American Studies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JqmaT4z82E
 
Mark Richards, Earth and Planetary Science
http://youtu.be/9jGYlC3ofrc
 
Alan Ross, Photographer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljE-6Rok7Ic&feature=youtu.be
 
Sheldon Rothblatt, History
http://youtu.be/0T7ygyQC2Dw
 
Sue Schweik, English
http://youtu.be/ZzuHMXdScMA
 
Richard Walker, Geography http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Zy3qkacSk&feature=plcp
 
Anne Walsh, Practice of Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFqO2rTGeQ&feature=plcp
 
 
INTERLUDES
            Charter Day 1964
            http://youtu.be/ZBUSxNE5ymc
 
            Geology Field Trip (Zone System)
            http://youtu.be/Dwar84JIcro
 
            Sugar Beets
            http://youtu.be/-LL4Gl5TCg8