15 Feb, 2024

Video now online! Raven Chacon's What Gets Amplifed

Missed the talk with Raven Chacon, 2023 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more

14 Feb, 2024

Brooke Belisle, BCNM alum, publishes Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

Brooke Belisle, Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University and BCNM alum, has just published Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation, in which she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost-forgotten media forms.  Read more

13 Feb, 2024

Nicole Starosielski teaches Introduction to Digital Infrastructure this Summer

This summer, Professor Nicole Starosielski teaches Introduction to Digital Infrastructure. The challenge of this course will be not only to learn about the infrastructures that comprise the digital "cloud," but to develop innovative representations of them, based on your own original research into the internet’s “plumbing.” Read more

11 Feb, 2024

Living on the block: How equitable is tokenized equity? Read more

11 Feb, 2024

Clancy Wilmott in TedX Berkeley

A butterfly flaps its wings. The air ripples, and time flows. Months later, a typhoon starts brewing above the ocean. Read more

09 Feb, 2024

Video now online! Tim Evatt's Designing for Animation

Missed the Commons Conversation with Tim Evatt, Production Designer at Pixar Animation Studio? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube! Watch below as Tim Evatt discusses his passion for studying visual structure in film and how to start a portfolio for animation.

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07 Feb, 2024

Hannah Zeavin Interviews Adam Shatz Read more

06 Feb, 2024

Nicole Starosielski in Elements Symposium Read more

30 Jan, 2024

BCNM Launches New Media Academy with Summer 2024 Indigenous Technologies Workshop

BCNM's New Media Academy launches this summer with a six-week Indigenous Technologies online workshop. Learn more and enroll now! Read more

29 Jan, 2024

Hannah Zeavin in Passerby with Monthly Recs

Each month, Passerby asks a writer to speak about what’s on their mind and share their tabs in our monthly recommendations. This month’s guest curator is our own Hannah Zeavin. Read more

25 Oct, 2021 Commons Conversations

Design Futures

with Eric Rodenbeck
Founder, Stamen Design

Moderated by Eric Paulos
Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) Read more

04 Oct, 2021 Art, Tech & Culture

Colonial Practices and Cultural Repression by the Municipality against the Community Museum of the Valle de Xico but “It is our 25th anniversary and we are still here.”

with Maria Thereza Alves
Artist
Moderated by Edgar Fabián Frias

Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, the Center for Race and Gender, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. 
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01 Oct, 2021 Workshops

Refamiliarization: Day 3

Bread Symphony Workshop with Katya Rozanova, Emily Saltz, Ashley Lewis, and Max Horwich Read more

30 Sep, 2021 Special Events

Refamiliarization: Day 2

Event with Edgar Fabián Frías and short film screenings Read more

30 Sep, 2021 Special Events

The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online

with Kelly Baker Josephs
Professor of English at York College, CUNY

Presented by Media Studies and co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department and BCNM. Read more

29 Sep, 2021 Special Events

Refamiliarization: Day 1

Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more

28 Sep, 2021 Special Events

Refamiliarization

The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more

13 Sep, 2021 Art, Tech & Culture

How Can a Maori Girl Recolonise the Screen Using Mighty Pixels

with Lisa Reihana
​Artist, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more

31 Aug, 2021 Special Events

BCNM Fall 2021 Open House

Curious about BCNM? Join us this fall for an *online* open house with current faculty and students.  Read more

30 Aug, 2021 Commons Conversations

Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora

with Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Moderated by BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more