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Celeste Kidd's Research in Scientific American
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How Parenting Tech Opens the Door to State Surveillance by Hannah Zeavin
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Kimiko Ryokai & Team Awarded 1.29M
Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more
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Conference Grants: Katherine Song at CHI 23
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Faculty Seed Grants: Asma Kazmi & After Jahangir
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Trevor Paglen on Art, Design, and Technology
Artists Trevor Paglen, Khyati Trehan, and Sebastian Errazuris discuss the metaverse, NFTs, A.I., and what it all means for the art world and debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work. Read more
4 days ago
Jacob Gaboury Co-Edits Critical Inquiry
Weihong Bao, Daniel Morgan, and our own Jacob Gaboury co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on Medium/Environment. Read more
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Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2023
Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more
5 days ago
Clancy Wilmott Receives Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentorship Award
The UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award honors members of the Berkeley faculty and teaching staff who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students. Read more
5 days ago
Conference Grants: Pratiti at BASAS 2023
Pratiti presented their work "Ghosts (of) in Calcutta: Viewing the Cities ‘Dead’" at the annual meeting of the British Association for South Asian Studies. Read more
Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more
11 May, 2023
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman Video & Transcript Now Online!
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02 May, 2023
Celeste Kidd on Why Aren't Babies Little Adults
Why are babies small and grownups big? Why are babies so helpless, instead of little versions of adults? Do babies know they're babies? How do babies grow? How do babies learn to talk? Read more
30 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Featured in Caracteres
The exhibition runs from 04/21/2023 to 05/12/2023! Read more
Celeste Kidd Publishes on Why We Disagree So Often
Is a dog more similar to a chicken or an eagle? Is a penguin noisy? Is a whale friendly?
Celeste Kidd and team say these absurd-sounding questions might help us better understand what’s at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments. Read more
22 Apr, 2023
Alum Tiffany Ng Featured Artist on MUSFORUM
MUSFORUM is the online network for women organists. Read more
21 Apr, 2023
Hannah Zeavin on Ordinary Unhappiness
Hannah Zeavin and collaborator Alex Colston talk Freud on the podcast Ordinary Unhappiness! Read more
20 Apr, 2023
danah boyd Awarded Morrison Prize
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society awarded alum danah boyd its prestigious Morrison Prize and lecture. Read more
19 Apr, 2023
BCNM at CHI 2023
Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual in Poetry & the Senses Chapbook
The Arts Research Center published a chapbook featuring their 2020 Poetry & the Senses Fellows, including Alex Saum-Pascual! Read more
18 Apr, 2023
Chris Goetz Publishes The Counterfeit Coin
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18 Apr, 2023
Celeste Kidd at BCCD Video
Check out the video of Celeste Kidd on truth, lies and misinformation during cognitive development. Read more
18 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Untitled (atomic) form 2
Alex published her latest work in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum at the Rorschach Theatre
Alum Miyoko Conley's play was presented as a reading earlier this month. Read more
14 Apr, 2023
Morgan Ames Publishes Algorithmic Modernity
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14 Apr, 2023
Making the Invisible Visible with Alum Trevor Paglen
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn talks to alum and artist Trevor Paglen about mass surveillance. Read more
14 Apr, 2023
Grace Gipson at Culpeper Con
Alum Grace Gipson was the keynote speaker at this comic-con style event! Read more
13 Apr, 2023
Conference Grants: Alexis Wood at the AAG
Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood presented their upcoming paper, “All your base [maps] are belong to us,” at the 2023 American Associations of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Denver, Colorado on March 24th. Read more
13 Apr, 2023
Conference Grants: Meg Everett at the Society for Research in Child Development
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13 Apr, 2023
Visiting Scholar at BCNM: Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang was a visiting scholar at BCNM during 2022. Read more
13 Apr, 2023
Minh Anh Van Directs To the Water and Back
BCNM AAPI Fellow directs To the Water and Back! Read more
12 Apr, 2023
Osman Khan Video & Transcript Now Online!
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Ken Goldberg joins host Mark Pesce to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Read more
29 Mar, 2023
Kris Paulsen Co-Edits Media N
With Brian Michael Murphy, alum Kris Paulsen co-edits a special issue of Media N on Afterlives of Data. Read more
29 Mar, 2023
Ra Malika Imhotep Featured on Poetry.org
Alum Ra Malika Imhotep's poetry was originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 30, 2023. Read more
27 Mar, 2023
Fall 2023 Recommended Courses Now Online
We've scoured the listings and added our favorite new media classes in one handy place! Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies! Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Abigail De Kosnik Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Tracing the Roots of Computer Graphics: A Conversation With Jacob Gaboury
Jacob Gaboury, the author of “Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics” and 2022 Computer History Museum Book Prize winner, delves into the forgotten past of computer-generated images and their impact on our present and future. Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Valencia James Co-Curates The Parables Experience
The Parables Experience takes place atMozFest! Read more
17 Mar, 2023
Conference Grants: Rebecca Levitan at the Archaeological Institute of America
Rebecca presented her work "New Research on Roman and Late Antique Living Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more
17 Mar, 2023
Bo Ruberg Receives the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award
SCMS recently announced the winners, including our own alum Bo Ruberg! Read more
16 Mar, 2023
Nettrice Gaskins Video & Transcript Now Online
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13 Mar, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Sonia K Katyal receives Dukeminier award for her recent writing on gender, sexuality and AI alongside undergraduate Berkeley student Jessica Y Jung. Read more
06 Mar, 2023
Kate Mattingly Publishes Shaping Dance Canons
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27 Feb, 2023
Rachel Chen to Join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Doctoral student in specical education and new media Rachel Chen to join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Read more
27 Feb, 2023
Ryan Shaw Publishes Conceptual Modeling as Language Design
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27 Feb, 2023
Hannah Zeavin on the Triumph of the Therapeutic
Hannah Zeavin talks with Alex Colston about navigating Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis. . Read more
Raphael Cohen will serve as the Center's Events Coordinator and Office Manager! Read more
07 Feb, 2023
Grace Gipson on Pop Junctions
On the Pop Junctions blog, BCNM alum Grace Gipson discusses race, fandom, and casting Halle Bailey in the the 2023 live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Read more
03 Feb, 2023
Jen Schradie on a Bottom Up Approach to Disinformation Research
Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too. Read more
31 Jan, 2023
Billboard Features Jill Miller's Ariel Stinks
"Ariel Pink Used Jill Miller's Face on His Album Cover Without Permission, So She Responded With ‘Ariel Stinks’ NFTs" writes Billboard. Read more
31 Jan, 2023
Xiaowei Wang Receives Science & Literature National Book Award
Blockchain Chicken Farm has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2023 $10,000 science and literature awards! Read more
In Parapraxis, Author Hannah Zeavin explores the question "What is psychoanalysis but the recuperation of history through its traumas and limits toward a curative and emancipatory end?” Read more
26 Jan, 2023
Indigenous Technologies Coordinator Sierra Edd Featured in Berkeley News
The recipient of the Light Bill Incubator Microgrant is Vincente Perez. They will receive $500, a slot in Sundress’s reading series, and a residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN. Read more
17 Jan, 2023
Ra Malika Imhotep, and Caleb Luna, “Body Language Sick and Disabled Crazy Femmes in Conversation”
Artists Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb explore the beauty that lives within them through embodied study and research as well as everyday practices of solidarity and collective liberation Read more
09 Jan, 2023
BCNM at MLA 2023
Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Gillian Rose Video & Transcript Now Online
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06 Jan, 2023
Andrea Horbinski at CasaCon22
Andrea Horbinski presented at CasaCon22 this past December. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Kidd Lab at Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023
Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
BCNM Around the Web January 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this January! Read more
05 Jan, 2023
Spring 2023 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more
30 Dec, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
29 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at SHOT 2022
Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Digital Literature for the End of the World
Digital technologies, climate damage, algorithms, capitalocene, ecology, environmental studies, and digital literature! Read more
23 Dec, 2022
If Sex Workers Owned the Internet: a Juliana Friend Interview
If Sex Workers Owned the Internet: A Conversation with Senegalese Activists about Digital Privacy and Security Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022
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23 Dec, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on Bernadette Mayer
For Hannah Zeavin, Bernadette Mayer was the greatest minor American poet of the 20th century, and the 21st too, in which she has become less minor. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Bo Ruberg on Computer Dating and the Classifieds
Computer Dating in the Classifieds: Complicating the Cultural History of Matchmaking by Machine Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg and AutoLab Featured in IEOR Magazine
The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more
22 Dec, 2022
Fall 2022 Events in Review
Thank you so much for joining us for another semester of BCNM events! We've collected our event transcripts and videos so you can tune in to amazing lectures from Pua Case, BCNM alumni Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, Visiting Scholar Gillian Rose, and more. Read more
19 Dec, 2022
Rita Kuleva Video and Transcript Now Online
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19 Dec, 2022
Kelli Moore Transcript and Video Now Online
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16 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the National Humanities Conference
Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more
16 Dec, 2022
Yasnaya Aguilar Gil Video & Transcript Now Online
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15 Dec, 2022
Summer 2023 Courses: NWMEDIA 151AC
Transforming Tech: Issues and Interventions in STEM and Silicon Valley offered online with Matthew Berry! Read more
15 Dec, 2022
Summer 2023 Courses: NWMEDIA 90
Examining Sociocultural Issues through TikTok with Meg Everett Read more
15 Dec, 2022
Welcoming Our New Assistant Team
Welcome Evelyn Arroyo, Nadeen Mohamed, and Andy Bui! Read more
Grace Gipson Helps Launch Black Girls Magic in Media
This new curated Instagram account focuses on depictions of Black girls and women in the media. Read more
09 Dec, 2022
Darieck Scott on Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
We were thrilled to co-sponsor "Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics," by Darieck Scott. Read more
06 Dec, 2022
We're Hiring an Events Coordinator & Office Manager in 2023
Join us at BCNM curating and offering an exciting array of programs, including our popular Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies program! Read more
06 Dec, 2022
Sophia Hussain to Join AK Press
We're so sad to bid farewell to Sophia Hussain but excited for her future endeavors at AK Press! Read more
05 Dec, 2022
Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
McCourt Institute's “Web3 &” series continues, taking a specific look at digital democracy. The second event in the series will address the state of digital democracy in our current and future web paradigms, featuring alum Jen Schradie. Read more
17 Nov, 2022
Announcing the 2023 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Victor Tze and Winnona Li! Read more
17 Nov, 2022
BCNM at SIGCIS
Eric Rawn, Morgan Ames, and Jacob Gaboury were featured in SIGCIS 2022:UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Read more
17 Nov, 2022
Jacob Gaboury Awarded 2022 Computer History Museum Prize
Congratulations to Jacob Gaboury for receiving the 2022 Computer History Museum Prize! Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Grace Gipson on the Importance of Black Panther
The smartest person in the Marvel universe, how ‘Black Panther’ – and its sequel – changed Hollywood, and why representation in pop culture matters Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Launches Parapraxis
A print magazine devoted to psychoanalysis called Parapraxis. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Alum Bo Ruberg on Queer Digital Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Read more
16 Nov, 2022
BCNM at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium
The 2022 Bay Area Robotics Symposium brings together roboticists from the Bay Area in an immersive program featuring BCNM professors. Read more
15 Nov, 2022
BCNM Around the Web November
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
14 Nov, 2022
BCNM at CSCW 2022
Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more
14 Nov, 2022
AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M
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12 Nov, 2022
Summer 2023 Research Award Application Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
09 Nov, 2022
BCNM at SHOT
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) encourages the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Clancy Wilmott at NACIS 2022
Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood spoke about Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures at NACIS 2022. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2022
Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
BCNM at American Studies Association 2022
Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022. Read more
31 Oct, 2022
Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Ken Ueno
Check out the video and transcript from this incredible conversation. Read more
26 Oct, 2022
Now Accepting Applications for 2023 Lyman Fellowship
THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! Read more
26 Oct, 2022
BCNM at ACM 2022
The 7th annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication will feature Berkeley professors Eric Paulos and Bjoern Hartmann and otherexperts and enthusiasts from many areas of academia and industry, in order to explore the use of computational tools for the creation of physical things. Read more
25 Oct, 2022
BCNM at AMS/SEM/SMT 2022
Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more
24 Oct, 2022
BCNM Around the Web October
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this October! Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Christine Dierk at UIST 2022
Our alum Christine presents Project Primrose: Reflective Light-Diffuser Modules for Non-Emissive Flexible Display Systems. Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Melancholic Media by Hannah Zeavin
Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Playing with "Real Women"
Our alum Bo Ruberg offers "A Sexual Prehistory of Realism in Video Games" on ROMchip, a journal of game histories. Read more
20 Oct, 2022
Pablo Paredes Joins the University of Maryland
Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more
20 Oct, 2022
Pua Case Transcript and Video Now Online
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19 Oct, 2022
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
Clancy Wilmott Awarded Hellman Fellowship
The Hellman Fellows Fund supports promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads with Liza Gak
BCNM DE Liza Gak joins Data Skeptic to discuss her research on harmful weight loss advertising. Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Conference Grants: William Morgan at SLSA 2022
William Morgan, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant recipient, presented “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
A Century of Women & the Carillon
Alum Tiffany Ng is the PI on this beautiful new digital humanities project. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Hear about Bo's Sex Dolls at Sea
Alum Bo Ruberg talks to the Sex Industry Book Club about their new book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies! Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Lashon Daley Starts a Book Vlog
BCNM alumni Lashon Daley's first vlog is up! Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Tom McEnaney on the Problems of Removing Accents from Call Centers
Tom speaks on the issues involved in filtering accented speech in a talk with KQED. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
The Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era
Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology.Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Psychoanalysis and the Future of the Clinic
Hannah Zeavin was featured in the event on September 29, 2022. Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Bruno Latour In Memoriam
Image caption: Video still of Bruno Latour lecturing at UC Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2005Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Sarah Sterman Joins UIUC
Congratulations to Sarah Sterman on being named a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías launches a new channel and discusses cryptoart and censorship. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Announcing the Fall 2022 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more
06 Oct, 2022
New Media Experimental Art Studio
Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023! Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Apply for the AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
We are thrilled to launch the inaugural UC Berkeley Center for New Media AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship. Applications are due March 1, 2023. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Are Spotify’s Vibes the End of Segregated Listening?
Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more
05 Oct, 2022
Apartheid Drone
Alum Katherine Chandler writes on infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker. Read more
05 Oct, 2022
Queering Digital Culture
A great new course being offered by Emma Fraser this Spring 2023! Read more
04 Oct, 2022
Apply Now for the Spring 2023 New Media Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Choose from projects on hybrid learning, immersive environments, and InsightXR. Applications are due November 1, 2022. Read more
04 Oct, 2022
Spring 2023 Recommended Courses Now Online
We've scoured the listings and added our favorite new media classes from across campus! Read more
03 Oct, 2022
You help BCNM drive interdisciplinary innovation
The Berkeley Center for New Media builds more just and equitable futures. Read more
02 Oct, 2022
Hannah Zeavin in Committable
Hannah features as a guest on Committable discussing crisis hotlines and the evolution of mental health services. Read more
29 Sep, 2022
Asma Kazmi Promoted to Associate Professor
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27 Sep, 2022
BCNM Statement in Solidarity with Iranian Protestors
As educators and researchers at UC Berkeley Center for New Media we stand in solidarity with Iranian women who are demanding their basic human rights. Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Hot and Cool Mother Receives Disability History Association Outstanding Article Award
Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin, winner of the 2022 DHA Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award for “Hot and Cool Mothers”! Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas.
Alex Saum-Pascual's Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas is featured in Hispanic writings from the exocanon.Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Inserting Intersectionality and Blackness in Comics
Alum Grace Gipson is featured in "Teaching with Comics". Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling
Alum Bo Ruberg's article is featured in Sexualities. Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Why ‘environments’ in games are always historical: a provocation
Emma Fraser is featured in Historical Games Network. Read more
11 Sep, 2022
Xiaowei Wang Fellow at the National Center on Race & Digital Justice
Shout out to Xiaowei Wang for being a fellow at the National Center on Race & Digital Justice! Read more
11 Sep, 2022
Summer Research Report: Amanda Barnett
Read about Amanda's preparation for a Spring 2023 exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle’s Asian Pacific American history museum. Read more
Berlant’s new book, On the Inconvenience of Other People, serves as a sequel of sorts to Cruel Optimism, the work that guaranteed Berlant’s fame beyond the academy. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Celeste Kidd's "Learning with certainty in childhood"
Celeste Kidd and Carolyn Baer published "Learning with certainty in childhood" in Science Direct. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Summer Research Report: Irma Barbosa
Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more
01 Sep, 2022
BCNM Around the Web September
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this September! Read more
31 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present four papers at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)! Read more
31 Aug, 2022
Applications for our Fall 2022 Conference Grants Now Open
BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more
30 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Report: William Morgan
Read about William's work across the globe, from cybernetics to AI in science fiction! Read more
27 Aug, 2022
Fall 2022 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more
25 Aug, 2022
Undergraduate Research: Jesse Clements
Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more
25 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Reports: Kevin CK Lo
Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more
24 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Reports: Rebecca Levitan
Rebecca works on the digital documentation of ancient art! Read more
24 Aug, 2022
danah boyd & Morgan Ames on the Future of the Metaverse
Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more
23 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Report: Lani Alden
Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more
23 Aug, 2022
Michelle Carney Featured in Women in AI Ethics
This interview with alum Michelle Carney is part of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE)’s “I am the future of AI.” Read more
danah boyd on the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
danah boyd discusses "Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?" Read more
18 Aug, 2022
Lyman Report: Julia Irwin
Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more
18 Aug, 2022
Trevor Paglen & Experimental Geography
Listen to the Atlast Obscura podcast to hear BCNM alum discuss government surveillance, AI, and place! Read more
17 Aug, 2022
Justin Berner Appointed Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Justin Berner joins NYU Shanghai as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. Read more
17 Aug, 2022
danah boyd Featured in People of ACM
"I approach technology as a tool and an intervention. Certain futures are made easier because of technology, and certain futures get more complicated. We can make bets about the probabilities of certain futures, but we cannot see the future. We can only introduce other interventions." Read more
16 Aug, 2022
Ritwik Banerji Appointed Assistant Professor at Iowa State University
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16 Aug, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 Class Grants
We're pleased to support Tom McEnaney's course on Sounding American. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
BCNM at ASA 2022
The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
Summer 2022 Research with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan
Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Vicente Perez featured in Poetry Online
Vicente's Poem "I'm on a Therapist's Queue" was this weeks feature in poetry.onl Read more
12 Aug, 2022
BCNM Around the Web August 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
11 Aug, 2022
Queer Affects at the Origins of Computation
Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.Read more
11 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg's Knot Untying Robots Featured in New Scientist
Matthew Sparkes features the work from Ken Goldberg's lab in "Robot unties knotted cables but can't pick them up off the floor" for the New Scientist. Read more
10 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CASE 2022
The 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) took place in in Chengdu, China and Mexico City, Mexico. Read more
10 Aug, 2022
Beyond Counting Accountability
Xiaowei Wang has a new article in Just Tech. Read more
09 Aug, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Receives Silvers Award
The Silvers Grants for Work in Progress are given annually to support writers working on long-form essays or full-length book projects in the fields of literary and arts criticism, political analysis, and social reportage. Read more
09 Aug, 2022
Conference Report: Molly Nicholas at Creativity and Cognition
Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more
08 Aug, 2022
In the Flickering Light
Hannah reviews the history and evolution of the digital in her article for The New York Review, In the Flickering Light. Read more
07 Aug, 2022
Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information
New research from Celeste Kidd published in Biology Letters. Read more
07 Aug, 2022
Big Gaming Questions with Alenda Chang
Alenda Chang joins in an asynchronous roundtable discussion with Tara Fickle, Gregory Grieve, and Chris Patterson on Gaming Plus Project. Read more
07 Aug, 2022
Kate Mattingly Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University
This is Womenspace: USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom
Hannah Zeavin's latest publication appears in Technology and Culture. Read more
01 Aug, 2022
Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable
Katherine Song's research is featured in IEEE Spectrum! Read more
28 Jul, 2022
Xiaowei Wang Co-Editor of Logic Magazine
Congratulations and best wishes to Xiaowei Wang who will co-lead Logic Magazine's pivot to becoming the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine. Read more
27 Jul, 2022
Camille Crittenden explains a technology Californians use without knowing it
The Fresno Bee goes in depth on blockchain with Camille Crittenden's expertise. Read more
27 Jul, 2022
Jane McGonigal Talks Future Thinking with Gwyneth Paltrow
She features on Gwyneth Paltrow's podcast The Goop. Read more
22 Jul, 2022
Fall 2022 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Featuring BCNM poet alums Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, UCB Professor of Music Ken Ueno, Indigenous Technologies, and more! Read more
22 Jul, 2022
Tiffany Ng Named Chair of Organ Department
Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more
22 Jul, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on the Power of Teletherapy
R.H. Cohen interviews Hannah Zeavin on her book The Distance Cure for Public Books. Read more
22 Jul, 2022
How to Predict the Future on Ted Interviews
Listen to the TED interviews podcast of alum Jane McGonigal sharing how to predict the future. Read more
21 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series, featuring Kelli Moore, Gloria Emeagwali, Gillian Rose, and more! Read more
21 Jul, 2022
Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance
The latest paper from alum Reginold Royston in Social Media + Society. Read more
21 Jul, 2022
Is Oakland's School Choice System Fair
Tonya Nguyen's research with Samantha Robertson and Niloufar Salehi is featured in Oaklandside. Read more
20 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for our ATC Lecture Series! Featuring Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman, and artsits Nettrice Gaskins and Osman Khan. Read more
18 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg at RSS 2022
Ken Goldberg and team won a Best Systems Paper Award for "Autonomously Untangling Long Cables" at Robotics Science and Systems 2022. Read more
18 Jul, 2022
Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary
Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. Read more
17 Jul, 2022
The Distance Cure Reviewed in The Nation
Danielle Carr review's Hannah Zeavin's "The Distance Cure" in The Nation. Read more
17 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg at WAFR 2022
The 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics was held on June 22-24, 2022. Read more
17 Jul, 2022
Jen Schradie on the Far Right's Efforts to Overturn Roe
L'Obs interviewed Jen Schradie on the far right's organization to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more
15 Jul, 2022
Tory Jeffay Named Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth
Tory's dissertation was titled “The Forensic Imaginary: Visual Media and Evidentiary Culture.” Read more
14 Jul, 2022
Exhibition at Antenna by Ra Malika Imhotep
Check out Ra's work July 9th – August 28th in New Orleans. Read more
13 Jul, 2022
Seitu Jones Transcript & Video Now Online
Revisit this great event with Seitu Jones on "George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook" Read more
12 Jul, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on the Victim Cloud
Hannah writes for Harpers about gullibility in the golden age of scams. Read more
12 Jul, 2022
Adam and Zack Khalil Transcript & Video Now Online
Revisit this great event with Adam and Zack Khalil on "Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures.” Read more
11 Jul, 2022
Jane McGonigal on KQED's Mind Shift
Paul Darvasi interviews alum Jane McGonigal on "Harnessing the power of future-forecasting to help invent a better world." Read more
10 Jul, 2022
#BlackGamersMatter: Gaming and the Black Imaginary
Dr. Grace Gipson speaks on Black gamers as part of Temple University's series on Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism. Read more
09 Jul, 2022
Taking Aim at Gun Violence
Camille Crittenden asks how engineers, computer scientists and technologists might engage more actively in creating solutions. Read more
08 Jul, 2022
Abigail Lomibao on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more
08 Jul, 2022
Image Objects Reviewed by Kyle Stine
Jacob Gaboury's book Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics was reviewed in Film Quarterly. Read more
07 Jul, 2022
Abigail De Kosnik Mercator Fellow at Goethe University
As part of her Fellowship, Gail is giving a lecture on July 11th! Watch it online! Read more
07 Jul, 2022
Ra Malika Imotep Awarded President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
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07 Jul, 2022
A Decade of Innovation from the CITRIS Invention Lab
CITRIS celebrates the tenth birthday of the Invention Lab - co-founded by our own Eric Paulos. Read more
07 Jul, 2022
BCNM at ICA2022
Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
Interactive Mixed-Dimensional Media for Cross-Dimensional Collaboration in Mixed Reality Environments
Björn Hartmann co-authors this new paper with Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
Jane McGonigal on Whether Games Can Prepare Us for Catastrophes
Alum Jane McGonigal features on Steve Levitt's popular podcast. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
BCNM Around the Web June 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
Ken Goldberg is among the authors of this paper on how the cloud ecosystem, barely over fifteen years old, could evolve as it matures. Read more
29 Jun, 2022
We're Prone to Adopt Popular Beliefs
Celeste Kidd's lab is featured on Berkeley News in the article titled "Like it or not, we’re prone to adopt popular beliefs, even fake ones." Read more
26 Jun, 2022
With the rise of the extreme right, a low intensity conflict is raging in the US
Alum Jen Schradie is interviewed in Le Monde about shootings in America targeting African Americans and Latin Americans.
Revisit this great event with Liat Berdugo on "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine." Read more
23 Jun, 2022
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 BCNM Events in Review
Check out our roundup of the last year of BCNM events, featuring event details, video recordings, and transcripts! Read more
22 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature Reviewed in the Journal of Environmental Media
Read the review by Kara Stone of "Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games" Read more
21 Jun, 2022
BCNM Spring '22 In-Person Graduation
As a celebration of our Spring 2022 BCNM graduates, we hosted a successful in person event for them on May 2nd, in which they were presented with BCNM certificates. Read more
21 Jun, 2022
FogROS brings robotic cloud computing to the Robot Operating System
Ken Goldberg and team published a new article featured in TechCrunch. Read more
20 Jun, 2022
Christo Sims on Green Magic
Alum Christo Sims discusses Technologies of Enchantment at Apple's Corporate Headquarters on Public Culture. Read more
20 Jun, 2022
Morgan Ames on the Received Wisdom Podcast
Where did the One Laptop Per Child project go wrong? Morgan Ames gives some answers. Read more
20 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on Reimagining the History of Media Studies
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley is in the amazing lineup for the recently published Uncanny Histories in Film and Media! Read more
19 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on Ecology & Technology
Watch Alenda Chang present at Penn State on ecology and technology! Read more
19 Jun, 2022
Damon Young Edits Special Issue of Representations
Damon Young, with Debarati Sanyal and Mario Telò, edits a special issue of Representations on Proximities — Readings with Judith Butler. Read more
19 Jun, 2022
Trevor Paglen and the Art of Security
Shane Harris speaks to artist Trevor Paglen on Chatter to explore themes of surveillance, security, and secrecy. Read more
16 Jun, 2022
Conference Report: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan at EDRA53 Health in Design
Haripriya shared her research at the Environmental Design Research Association Health in Design conference. Read more
15 Jun, 2022
Grace Gipson on Respectability Politics
Twitter was on fire after #theslap incident and alum Grace Gipson analyzes some of what's going on. Read more
15 Jun, 2022
Porch Sit with Ra Malika Imhotep
Watch a replay of this Porch Sit with Ra Malika Imhotep discussing gossypin'. Read more
15 Jun, 2022
Michelle Carney on Bringing ML and UX Together
Alum Michelle Carney speaks to the Experiencing Data podcast about her mission to bring machine learning and user interface design together. Read more
14 Jun, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías at TheyFriend
Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the 2021 TheyFriend Nonbinary performance festival and you can see their work online! Read more
13 Jun, 2022
Conference Reports: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Patient-Centered Care
Haripriya presented her research at the The Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. Read more
12 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on the Damaged Planet
BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more
10 Jun, 2022
BCNM's Big Wins 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
09 Jun, 2022
Clancy Wilmott Awarded 2022 PBK Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to Clancy Wilmott on being a warded a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award for the branch of Northern California! Read more
08 Jun, 2022
Nour El Rayes Joins the Peabody Institute
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07 Jun, 2022
BCNM Best Paper Award at Creativity & Cognition 2022
BCNMers Molly Nicholas, Sarah Sterman, and Eric Paulos received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more
03 Jun, 2022
Malika Imhotep Discusses gossypin
Ra Malika Imhotep joins Lost City Books to discuss her new collection, gossypin. Read more
03 Jun, 2022
Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Wendy Chun
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02 Jun, 2022
Conference Reports: Katherine Song at CHI 2022
Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more
25 May, 2022
The Craft of Forecasting Our Possible Futures
Antonia Violante is in conversation with Jane McGonigal on Behavioral Scientist. Read more
24 May, 2022
Morgan Ames on The Legacy of OLPC
Morgan Ames features on The Real Python podcast discussing charismatic pitfalls in teaching programming! Read more
21 May, 2022
BCNM Around the Web May
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
The Distance Cure Wins Courage to Dream Book Prize
Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin for receiving the Courage to Dream Book Prize for her book The Distance Cure!Read more
11 May, 2022
Jen Schradie on How Technology Favors the Powerful
Grégoire Barbey intervews alum Jen Schradie for Heidi.news on how the internet is dominated by conservative ideology. Read more
11 May, 2022
Grace Gipson's Course Featured in VCU News
We love learning about our alumni's courses across the country! Check out this feature in Viriginia Commonwealth University News about Grace Gipson's Humanizing the Black Female Voice in Television.Read more
11 May, 2022
Sonia Katyal on LGBTQ+ Rights
As every day we hear new reports of laws limiting LGBTQ+ rights, UC Berkeley professors weigh in on the current experience of our LGBTQ+ community. Read more
10 May, 2022
Conference Reports: Vincente Perez at Silly Media
Vincente presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation" at the Silly Media conference at the University of Chicago. Read more
29 Apr, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías Performs in HI, Solo #11
HI, SOLO is a bi-annual performance series conceived by Alexx Shilling and Devika Wickremesinghe. Read more
29 Apr, 2022
Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the US Census Bureau’s Use of Differential Privacy
Our alum danah boyd published an article in the Harvard Data Science Review with Jayshree Sarathy.
Alum Jane McGonigal shares five key insights from her new book, Imaginable.Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Akemi Nagashiki on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Akemi was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanaryanan on graduate level research, supporting Haripriya's project on spatial design in pediatric healthcare spaces. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Conference Grant Reports: Elisa Giardina Papa at the Venice Biennale
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28 Apr, 2022
The Queer Posthumanism of Video Games that cannot be Played
Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
People Are Not Fixed Media by Ritwik Banerji
Ritwik published an article illustrating the Fixed media which are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Lina Matine on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Lina Matine worked with Harry Burson on his research into the development of “Ambisonics". Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Mary Smith Reviews the Queer Games Avant-Garde
Bonnie Ruberg's The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games is reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly. Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Bo Ruberg on Hot Tub Streaming
Bo Ruberg discusses Hot Tub streaming and what it brings to erotic lesiure culture. Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Noura Howell on Cracks in the Success Narrative
Noura Howell reflects on her failures in design research practice in "Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnogrpahy". Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Jill Miller presents “Dog Pack” with collaborator Melody Chang at ICASF
https://www.jillmiller.net/media#/dog-pack/Read more
20 Apr, 2022
The Distance Cure Reviewed in The Jacobin
Hannah Zeavin's new book focusing on psychoanalysis and mediation is featured in the Jacobin. Read more
20 Apr, 2022
Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou on Diversity on Streaming Platforms in Pandemic Times
Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou present diversity Scores for films and television series on major streaming platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Read more
20 Apr, 2022
Eric Paulos on Plastic Dynamism
Eric Paulos speaks on the creative process of not only making but also unmaking. Read more
19 Apr, 2022
BCNM at Data and the Metaverse
BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse." Read more
19 Apr, 2022
Jane McGonigal on the Michael Shermer Show
In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Read more
19 Apr, 2022
Algorithms Adore Extreme Right Content
Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more
19 Apr, 2022
How to Future Proof your Life with Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal is featured in this VOX interview with Sigal Samuel. Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Haripriya Sathyanarayanan Awarded the Helen Wallace Dissertation Award
The Helen Wallace Dissertation Award aims to advance and elevate graduate-level research at the intersection of MCAH, innovation, and technology. Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Greg Niemeyer Awarded Peder 2022 Sather Grant
Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more
Dawn Chan reviews Jane McGonigal's IMAGINABLE: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything ― Even Things That Seem Impossible Today. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Michelle Carney Celebrated as a Trailblazer
Google Developer Studio celebrated global women in tech and trailblazers in honor of women's history month, featuring our own alum Michelle Carney! Read more
31 Mar, 2022
Bo Ruberg on Queer Gaming Practices on Arebyte
Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more
31 Mar, 2022
Jen Schradie on the 2022 Elections
Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more
The Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media is awarded by The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
30 Mar, 2022
BCNM at SCMS 2022
Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more
30 Mar, 2022
Pop Mythology Reviews Imaginable
'Imaginable' is the most important book you’ll read this year! Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
Ukrainians are rallying global support via social media. But don’t call it a TikTok war, writes alum Jen Schradie for the Washington Post. Read more
24 Mar, 2022
Bo Ruberg in Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play
Alum Bo Ruberg joins Christopher Patterson, Aaron Trammell, and Kishonna Gray to discuss the diverse and not always harmless ways that pleasure moves us in and through play. Read more
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Alum Bo Ruberg chats about queer gaming with designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer. Read more
21 Mar, 2022
Fall 2022 Recommended Courses Now Online
Check out new media classes taking place across campus! Read more
12 Mar, 2022
Announcing the Spring 2022 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more
11 Mar, 2022
Andrea Horbinski Translation of 2B-Dan in Mechademia
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11 Mar, 2022
Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg in conversation with Kate Crawford
Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more
11 Mar, 2022
Asian Americans in Hollywood Video Now Online
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10 Mar, 2022
This Thursday - 24-hour Matching Gift Opportunity for AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
Help BCNM unlock $5,000 by making a gift of any size during Big Give Read more
08 Mar, 2022
Nabeel Siddiqui Reviews Image Objects
Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects was reviewed in Information & Culture by Nabeel Siddiqui. Read more
08 Mar, 2022
To Practice an Understanding that the World is Made with Alenda Chang
Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more
07 Mar, 2022
Sophia Hussain in The Poetry Project
Sophia Hussain is featured in the remembrances of Etel Adnan!
Jen Schradie's work is featured in A Section of Now: Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. Read more
02 Mar, 2022
BCNM Around the Web March 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this March! Read more
02 Mar, 2022
Shira Abramovich Reviews Imaginable
Jane McGonigal's latest book Imaginable was reviewed by Shira Abramovich on Reboot. Read more
01 Mar, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Simulating Polyculture Farming
Check out Ken Goldberg's article on Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation! Read more
01 Mar, 2022
Grace Gipson in Black Feminist Futures Series
Grace Gipson was featured in a conversation on the topic of Black Women and Theories of the Future! Read more
28 Feb, 2022
Hannah Zeavin at Town Hall Seattle
Hannah Zeavin discusses her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy with Town Hall Seattle. Read more
28 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg in the International Journal of Robotics Research
Ken Goldberg's work was recently featured in the International Journal of Robotics Research. Read more
25 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Comparison of Novel Shielded Nasopharynx Applicator Designs for Intracavitary Brachytherapy
Ken Goldberg applies new designs to improve patient outcomes. Read more
25 Feb, 2022
Grace Gipson on Hollywood's History of Portraying African Americans
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24 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversation Video Now Online: Wendy Chun
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Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Accelerating quadratic optimization with reinforcement learning
Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more
19 Feb, 2022
Ra Malika Imhotep in the Performance of Labor
Ra Malika Imhotep curated and co-hosted a Black feminist panel discussion on The Performance of Labor/ The Labor of Performance. Read more
18 Feb, 2022
HTNM Video Now Online: Yásnaya Aguilar Gil
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16 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 Class Fund Recipients
This semester, we were thrilled to support our students in digital storytelling. Read more
15 Feb, 2022
Vincente Perez in River & South
Vincente Perez's "Neighborhood Séance" was featured in River & South's 2021 year review! Read more
15 Feb, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías on Making Room For Your Art
Edgar Fabián Frías shared their "Time Magic, NFTs, and Unlearning Capitalist Panic" in the podcast. Read more
15 Feb, 2022
Assisting Polyculture Farming in Africa with Ken Goldberg
Check out Ken Goldberg's latest publication in IEEE Africon! Read more
11 Feb, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Interviews Hannah Black
Hannah discusses Black's novella on the pandemic, anti-police riots, love, and aliens. Read more
11 Feb, 2022
BCNM Around the Web February 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
11 Feb, 2022
Hannah Zeavin in Continuum Innovation
Hannah's book 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' is featured in Continuum Innovation. Read more
11 Feb, 2022
Kaitlin Forcier in Media N
Kaitlin Forcier's High-Tech Orientalism and Science Fiction Futures in Astria Suparak’s "Virtually Asian" is featured in Media N on the issue of Art and the Technologies of Race. Read more
10 Feb, 2022
Bo Ruberg Publishes the Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis
The article appears in American Literature and argues that the AIDS crisis indicates the "present absence of queerness in video games." Read more
10 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2021
Ken Goldberg and team present "Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects" at the Conference on Robotic Learning. Read more
09 Feb, 2022
Mechanical Search on Shelves Using a Novel "Bluction" Tool
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Fandom: Now In Color
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05 Feb, 2022
Bo Ruberg Publishes Trans Games Studies
Bo Ruberg's Trans Games Studies has been published in University of Michigan's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.Read more
05 Feb, 2022
Applications for our Spring 2022 Conference Grants Now Open
BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more
02 Feb, 2022
Gossypiin Featured on BookRiot
'Gossypiin' by Ra Malika Imhotep is recommended as the poetry book that captures the black experience on BookRiot. Read more
02 Feb, 2022
Clement Hil Goldberg Receives Creative Capital Award
Congratulations to Clement Hil Goldberg's 'Let Me Let You Go' for receiving the Creative Capital Award which supports artists who are pushing boundaries and asking challenging questions! Read more
02 Feb, 2022
Jane McGonigal Publishes Imaginable
Jane McGonigal is unusually adept at anticipating events that most of us can't even fathom. In this eye-opening, actionable book, she teaches you how to widen your peripheral vision, extend your imagination farther into the future, and conceive of the inconceivable. Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Beyond Settler Sex and Family: Kim TallBear Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the updated transcript and video for Kim TallBear's “Beyond Settler Sex and Family”.Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Maria Thereza Alves Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the transcript and video for Maria Thereza Alves' “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.” Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Welcoming Xuan Wang: Visiting Scholar from China
Wang Xuan is the director of the technical department of the Library at Communication University of China and the former associate director of the technical department of the Media Museum. Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Welcoming Liu Ruoxin: Visiting Scholar from China
Ruoxin Liu is an associate professor at the New Media Research Institute of Communication University of China. Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Publisher's Weekly Review of Imaginable
Publisher's Weekly published a book review on Jane McGonigal's 'Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today'.Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Jen Schradie on the Shadow of January 6th
Jen Schradie joins The Debate on France 24 to talk about the impact a year later of the Capitol insurrection. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Hot and Cool Mothers by Hannah Zeavin
Hannah's latest article appears in Differences, a journal of feminist cultural studies. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Reginold Royston on Podcasting Africa: Pedagogy, Research and Praxis
Reginold Royston discusses pedagogy, research, and praxis in a roundtable discussion with the African Studies Association. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Xiaowei Wang on Blockchain Chicken Farm at the Minderoo Center
Xiaowei explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China in this event with the Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy. Read more
26 Jan, 2022
Vincente Perez Reads for Poetry & the Senses
BCNM DE Vincente Perez was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Fall 2021 and read work produced over the semester. Read more
26 Jan, 2022
2022 Robotics Predictions with Ken Goldberg
The Robot Report shares robotics predictions from industry experts, including our own Ken Goldberg. Read more
25 Jan, 2022
BCNM in 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics
Women in AI Ethics recognizes BCNM faculty and alumni in their list of honors, including Jenna Burrell, Morgan Ames, danah boyd, and Michelle Carney! Read more
25 Jan, 2022
Beth Piatote in Evergreen
“Secondary Infection” by Beth Piatote appears in Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest.Read more
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Alex Saum-Pascual in Hyperrhiz
Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut appears in Hyperrhiz 24's Fall issue. Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Spring 2022 Applications for the Designated Emphasis and Certificate Now Open
The Berkeley Center for New Media is now accepting applications for admission to the Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media and the Graduate Certificate in New Media programs. All applications for Spring 2022 admittance are due March 1, 2022. Read more
16 Jan, 2022
Abigail De Kosnik on Race & Fandom
Abigail De Kosnik joins "How Do You Like It So Far?" to discuss race in fandoms and fan studies. Read more
13 Jan, 2022
Alenda Chang Reviews Feral Atlas
Alenda Y Chang's review of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene is featured in the Winter 2021 issue of the journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Read more
12 Jan, 2022
Decal Alert: Writing in the Age of the Internet
Interested in the intersection of literature and technology? Take a deep dive into the field of "electronic literature"! Read more
10 Jan, 2022
Common Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Eric Rodenbeck
We're pleased to share the transcript of our Common Conversations event with founder of Stamen Design Eric Rodenbeck. Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Spring 2022 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Dark Matters Reviewed in The Whole Note
The Whole Note reviews BCNM alumn Tiffany Ng's Dark Matters. Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more
04 Jan, 2022
BCNM at MLA 2022
Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more
04 Jan, 2022
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Japan's Green Monsters
BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinksi reviews Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema in H-Net Reviews' December 2021 edition. Read more
04 Jan, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Reviews Diminished Faculties
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04 Jan, 2022
HTNM Indigenous Technologies Event Transcript Now Online: Lisa Reihana
We're pleased to share the transcript of our Indigenous Technologies event with Maori artist and filmmaker Lisa Reihana. Read more
03 Jan, 2022
Alex Saum-Pascual in Texts of Discomfort
Alex's electronic literature appears in the new anthology Texts of Discomfort. Read more
03 Jan, 2022
Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance
Ken Goldberg and team publish a new paper on Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance. Read more
02 Jan, 2022
Jacob Gaboury Book Chat at the Townsend Center
Jacob discusses his new book Image Objects (MIT, 2021). Read more
01 Jan, 2022
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft Reviews the Distance Cure
Hannah Zeavin's new book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in Book Forum. Read more
31 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in In Collaboration with Earth
Edgar Fabián Frías joined the exhibition In Collaboration with Earth at Gearbox Gallery which ran December 6–17, 2021 Read more
29 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg on The Golem & AI
Ken Goldberg discusses artificial intelligence in relation to the classic film, The Golem. Read more
28 Dec, 2021
Tiffany Ng on Diversifying Carillon Repertoire
Modern-day carillonists are now facing the challenge of reclaiming the instrument to better represent and speak to our diverse community. Read more
27 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web December 2021
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more
26 Dec, 2021
New Paper on Learning Efficient Grasping Sets
Ken Goldberg's lab publishes "LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasping Sets for Exploratory Grasping." Read more
20 Dec, 2021
Alex Saum-Pascual and the New Poetics at BAMPFA
Watch Alex talk discuss her creative path of subversion in poetry. Read more
16 Dec, 2021
Congratulating Our Fall 2021 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more
15 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias in UncannySFValley
Edgar's work on Astral Projection appears in Casey Kauffmann’s curated exhibition within NFT Oasis, Everybody’s Doing The Emails. Read more
14 Dec, 2021
Andrew Key Reviews The Distance Cure
Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in The Point Magazine. Read more
Hannah Zeavin's book is reviewed in The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Real2Sim Featured on TechXplore
Ingrid Fadelli writes "Real2sim2real: A self-supervised learning technique applied to planar robot casting" featuring work by Ken Goldberg. Read more
12 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more
12 Dec, 2021
An Ode to Responsible Data Science
Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more
11 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg Featured in the San Francisco Examiner
Veronica Irwin introduces the Berkeley professor who’s helping robots get a grip. Read more
11 Dec, 2021
Review of Trevor Paglen's San Jose Art Exhibition
Letha Ch’ien reviews the art installation in San Jose that sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon. Read more
10 Dec, 2021
Is the Future of Mental Health Care Digital? With Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin talks about her book The Distance Cure on Al Jazeera's The Stream. Read more
10 Dec, 2021
Conference Grant Reports: Juliana Friend on Wearing Illicit Images
Juliana attended the 2021 meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Conference and presented a paper entitled, “Wearing Illicit Images: Fabrics of Pornography and Citizenship in Senegal." Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Whiteness as Improvisation, Non-Whiteness as Machine by Ritwik Banerji
Ken Goldberg on Grasping in Science News for Students
"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
BCNM at 4S 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! Read more
08 Dec, 2021
Introducing Lashon Daley's Critical Conversations in Children's Literature
Developed by alum Lashon Daley, this web series bring together children’s literature authors and scholars to discuss critical topics brewing within the field. Read more
08 Dec, 2021
Bo Ruberg's Queer Games Avant-Garde Reviewed
Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and Culture Read more
08 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web November 2021
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
07 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo
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07 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in Shoutout LA
Meet Edgar Fabián Frías | Contemporary Artist, Psychotherapist, Brujx & Educator Read more
07 Dec, 2021
Morgan Ames Wins the 2020 Sally Hacker Prize
The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience. Read more
06 Dec, 2021
ATC Video Now Online: Maria Thereza Alves
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06 Dec, 2021
Trevor Paglen in Productive Image Interference
Trevor Paglen's work is exhibited at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf until February 6th. Read more
06 Dec, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Wins the 2021 Brooke Hindle Award
The Society for the History of Technology awards $10,000 for the Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology. Read more
Computer games can address ecological concerns. But is a game only ecological if it explicitly deals with environmental issues on the content level? Read more
26 Nov, 2021
Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects! Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Summer 2022 Research Award Applications Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Bo Ruberg Promoted to Associate Professor
BCNM alum Bo Ruberg has been promoted to Associate Professor at UC Irvine! Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías on Social Media and Queer Invention
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías co-hosted an episode of the podcast Queer Chaos, discussing social media and queer invention. Read more
21 Nov, 2021
Wendy Lotterman Reviews the Distance Cure in Critical Inquiry
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy was reviewed by Wendy Lotterman in Critical Inquiry. Read more
BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Grace Gipson on the Portrayal of Women in Media and Entertainment
BCNM alum Grace Gipson was featured on a panel discussing women in media and entertainment at the University of Rochester. Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Grace Gipson on Humanizing the Black Experience
BCNM alum Grace Gipson gave a lecture about representations of the Black experience for the Freedom School 3.0 lecture series. Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Conference Grants: Vincente Perez on ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS
Vincente Perez, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipient, presented "ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS: BLACK TWITTER, SIGNIFYIN', AND THE MUNDANE" at the 22nd annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Read more
16 Nov, 2021
In the Pursuit of Knowledge, There Be Dragons by danah boyd
BCNM alum danah boyd was the keynote speaker at IEEE VIS 2021. Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Shadow Visions by Xiaowei Wang
BCNM D.E. and Geography PhD Xiaowei Wang's essay "Shadow Visions" was published in DING Magazine. Read more
14 Nov, 2021
Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Lyman Fellowship
BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more
26 Oct, 2021
Returning to the Concert Hall by Camille Crittenden
Returning to the Concert Hall by Camille Crittenden Read more
Bo Ruberg speaks at AoIR 2021 on the relationship between video games and political participation. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías at Wxtch Craft
Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the opening lecture of the Fall Cycle of Wxtch Craft - Studium Generale lecture series 2021-22. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
BCNM at SLSA 2021
BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jahara Cayabyab on Designing Hospital Spaces
Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías Cultural Ambassador for SFAC
Edgar Fabián Frías was selected as a cultural ambassador for the San Francisco Arts Commission. Read more
18 Oct, 2021
On the Wings of Ada Lovelace by Camille Crittenden
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more
18 Oct, 2021
Grace Gipson Making Our Stories Visible
Grace Gipson recently presented a compelling and thorough lecture on Black experiences portrayed in television. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Rogue Archives Reviewed in S-USIH
BCNM director Abigail De Kosnik's 2016 book Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom was reviewed by Michael J. Kramer of The Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in Monolith
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías will be exhibiting their installation project as part of the group exhibition Monolith presented by Southern Exposure. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Jenna Burrell Promoted to Professor of Information
BCNM executive commitee member Jenna Burrell has been promoted to full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
The Mutant Magic of Edgar Fabián Frías
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías was featured on an episode of podcast The Spiritual Gaze.Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Trevor Paglen on Time Sensitive
BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen was interviewed by Spencer Bailey for the podcast Time Sensitive. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías on GIPHY Arts
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías was interviewed alongside Nicky Rojo about their participation in GIPHY Arts' first book, Frame by Frame. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
BCNM Around the Web October 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
13 Oct, 2021
Announcing the Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working on media literacy, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
08 Oct, 2021
Reginold Royston on New Orality in the African Mediascape
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08 Oct, 2021
Vincente Perez on Declarations of Interdependence
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07 Oct, 2021
Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora: Cathy Thomas Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the updated transcript and video for Cathy Thomas's “Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora”.Read more
Summer Research: Rashad Timmons on Slave Labor in Railway Construction
Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways. Read more
19 Sep, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Mobile Stress Management
Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on using Chatbots to aid in stress management. Read more
18 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías & Charlie Amáyá Scott on Ancestors
Edgar Fabián Frías and Charlie Amáyá Scott speak on connecting to their ancestors in "You Are Also Your Ancestors". Read more
18 Sep, 2021
The Distance Cure: Hannah Zeavin & Fred Turner at Gray Area
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin chats about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy in a conversation with Professor Fred Turner and Gray Area. Read more
14 Sep, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Media + Environment
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment. Read more
14 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías Featured in Frame by Frame
Current MFA Candidate Edgar Fabián Frías was recently published in Frame by Frame, a GIF-based book. Read more
11 Sep, 2021
The Distance Cure Reviewed in The Baffler
The Baffler reviews BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Julia Irwin & the Gilbreth Archives
Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Erica Deeman, Fast Fashion, & Jamaica
Erica Deeman received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work exploring the cultural heritage of her ancestors and expressing her findings through a video performance. Read more
04 Sep, 2021
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2021
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more
04 Sep, 2021
Lyman Report: Lashon Daley
Lashon Daley shares how the support of the Peter Lyman felowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more
02 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias Speaks to Bunny Michaels about Queer Ancestors
The conversation with Bunny Michaels is part of Edgar's Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project. Read more
02 Sep, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Couple's Therapy in the LA Review of Books
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01 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Rachel Chen on Embodied Platforms for Children on the Autism Spectrum
Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more
01 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias Speaks to Michael Espinoza about Queer Ancestors
Edgar Fabián Frías and Michael Espinoza speaks on identity and ancestry in "I Am A Spiritual Being Because Of My Queerness". Read more
01 Sep, 2021
E&T Reviews Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure
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30 Aug, 2021
Summer Research: Hala Kaddoura on Joy
Hala Kaddoura received a BCNM summer research award to advance her art practice. She traveled to Lebanon to begin a new project on joy. Read more
30 Aug, 2021
Jane McGonigal on Slaying Stress
BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was recently featured on the 3 Books podcast, where she discussed how she designs games to help people develop resilience and positive attitudes in the face of life's challenges. Read more
30 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin in Conversation with Grace Lavery at The Strand
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29 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on How Therapy Isn't Available to All - Even with Zoom
Hannah speaks on the acessibility of mental healthcare in the face of teletherapy with The Guardian. Read more
29 Aug, 2021
Engineering and Art: An interview with Ken Goldberg
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Pablo Paredes will join The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Read more
27 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on LitHub's Seven Questions
5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers, featuring Alexandra Kleeman, JoAnna Novak, Andrew Palmer, Rafia Zakaria, and our own Hannah Zeavin. Read more
26 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg at ICML 2021
Check out the amazing work from Ken Goldberg and team at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2021! Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Reginold Royston on Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape
BCNM alum Dr. Reginold Royston's article on podcasting in African cultures was published in New Media and Society. Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Dan O'Neill Joins BCNM Executive Committee
We extend a warm welcome to Associate Professor Dan O'Neill, who will be joinging BCNM's Executive Committee. Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías and Rainbow Visions at ESMOA
Edgar Fabián Frías speaks on creative ingenuity and reframing traditional ways of thinking with ESMoA in "Rainbow Visions Prismatic Beings". Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg and a Roadmap for US Robotics
Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition".Read more
21 Aug, 2021
BCNM Around the Web August 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more
21 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on The Distance Cure with Adam Savage
Hannah Zeavin features on KQED Broadcast to speak with Adam Savage about The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Mental Healthcare in the Washington Post
The U.S. has never tried a comprehensive approach to mental health care, writes Hannah Zeavin the Washington Post. Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Disruptive Fixations Reviewed in Anthro Book Forum
Disruptive Fixations, a book on techno-idealism by alum Chrsito Sims, was given a glowing review in the Anthropology Book Forum. Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Tonya Nguyen on Mutual Aid Organizations' Use of Technology
Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more
19 Aug, 2021
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jessie Mindel on Kaleidoscope
Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more
19 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Autolab at CASE
Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented a slew of new papers at the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Read more
This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Grace Gipson's Favorite Comic Book Characters
Grace Gipson chatted with the Chicago Humanities Festival on comics, characters, and authors! Check it out! Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías at Techno-Intimacy
Edgar Fabián Frías presents work at MOCA Jacksonville's latest exhibition Techno-Intimacy, on show until February 13th! Read more
17 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Edgar Fabián Frías and the Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project
You can now watch Edgar's conversations with leading artists on Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors. Plus, look out for billboards near you! Read more
Vincente Perez Named Poetry and the Senses Fellow
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14 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Latent Space Safe Sets for Long-Horizon Visuomotor Control of Iterative Tasks
Ken Goldberg and his colleagues present Latent Space Safe Sets, a promising strategy for safe learning in high-dimensional state spaces. Read more
14 Aug, 2021
Alenda Chang's Argument for the Environmental Digital Humanities
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07 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Teletherapy at the Psychotherapy Action Network
Hannah Zeavin recently joined two other panelists to discuss the promise and peril of teletherapy in PsiAN Forum Live: "Teletherapy -- Where do we go from here?". Read more
06 Aug, 2021
Clement Goldberg Selected PAGE Quarter Finalist
Clement Goldberg was selected as a Quarter Finalist for the the 2021 PAGE Awards! Read more
Jen Schradie on the Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era
Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Fall 2021 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers and online events! Featuring more events from our Indigenous Technologies Initiative, the artists Lisa Reihana and Maria Thereza Alves, and more. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 History and Theory of New Media Season
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
And now for something different! Eric Paulos on Capturing the Cosmos
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30 Jul, 2021
Pablo Paredes on the Invisible Future of Health Monitoring
Pablo Paredes features on Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health's The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring. Read more
29 Jul, 2021
Camille Crittenden: Keep Public Meetings Open Through Technology
Camille published this important call to California to keep public meetings open with the technologies we've used during the pandemic. Read more
29 Jul, 2021
Nicholaus Gutierrez Joins Wellesley
Congratulations to Nicholaus Gutierrez who will be teaching cinema and media studies this year at Wellesley. Read more
28 Jul, 2021
De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche by Jacob Gaboury
Jacob published De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche in LA HAUTE ET LA BASSE DÉFINITION DES IMAGES: Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Read more
28 Jul, 2021
Jane McGonigal on How to be Mindfully Present to the Future
Watch Jane talk about futurist and mindful thinking with a Buddhist entrepreneur. Read more
27 Jul, 2021
BCNM's Big Wins 2021
It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021. Read more
27 Jul, 2021
Ra Malika Imhotep in Our Work is Everywhere
Ra Malika Imhotep was published in this volume, an illustrated oral history of Queer and Trans resistance. Read more
26 Jul, 2021
Lashon Daley on Black Ballerinas in Picture Books
Lashon Daley writes about rupturing the color line in American children’s literature. Read more
26 Jul, 2021
We're Hiring: Fall 2021 Work Study Student Assistant
Join the BCNM Events & Communications team! Read more
25 Jul, 2021
Ra Malika Imhotep at A Studio in the Woods
Ra Malika Imhotep was awarded an Emerging Writers’ Artistic Residency at A Studio in the Woods. Read more
25 Jul, 2021
BCNM at DIS 2021
Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more
25 Jul, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Publishes The Distance Cure
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25 Jul, 2021
Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL and IRL Spheres Now Online
BCNM was thrilled to cosponsor this great event from the Center for Race and Gender, now viewable online! Read more
24 Jul, 2021
Janaki Vivrekar on Transforming Social Media Interfaces with Embodied Constraints
Janaki Vivrekar discusses the critical designs that make up our digital social media experiences in her new technical report. Read more
23 Jul, 2021
BCNM Around the Web July 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
Ken Goldberg Co-Author on Optimization for Imitation Learning
Ken Goldberg co-authored a paper with Zaynah Javed, Daniel S. Brown, Satvik Sharma, Jerry Zhu, Ashwin Balakrishna, Marek Petrik, and Anca D. Dragan on Policy Gradient Bayesian Robust Optimization for Imitation Learning. Read more
22 Jul, 2021
Gail De Kosnik Awarded American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award
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22 Jul, 2021
Review of the Queer Games Avant Garde in Journal of Play
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21 Jul, 2021
Applications for our Fall 2021 Conference Grants are now open!
BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more
20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg's AmbiRobotics Receives Robotic Business Review Innovation Award
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20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Insights Robotics
Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more
10 Jul, 2021
KC Forcier Reviews Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more
10 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Robots and Creativity
Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
BCNM at ELO 2021
The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
Fall 2021 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate Now Open
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05 Jul, 2021
Juliana Friend at the LavLang Conference
Juliana Friend receieved a BCNM Conference Grant to help her attend the 27th Annual Lavendar Languages and Linguistics Conference. Read more
05 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Grasping and Picking Winners
Ken Goldberg describes the complicated technology that goes into robotic grasping mechanics in COSMOS' new article. Read more
04 Jul, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Making Players Care
Bo Ruberg & Rainforest Scully-Blaker publish Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games in the International Journal of Cultural Studies! Read more
30 Jun, 2021
Fandom + Piracy: Event Videos and Transcripts Available
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28 Jun, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed on Gamers with Glasses
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed by Gamers with Glasses. Read more
26 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg & the CDL Reading Group on Klara and the Sun
Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more
26 Jun, 2021
Lashon Daley Appointed Assistant Professor
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26 Jun, 2021
Grace Gipson on Outkast and the Rise of the Hip Hop South
Grace Gipson published an article on Southern hip hop in the Black Perspectives blog. Read more
25 Jun, 2021
Lashon Daley's Coming of (R)Age
Lashon Daley's article on Black girl rage in film and literature has been published in the UChicago Journal of Women and Culture in Society. Read more
25 Jun, 2021
Neyran Turan's Venice Biennale Exhibition Featured in the News
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25 Jun, 2021
Tiffany Ng Promoted to Associate Professor
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23 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Art Robot Death
Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed by the Art Robot Death podcast. Check it out! Read more
22 Jun, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more
Ken Goldberg and Team on Orienting Novel 3D Objects
Ken Goldberg and team recently published a paper titled "Orienting Novel 3D Objects Using Self-Supervised Learning of Rotation Transforms." Check it out! Read more
14 Jun, 2021
Jacob Gaboury on Digital Visual Material: Surfaces
Jacob Gaboury recently spoke about "As Below, So Above: Surface and Depth in the Computational Image" at the Digital.Visual.Material symposium. Read more
12 Jun, 2021
TF Tierney Receives Graham Foundation Grant
BCNM Alum and architecture professor emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign T.F. Tierney was awarded a research and development grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Read more
12 Jun, 2021
jazmin caldéron torres and between starshine & clay
BCNM alum jazmin caldéron torres's collective, Lead to Life, premiered its newest ritual film, "between starshine & clay" in May! Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Autolab at ICRA 2021
Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2021! Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Getting a Grip on Reality
Ken Goldberg recently published the editorial for Science Robotics. Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Grace Gipson on The Past and Future of Comics
Grace Gipson recently discussed Black women's impact on the history and future of comic books during the Chicago Humanities Festival. Read more
10 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg and the Surging Opportunity for Robotic Automation
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10 Jun, 2021
danah boyd on Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric
danah boyd recently published an article discussing creating or knitting a healthy social fabric that relies on real connections. Read more
08 Jun, 2021
Choyang Ponsar on The Forensic Imaginary
Choyang Ponsar received a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on A Forensic Imaginary under the mentorship of Tory Jeffay. Read more
07 Jun, 2021
Ra Malika Imhotep on The Reparations Show
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04 Jun, 2021
Alenda Chang on the Ethics of Eating Pokemon
BCNM alum Alenda Chang was recently featured on the Gamers with Glasses podcast where she discussed video games and environmentalism, among other interesting topics. Read more
04 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on AmbiRobotics on the Robot Report
BCNM's Ken Goldberg features on The Robot Report Podcast to give the inside scoop on robotics and automation and intelligent systems at Ambi Robotics. Read more
03 Jun, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Piracy & Capitalism
Check out the transcript for the Piracy & Capitalism Panel! Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Interview in Mad in America
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin speaks on teletherapy and other communicative technologies in her interview with Mad in America. Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Riley Lenane on Influencers & Self Care
Social media is overflowing with lifestyle Influencers categorized as self-care promoters. What are the political and ideoogical implications of self-care messaging and branding, particularly in the context of gendered and racialized discourses of femininity and (post)feminism? Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Work by Maija Hynninen & Olivia Ting at SF Contemporary Music Until June 23
BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! Read more
29 May, 2021
Miyoko Conley in the Bay Area Playwright's Festival
BCNM alum Miyoko Conley's play Human Museum will be featured in the 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Read more
28 May, 2021
Camille Crittenden on Blockchain for the Public Good
Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was recently featured in the All About Blockchain podcast, where she discussed the future social benefits of blockchain innovation. Read more
27 May, 2021
Camille Crittenden Excellence in Management Award
Congratulations to BCNM's Camille Crittendon for receiving the Berkeley Staff Assembly’s 2021 Excellence in Management Award! Read more
27 May, 2021
Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter in Clinical Trials
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27 May, 2021
Trevor Paglen on The Quarantine Tapes
BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen features on the 186th episode of The Quarantine Tapes. Read more
26 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg on AI and Robots in a Post Pandemic World
Ken Goldberg recently spoke at IBM Think 2021, a conference focused on all things related to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Read more
26 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Christiane Paul
Check out the updated transcript for Christiane Paul's HTNM lecture, "Online: Art & AI"! Read more
25 May, 2021
BCNM Around the Web May 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more
23 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Fandom & Race
Check out the updated transcript for the Fandom + Race Panel! Read more
21 May, 2021
Congratulating our 2021 Graduates
These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields.
Congratulations to our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate graduates! We are proud of their accomplishments and high level of scholarship here at Cal, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors. Read more
09 May, 2021
Video Now Online: Fandom & Race Panel
Check out the video recording of the Fandom & Race panel! Read more
08 May, 2021
Tiffany Ng in ListN Up
Alum Tiffany Ng speaks on her musical influences in I Care If You Listen's "ListN Up." Read more
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Ambi Robotics on the Robot Report
Ken Goldberg recently featured on Episode 41 of The Robot Report Podcast to talk about his team's work in powering Ambi Robotics' robots. Read more
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Emerges from Stealth
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08 May, 2021
Celeste Kidd on the Ethics of AI
Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies. Read more
08 May, 2021
BCNM at CHI 2021
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
07 May, 2021
Watch CITRIS Women in Tech Videos Now
Check out the videos of the 5th Annual CITRIS Women in Tech Symposium available online! Read more
07 May, 2021
Trevor Paglen and Unseen Skies
Yaara Bou Melham documentary Unseen Skies spotlights the work of alum Trevor Paglen. Read more
07 May, 2021
Fandom & Piracy: Kavita Philip Transcript Now Online
Check out the transcript for Kavita Philip's "Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction"! Read more
05 May, 2021
ATC Transcript and Video Now Online: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Check out the updated transcript for Lawrence Abu Hamndan's "The Sonic Image" Read more
Alenda Chang in Celebration of Media + Environment
BCNM alum Alenda Chang was featured in a rountable discussion in celebration of the online journal Media + Environment. Read more
03 May, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Stress Markers for Mental States and Biotypes of Depression and Anxiety
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes published a study in the journal Chronic Stress on stress markers of depression and anxiety. Read more
03 May, 2021
Abigail De Kosnik on Humanities and Pandemic Culture
Professor Abigail De Kosnik discusses the connection between media/ film studies and the current moment in the Townsend Center for the Humanities lecture series, (Re)making Sense: The Humanities and Pandemic Culture. Read more
30 Apr, 2021
BCNM at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more
Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss cool gadgets he has around his house. Check it out! Read more
25 Apr, 2021
David Bamman on Characterizing English Variation on Social Media
BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more
25 Apr, 2021
Watch Alenda Chang Talk on Playing for the Planet
BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series. Read more
25 Apr, 2021
BCNM Offers 15 Need Based Stipends
In the wake of COVID-19, BCNM converted existing grant programs to support its students with need-based stipends. Read more
24 Apr, 2021
David Bamman Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations, David Bamman, on being promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Information. Read more
24 Apr, 2021
10 Games to Play on Earth Day
Alenda Chang has collaborated on a list of 10 nature-related games to play in honor of Earth Day. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
HTNM Transcript Now Online: Margo Robbins & Valentin Lopez
Check out the updated transcript for Margo Robbins and Valentin Lopez's "A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies." Read more
21 Apr, 2021
Jacob Gaboury Promoted to Associate Professor
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21 Apr, 2021
BCNM Mourns the Passing of Beth Bird
Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
Video Now Online: Margo Robbins & Valentin Lopez
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21 Apr, 2021
Janaki Vivrekar on Discovering HCI at Berkeley
BCNM Certificate and EECS graduate student Janaki Vivrekar has compiled a list of on-campus resources, departments, and centers for those interested in studying the intersection of technology, communication, society, arts and design. Read more
20 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Other Intelligence
Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! Read more
18 Apr, 2021
Jane McGonigal Interview on Futurist Thinking on Coursera
BCNM alum Jane McGonigal is instructing a Coursera course on handling life after Covid-19 through the Institute for the Future. Read more
18 Apr, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Joins BCNM
Hannah Zeavin, a lecturer in the English and History departments, has joined the BCNM Executive Committee. Read more
17 Apr, 2021
BCNM Around the Web April 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more
17 Apr, 2021
Björn Hartmann on Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off
Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more
UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ken Goldberg recently sat down to talk about the future of robotics through the University of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar Series. Read more
04 Apr, 2021
Announcing the 2020 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more
03 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg in Conversation with Cade Metz of the NYT
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03 Apr, 2021
danah boyd on Democracy's Data Infrastructure
BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure." Read more
03 Apr, 2021
Grace Gipson in Conversation on YA BIPOC Speculative Fiction
BCNM alum Grace Gipson moderated a conversation on BIPOC voices in speculative fiction as part of the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book. Read more
02 Apr, 2021
Celeste Kidd in Under the Cortex
UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Psychology Celeste Kidd was featured on the Under the Cortex podcast to discuss her research as a winner of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. Read more
01 Apr, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Non-Volitional Behavior Change in Everyday Robotics
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' paper is featured in the proceedings of the International Conference on the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction. Read more
01 Apr, 2021
Fall 2021 Recommended Courses Out Now
Check out our new media finds from across campus! Read more
Miyoko Conley, a TDPS and DE student at Berkeley, has been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award for her work as a GSI in NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech. Read more
30 Mar, 2021
Alenda Chang on Primal Tourism
BCNM alum Alenda Chang is being featured in artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen's online VR ecological art event, focused on the intersection between ecology, sustainability, and technologies.
New Coursera Course on Life After COVID-19 from Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal prepares us for post-pandemic life with her online Coursera course Life After COVID-19. Read more
20 Mar, 2021
Grace Gipson Editing Collection on Black Futures in Richmond
Submit to an upcoming anthology that will imagine and explore futures for Richmond,VA through an Afrofuturist lens. Read more
19 Mar, 2021
The Book of the Dead in 3D with Rita Lucarelli
UC Berkeley Professor and Egypgytologist Rita Lucarelli's BCNM funded 3D coffin modeling project is set to debut at the Phoebe Hearst Museum later this year. Read more
Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more
18 Mar, 2021
BCNM Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
As the first Asian American Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and as a first-generation American and woman, this hate crime hits particularly close to home. Read more
16 Mar, 2021
86 Things Exhibition from Neyran Turan's Nemestudio
Neyran Turan's architectural practice, NEMESTUDIO, will be displaying its "86 Things" exhibition at the University of Arkansas! Read more
16 Mar, 2021
Trevor Paglen Interview on the Art Angle
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed on the Art Angle podcast. Check it out! Read more
16 Mar, 2021
Interview with Trevor Paglen in Archives of American Art
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Archives of American Art! Read more
This year, arm the next generation of innovators with the tools to build just and equitable technological futures through the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
03 Mar, 2021
Abigail De Kosnik on Border Technologies and Racism
Abigail De Kosnik recently wrote a reflection for United Nations Special Rapporteur E. Tendayi Achiume on border technologies and racism. Check it out! Read more
02 Mar, 2021
HTNM Transcript Now Online: Marisa Duarte
Check out the updated transcipt for Marisa Duarte's Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action!Read more
02 Mar, 2021
Xiaowei Wang Publishes on Workers, Immigrants and the Settler Colonial State
Xiaowei Wang published a beautiful essay on their mother for Tank Magazine titled "The other mother: workers, immigrants and the settler colonial state." Check it out! Read more
02 Mar, 2021
Make Alex Saum's Survey Monkey Poem
Create your own poem using Alex Saum-Pascual's interactive survey from Survey Monkey! Read more
02 Mar, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Co-Opting AI & Games
Bo Ruberg was recently featured on a Periscope livestream to discuss Co-Opting AI & Games. Check it out! Read more
danah boyd & Gail De Kosnik were featured in an article from the Pew Research Center and Elon University on Imagining the Internet, predicting how technology, climate change, and politics will effect a post-Covid-19 world. Read more
Alenda Chang on Rambunctious Video Games for Do Your Bit
Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. Read more
22 Feb, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Medical Design
Ken Goldberg recently spoke with Medical Design and Outsourcing on artifical intelligence and surgical robots. Read more
20 Feb, 2021
Experience Kevin Lo's Return the Eye
Kevin Lo and alex cruse come together to launch Return the Eye. Read more
19 Feb, 2021
Announcing the 2021 Lyman Fellowship Recipient
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19 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie on Trump's Impeachment
Jen Schradie was invited as a guest speaker in 'The Debate'.Read more
19 Feb, 2021
Reginold Royston on Podcasts and the Study of Africa
BCNM alum Dr. Reginold Royston was a featured panelist discussing the impact of the digital technology on research, teaching, and public engagement. Read more
19 Feb, 2021
Maija Hynninen's Oboe Concerto Premiered
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19 Feb, 2021
Björn Hartmann on Debugging Deep Learning Programs
Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Debugging Deep Learning Programs using Program Structure and Model Behavior".Read more
18 Feb, 2021
BCNM SCMS 2021
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
16 Feb, 2021
Tonya Nguyen on A World-Building Activity for Values Advocacy
Tonya Nguyen and Richmond Wong recently published a paper titled "Timelines: A World-Building Activity for Values Advocacy." Check it out! Read more
16 Feb, 2021
Kate Mattingly on BalletX in the Classical Review
Kate Mattingly recently wrote about ballet company BalletX in the Classical Review. Read more
14 Feb, 2021
Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina on The Great Shopping Mall
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14 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Critical Perspectives in Technology
Bo Ruberg is a guest on the sixth episode of public lecture series "Critical Perspectives on Technology." Read more
14 Feb, 2021
Black Future Feminist Launched by Grace Gipson
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14 Feb, 2021
Alum Kris Fallon Now Associate Professor
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14 Feb, 2021
The Queer Games Avant-Garde Reviewed in Information, Communications, and Society
BCNM alum Bo Ruberg's book The Queer Games Avant-Garde is reviewed in the Information Communication & Society Journal. Read more
13 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg Wins Stonewall Book Award
Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more
Virtual exhibition UUU (Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021) recently opened and features BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual and Jill Miller! Check it out! Read more
09 Feb, 2021
Kate Mattingly Featured in Wow Woman
Kate Mattingly was recently featured in Wow Woman for her career and accomplishments! Read more
09 Feb, 2021
Eric Paulos on the 67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know
Eric Paulos published a Medium piece titled "67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know." Check it out! Read more
09 Feb, 2021
Jane McGonigal on The Knowledge Project
Jane McGonigal was recently interviewed by The Knowledge Project on her work and beliefs on video games. Read more
08 Feb, 2021
BCNM Around the Web February 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
07 Feb, 2021
BCNM at MLA 2021
BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more
04 Feb, 2021
Trevor Paglen Featured in Forbes
Trevor Paglen was recently featured in a Forbes article about his art dedicated to exposing the "biogtry of AI". Read more
04 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie on France 24 on Regulating Big Tech
Jen Schradie recently appeared on France 24 to discuss regulating Big Tech companies. Read more
02 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg Publishes on Livestreaming from the Bedroom
Bo Ruberg and Daniel Lark recently published a paper titled "Livestreaming from the bedroom: Performing intimacy through domestic space on Twitch"! Read more
02 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie on The Current
Jen Schradie went on The Current podcast to discuss the recent insurrection in the US Capitol. Read more
02 Feb, 2021
Ryan Ikeda on Excavating the Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature
Ryan Ikeda recently published an article titled "Excavating Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature: Antiracism as Infrastructural Critique" in the Electronic Book Review. Check it out! Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Celeste Kidd at AI Debate 2
Celeste Kidd speaks at AI Debate 2 "Moving AI Forward: An Interdisciplinary Approach". Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Jane McGonigal on Because Games Matter
Jane McGonigal shares her story and experience on Because Games Matter. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Six Books About Robots & AI from Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie Publishes on COVID in France
Jen Schradie recently published a paper on COVID-19 in France, titled "L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement." Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Alenda Chang on Gamers with Glasses
Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
29 Jan, 2021
BCNM Around the Web January 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
Clancy Wilmott PI on Presidential Chairs Fellowship
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24 Jan, 2021
Tom McEnaney Awarded Mellon New Directions Fellowship
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24 Jan, 2021
Ken Goldberg Awarded Toyota Research Institute Grant
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23 Jan, 2021
We're Hiring: Spring 2021 Student Assistant
Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more
22 Jan, 2021
Jane McGonigal at Refuel
Alum Jane McGonigal speaks at Refuel conference on how games can help build mental resilience, channel positive attitudes, and encourage collaboration in the real world. Read more
17 Jan, 2021
Launching Fandomandpiracy.online
We’re excited to share Fandomandpiracy.online, the web portal for our Fandom + Piracy mini-series, starting February 25. Check out the site for a full list of speakers and talks! Read more
22 Dec, 2020
Xiaowei Wang Published in Guernica
Xiaowei features in Guernica magazine with their piece "Future Fashions: The Pår". Read more
Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot
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21 Dec, 2020
BCNM Fall 2020: Events In Review
We’re so thankful to everyone who tuned in for our events this past semester. Keep reading for a round-up of our events and speakers! Read more
17 Dec, 2020
Celeste Kidd on Why Babies Aren't Just Little Adults
How do babies learn to talk? Do babies know they're babies? Celeste Kidd answers these questions in VPR's new podcast episode! Read more
16 Dec, 2020
danah boyd on Why the US Govt Needs a VP of Engineering Not a CTO
danah boyd recently wrote an article on Linkedin titled "The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO." Read more
15 Dec, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik on the Platinum Age of Piracy
Abigail De Kosnik recently wrote an article for Wired titled "2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy." Read more
15 Dec, 2020
Review of Xiaowei Wang's Blockchain Chicken Farm in The Nation
Xiaowei Wang's book Blockchain Chicken Farm was recently reviewed by The Nation.Read more
10 Dec, 2020
Into Beethoven's Sound Box by Alum Olivia Ting
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10 Dec, 2020
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Semantic and Geometric Modeling
Ken Goldberg recently published a paper titled "Semantic and Geometric Modeling with Neural Message Passing in 3D Scene Graphs for Hierarchical Mechanical Search."
We're launching Fandom + Piracy, a four-week mini-series, all online conference for Spring 2021! Read more
28 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang Interviewed in Letters from Ximena
Xiaowei Wang speaks on technology, China, writing through your emotions, and the power of community. Read more
28 Nov, 2020
Bo Ruberg in Queer Gaming In Conversation
Bo Ruberg leads a conversation with fellow designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer to talk about queer game design and the thought processes behind it. Read more
25 Nov, 2020
HTNM Indigenous Technologies Event Transcript Now Online: Corrina Gould
We're pleased to share the transcript of our first Indigenous Technologies event with Sogorea Te' Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould. Read more
25 Nov, 2020
Spring 2021 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI, Automation, and Work in the Age of Anxiety
Ken Golberg describes the role of artificial intelligence and automation technology in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations Video and Transcript Now Online: Blockchain Chicken Farm
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24 Nov, 2020
Grasping Research by Ken Goldberg Featured in DailyCal
Jeffrey Ichnowski, Yahav Avigal, Vishal Satish, and Ken Goldberg published an important paper that could help companies create safer work environments. Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg at BARS 2020
Ken Goldberg recently spoke about his research at the 2020 Bay Area Robotics Symposium. Read more
21 Nov, 2020
Bo Ruberg on How LGBTQ Experiences Challenge Dominant Narratives of Independent Games
Bo Ruberg contributes to the first edition of Game Studies textbook Independent Videogames. Read more
21 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Deep Learning Featured in Science Robotics
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20 Nov, 2020
Summer 2021 Research Award Applications Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries
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17 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg at CoRL
Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more
17 Nov, 2020
HTNM Transcript Now Online: Skawennati
Check out the updated transcipt for Skawennati's World ReBuilding: Aboriginal Territories in CyberSpace and the Initiative for Indigenous Future! Read more
14 Nov, 2020
Playing Nature Reviewed in ISLE
Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE.Read more
14 Nov, 2020
ATC: Lawrence Lek Video Now Online
Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Lawrence Lek on The Sinofuturist Trilogy. Read more
14 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang featured in KQED
Thank you KQED for a shoutout to Xiaowei Wang's new book, Blockchain Chicken Farm!Read more
13 Nov, 2020
Jill Miller's Holding it Together
Jill Miller features in Palo Alto Art Center's exhibition "Holding it Together" Read more
13 Nov, 2020
ATC Transcript Now Online: Lawrence Lek
Interested in getting the transcript for Lawrence Lek's great talk on "The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL"! We have you covered! Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Announcing our 2020 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2020 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!
Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory Highlighted at UCLA
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project was recently featured by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Jen Schradie on Why the Race was so Close
Jen Schradie recently wrote a guest piece for Selected by Sesamers on the 2020 US Election. Read more
12 Nov, 2020
The Future of Memory Now Online
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project is now online! Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Gail De Kosnik Joins C2I2 Scholars Council
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11 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations: Gu Jiang Video Now Online
Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Professor Gu Jiang on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Consumption. Read more
10 Nov, 2020
Ra Malika Imhotep We Need More Fugitives
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10 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations: Gu Jiang Transcript Now Online
Interested in getting the transcript for Prof. Gu Jiang's great talk on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Consumption! We have you covered! Read more
09 Nov, 2020
Renée Pastel Appointed Assistant Professor at Boston College
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09 Nov, 2020
Miyoko Conley Awarded Tailspinners Fellowship
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08 Nov, 2020
Ra Malika Imhotep on Crafting Freedom
Ra Malika Imhotep writes on 19th Century slavery abolitionists and modern day activists, and the suprising (literal) link of thread that connects them. Read more
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more
04 Nov, 2020
Camille Crittenden on Blockchain for the Public Good
Camille Crittenden recently moderated a panel titled "Blockchain for the Public Good" as a part of the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series. Read more
04 Nov, 2020
Pablo Paredes Featured in El Mercurio
BCNM Alum Pablo Parades is featured in El Mercurio, where he speaks of his projects related to mental health. Read more
04 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual at Formación Artistica
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03 Nov, 2020
Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2021
Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020. Read more
01 Nov, 2020
Celeste Kidd on Let's Learn About
Celeste Kidd features on Let's Learn About: How Humans Form Knowledge Read more
31 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Receives BCNM Faculty Seed Grant
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29 Oct, 2020
Camille Crittenden Presents at the University Blockchain Research Initiative
Camille Crittenden recently presented on blockchain at the University Blockchain Research Initiative Connect Virtual conference. Read more
28 Oct, 2020
Camille Crittenden and the CITRIS Policy Lab Publish on Blockchain Digital Identity
Camille Crittenden and the CITRIS Policy Lab investigate what blockchain technology could mean for vulnerable populations in the United States. Read more
28 Oct, 2020
Pablo Paredes Publishes Stress Tracker
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes explores the use of a computer trackpad in monitoring stress. Read more
Xiaowei Wang's Blockchain Chicken Farm in Guardian
As Chinese demand for pork grows and grows, traditional small-scale farms are being replaced by vast, AI-assisted operations that feel more like smartphone factories than bucolic countryside havens. Read more
20 Oct, 2020
UCI Press Features Bo Ruberg
Bo Ruberg has recently joined colleagues in film and media studies and art history as an associate editor of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Read more
19 Oct, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Reviewed in the NYT
Clive Thompson from NYT reviewed Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang. Read more
19 Oct, 2020
Hear Bo Ruberg at PlayThink
Bo Ruberg's podcast interview on PlayThink is now available! Read more
Missed out on Bo Ruberg's amazing talk on their new book "The Queer Game Avant-Garde" for At the Crossroads? Check out the video online now! Read more
13 Oct, 2020
Andrea Horbinski in Careers for Historians in the Tech Industry
BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinski features in a round table discussion on the role of historians in the tech industry. Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Architecture as Measure Reviewed in Architect
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12 Oct, 2020
Jen Schradie on the Race to the Bottom
Jen Schradie weighs in on France 24, discussing the first U.S presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Claudia von Vacano on Building STEAM for DH and Electronic Literature
Claudia von Vacano publishes an article on Electronic Book Review! Read more
11 Oct, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Published
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09 Oct, 2020
Bo Ruberg on Archiving the History of Bulletin Board Systems and the AIDS Crisis
BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg features in First Monday with their article "SURVIVORS: Archiving the history of bulletin board systems and the AIDS crisis" Read more
09 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Spearheads Remote Making at Berkeley
"We want to be able to support (students), their projects, their ideas, and their innovations." Read more
07 Oct, 2020
Alenda Chang and Playing Nature Featured in ASLE
Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more
06 Oct, 2020
Monocle Interviews Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Monocle! Read more
HTNM Video Now Available: Sogorea Te' Land Trust
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01 Oct, 2020
Janaki Vivrekar's QuarantineAI
Janaki Vivrekar was recently interviewed by the Life in Quarantine Project on her Quarantined AI work. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg and Tata Communications on How AI Can Diversify Human Thinking
Ken Goldberg worked on a global study with Tata Communications, looking at the potential impact of AI on human thinking. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Jenni Higgs on Digital Discourse in Classrooms
Jenni Higgs recently published an academic article titled "Digital Discourse in Classrooms: Language Arts Teachers’ Reported Perceptions and Implementation." Read more
30 Sep, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Alpha Garden at Techfest Bombay
Ken Goldberg recently presented his work on Alpha Garden at Techfest Bombay! Read more
30 Sep, 2020
John Scott on Coming Together when Learning at a Distance
John Scott wrote an article titled "Coming Together When Learning at a Distance" on the Blackboard Blog. Read more
30 Sep, 2020
Jen Schradie on How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide
Jen Schradie recently published an academic article titled "The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide." Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
29 Sep, 2020
Revisited: "Pope L's Notes on the roll of the artist when the world has always been on fire?"
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29 Sep, 2020
Pope.L Video Highlights Now Online
We're thrilled to share some highlights from Pope.L's Wiesenfeld and ATC lecture. Read more
29 Sep, 2020
The First Five Minutes of the Future with Jane McGonigal
What will you do when the next “unthinkable” change happens? Play this game to find out. Read more
29 Sep, 2020
John Scott Co-Authors Paper on Popularity of Peer-Shared Artifacts in Online Learning Environments
John Scott's co-authored paper earned an honorable mention for best paper submission at the Conference on Educational Data Science 2020. Read more
24 Sep, 2020
Seed Grant: William White and the Archaeological Heritage of People's Park
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24 Sep, 2020
Xiaowei Wang & An Xiao Mina on WeChat
Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more
24 Sep, 2020
Trevor Paglen Interviewed in Document Journal
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by Document Journal on "CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics." Read more
Reggie Royston's research article, "Configuring Ghana's diaspora" is now available in African Diaspora. Read more
23 Sep, 2020
Justin Berner Publishes Unhelpful Tools
Justin Berner published an essay titled "Unhelpful Tools: Reexamining the Digital Humanities through Eugenio Tisselli’s degenerative and regenerative" on Electronic Book Review earlier this month! Read more
23 Sep, 2020
Seed Grants Recipient: Celeste Kidd and The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition during Belief Formation in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more
22 Sep, 2020
Interviews on the Digital Literary Arts with Alex Saum-Pascual
Alex Saum-Pascual and Élika Ortega interview experts in e-lit for their "Digital Literary Arts" graduate seminar. Read more
18 Sep, 2020
Neyran Turan Promoted to Associate Professor
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18 Sep, 2020
Announcing the BCNM Land Acknowledgement
We are grateful to Marcelo Garzo Montalvo and the Sogorea Te' Land Trust for helping us to shape this acknowledgement of our place on Lisjan land. Read more
17 Sep, 2020
Tom McEnaney on Liveness and Remote Learning
Tom McEnaney was recently on UC Berkeley Music's podcast to discuss remote instruction. Read more
Trevor Paglen's PACE show profiled in The Guardian
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10 Sep, 2020
Maija Hynninen Released Dawn Breaks
BCNM graduate student Maija Hynninen recently released her debut album Dawn Breaks!Read more
10 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web September 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
10 Sep, 2020
Lyman Dispatch: Anushah Hossain
Anushah Hossain shares how the support of the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more
08 Sep, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual's Poetry in Perspektive
Alex Saum-Pascual published a poem and project titled "made to disappear" in Perspektive.Read more
08 Sep, 2020
Jenni Higgs Publishes on the Reading for Understanding Initiative
Jenni Higgs recently published a research article on the Reading for Understanding Initiative in the International Literacy Association's Reading Research Quarterly. Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Memory Traces
Alex Saum-Pascual recently published an article titled "Memory Traces: Printed Electronic Literature as a Site of Remembrance" in Comparative Literature Studies.Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Remote Instruction
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado recently published an article on Medium titled "A Low-Tech State of Mind: Applying the Principles of Minimal Computing to Remote Instruction." Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Alum Pablo Paredes' Autonomous Vehicles Featured in Time
Pablo Paredes' autonomous vehicle technologies were recently featured in Time. Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Alum Trevor Paglen Featured in Wall Street Journal Magazine
Trevor Paglen was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal Magazine on his work in art and artificial intelligence. Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Andrea Horbinski on Fans, Love, and Anime Since 1963
Alum Andrea Horbinski was recently on the Making of a Historian podcast, discussing "Fans, Love, and Anime Since 1963." Read more
02 Sep, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik Named the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media
Summer Research Dispatch: Chris Chan & International Art Collaborations
COVID-19 curtailed travel, but Chris Chan continued to develop relationships with artists in China and Taiwan. Read more
31 Aug, 2020
Björn Hartmann on Bridging Asymmetrical Communication Between External and VR Users
The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more
30 Aug, 2020
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2020 Class Fund Recipients
We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more
29 Aug, 2020
Ken Goldberg on the Uncanny Valley on Double Talk
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21 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Kevin Lo Returns to Digital Art
Kevin Lo and his longtime collaborator were excited to present their art in physical space, but have no returned to the digital realm in light of COVID-19. Read more
20 Aug, 2020
New Papers from Ken Goldberg at CASE 2020
A stunning seven papers were accepted at CASE 2020 from Ken Goldberg's lab. Read more
19 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Tina Piracci on 3D Printing with Germinated Spores
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18 Aug, 2020
BCNM Around the Web August 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
17 Aug, 2020
Jen Schradie wins CITAMS ASA Best Paper Award
Alum Jen Schradie's article “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action” was recognized in the CITAMS 2020 awards. Read more
16 Aug, 2020
Submit to Queer / Trans / Digital
Alum Bo Ruberg co-edits this great new series from NYU Press. Read more
16 Aug, 2020
Where are they now? Visiting Scholar Steffen Moestrup
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15 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment
Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more
14 Aug, 2020
The Revolution That Wasn't Reviewed in Mass Communication & Society
Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more
13 Aug, 2020
Danielle Svehla Christianson Published in Media+Environment
"01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 [forest]" appears in Mediating Art and Science. Read more
12 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Emily Gui & Zoom Glitches
Artist Emily Gui created a new work using Zoom to document these unprecedented times. Read more
11 Aug, 2020
Fall 2020 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers!
Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities
Alex Saum-Pascual co-edits this amazing collection that features a host of BCNM contributions! Read more
03 Aug, 2020
Jane McGonigal on Sparking Hope for the Future
Alum Jane McGonigal has us ask ourselves three questions during the pandemic. Read more
02 Aug, 2020
Reggie Royston in AI4Afrika Team
AI4Afrika's goal is to make AI more inclusive and aware of Afrikan perspectives. Read more
30 Jul, 2020
We're Hiring: Fall 2020 Student Assistant
Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more
29 Jul, 2020
Fall 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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28 Jul, 2020
Jen Schradie on Wellbeing During COVID-19
"The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France" was published by a team of authors in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Read more
26 Jul, 2020
The Revolution that Wasn't Reviewed in the International Journal of Press/Politics
Alum Jen Schradie's book receives a stunning review from David Karpf. Read more
25 Jul, 2020
Jane McGonigal Featured on Verizon
Alum Jane McGonigal's work is featured for how to save the world with games. Read more
24 Jul, 2020
Mechademia Guest-Edited by Andrea Horbinski Published
The issue on "Transnational Fandom" is available via the University of Minnesota Press. Read more
23 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Society, Robots, & Us Panel
Hear Ken Goldberg on a panel discussing intersections between robotics and socio-technical issues. Read more
22 Jul, 2020
Review of Video Games Have Always Been Queer in First Person Scholar
Betsy Brey reviews Bo Ruberg's book in "The Queer Games We Play." Read more
21 Jul, 2020
BCNM Faculty Receive Berkeley Changemaker Grants
[Image credit: Original image from: King st. Development in Toronto by Frank Gehry, edited by Elnaz Tafrihi Bailey.]Read more
20 Jul, 2020
Bo Ruberg Publishes On LGBTQ Identities Challenging Norms of Demographics
"In the era of algorithms and big data [...] the issue of who is or is not “counted” profoundly affects visibility, access, and power in the digital realm." Read more
19 Jul, 2020
Trevor Paglen's Opposite Geometries at the Carnegie Museum of Art
The show runs from Sep 4, 2020–Mar 14, 2021. Read more
18 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Lab Teaches Robots to Sew Sutures
Look forward to robotic surgeon assistants! Read more
17 Jul, 2020
Sonia Katyal on The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy
Cornell Law Review published Sonia Katyal's article, "The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy." Read more
Leah Rosenbaum on Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education
BCNM Designated Emphasis (D.E) program, Leah Rosenbaum published "Shaping Perception: Designing for Participatory Facilitation of Collaborative Geometry” Read more
17 Jul, 2020
Tiffany Ng on Commissioning Carillon Music
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17 Jul, 2020
BCNM Around the Web July 2020
Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more
14 Jul, 2020
Tom McEnaney on the Significance of Sound in Testimonio
Tom McEnaney considers the aurality of indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú's 1982 testimonio, the basis of her edited biography I, Rigoberta Menchú.Read more
09 Jul, 2020
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes A Manifesto for Environmental Game Design
"The landscapes we inhabit are in part a product of our representations, and increasingly they will need to be consciously designed rather than left to chance." Read more
08 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Robot Grasping on Marketplace
The pandemic has increased demand to automate warehouses, but the technology isn’t quite there yet to improve conditions for, much less replace, human workers. Read more
07 Jul, 2020
BCNM Students Receive Architecture Awards
Congratulations to the amazing BCNM students receiving prized awards from the Architecture Department. Read more
06 Jul, 2020
Trevor Paglen on The Art Angle
A new podcast on why alum Trevor Paglen is doing everything he can to warn humanity about artificial intelligence. Read more
06 Jul, 2020
Neyran Turan Publishes Architecture as Measure
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05 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on How Roboticists Can Help with COVID 19
You can now watch all ICRA 2020 plenary keynotes and panels online! Read more
04 Jul, 2020
Jen Schradie Interview in Liberation
Nicolas Celnik interviews alum Jen Schradie on "Si je devais structurer un mouvement social pendant une pandémie…" Read more
03 Jul, 2020
Will Payne Appointed Assistant Professor at Rutgers University
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02 Jul, 2020
Clancy Wilmott & Emma Fraser Publish Ruins of the Smart City
The visual intervention was published in the journal of Visual Communication and considers what the city could be by investigating the cities of today. Read more
01 Jul, 2020
Juliana Friend Named Woodrow Wilson Newcombe Fellow
This prestigious fellowship supports promising scholars in the completion of their dissertations examining ethics and religion. Read more
29 Jun, 2020
Rebecca Abraham on Rachel Chen's Magical Musical Mat
Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? Read more
26 Jun, 2020
Ken Goldberg on robotic-assisted healthcare in COVID-19
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25 Jun, 2020
BCNM Undergraduate Work Featured in Discovery
An Android app created by BCNM undergrad Janaki Vivrekar was showcased by UC Berkeley Discovery. Read more
24 Jun, 2020
Review of The Queer Games Avant-Garde in Times Higher Education
Alum Bonnie Ruberg's latest book, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, was given a glowing review by Times Higher Education. Read more
24 Jun, 2020
Jen Schradie on Work and Sociability During the Lockdown
"How disruptive is Covid-19 to everyday life? How is the French population experiencing the lockdown?" Read more
24 Jun, 2020
danah boyd on Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
The Commission's final report was recently released, recommending ways to "help the nation emerge as a more resilient democracy by 2026." Read more
Highlights from Jane McGonigal's IBM Talk at CodeMotion
Jane asks: Can the innovation of games prepare us for the future? Read more
20 Jun, 2020
Clancy Wilmott at Mod Theory on Space, Grids, and Ruins
Mod Theory is an experimental method for discussing landscape inside computer games, with a particular focus on platform studies, the political unconscious and climate change. Read more
20 Jun, 2020
Seldom Recorded from Keith Feldman's Ethnic Studies Students
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19 Jun, 2020
Gabrielle Clement on New Media Technology in the Courtroom
"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more
18 Jun, 2020
Bo Ruberg Published in Indie Games in the Digital Age
"The powers and pitfalls of queer indie game-making: An interview with Mo Cohen" appears in this Bloomsbury edition. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
Bryan Truitt on Mediating the Human Face
Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Students Finalists for Fast Company's Student World Changing Ideas
Collective Obscura, a project created by BCNM students, was one of the finalists for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2020. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
Farewelling Our Assistant Team
A huge congratulations to our incredible team of assistants who are graduating this year! They have been essential to BCNM life and we'll miss them greatly! Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Around the Web June 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more
10 Jun, 2020
COVID Cookbook
Professor Jill Miller’s Food Fight/Art 160 offers COVID Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes and Remedies Read more
10 Jun, 2020
Jen Schradie on How Twitter favors the Right
BCNM alum Jen Schradie claims Twitter favors the right, contradicting President Trump's statement that it favors the left. Read more
Critical Making Projects in Spring 2020 Made @ Berkeley
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03 Jun, 2020
Silence is Violence
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Tony McDade. We say their names in order to express our horror and rage at the ongoing crisis of anti-Black police violence in this country and across the world. Read more
Bo Ruberg Publishes on Biased Definitions Of Sexual Content in Video Game Live Streaming
Bo Ruberg, BCNM alum, publishes article "'Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise, objectionable'; Biased definitions of sexual content in videogame live streaming." Read more
30 May, 2020
Electronic Literature Final Projects
Check out the awesome final projects for Alex Saum-Pascual's Electronic Literature class! Image credit: Sergio Cabada Ortiz, Las abajeñas
Alenda Chang on Advisory Board of Video Games and the Humanities
Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more
12 May, 2020
HTNM Video Now Online: Feminist Open Access Publishing
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12 May, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature"
BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual published "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature? And Why Should We Care?" in the 2019 Electronic Literature Organization essay collection. Read more
08 May, 2020
Alum Adam Hutz Highlighted as CITRIS Invention Lab Superuser
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30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: William Morgan on Machine Learning and the Digital Realization of Deleuze
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30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: Bélgica del Rio on The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body
Bélgica del Rio, a Spring 2020 Conference Grant recipient, presented "The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body” at the American Indian and Indigenous Collective’s 6th Annual Symposium. Read more
30 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Combating COVID-19 in Science Magazine
Ken Goldberg recently wrote about combating COVID-19 with robotics in Science Magazine. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Policy Brief on Inequality in COVID19
Alum Jen Schradie co-authored a report that explores how French society has coped with the first two weeks of the lockdown. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Alum Brooke Belisle Edits Journal on Virtual Reality
Our BCNM alum Brooke Belisle co-edited the Journal of Visual Culture's issue on Virtual Reality: Immersion and Empathy. Read more
Trevor Paglen spoke to Kate Crawford at the Pace Gallery about "Art, Politics, and AI in the Time of COVID-19". Read more
27 Apr, 2020
The Berkeley Center for New Media to Join the College of Engineering
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020. Read more
Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more
25 Apr, 2020
Video of Jen Schradie in Le numérique : amplificateur des inégalités et des extrémismes ?
Watch Jen Schradie speak about digital technologies and their potential threats during a round table discussion at Sciences Po in April 2019. Read more
25 Apr, 2020
Alum Jane McGonigal on Punching through the Pandemic with Psychological Science
Jane McGonigal recently spoke to Oregon State University Professor Regan Gurung about her smartphone application SuperBetter and coping with the COVID-19 pandemic through games and other indoor activities. Read more
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
14 Apr, 2020
Alum Katherine Chandler Publishes Unmanning
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13 Apr, 2020
Commons Conversations Revisited: Ceci Moss
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13 Apr, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik Quoted on Fauci-Fandom
BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik is featured in an article in The Verge on the fandom around Dr. Anthony Fauci . Read more
12 Apr, 2020
BCNM at CHI 2020
CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more
12 Apr, 2020
Trevor Paglen on Collecteurs' Substance 100
Trevor Paglen was recently included in Collecteurs' Substance 100 list, filled with their top 100 artists and activists. Read more
12 Apr, 2020
Camille Crittenden Featured on UC IT Blog
Camille Crittenden was featured on the UC IT Blog, participating in a Q&A interview about her work at CITRIS and her experience as a woman in tech. Read more
12 Apr, 2020
New Course: NWMEDIA 151AC
We're offering a new course this fall, NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech! Don't miss out! Read more
11 Apr, 2020
Jane McGonigal on the Best of Our Knowledge
Listen to Jane McGonigal discuss video games on The Best of Our Knowledge! Read more
11 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg and the Automated Polyculture Garden
Ken Goldberg was recently featured in VentureBeat for his work with UC Berkeley's AUTOLAB in developing a polyculture garden. Read more
09 Apr, 2020
Alenda Chang on Super Gamer Podcast
Listen to Alenda Chang talk about the environment and the natural world in games on the Super Gamer Podcast! Read more
09 Apr, 2020
Trevor Paglen Featured in NYT Article on Art & AI
Trevor Paglen was recently featured for his work in a New York Times article on the connection between art and artificial intelligence. Read more
Jane McGonigal on Stretching the Imagination in a Pandemic
As the Coronavirus becomes more widespread she argues that we need to learn how to adapt quickly to global changes that will continue to disrupt our daily lives. Read more
Bo Ruberg's book 'Queer Games Avant-Garde' was featured in 'March’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books' in Lambda Literary Read more
05 Apr, 2020
Video Now Online: Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't
Video now available from BCNM alum Jen Schradie's CITRIS Research Exchange seminar 'The Revolution That Wasn't!' Read more
03 Apr, 2020
Hybrid Ecologies Lab Turn By Wire Featured in Hackaday
Enter Turn by Wire, a unique set of force feedback and machine control concepts applied to a lathe brought to you by researchers Rundong Tian, Vedant Saran, Mareike Kritzler,Florian Michahelles, and Eric Paulos at Berkeley. Read more
03 Apr, 2020
Ken and Blooma Goldberg Publish How to Train Your Robot
Ken Goldberg, a UC Berkeley professor of robotics, his 10-year-old daughter Blooma, and science communicator Ashley Chase wrote a delightful children's book called How to Train Your Robot!Read more
03 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on COVID-19, Robots, and Us
Ken Goldberg was invited to host an online discussion on "COVID-19, robots and us". Read more
03 Apr, 2020
New Paper on Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation
Ken Goldberg was part of the team to publish a new paper "VisuoSpatial Foresight for Multi-Step, Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation". Read more
03 Apr, 2020
HTNM Revisited: Feminist Open Access & Internet Publishing
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03 Apr, 2020
John Scott on Accessibility Trends and Ally Usage
Check out BCNM alum John Scott's work and research on accessibility and inclusion in digital learning. Read more
03 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Third Wave of Machine Learning
Listen to Ken Goldberg talk about robotic learning with Sam Charrington on the TWIML AI Podcast! Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Greg Niemeyer in CalMatters on Online Education
Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley associate Professor, on online education in the midst of COVID-19. Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Alum Alenda Chang's Playing Nature on Chroniques Vidéoludiques
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's new book was featured in Chroniques Vidéoludiques! Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Alum Tiffany Ng Plays Shiva Ratri
Listen to alum Tiffany Ng perform Shiva Ratri on SoundCloud! Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Rogue Archives in Digital Humanities Quarterly
A live-tweeted review of Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was published in DHQ. Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Alum Bo Ruberg on Empathy and Its Alternatives
BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg published an article in Communication, Culture and Critique.Read more
A great video tour of some of the many Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, prototyping, and designcreative spaces at UC Berkeley, now online! Read more
17 Mar, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Joins ELO’s Board of Directors
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13 Mar, 2020
Ken Goldberg on How AI Amplifies Human Competencies
Ken Goldberg was interviewed on AI and machine learningfor the Rotman School of Management's Winter 2020 magazine issue.Read more
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more
10 Mar, 2020
Alum Trevor Paglen Now Showing at PACE
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen recently joined PACE Gallery. Read more
10 Mar, 2020
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes A Life Well Played in FMH
BCNM Alum Alenda Chang published "Une Vie Bien Jouée / A Life Well Played: The Cultural Legacy of Game Designer Muriel Tramis" in Feminist Media Histories. Read more
BCNM Students Named 2020 Jacobs Innovation Catalyst Grant Recipients
Congratulations to our impressive students who were awarded grants for their original project ideas! Read more
09 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Rahul Gairola
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09 Mar, 2020
Malika Imhotep on blk wimmin breathing in New Life Quarterly
DE Malika Imhotep pens an essay about Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk and relates it back to author James Baldwin's admiration for Black Feminist Abolitionists. Read more
05 Mar, 2020
Jen Schradie Interviewed for "The Data Driving Democracy"
Jen Schradie was recently interviewed in "The Data Driving Democracy," a research paper by Christina Couch. Read more
05 Mar, 2020
Shannon Jackson Supports Oakland Arts Scene
Our faculty support the arts off campus through their infrastructure and donations!
Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
05 Mar, 2020
#Identity Reviewed in Cultural Sociology
Nicola Bozzi from Cultural Sociology reviewed at Abigail De Kosnik, Keith Feldman, and the Color of New Media's#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. Read more
05 Mar, 2020
#Identity Reviewed by AllegraLab
AllegraLab, a book review journal, offers glowing praise of Abigail de Kosnik, Keith Feldman, and the Color of New Media Working Group's #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. Read more
04 Mar, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual named ARC Poetry Fellow
Alex Saum-Pascual is one of the Art and Research Center's 2020 Poetry and the Senses Fellows. Read more
04 Mar, 2020
Ken Goldberg & Abigail De Kosnik at TechCrunch
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04 Mar, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Machine Landscapes
Trevor Paglen contributed to the February 2019 issue of Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene. Read more
04 Mar, 2020
Jen Schradie on The WELL
Jen Schradie was the latest guest on the Inkwell: Authors and Artists online discussion board. Read more
02 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Ronak Kapadia
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02 Mar, 2020
Women's History Month: Alum Andrea Gagliano Reimagines US Presidents as Female
In honor of Women's History Month, Andrea Gagliano visually reimagines U.S. history with female presidents. Read more
02 Mar, 2020
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature in Foreword Reviews
Foreword Reviews recently featured Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games.Read more
27 Feb, 2020
BCNM at AERA 2020
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Alum John Scott at Blackboard Ally Tour
Check out all of the episodes from BCNM alum John Scott's 2019 Blackboard Ally Tour! Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Trevor Paglen & Kate Crawford’s Making Faces
“Making Faces,” an installation conceived by AI researcher Kate Crawford and artist Trevor Paglen for Prada Mode, a two-day cultural event held in Paris on Jan. 19 and 20, tells us how exactly facial recognition works and who it benefits. Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: BCNM at the Shenzhen Biennale
Eleni Oikonomaki, Lian Song, Rashad Timmons, and Bryan Truitt were Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipients and attended the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Excavating AI Wins BSHS Ayrton Prize
BSHS Ayrton Prize 2019 Winners Announced and Excavating AI by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford is included.
Jane McGonigal writes on the benefits of entering the lottery for Wired. Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg in The Question of Intelligence
Ken Goldberg's robotic art project, "AlphaGarden Collective," is currently featured in The Question of Intelligence exhbition. Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Review of Jane McGonigal's Future Thinking Course
Belgian newspaper De Tiljd reviews Jane McGonigal's "Futures Thinking Specialization" classes on Coursera. Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature in Science
Alum Alenda Chang's book Playing Nature was reviewed in Science.Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Jane McGonigal in After Shock
Jane McGonigal was featured in futurist compendium After Shock.Read more
20 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang's Media+Environment Featured at UCSB
Alenda Chang and her colleagues established an online journal Media+Environment. Check out the UCSB in depth discussion here! Read more
20 Feb, 2020
BCNM Around the Web February 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more
20 Feb, 2020
Malika Imhotep Wins Award for Critical Writing
Gulf Coast announced the winner of the 2019 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, Ra Malika Imhotep, for her essay "On Retrieval." Read more
20 Feb, 2020
Announcing the 2020 Lyman Fellowship Recipient
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20 Feb, 2020
Jen Schradie’s "The Revolution That Wasn’t" in LA Review of Books
BCNM alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Emily Drabinski in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read more
20 Feb, 2020
BCNM at SCMS 2020
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Shannon Jackson at After Tomorrow
The After Tomorrow: Oakland and Saint-Denis cooperation project officially launched at Cal's Global Urban Humanities Department. Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Irene Chien Joins Board of the Journal of Visual Culture
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19 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang on Digital Morphogenesis
Alenda Chang's article, "Between Plants and Polygons: SpeedTrees and an Even Speedier History of Digital Morphogenesis" was included in the December 2019 issue of the journal "Natural Media". Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Celeste Kidd Receives John Templeton Grant
Celeste Kidd receives John Templeton Grant which is awarded to the development of curiosity in childhood. Read more
18 Feb, 2020
Alum Jane McGonigal’s SuperBetter Featured on BuiltIn
McGonigal's smartphone app on wellness SuperBetter was just featured on BuiltIn.Read more
14 Feb, 2020
Nicholas de Monchaux to Lead MIT's Department of Architecture
Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and former BCNM Director, on this phenomenal new role! Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Greg Niemeyer Receives CLTC Grant
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity awarded Greg Niemeyer one of its inaugural grants for his music video project, "SweetWire." Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg at CES 2020
Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Jacob Gaboury Townsend Assistant Professor Fellow
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12 Feb, 2020
Malika Imhotep on Cite Black Women Podcast
Malika Imhotep was featured on the Cite Black Women podcast for her work with The Church of Black Feminist Thought. Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Bo Ruberg on the Precarious Labor of Queer Indie Game Makers Reprinted in TV & Media
Bo Ruberg was featured in Television and New Media's special issue, "Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor." Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Inaugural Media + Environment Published, Co-edited by Alum Alenda Chang
Alum Alenda Chang is one of the co-editors for the inaugural ecomedia research journal, Media+Environment. Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Rama Gottfried & Ritwik Banerji in Array
Rama Gottfried and Ritwik Banerji contributed pieces to the 2019 issue of Array. Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Keith Feldman on Anti Muslim Racism Beyond Islamophobia
Keith Feldman wrote on anti-Muslim racism for American Quarterly's December 2019 issue. Read more
10 Feb, 2020
Tom McEnaney in the NYT on Women's Voices & Politics
BCNM professor Tom McEnaney was quoted in a New York Times article on the difficulties for female politicians that arise from their speech. Read more
10 Feb, 2020
Join Jill Miller & Greg Niemeyer in Mo'orea for ART 160N This Summer
Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! Read more
10 Feb, 2020
Alum Jen Schradie on Internet Inequality
BCNM alum Jen Schradie was featured on French-language site Usbek+Rica. Read more
07 Feb, 2020
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum Live Feb 12
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! Read more
06 Feb, 2020
Commons Conversation Revisited: Rahul Gairola
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06 Feb, 2020
BCNM at AAA 2019
DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI in Pew Research
Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital LifeRead more
05 Feb, 2020
Alum McGonigal on WUWF
BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was featured on WUWF, the NPR channel in Great Northwest Florida. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
BCNM at SLSA 2019
Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Pop Matters Features Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't
Schradie argues that the right conservative wing has more open access to the internet given the current regulations of digital platforms. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Stuart Geiger at CSCW 2019
Stuart Geiger talks about the "various trends in the lengths of published papers in ACM CSCW from 2000-2018" at CSCW 2019. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg Keynotes Healthcare Robotics Forum
Ken Goldberg was a keynote speaker at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum 2019 in Santa Clara. Read more
04 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: Xiaowei Wang on Pearl Parties at SLSA
Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more
03 Feb, 2020
danah boyd on Privacy in the 2020 Census
danah boyd investigates the US Census Bureau's approach to "differential privacy" and its implications for data products. Read more
03 Feb, 2020
Ritwik Banerji at SEM 2019
Ritwik Banerji presented a paper on free improvisation at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 64th annual meeting. Read more
Camille Crittenden in Issues in Science and Technology
Crittenden explores the relationship between broadband access and the growth of adolescent youth. Read more
03 Feb, 2020
Alum Clement Hil Goldberg on Queer and Trans Culture and the Parlour Club
Goldberg writes about their experience searching for a queer bar in Los Angeles and how the San Francisco scene lacks what LA was able to cultivate. Read more
02 Feb, 2020
Jane McGonigal on WAMC on a Better Life Through Gaming
Listen to alum Jane McGonigal discuss creating games that heal. Read more
01 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: Rebecca Levitan on the Digital Futures of Ancient Objects
Rebecca Levitan, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, ran a workshop on Discussing Next Steps for Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects at annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more
31 Jan, 2020
Review of The Revolution That Wasn't in Inside Higher Ed
Alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Barbara Fister. Read more
30 Jan, 2020
Camille Crittenden at Transatlantic Sync
Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Camille Crittenden spoke in a panel about ethics in technology at Transatlantic Sync, a conference aimed at connecting Silicon Valley and Germany on issues of technology and innovation. Read more
30 Jan, 2020
danah boyd on Data Voids
Alum danah boyd recently released a Data & Society report titled "Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited" in collaboration with Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft. Read more
29 Jan, 2020
Conference Grants: Harry Burson on the Sound of Globalization
Harry Burson, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented his research on "The Sound of Globalization: An Archaeology of Immersive Media at the World’s Fair" at the Media Matter: Media-Archaeological Research and Artistic Practice conference. Read more
28 Jan, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more
28 Jan, 2020
danah boyd on Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott
Alum danah boyd recently appeared on the Microsoft podcast "Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott," discussing technology and the potential dangers that come with a "move fast and break things" mentality. Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Ken Goldberg at California Future of Work Commission
Ken Goldberg attended the California Future of Work Commission's October 2019 meeting. Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Tara Shi Co-Editor for Room One Thousand
Tara Shi is a co-editor for architecture journal Room One Thousand's eighth issue, Magic. Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Visit Xiaowei Wang's Exhibition '女 Nǚ: Other Half of The Sky'
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20 Jan, 2020
Conference Grants: Juliana Friend on Senegalese Ethics and Pornography
Juliana Friend, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented her research on "Porn, Pop-Ups, National Purity: Everyday Ethics and Digital Pornography" at The American Anthropological Association. Read more
19 Jan, 2020
Jane McGonigal on Meditative Story
Alum Jane McGonigal presents "Finding my own reflection" on this great podcast. Read more
Sophia Hussain will serve as the Center's Events Coordinator and Office Manager! Read more
08 Jan, 2020
BCNM at UIST 2019
Björn Hartmann and Eric Paulos at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium. Read more
07 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen on Human Biases in AI
Monocle Weekly published an interview with alum Trevor Paglen on our artificial intelligence systems. Read more
06 Jan, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual on Fragmentation and the Digital City
Alex offers an analysis of Vicente Luis Mora's Circular 07. Las afueras.Read more
05 Jan, 2020
Jacob Gaboury Speaks at Training Humans
Jacob Gaboury spoke at the Fondazione Prada Exhibition, Training Humans, by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford. Read more
04 Jan, 2020
cNet names danah boyd One of 30 Personalities Who Defined the 2010s
CNET's list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years includes alum, Data & Society founder, danah boyd. Read more
03 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
Alum Trevor Paglen's work is featured in the exhibition Age of You.
Four BCNM alumni participated at 4S 2019 in September, the annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science. Read more
24 Dec, 2019
danah boyd Publishes Balancing Data Utility and Confidentiality in the 2020 US Census
A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more
24 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen’s ImageNet Roulette
ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more
20 Dec, 2019
See the BCNM Commons in its Interstellar Glory
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20 Dec, 2019
BCNM Around the Web December 2019
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
18 Dec, 2019
danah boyd Publishes on Networked Media Ecosystems
Is media silence as powerful in shaping public discussion as deliberate rhetoric? If so, do editorial boards need to strategically amplify certain speech? Read more
18 Dec, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes Playing Nature
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17 Dec, 2019
Tiffany Ng in University of Michigan Podcast on Diversifying the Carillon
Alum Tiffany Ng gives a gracious shout out to BCNM in the University of Michigan's podcast! Read more
16 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Deep Learning Transfer
Hate making your bed? This new bed finds a fun new robotic solution! Read more
12 Dec, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Ronak K. Kapadia
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08 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen at Nam June Paik Art Center
Trevor Paglen's first solo exhibition in Korea is held at the Nam June Paik Art Center until February 2, 2020. Read more
04 Dec, 2019
Alum Kirsten Chen Co-Curates Momentum for Franchise
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04 Dec, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie on WashingTech on Social Media Bias
Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more
02 Dec, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik on Baby Yoda in the Washington Post
BCNM Director Abigail de Kosnik wrote about the Baby Yoda "GIF Takedown" and why it matters in a recent article for the Washington Post.Read more
02 Dec, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter Featured on Vox
McGonigal's smartphone app SuperBetter was recently featured on Vox.Read more
29 Nov, 2019
Applications for our Spring 2020 Conference Grants Now Open
BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with conference attenddance. Read more
27 Nov, 2019
Conference Grants: KC Forcier on Reframing Moving Images in the Digital Age
KC Forcier, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented her research on traditions of canvas paintings in digital images at The Picturesque, an annual Film and Media Studies conference. Read more
27 Nov, 2019
Spring 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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Conference Grants: Will Payne on Liminal Mapping with Pseudo-Spatial Charts
Will Payne, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented his research on spatial data at the NACIS annual meeting. Read more
20 Nov, 2019
Conference Grants: Miyoko Conley on the Nebulous Transnational Fandom Archive
Miyoko Conley, a recipients of our Fall 2019 Conference grant, presented her research on transnational fandoms at the annual Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA) conference. Read more
19 Nov, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more
Abigail De Kosnik on Why it Matters that Black Men and Queer Women Invented Digital Remix Culture
BCNM Director Abigail de Kosnik published her paper on the origins of digital remix culture in the Fall 2019 issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.Read more
06 Nov, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at The Wrong Biennale
Saum's work is exhibited at the 'todo mal' pavilion at the The Wrong's Biennale Read more
06 Nov, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik and Piracy as the Future of Culture
BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik published 'Piracy and the Future of Culture' in the journal Third Text.Read more
05 Nov, 2019
We're Hiring an Events Coordinator!
Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet. Read more
04 Nov, 2019
Laurie Macfee to Lead Poetry and the Senses at ARC
Event coordinator Laurie Macfee has accepted a fantastic role leading the Poetry and the Senses initiative at the Arts Research Center. Read more
02 Nov, 2019
BCNM Around the Web November 2019
More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more
The IEEE Annual Information Technological Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference invites Eric Paulos as one of their keynote speakers. Read more
23 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Morehshin Allahyari
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22 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
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22 Oct, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie Video on The Big Think
If you've been wondering "Have conservative groups mastered the art of internet activism?", Jen Schradie has the answer! Read more
More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal. Read more
16 Oct, 2019
BCNM Scholar Interviews
BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more
Announcing the Fall 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more
Students at Berkeley worked artist and robotics professor Ken Goldberg to experiment innovative ways of using robotics for recycling. Read more
12 Sep, 2019
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory Exhibited by Schloss & ZKM
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12 Sep, 2019
Camille Crittenden: Part of California Government Blockchain Working Group
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10 Sep, 2019
Trevor Paglen as the Fall 2019 Lamar Dodd Chair at UGA
The University of Georgia awards Trevor Paglen with the Lama Dodd Professional Chair as he joins them this year to teach an interdisciplinary seminar. Read more
10 Sep, 2019
Lyman Dispatch: Cherise McBride
Chelsea McBride shares how the support of the Peter Lyman fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more
06 Sep, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Brian Bartz in Trevor Paglen's Studio
Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more
05 Sep, 2019
Asma Kazmi Receives 2019 Hellman Fellowship
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04 Sep, 2019
BCNM at NWSA 2019
BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico. Read more
02 Sep, 2019
Nicholas de Monchaux Named the 2019-2024 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media
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01 Sep, 2019
BCNM around the Web September 2019
More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie. Read more
29 Aug, 2019
Keith Feldman on Racism and Refugees
Keith Feldman published a striking op-ed on racism and refugees in the Daily Cal. Read more
29 Aug, 2019
Zeynep Tufekci on Digital Infrastructures That Serve Humanity
Orbital Reflector in College Art Association Reviews
Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector was reviewed in College Art Association Reviews Read more
28 Aug, 2019
Tom McEnaney Promoted to Associate Professor
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28 Aug, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal on Meditative Story
McGonigal was featured on Meditative Story, a podcast from Thrive Media Read more
23 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual in Fobias Fonias Fagias
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22 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Tory Jeffay on Photographic Evidence & Police Body Cameras
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21 Aug, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal in Invest Like the Best
Alum Jane McGonigal was featured on podcast Invest Like the Best by the Investors Field Guide Read more
21 Aug, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg and Queerness in Video Games on Team LFG
Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG Read more
21 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Juliana Friend on Sutura
Juliana traveled to Senegal to study shifting notions of digital privacy and publicity. Read more
20 Aug, 2019
BCNM at ELO 2019
Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more
20 Aug, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie in KPFA
BCNM Alum Jen Schradie and digital activism was featured on KPFA's Against the Grain! Read more
20 Aug, 2019
Malika Imhotep in New Life Quarterly
DE student Malika Imhotep's review of Sula by Toni Morrison was in New Life Quarterly Read more
19 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: KC Forcier on the Computational Loop in Network Culture
KC examined how artworks engage with the looping logic of code, with its potential for ongoing and indefinite temporality, and how this relates to the perception of temporality in networked culture as similarly indeterminate. Read more
19 Aug, 2019
We're Hiring: 2019-2020 Student Assistants
Join the BCNM communication and events team! Read more
18 Aug, 2019
Conference Grants: Malika Imhotep on Toni Morrison and Digital Humanities
Malika presented “On Sethe’s Back: rememory, afro-cyborgues and black feminist ante-humanism" at the 2019 American Literature Association annual meeting. Read more
17 Aug, 2019
Ken Goldberg Chief Scientist of Ambidextrous Robotics
Ambidextrous Robotics builds on DexNet, the patent-pending Dexterity Network developed by Goldberg and Mahler. Read more
16 Aug, 2019
Rebecca Levitan Summer Dispatch: Polychromy in Athens
This summer, Rebecca traveled to Athens to study architectural sculpture and figural graffiti using cutting edge imaging. Read more
15 Aug, 2019
Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Featured in the Washington Monthly
Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more
14 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at New Approaches to Transmedia Language Pedagogy International Conference
Alex presented the keynote at this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. Read more
13 Aug, 2019
Juliana Friend on Anthropology of/as Revolutionary Dreaming
Juliana published her article in Cultural Anthropology as part of the series, Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley. Read more
12 Aug, 2019
BCNM Faculty, Students, Staff Advise on and Support Proposed Legislation on Digital Media Literacy
Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.
The American Society of Media Photographers featured Koci Hernandez in "Questions with an Educator." Read more
11 Aug, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg at FDG 2019
Ruberg presents "Necklines and ‘Naughty Bits’: Constructing and Regulating Bodies in Live Streaming Community Guidelines." Read more
08 Aug, 2019
Alumni Amy Koehler-Catterson and Jenni Higgs Publish on The Multiple Meanings of Scale
The article, co-authored with Richard Paquin Morel and Cynthia Coburn, was published in Educational Researcher. Read more
08 Aug, 2019
Jen Schradie at ASA 2019
The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more
07 Aug, 2019
Laura Lozano Marín on Alex Saum Pascual's Poetry
Lozano Marín studies the characteristics of electronic poetry written by females. Read more
05 Aug, 2019
Camille Crittenden in Brahms in Context
Camille Crittenden contributed the chapter on "Vienna" to the book Brahms in Context. Read more
05 Aug, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang at ASLE 2019
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's Thirteenth Biennial Conference was held at UC Davis in June. Read more
04 Aug, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen at Art Encounters Biennial
Romania's Art Encounters Biennial running Sept 20-Oct 27 features alum Trevor Paglen. Read more
04 Aug, 2019
Damon Young Publishes Ironies of Web 2.0
Issue 2 "How to be Now" of Post 45 features Damon Young's investigation of irony in the age of the internet. Read more
03 Aug, 2019
Training Humans at Fondazione Prada
Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford for the Fondazione Prada exhibition, running from 12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020. Read more
20 Jul, 2019
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Books for Sirens
Alum Andrea Horbinksi is on the Sirens team reviewing fantasy literature by women authors. Read more
18 Jul, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Screenshots for Fotomuseum
Jacob writes for the blog Still Searching on a history and theory of the computer screenshot. Read more
16 Jul, 2019
Jen Schradie on The Debate
Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more
16 Jul, 2019
Bayal Kaymanen (Dancing Smoke) at Berkeley August 2nd!
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15 Jul, 2019
Camille Crittenden at CENIC 2019
Camille spoke on the Pacific Research Platform. Read more
15 Jul, 2019
Christo Sims on How Idealistic High-Tech Schools Often Fail to Help Poor Kids Get Ahead
Alum Christo Sims published his essay in Zócalo Public Square. Read more
14 Jul, 2019
Trevor Paglen at the Vienna Biennale
Alum Trevor Paglen The Vienna Biennale for Change takes place from May 29 to October 6, 2019 with the theme BRAVE NEW VIRTUES. Shaping Our Digital World. Read more
13 Jul, 2019
Applications for our Fall 2019 Conference Grants Now Open
BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with conference attenddance. Read more
13 Jul, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Reviews The Noisy Renaissance
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life byNiall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more
12 Jul, 2019
William Morgan on Calculative Reason and its Reproduction
William presented "Calculative Reason and its Reproduction" at the 2019 Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) Conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
ATC 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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11 Jul, 2019
BCNM at DIS 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more
10 Jul, 2019
Berkeley Talks: #SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality
Bo Ruberg on the Precarious Labor of the Queer Indie Game Maker
Bo's article appeared in a Special Issue of Television & New Media on Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor. Read more
09 Jul, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie Interviewed in Vox
Vox talks to Jen about "Why conservatives are winning the internet." The Revolution That Wasn't explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals. Read more
09 Jul, 2019
HTNM 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more
08 Jul, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal on The Big Think
Jane shares the benefits of bringing positive emotions to your work through play. Read more
08 Jul, 2019
Fall 2019 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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08 Jul, 2019
New Co-Authored Paper Deep Model Predictive Control by Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg contributed to "Extending Deep Model Predictive Control with Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations." Read more
07 Jul, 2019
Interview with Alum Jen Schradie in the Indy and WUNC
Jen discusses her book The Revolution That Wasn't in North Carolina, where much of her research was based. Read more
06 Jul, 2019
Black Feminist Theory Study Atlas Co-created by Malika Imhotep Now Available
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06 Jul, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg on Video Games Have Always Been Queer at UCLA
A great recap of Bo's visit to UCLA was featured in The Daily Bruin. Read more
05 Jul, 2019
Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review
Working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media, Ken shares his thoughts on making robots less clumsy when grabbing objects. Read more
04 Jul, 2019
Jen Schradie's The Revolution that Wasn't in Wired
Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't is featured in Wired's "14 Must-Read Books of the Summer." Read more
04 Jul, 2019
Trevor Paglen & Kronos Quartet's Sight Machine at the Barbican
Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more
03 Jul, 2019
New Papers from Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2019
Ken Goldberg co-authored several papers presented at ICRA 2019. Read more
03 Jul, 2019
Poetry by Malika Imhotep in Scalawag
Scalawag sparks critical conversations about the many Souths, amplifying voices of activists, artists, and writers to reckon with Southern realities as they are, rather than as they seem to be. Read more
01 Jul, 2019
Announcing the New Berkeley Center for New Media Director
Alum Jen Schradie on Conservatives' Use of Social Media to Move Their Agendas
Jen Schradie published "Conservatives Use Social Media to Move Their Agendas Much More Than Liberals Do" in Newsweek. Read more
25 Jun, 2019
Malika Imhotep at Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo
Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo, a screening program curated by Erin Christovale, followed by a conversation between the curator and Ra Malika Imhotep. Read more
24 Jun, 2019
BCNM around the Web July 2019
Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more
24 Jun, 2019
Stephanie Tang on the Heart Sounds Bench
Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more
23 Jun, 2019
BCNM at Creativity and Cognition 2019
BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference! Read more
22 Jun, 2019
Welcoming Keith Feldman to BCNM's Executive Committee
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21 Jun, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Quoted in Le Monde
Can video games help raise awareness about ecological causes? Alum Alenda Chang weighs in on the debate in a recent Le Monde article on video games and environmentalism. Read more
21 Jun, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Interviewed in Sounds from the Spires
Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more
20 Jun, 2019
Damon Young Promoted to Associate Professor!
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19 Jun, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Co-Editor of Media + Environment
Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more
19 Jun, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie at OECD 2019 Forum
Jen's panel focused on People-Power vs. Populism. Read more
18 Jun, 2019
BCNM at SIGGRAPH 2019
Jacob Gaboury and alum Bo Ruberg will speak at the Diversity and Inclusion Summit. Read more
17 Jun, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik & Keith Feldman Interviewed by the New Books Network
Co-editors Gail & Keith discuss #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation on Lily Goren's podcast. Read more
16 Jun, 2019
Arianna Ninh on Alterwear
Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more
15 Jun, 2019
All Woman Team Critiques Optimization Culture in NWMEDIA 190: Critical Practices
The students' commentary on our culture's enthusiasm for supplements is now showing in the CITRIS Tech Museum. Read more
13 Jun, 2019
Videos from 2019 DataEdge Now Available
BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more
09 Jun, 2019
Ken Goldberg's TechCrunch Video Now Online
Ken spoke to Michael Jordan on Artificial Intelligence: Minds, Economies and Systems that Learn. Read more
09 Jun, 2019
Alum Grace Gipson Reviews Walking Raddy on Baby Dolls in New Orleans
Alum Grace Gipson published "The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation," a review on Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans in Black perspectives. Read more
08 Jun, 2019
Camryn Bell on Algorithmic Gentrification with Will Payne
Camryn received an BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on Algorithmic Gentrification under the mentorship of Will Payne. Read more
08 Jun, 2019
Qian Yu on Computer Relationships at CHI 2019
Qian presented "I Almost Fell in Love with a Machine: Speaking with Computers Affects Closeness and Self-disclosure" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
07 Jun, 2019
Stefanos Geroulanos HTNM Video Now Online
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06 Jun, 2019
William White on the Digital Heritage of People's Park
William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more
05 Jun, 2019
Malika Imhotep in The Body Political
Malika Imhotep performs in a radical body-positive burlesque and variety show. Read more
04 Jun, 2019
Greg Niemeyer at the Palo Alto Cultural Center
Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen's Network Paradox Scroll on exhibit from June 15-August 25! Read more
03 Jun, 2019
Alum Christo Sims at the Business & Society Research Seminar
If you're in Paris, join Christo Sims on June 13th for his talk on Disruptive Fixation! Read more
02 Jun, 2019
Will Payne on Critical GIS at AAG
Will Payne presented "Crawling the City: Mobilizing Free Labor in the Spatial Data Economy" at the American Association of Geographer's 2019 Conference. Read more
01 Jun, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen on BBC's Invisible Networks with James Bridle
In this episode, "Invisibe Networks," alum Trevor Paglen investigates how technology is changing the way we see. Read more
31 May, 2019
Asma Kazmi Exhibiting in side by side/in the world
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30 May, 2019
Revisited: Art as Critique Conference
Felix Rosen recaps ARC’s Art as Critique Conference from March 1, 2019, which BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor. Read more
30 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Part of Team Introducing Robotics to Water Conservation in Farming
Asma Kazmi Exhibiting at the University of Sevilla
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29 May, 2019
Celeste Kidd and the Role of Reasoning and Metacognition in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more
28 May, 2019
Soravis Prakkamakul on VR at CHI 2019
Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
27 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Co-Chairing AI & Inclusivity Signature Initiative
The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more
Alum Jenni Higgs Publishes Learning as Movement in Social Design-Based Experiments
The article, written with Kris Gutiérrez, José Lizárraga, and Eduardo Rivero, was published in Human Development 2019, volume 62! Read more
18 May, 2019
BCNM at ICA 2019
Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more
18 May, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in Entangled Realities at HEK
The exhibition Entangled Realities runs from May 9th to August 11th and is dedicated to the current topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on human life and society. Read more
18 May, 2019
Nicholaus Gutierrez on Alternative Programming Paradigms at What is Technology
Nicholaus presented “Model Machines: Alternative Programming Paradigms and the Question of Technological Subjectivity.” Read more
18 May, 2019
Alum Christo Sims Interview on Ethnography and Education
Now avialable for free on soundcloud — a fantastic interview with Christo Sims on what ethnography can bring to the study of school reform. Read more
12 May, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
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12 May, 2019
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Revisited
This year, participants edited 17 articles, adding 2,700 words, with over 70 thousand article views so far, and counting! Read more
These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more
07 May, 2019
Bo Ruberg Commons Conversation Video Now Online
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07 May, 2019
Jessica Adams on Virtual Reality Narratives at the AAAL
Jessica presented "Envisioning the Globe: Symbolic Competence in 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Narratives" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Read more
07 May, 2019
Alum Naomi Bragin Receives NEH Summer Stipend
Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970." Read more
07 May, 2019
Bo Ruberg on First Person Scholar Podcast
Bo Ruberg is a featured guest on a special edition episode titled, "Queer Games Studies Special Issue." Read more
03 May, 2019
"Within These Walls" & its sequel "Dreams of Flight"
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03 May, 2019
Cesar Torres on Actuators at TEI
César presented "A Conversation with Actuator" at TEI 2019 on behalf of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab. Read more
02 May, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual Promoted to Associate Professor
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01 May, 2019
Harry Burson on Stereo in the 19th Century at SCMS
Harry presented "Stereo in the 19th Century: Space, Audition, and the Théâtrophone" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, Washington. Read more
30 Apr, 2019
#Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation Published
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30 Apr, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual at Festival El Aleph
Alex will join a panel on Relecturas borgeanas desde los nuevos medios.Read more
30 Apr, 2019
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes "Straight Paths through Queer Walking Simulators"
Alum Bonnie Ruberg publishes new article in Games and Culture! Read more
Alex lectured at a #NetNarr course at Kean University regarding her #Youtuber and #Selfiepoetry work Read more
25 Apr, 2019
Ken Goldberg at Financial Times Digital Surgery Summit
Goldberg presented at the 2019 The Financial Times Digital Surgery Summit. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal on Ologies Podcast
Dr. McGonigal shares her perspectives on the various choices in the gaming industry in an Ologies podcast. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Bonnie Ruberg
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23 Apr, 2019
Alum Andrea Horbinski on the Untold History of Japanese Comics at Baruch College
BCNM alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the Manga Symposium #5 Untold History of Japanese Comics: Prewar & LGBTQ+ Manga. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Machine Learning in Robotics Highlighted in NYT with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg shares his insights into machine learning in the New York Times.Read more
22 Apr, 2019
KC Forcier on Looped Media at SCMS
KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more
21 Apr, 2019
Jacob Gaboury at Jacobs Design Field Notes
Jacob discussed the queer history of computing in the Jacob Institute's For Whom? By Whom?program. Read more
20 Apr, 2019
César Torres Appointed Assistant Professor at UT Arlington
Talking Comics and (Dis)ability in the Midwest at the 2019 Michigan State University Comics Forum. Read more
18 Apr, 2019
Eyeris Featured in CITRIS Inventors Series
Eyeris, a wearable that aims to tackle the issue of sexual harassment, was created in Eric Paulos' NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making. Read more
16 Apr, 2019
Miyoko Conley on K-Pop at SCMS
Miyoko Conley presented "Designing a K-pop Audience: Asian American Performance in KPOP the Musical" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference. Read more
Tory presented "Body/Camera: Viewing Raw Images of Policing through the Lens of Early Film" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
10 Apr, 2019
Kirsten Chen Curates Play Me Love You
BCNM undergrad Kirsten Chen curates a virtual reality art show at Swim Gallery! Read more
09 Apr, 2019
Jeremy Rue & UCB Offer Workshop at Jindal School of Communication
A panel held on ‘New media and Indian elections 2019’ included Assistant Dean for Academics at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Jeremy Rue and other UCB Faculty. Read more
Alum Jane McGonigal Teaching How to be a Futurist at Stanford
McGonigal will teach a course titled, "How to Think Like a Futurist: Improve Your Powers of Imagination, Invention, and Capacity for Change." Read more
08 Apr, 2019
Malika Imhotep Featured in Berkeley News
Imhotep discusses her study and research on black feminism. Read more
04 Apr, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie at Le Númerique Peut Il Réinventer La Démocratie
Join Jen Schradie on April 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Sciences Po symposium! Read more
02 Apr, 2019
Trevor Paglen at University of Michigan Ann Arbor Art Museum
Alum Trevor Paglen will be featured in "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene." Read more
02 Apr, 2019
Eric Paulos a Mentor at the C&C Graduate Student Symposium
The Creativity and Cognition Graduate Student Symposium provides a forum in which students have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. Read more
02 Apr, 2019
Jacob Gaboury at Incomputable Futures
Gaboury was a featured speaker at A Symposium on Representation, Computation, and Experimental Scholarship this past March. Read more
23 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kim Stanley Robinson
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Jen Schradie's Digital Activism Gap Highlighted in The Society Pages
The Society Pages features allum Jen Schradie's research on the digital activism gap. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Christo Sims at Media Design Practices
BCNM alum Christo Sims presented at Media Design Practices' New…… Now! Thesis Symposium. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Robotics
Ken Goldberg will be co-hosting a talk with UC Berkeley's Michael Jordan at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics & AI. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Bonnie Ruberg at UCLA's Feminist Book Celebration
Alum Bonnie Ruberg was part of a panel discussion at UCLA's Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration on International Women's Day. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Ethics in AI
The New York Times hosted the New Work Summit. Read more about the recommendations Ken Goldberg and other experts made regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
We're to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more
14 Mar, 2019
Alum Margaret Rhee Receives Best Book Award from AAAS
The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. Read more
14 Mar, 2019
Nicholas de Monchaux on Space Suits of the Future in Pacific Standard
The future of space suits and what it means for space exploration. Read more
12 Mar, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie Presents Research at Sciences Po
If you're in Paris on Thursday, March 14th, join Jen Schradie for a discussion on digital activism! Read more
12 Mar, 2019
Alum Christo Sims' Disruptive Fixation Reviewed in Pedagogies
Earl Aguilera examines Christo Sims’ Disruptive Fixation and its contributions to the growing body of literature on technology in education. Read more
12 Mar, 2019
Sonia Katyal on How to Lift the Veil Off Hidden Algorithms
Katyal examines the civil rights in our algorithm future. Read more
12 Mar, 2019
Greg Niemeyer's Night Vision at Jewish Quarter Museum
In the spring of 2019, the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will be presenting Greg Niemeyer's work. Read more
10 Mar, 2019
Sonia Katyal on Private Accountability in the Age of AI
The UCLA Law Review published Sonia Katyal's paper on accountability and artificial intelligence. Read more