BCNM Progress Report: July 2007 - May 2008
July 2007:
Changed name to Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).
Revised Executive Committee to facilitate a Working Group that meets weekly, with a four hour per week commitment. Also created a Campus Advisory Board with senior faculty.
Peter Lyman's family established the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media. Pledged contributions of $130,000 thusfar; we plan to offer the first Lyman Fellowship in New Media in Summer 2009, to be awarded to a student working in areas related to K though 12 education.
During 2007-2008 academic year: 35 Berkeley faculty join BCNM as Affiliated Faculty (total is now 116 from over 30 departments): http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/people/affiliated/
Eight PhD students add the BCNM Designated Emphasis (DE):
Ahmed ElAntably, Architecture
Danah Boyd, Information (approval pending in Graduate Division)
Alenda Chang, Rhetoric
Trevor Paglen, Geography
Jennifer Schradie, Sociology
Ryan Shaw, Information
Yan Zhang, IEOR
August 2007:
Revised mission statement.
Created new logo.
Created new website: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/
Bruno Latour joins BCNM International Advisory Board
Transfer BCNM funding administration to ERSO, the Engineering Research Support Organization in Cory Hall. ĘTom Parsons appointed as BCNM Grants Administrator.
September 2007:
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Trevor Paglen, Artist and Geographer, UC Berkeley
Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Geography of Nowhere
October 2007:
Revised BCNM Designated Emphasis program and began listing Recommended Courses during Advance Registration in Fall and Spring
BCNM Courses, Fall Semester:
CNM 190, Digital Culture (Rick Rinehart)
CNM 201, Interrogating New Media (Ken Goldberg)
CNM 290, Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces (Kimiko Ryokai)
(35 additional recommended new media-related courses offered in other departments on the BCNM website)
Dean Janet Broughton funded new media production suites that will are installed in the New Media Commons in Moffitt (special thanks to her, Jeffrey Skoller, Shannon Jackson, and Greg Niemeyer).
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Bill Fontana, Artist, San Francisco
Acoustic Simultaneity and the Sculpture of Sound
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Geert Lovink, Associate Professor of New Media, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
New Media Art: In Search of the Cool Obscure
November 2007:
Shannon Jackson brought Marianne Weems and Builder's Association to campus to develop on their new production Continuous Cities which made front page of the SF Chronicle Datebook and was very well attended.
BCNM co-sponsors Continuous Bodies Symposium
Responding to great demand from Masters students in the School of Information, Art Practice, TDPS, Architecture, Law, and Business, Greg Niemeyer initiates effort to develop a BCNM Master's certificate in New Media.
BCNM co-sponsors ParaSite Symposium (thanks to Irene Chien and Brooke Belisle)
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Yael Kanarek, Artist, New York
And I was Both Tongues
December 2007:
Feature story on BCNM appears in California Magazine: http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california/200711/dillon.asp
BCNM co-sponsors Rip.Mix.Burn.BAM.PFA. (thanks to Rick Rinehart)
craigslist.org donates $1.6M to BCNM: $100K for programs and $1.5M (matched by $1.5M from the Hewlett Foundation) to establish the craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media. This made page 2 of the SF Chronicle and national news: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/17_craigslist.shtml
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Kristin Lucas, Artist, San Francisco
If Lost Then Found
January 2008:
BCNM offers or cross-lists 7 Spring 2008 courses:
CNM 200 History and Theory of New Media (Christiane Paul)
CNM 201 Interrogating New Media (Ken Goldberg)
CNM 290 Interface Aesthetics (Kimiko Ryokai)
CNM 290 Technologies for Creativity & Learning (Kimiko Ryokai)
CNM 290/190 Metropolis of the Mind: Designing Virtual Worlds (Yehuda Kalay)
CNM 290 History of Networked Media Art (Christiane Paul)
CNM 190 Art in the later 20th Century: Media and Meaning (Anne Wagner)
Christiane Paul, Adjuct Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum, is BCNM visiting professor
(Plus 38 additional recommended new media-related courses offered in other departments on the BCNM website)
New Media Working Group of graduate students at Townsend Center continues.
BCNM establishes a temporary BCNM admin. office in the BID lab in Hearst Hall.
The Art, Technology and Culture Lecture series continues to attract overflow audiences. Every week, CNM 201, the associated seminar, generates provocative discussions. With funding from CITRIS, ATC experiments with a satellite program: ATC-Santa Cruz that hosted six lectures in F07-S08.
February 2008:
Gail Derecho accepts our offer and will join BCNM as Asst. Professor in July 2008 (with home department in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Special Thanks to Shannon Jackson and Janet Broughton.) http://gailderecho.wordpress.com/
40 New Media Research Summaries posted on BCNM website: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/pages/research-summaries
Red Burns, Chair of NYU's ITP Program, joins BCNM National Advisory Board
Kimiko Ryokai Initiates Design Futures lecture series: http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/dbox/
BCNM announces Summer 2008 Courses
BCNM initiates discussions with MIT Media Lab about future partnership.
Bill Mitchell joins BCNM National Advisory Board.
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Greg Lynn, Architect, UCLA & Angewandte, Los Angeles/Vienna
Giant Robot Architecture
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Perry Hoberman, Installation Artist, Associate Research Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media Division, Los Angeles
Attention Depiction Disorders
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture V. Vale, Publisher, RE/search Publications, San Francisco
Attention Depiction Disorders
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Naut Humon, Musician, Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco
Attention Depiction Disorders
Design Futures Lecture
Ame Elliot, IDEO
Grounded Leaps: Methodological Choices for Driving Innovation
Design Futures Lecture
Bjoern Hartmann and Scott Klemmer, Stanford University
Enlightened Trial and Error
March 2008:
Lisa Iwamoto wins Discovery Channel competition to design the future vision of San Francisco.
3 Macarthur grants awarded to Greg Niemeyer, John Canny, and Howard Rheingold.
Joint iSchool, Library, Mass Comm, BCNM Event:
Debate: Is the Web a Threat to Our Culture?
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events/dls20080319
Discussions with Carnegie Mellon University
BCNM works with CITRIS on Art, Technology, and Culture Initiative
http://www.citris-uc.org/research/humanities_and_arts
EECS Prof and BID Director John Canny joins BCNM Executive Committee
CITRIS grants $75K to BCNM researchers Kimiko Ryokai and Greg Niemeyer for Game-Based Learning Project
BCNM grants $6K to BCNM researcher Kimiko Ryokai for Interactive UC Berkeley Map project
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Golan Levin, Artist, Associate Professor of Electronic Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Looking at Looking at Looking
Design Futures Lecture
Mike Kuniavsky, ThingM
Sketching Smart Things: User Experience Design of Ubiquitous Computing Devices
Design Futures Lecture
Mike Migurski and Tom Carden, Stamen Design
Visual Urban Data: A Journey Through Oakland Crimespotting
April 2008:
Wendy Chun declines UC Berkeley's offer of faculty position with BCNM with home department Rhetoric and Film Studies.
Susan Miller appointed as BCNM Associate Director (thanks to Rick Rinehart for assistance on Hiring Committee)
BCNM Director attends Aberdeen Symposium on New Media (with Peter Galison, Friedrich Kittler, Alex Galloway, Wendy Chun, Mark Hansen,...)
UC Berkeley Mass Communications undergrad program renamed as "Media Studies"
http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/masscomm/
Friedrich Kittler joins BCNM International Advisory Board
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Kota Ezawa, Artist, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Text, Slides and Videotapes
Design Futures Lecture
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Thinglink and University of Helsinki
Social Objects: Designing Social Affordances to Material Artifacts
May 2008:
BCNM Launches Donation Dashboard.
A collaborative filtering approach to matching non-profits to donors
http://dd.berkeley.edu
BCNM Projects featured at Maker's Faire
Two BCNM DE students awarded PhDs:
Jeremy Hunt (Music)
Trevor Paglen (Geography)
BCNM Spring Social
BCNM Co-sponsors Embodiment and New Media Symposium at BAMPFA under direction of BCNM Assoc. Director Rick Rinehart
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/bigbang
BCNM Co-sponsors Bio Art Panel in New York City
Thanks to Cathy Koshland and Tom Leonard, BCNM is granted teaching and presentation space in 340 Moffitt Hall.
BCNM granted research lab space on 4th floor of CITRIS Building.
Spring Meeting of BCNM Campus Advisory Board.
BCNM Summer Courses:
CNM 190, Section 1, Interactivity, from Cameras to Computers (Brooke Belisle)
CNM 190, Section 3, Introduction to Programming Graphics, Animation, and Interactions for Non-engineers (Therese Tierney)
Design Futures Lecture
Barbara Barry, Media Lab, Massachsuetts Institute of Technology
Designing Narrative Healthcare Technologies
For details and updates see:
http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/