Saum's work is exhibited at the 'todo mal' pavilion at the The Wrong's Biennale  Read more

If you've been wondering "Have conservative groups mastered the art of internet activism?", Jen Schradie has the answer! Read more

This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more

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

Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG  Read more

Juliana traveled to Senegal to study shifting notions of digital privacy and publicity. Read more

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

This summer, Rebecca traveled to Athens to study architectural sculpture and figural graffiti using cutting edge imaging. Read more

Camille spoke on the Pacific Research Platform. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more

BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more

Jen's panel focused on People-Power vs. Populism. Read more

Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more

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

Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. 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

Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970."  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

You can now view Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 in action online. Read more

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

"Berkeley's two-armed robot hints at a new future for warehouses" writes Kaveh Waddell for Axios. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual attended the 2019 Chicago Modern Language Association Convention, presenting her research on the  intersection of digital humanities and Hispanic studies. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Fionce Siow. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik is a contributor to the 2019 essay anthology, edited by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen. Read more

Watch Rita Lucarelli's presentation for the CITRIS Spring Research Exchange Seminar Series Read more

A round up of BCNM alum Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector launch in the news. Read more

Goldberg was quoted in an article on the development of robotic stunts performed at Disney theme parks. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen discusses his art's focus on hidden structures of data collection and mass surveillance. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more

This summer, Peter Humphrey explored the evolution of electroacoustic science and the history of sound recording. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen's two dye sublimation prints were recently acquired by Stanford University.  Read more

This summer, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado explored how Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content use new media to reconfigure power relations. Read more

This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more

Nicholaus Gutierrez received the 2018 Lyman Fellowship, which provides a stipend to a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support the writing of his Ph.D. dissertation on a topic related to new media.  Read more

Nicholaus Gutierrez taught New Media R1B: "Is Technology Evil" this summer. Read more

Tune in tonight at 6:30pm to hear Roxane Gay launch our Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more

This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more

The Livestream will be available to view for 24 hours starting at 6:30pm on Monday, September 10. Read more

This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. Read more

Justin Berner taught New Media R1B: "What is an @uthor?" this summer. Read more

This summer, Yang Liu developed UNREAL, a Virtual Reality project for architectural design. Read more

The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more

The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more

From August 2-5, 2018, you can see work by Trevor Paglen in Seattle! Read more

Jacob Gaboury weighs in on movies that are adjusted to the brain waves of viewers. Read more

Marissa Ahmed was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Ritwik Banerji on his research about human sociality and algorithmic ethnography. Read more

Ken Goldberg, who was a keynote speaker at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, was featured on America CGTN. Read more

Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship.  Read more

Ken Goldberg and his lab were interviewed by NBC Bay Area about the progress being made in robotics development at UC Berkeley.  Read more

Claudia Ruslim, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to act as a research assistant to Will Payne. Read more

Wenny Miao, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to work with Noura Howell on her project about urban sensing.  Read more

We are excited to announce that author and cultural critic Roxane Gay will be launching the 2018-2019 season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium.  Read more

Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio ONE master's program, which begins next school year, was featured in the Landscape Architecture Magazine.  Read more

Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month.  Read more

Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more

As of very shortly after 10:00 AM this morning, this talk and the waitlist were sold out. Read more

Check out Alum Trevor Paglen's "Weeping Angel" on display for Creative Time's Pledges of Allegiance and see if you can solve the cryptographic puzzle! Read more

We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more

Lyndsey Ogle and her work were featured on an episode of 'Mythicist Miwaukee' Read more

Goldberg is included in the content on 'AI in a Week,' a crash-course on AI launched by Oxford Insights Read more

Grace Gipson was quoted in "Momentum builds for 'Black Panther'" in The San Francisco Chronicle.  Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen and his art has been featured in The Economist Read more

Trevor Paglen launches 'Disco Ball' into space from New Zealand! Read more

Ken Goldberg featured on article on the multiplicity in Robotics Industries Association: Robotics Online. Read more

Watch the Reply All conference speakers discuss how various spaces, physical and digital, demand different responses and protections for free speech. The video is now available for public viewing on Youtube.  Read more

Video from the conference, co-organized by Ken Goldberg, are now online Read more

Paglen's work was featured in "The Future of Art," a short film series on Artsy.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik discusses Game of Thrones and shares her pro-piracy argument with the data she has collected through her project titled "alpha60". Read more

Couldn't make it out to the Arts Technology Culture colloquium with Frank Foer and Nicholas Thompson back in September? The video of their dialogue about big tech is now online! Read more

Watch former US Secretary of Labor and UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich give the keynote address for the Reply All symposium. The video is now available to the public via YouTube.  Read more

BCNM alum Trevor Paglen's art piece, "Reaper Drone," was featured at the Wichita Art Museum's exhbition about surveillance and photography.  Read more

The Spaces of Free Speech Panel panel during the Reply All symposium is now available for public viewing.  Read more

Ken Goldberg sits down with the UCB Student Affairs to answer prospective students' questions. Read more

TF Tierney's book talk about intelligent infrastructure is now available for public viewing.  Read more

Read about Maija Hynninen's BCNM-funded research as she builds and improves the sound diffusion system for 'Sounding Sculpture.' Read more

Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more

Upcoming ATC speaker and Cal alumnus Ian Chang talks to CALIFORNIA Magazine about his MoMA-exhibited art, his experience at UC Berkeley, and his professional and personal journey after graduation. Read more

From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! Read more

Read about Friend's ethnographic research for her Many-to-Many project, funded by BCNM Read more

Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more

Read Yairamaren Roman Maldonado's account of collaborating with the UC Digital Storytelling project, funded by BCNM Read more

Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more

This year, BCNM initiated its undergraduate research fellowships, which offer undergraduates the chance to engage in direct research experience with BCNM graduates. Read more

Greg Niemeyer presents on data art for Moving Ideas! Read more

Seth Lu reflects on his work with Juliana Friend through BCNM's undergraduate fellowship program. Read more

Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more

Canyon Perry was selected to work with Yaira Roman Madonado on her project Literary and Digital Avant-Gardes in Post-National Puerto Rico. Read more

Check out the videos from some of the great lectures this semester, including our Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more

Will a robot take your job? Ken Goldberg on cloud robotics with Living MacTavish Read more

If you missed our recent Arts, Technology and Culture colloquium with Andy and Deborah Rappaport - the video is now live Read more

We are sad to hear of the passing of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Read more

The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more

with Ron Rael Read more

Andy and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project, which houses affordable spaces for artists and non-profits, shared the pleasures and challenges of collecting art objects in this digital age. Read more

The Center of New Music and Audio Technologies‘ new website went public earlier this semester in a “soft” release. Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's Chair Remarks at WAFR 2016 and other work by UC Berkeley students and faculty! Read more

Revisiting our lovely event with Geoff Manaugh who offered students and the public an insight into the design of cities and their unintentional impacts through the lense of "burglary." Read more

These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more

Hooray! Read more

Lydia Tuan was selected to work with Amy Koehler-Catterson (Education) on digital technologies as pedagogical tools Read more

On Miriam Posner's workshop event, recapped by Miyoko Conley. Read more

Here, Buckingham describes teaching Advanced Digital Animation” as a NWMEDIA 90 this past summer Read more

This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more

The fellowship is supported by donations from Professor Barrie Thorne, Sage Publications and many individual friends and faculty Read more

Readers may remember her from the No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica exhibition currently on display in the Doe Library Read more

This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more

The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more

Check out Alex Saum-Pascual's blog on the event! Read more

Tthe Berkeley Center for New Media presents a interview with John Graznow, one of the many collaborators on the construction of the bell's sound Read more

This year, the BCNM awarded five new media graduate students with technology services and training awards to help them fund the support they need to further their research agendas Read more

From the electroacoustic composer's lecture, "DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments" Read more

Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more

Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more

What a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps that addresses civic needs entailed! Read more

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) hosted a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps Read more

A March lecture on his art exhibition, now at YBCA Read more

From their probing talk, "A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat," a part of the ATC series here at BCNM Read more

We recap this wonderful discussion, "Reality Environments," hosted at the David Brower Center Read more

View the recording of this ATC lecture, "Reality Environments" Read more

We review the electroacoustic artist's riveting talk on instumentation for those hard of hearing Read more

from the UCSB professor's talk, "Against the Cultural Singularity" Read more

from his lecture, "Gamic Orientalism" Read more

by renowned Thai artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija Read more

The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Part of the ATC Lecture series Read more

A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

From her ATC lecture, "What Is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Art Degrees?" Read more

A recording of the community organizer's lecture, "Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial" Read more

From her lecture, "Creative Interventions and Social Activation" Read more

The recording of this highly anticipated lecture by the great architect Maya Lin Read more

A wonderful lecture on community and dialogue, available right here. Read more

Eric Paulos' CS160: User Interface Design Course was presented the challenge and opportunity of creating app which incorporate both smartphones and the Toq Smartwatc Read more

Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement Read more

Missed out on this standing-room only lecture “Cold War Multimedia: The Democratic Surround”? Catch it here. Read more

We recap this ATC lecture on planning for urban housing by community organizer Rick Lowe Read more

At “Creative Interventions and Social Activation” on November 3rd, Cheryl Haines discussed her collaboration with the artist and activist Ai Weiwei  Read more

Explore the behind the scenes of Ai Weiwei's stellar new exhibition on Alcatraz Island with curator Cheryl Haines on November 3rd Read more

A lecture by the community artist and muralist earlier this month Read more

We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more

Thoughts on life's purpose, monotheism, and working with the Grateful Dead -- all in one video, here Read more

We highlight a past lecture by Grateful Dead songwriter, on moving from monotheism to pantheism Read more

Adam Hutz (Rhetoric) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what he's done so far! Read more

Andrea Horbinski was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what she's done so far! Read more

The Robot Film Festival is "an annual celebration of robots on screen and in performance" Read more

Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more

The New Media Working Group visited the Exploratorium last Tuesday, May 6th for a tour of new media exhibits and discussion of the production of new media works Read more

On Saturday, March 29th the Berkeley Center for New Media collaborated with Impossible.com to bring to the Bay Area the Impossible Hackathon Read more

A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more

The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” Read more

Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more

A contribution by Katherine Chandler on Alexander Galloway's recent HTNM talk Read more

The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more

This past Saturday, the Turing Test Tournament Team at the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the Create Your Chatbot Hackathon Read more

Professor Nakamura took a closer look at archival documents left from the largely invisbilized history of a corporation that employed thousands of Navajo women from the '60s to '70s Read more

Zhang Ga concluded this semester’s Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium with “From Timelapse to Timecollapse: Rethinking New Media Art and Platform China” Read more

On her talk, "Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism” Read more

Creating Minds is now online! Watch the wonderful talks today! Read more

For those unable to attend the ATC lecture on Monday, October 14th, we've brought you a brief recap of the highlights! Read more

Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more

Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more

How do you build an monument scale sculptural machine that will last as long as civilization? Read more

By Scott Summit, designer and founder of Bespoke Innovations Read more

Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more