A new article from alum Renée Pastel in The Velvet Light Trap. Read more

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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more

Hannah Zeavin has a new article on the telepath and psychoanalysis in Tank. Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this April! Read more

Examining Sociocultural Issues through TikTok with Meg Everett Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng is the PI on this beautiful new digital humanities project. Read more

Hannah discussed Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Read more

Hannah Zeavin talks about her book The Distance Cure on Al Jazeera's The Stream. Read more

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

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more

Hannah Zeavin was invited as a guest in KQED's forum on the prevalence of therapy apps. Read more

Molly Fischer discusses therapy apps and talks to Hannah Zeavin, author of "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy," for The Cut. Read more

Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

McGonigal's smartphone app SuperBetter was recently featured on Vox. Read more

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

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

John Scott contributed to two discussions at the 68th Annual LRA Conference. Read more

This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Read more

Jane McGonigal developed a toolkit to help keep many large Silicon Valley tech companies, as well as start-ups, keep their priorities and ethics in check. Read more

The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more

Andrew Atwood received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to create interactive app designs as a way to engage and attract new audiences to architecture Read more

Goldberg gave an address at the plenary session on August 30, entitled "Multiplicity: What Robots and AI Can Teach Us about Being Human" Read more

Check out photos of amazing student work! Read more

We recap a wonderful lunch with the first woman to graduate from the Rochester Institite of Technology as a product designer Read more

from his HTNM lecture, "System Addicts," earlier this April Read more

Projects approached UI design from many angles and different purposes 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

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

From her lecture, "Design for All: Inclusivity By Design". With Student porject demos 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

BCNM turned ten! Read more

Written by Anna Carey, event co-organizer Read more

This was a great opportunity to build community and emphasize the close collaboration that the Berkeley Center for New Media prizes 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

We revisit UCD Professor Elizabeth Freeman's lecture, "Sex in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gerard & Kelly's Kisses" 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

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

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

Kimiko Ryokai's NWMEDIA/INFO C262: Tangible User Interfaces created new products aimed at shifting the way we interact with technology Read more

We partnered with Authors Alliance for an exciting workshop! Read about what happened, here. Read more

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

Megan Hoetger (TDPS) revisits Fred Turner’s recent History and Theory of New Media Lecture 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

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

UCSB's Film and Media Studies Associate Professor sat down with us earlier this month. Read highlights here. Read more

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

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

To welcome students and faculty to campus, the Center for New Media hosted an exciting open house Read more

The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more

BCNM was excited to offer NWMEDIA 198 this semester, a decal associated with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society's (CITRIS) Mobile Apps Challenge 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

Our graduating students have all contributed so much to the intellectual life of BCNM and we will miss how they have challenged and inspired us Read more

BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. 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

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

BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January 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

An eye-opening lecture last Thursday evening, November 7th, from Professor Lisa Parks marked the third installment of our 2013-2014 series Read more

Creating Minds, an academic conference on reading and writing in the digital age had over 300 attendees throughout the day's talks and panels! Read more

Check out photos here! Read more

Students had the opportunity to learn first hand from Bruce Wilcox how to create chatscripts 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

AirQuest’s objective is to make scientific data playable and accessible to all. Read more