Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more

Mercedes Bunz, researcher in the fields of digital culture, and the photographer Joan Fontcuberta spoke with BCNM faculty member Alex Saum-Pascual about artificial intelligence and artistic creation. Read more

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 semester's Fellows. Read more

Roboticist and artist Ken Goldberg takes the temperature of the current AI moment. Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Fall 2023! Read more

Ken Goldberg partners with The House Fund, potential $115M to prospective Berkeley AI startups! 

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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented their paper on ""Encoding Urban Ecologies: Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling" at ACADIA.

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Alexis Wood (Department of Geography & BCNM DE) presented her paper, “Erosion As Method(ology): Theorizing and Mapping Structures of Feeling” at the at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Conference. Read more

Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more

We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses.  Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen features in new video published by cheddar news.  Read more

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

Ken Goldberg co-authors a perspective essay on artificial intelligence and medical robotics for Science AI. Read more

Celeste Kidd and co-author Abeba Birhane have a new article in Science on how models can convey biases and false information to users! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

Trees, Time, and Technology: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology Read more

Check out this new article from Ken Goldberg! Read more

The exhibition runs from 04/21/2023 to 05/12/2023! Read more

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society awarded alum danah boyd its prestigious Morrison Prize and lecture. Read more

Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn talks to alum and artist Trevor Paglen about mass surveillance. Read more

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

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

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

Sonia K Katyal receives Dukeminier award for her recent writing on gender, sexuality and AI alongside undergraduate Berkeley student Jessica Y Jung.  Read more

Blockchain Chicken Farm has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2023 $10,000 science and literature awards! Read more

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

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

Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more

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

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

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more

Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023!  Read more

Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more

Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Where did the One Laptop Per Child project go wrong? Morgan Ames gives some answers. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022!  Read more

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

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!

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Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more

Hannah's book 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' is featured in Continuum Innovation. Read more

Ken Goldberg discusses artificial intelligence in relation to the classic film, The Golem. Read more

"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

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

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

Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more

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

BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen features on the 186th episode of The Quarantine Tapes. Read more

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

Yaara Bou Melham documentary Unseen Skies spotlights the work of alum Trevor Paglen. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! Read more

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

Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more

Trevor Paglen was recently featured in a Forbes article about his art dedicated to exposing the "biogtry of AI". Read more

Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! Read more

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

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

Jeffrey Ichnowski, Yahav Avigal, Vishal Satish, and Ken Goldberg published an important paper that could help companies create safer work environments. Read more

Xiaowei Wang was recently interviewed by Rest of World on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm. Read more

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

Janaki Vivrekar was recently interviewed by the Life in Quarantine Project on her Quarantined AI work. Read more

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

Pablo Paredes' autonomous vehicle technologies were recently featured in Time. Read more

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

AI4Afrika's goal is to make AI more inclusive and aware of Afrikan perspectives. Read more

The show runs from Sep 4, 2020–Mar 14, 2021. Read more

Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more

A new podcast on why alum Trevor Paglen is doing everything he can to warn humanity about artificial intelligence. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! 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

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

Ken Goldberg was recently featured in VentureBeat for his work with UC Berkeley's AUTOLAB in developing a polyculture garden. Read more

Trevor Paglen was recently featured for his work in a New York Times article on the connection between art and artificial intelligence. Read more

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

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more

Trevor Paglen contributed to the February 2019 issue of Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg's robotic art project, "AlphaGarden Collective," is currently featured in The Question of Intelligence exhbition. Read more

Celeste Kidd receives John Templeton Grant which is awarded to the development of curiosity in childhood.  Read more

Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on  Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life Read more

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

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

Monocle Weekly published an interview with alum Trevor Paglen on our artificial intelligence systems. Read more

Jacob Gaboury spoke at the Fondazione Prada Exhibition, Training Humans, by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets Read more

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

BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! 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

Ambidextrous Robotics builds on DexNet, the patent-pending Dexterity Network developed by Goldberg and Mahler. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford for the Fondazione Prada exhibition, running from 12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020. Read more

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

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

Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more

BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference!  Read more

Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more

Ken spoke to Michael Jordan on Artificial Intelligence: Minds, Economies and Systems that Learn. Read more

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

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

Goldberg presented at the 2019 The Financial Times Digital Surgery Summit. Read more

Ken Goldberg will be co-hosting a talk with UC Berkeley's Michael Jordan at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics & AI. Read more

Katyal examines the civil rights in our algorithm future. Read more

The UCLA Law Review published Sonia Katyal's paper on accountability and artificial intelligence. Read more

Rich Blakes talks to Ken Goldberg about the Brookings Institute Report on how automation will impact various employment sectors. Read more

Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more

Goldberg is featured on the NewRetirement podcast in a brand new episode title, "AI, Automation and the Future of Work" Read more

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

Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more

Alum Stuart Geiger, ethnographer of computation and computational ethnographer; research staff at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, gave a talk on the human aspects of data science research. Read more

Daniel Seita, Jeff Mahler, Mike Danielczuk, Matthew Matl, and Ken Goldberg shared their research on depth sensing in Drilling Down on Depth Sensing and Deep Learning. Read more

Frieze included a review on the latest gallery that Trevor Gallery contributed to at the MAXXI Gallery, Rome. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg was featured as a robotics expert in a debate which examined the future of collaborative robots and the transformation of future work environments.  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

In an exploration of the art movement pushed forward by AI, Trevor Paglen's work is analyzed in Art Net. Read more

Ken Goldberg talks about mutually beneficial partnerships between AI and humans in an interview for MIT Sloan Management Review's Fall 2018 issue.  Read more

Cronkite News highlights the work by the D-Lab on the Online Hate Index.  Read more

The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

The Collaborative Robotics, Advanced Vision, and Artificial Intelligence conference will be held October 24-25 in Santa Clara, CA. Read more

Trevor discussed his long-standing interests in AI, invisible networks, and government surveillance with Artnet News. Read more

This year's Art+Tech festival was themed #ARTOBOTS and featured Ken Goldberg as a speaker! Read more

Join Ken Goldberg on June 27th for a screening of Operator, followed by a discussion on the technologies presented in the film. Read more

The University of California, San Diego invited alum Stuart Geiger to present a talk on his research. Read more

Congratulations to these four stellar women, who have made a big impact at Cal in the New Media space. Read more

Stuart Geiger spoke at the University of Manchester's Data Science Institute on The Human Contexts of Data: Infrastructures, Institutions, and Interpretations. Read more

Ken Goldberg gave a lounge lecture, "Beyond the Uncanny Valley of Dolls," at the Hearst Museum. Read more

Trevor Paglen's work featured at exhibit at Frankfurter Kunstverein.  Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen to speak at Cleveland Museum of Art Read more

Geiger spoke on Computational Ethnography as part of U of M iSchool's speaker series.  Read more

Prof. David Bates is presenting "Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence” for the STS Program’s Annual Straker lecture. The lecture will occur on Tuesday, March 6th at 5 PM in Swing 122. Read more

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

Trevor Paglen will be speaking at this year's Webstock conference in New Zealand. Read more

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

BCNM alum and artist Trevor Paglen and his art were featured on an article on art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian.  Read more

Ken Goldberg collaborated with 16 other Berkeley researchers in composing a paper on their perspectives of systems challenges for AI. Read more

Ken Goldberg is quoted by CBS Local in discussing the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. Read more

Ken Goldberg is quoted in a Daily Cal article about RoBhat Labs and their latest Google Chrome extension release, Botcheck.me. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team published on BAIR about DART: Noise Injection for Robust Imitation Learning. Read more

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

BAIR has published an article of updates to Ken Goldberg's project in Surgical Robotics. Read more

Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November.  Read more

BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg was a special guest on the podcast, "Expanding Minds," where he talked about robot multiplicity and various other topics. Read more

Ken Goldberg and the Automation Lab make an appearance on RTVE's "El cazador de crebros," or "The Brain Hunter," to talk about artificial intelligence. Read more

From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more

Ken Goldberg led a conversation on a benign robot future in which robots work together with humans at "What's Now: San Francisco" at the Applied Innovation Exchange. Read more

David Bates headed to Paris to participate in a two-day seminar project on AI and "black boxes". Read more

Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. Read more

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

Berkeley Center for Law and Technology's (BCLT) 6th annual Privacy Law Forum featured BCNM's Ken Goldberg as a Keynote speaker. Read more

Ken Goldberg's letter to the editor was published in the New York Times on the supposed perils of AI  Read more

Bates’ discourse drew from the post-WWII linking of human thought processes with that of artificial intelligence 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 Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more

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

Every month, BCNM recognizes a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score and awards the designated UC Berkeley student organization with a $1000 prize Read more

We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more

For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more