Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
with Gillian Rose
Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media StudiesRead more
08 Nov, 2021
Commons Conversations
Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine
with Liat Berdugo
Artist and Writer, Associate Professor, The University of San Francisco Read more
16 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations
ONLINE: Expanded Internet Art
with Ceci Moss, curator, writer, education, LA
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*Read more
21 Oct, 2019
Commons Conversations
On the Fringe of Minitel: Alternative Uses of a State-Sponsored Communications Network A Participatory Masterclass
with Julien Mailland
Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Indiana University Media School Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Special Events
DataEDGE 2019
The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
The Software Arts
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more
17 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui
Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack with support from the Townsend Centerand the Dean of Arts and HumanitiesRead more
13 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington Read more
Speakers from across UC Berkeley departments on social media and journalism. Read the distinguished roster in full here. Read more
09 Apr, 2024
Sacramento Paradox with Greg Niemeyer
Greg Niemeyer, Some Information Cannot Be Displayed, Digital print in etched glass frame, 2024.Read more
20 Dec, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual on L&S in the Age of AI
Alex spoke about AI and Research Innovation Across Disciplines! 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
14 Nov, 2022
AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M
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24 Jun, 2022
Liat Berdugo Transcript Now Online
Revisit this great event with Liat Berdugo on "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine." 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
07 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo
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19 Jun, 2021
BCNM Around the Web June
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
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
15 Mar, 2021
BCNM Around the Web March 2021
Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more
22 Dec, 2020
Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot
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30 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more
19 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities
Alex Saum-Pascual's essay is featured in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries
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06 Oct, 2020
Monocle Interviews Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Monocle! Read more
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
16 Apr, 2020
BCNM Around the Web April 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! 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 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
30 Oct, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Julien Mailland
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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
28 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg in Bloomberg Review
Goldberg was quoted in an article on the development of robotic stunts performed at Disney theme parks. Read more
03 Jan, 2019
BCNM at CSCW 2018
The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Richard Koci Hernandez Named Bloomberg Chair
Richard Koci Hernandez, an award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia, has been named the Bloomberg Chair at the Graduate School of Journalism. Read more
16 Mar, 2018
HTNM Revisited: "Software Arts" with Warren Sacks
Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year! Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Bloomberg on Anthropomorphized AI
Goldberg gives his opinion on Mark Sagar's creation "BabyX", a robotic baby that is terrifyingly lifelike. Read more
03 Oct, 2017
BCNM 2016-2017 Publications
Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more
26 Sep, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux at Ohio State University Oct 18
BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux will be speaking at Ohio State University as part of its fall lecture series. Read more
01 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
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
Greg Niemeyer Publishes Alternate Reality Games with Antero Garcia
Alternate Reality Games at the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is a volume of scholarship on the state of alternate reality gaming. Read more
12 Dec, 2016
Ken Goldberg at the 17th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Patent Law Conference
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10 Oct, 2016
Ken Goldberg on A Century of Art & Technology in the Bay Area
Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season
his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more
17 May, 2016
Motherhood and Raspberry Pi: Challenges for Mothers in Technology
The lack of gender diversity in technology fields has become a hot topic of late, for good reason Read more
BCNM Ken Goldberg at Cal Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERs)
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17 Nov, 2015
Meet Ashley Ferro-Murray
Ashley Ferro-Murray was three when she took her first ballet lesson — she hasn’t stopped dancing since, no matter the obstacle she’s faced. Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Earthquakes on your mind? Check out Ken Goldberg’s artwork, Bloom.
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09 Jan, 2014
New Media Exhibit Developer: Interactive Data Visualizations
The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more
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