Ken Goldberg delivered a presentation at this year's EmTech Digital at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Read more

We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. 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

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

Amateurism Across the Arts, a symposium co-sponsored by BCNM, drew a crowd of 70 community members who explore DIY artistic production. Read more

A Berkeley Center for New Media GSI has received an the "Outstanding GSI Award" from the GSI Teaching and Resource Center. Read more

Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year!  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

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

Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more

Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci robot's surgical potential was featured in Wired. Read more

The BAMPFA will be hosting a talk with Jacob Gaboury, as part of their Berkeley Art + Design programming.  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

Architecture professor Ines Weizman spoke at length about the life and legacy of Adolf Loos, delving into the work he left behind and how debates over ownership persist to this day. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun were Keynote Speakers at Ways of Knowing Cities Conference by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia.

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Paglen is one of the featured artists at ARCOmadrid 2018, a contemporary art gallery series. 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

If you couldn't make it out to the Humanizing Deportation conference back in December, there is now a video of the talk available on Youtube for public consumption. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen spoke KW Institute for Contemporary Art, in conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen, for mono.klub, the analog to mono.kultur magazine.  Read more

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

Goldberg was featured in "Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk about the Multiplicity" in Wired, on the rise of robot-human multiplicity. Read more

Stuart Geiger presented on Wikipedia algorithms at UCLA's All Things in Moderation Conference 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

Each year, the BCNM selects four graduate student projects that we believe will both interest and prove engaging to undergraduates. Undergraduates apply to be a research fellow and once selected, they have the opportunity to work on high-level research in concert with our graduates, who mentor them on research methods. 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

BCNM Alumnus Trevor Paglen was selected to attend the 48th Annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.  Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng featured in "The invisible musician: carillonists at Michigan," by Sam Lu in The Michigan Daily.  Read more

Alum Kris Paulsen has received the prestigious Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Read more

Ken Goldberg will be asking "Are Collaborative Cloud Robotics a Threat...or an Opportunity?" at IF GeekPark in Beijing on January 20, 2018. Read more

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed by Leondardo Reviews. Read more

BCNM's Ken Goldberg was quoted in Wired on robotic help in the home.  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

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

From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus.  Read more

BCNM alum Tiffany Ng has added affiliate faculty in Digital Studies to her profile. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik and alum Reginold Royston presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2017. Read more

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

Ed Campion, Department of Music chair, comments on the university Carillon and the Music Department's support. 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

Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg has been published in the June 2017 issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. Read more

Yairamaren Roman Maldonado reflects on her experience at the Imagining America conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more

Michelle Carney, Michelle Chen, Connor Hunihan, Daphne Jong and Ching-yi Lin won CitizenAR hackathon with an application for the Tenderloin community to interact and connect through an AR game design. Read more

Paulos and Goldberg are two of the many participating artists that will be featured at the "Illegal" exhibition special event at the Luggage Store Gallery. Read more

BCNM ExComm member Sonia Katyal discusses the dynamic between technology and culture in her article, "Technoheritage," which was published in the California Law Review.  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 ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed in Archives & Manuscripts!  Read more

Bonnie Ruberg, BCNM alum, was a panelist at the Gaming Representation Symposium at Smith College to talk about her contributions to a new book.  Read more

We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual writes about her Digital Humanities course on e-literature, which she developed as a DH Fellow. Read more

Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

Alum Kate Mattingly reviews Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955 to 1972. Read more

Ken Goldberg speaks on the new wave in robot grasping at the Collaborative Robots and Advanced Vision Conference November 16th, 2017. Read more

Lashon Daley is a PhD scholar in performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley and spoke at  Litquake 2017 in San Francisco. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual from UC Berkeley and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen received a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study grant. Read more

Check out our recommended Cal New Media courses being offered Spring 2018! Read more

Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities.  Read more

Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more

Ron Rael will be presenting "Borderwall as architecture" at Uncharted at 11:30 on the 27th! Read more

Nicholas de Monchaux, an associate professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley, commented on Elon Musk's dream for an underground highway in Los Angeles. Read more

Stuart Geiger gave a presentation in regarding autoethnographic methods for studying data-driven knowledge production in Boston, Massachusetts. 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

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at JupyterCon this past August, offering a deeper understanding on how to use Jupyter in diverse ways and insights on the changing rituals around computation.  Read more

Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more

UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg is featured in a NYT article regarding his lab's phenomenal robotic work. Read more

BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux will be speaking at Ohio State University as part of its fall lecture series.  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

BCNM co-founder Ken Goldberg co-authored 3 research papers that will be presented at the first annual Conference of Robotic Learning. Read more

Human improviser meets machine improviser. Ritwik Banerji's Maxine improvises with Ken Ueno. Read more

The CITRIS Deputy Director addresses the growing prominence of the gender gap in tech Read more

This year's UC Berkeley Librarian Association conference turns its eyes to the digital humanities field 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

Next Thursday evening, Rael will speak on a panel among academics, authors, and artists to discuss art and activism 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

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

Prof. Goldberg commented on the growing trend of emphasizing coding skills in young children's classrooms. 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

Transformative Works and Cultures, a journal of fan scholarship, wants your submissions on fan communities of color! Read more

The Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute joins the SimCenter, an organization for research on natural hazards. 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

Forbes draws from an article Professor Goldberg published earlier last month. Read more

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

Arts + Design Associate Vice Chancellor Shannon Jackson discusses the program's track record this past academic year. Read more

Goldberg recently published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on growing human-robotic partnerships. Read more

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

Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more

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

Molly Nicholas reflects on her experience at CHI 2017 in Denver. Read more

An opportunity to accompany Professor Asma Kazmi on a paid two-week research and production trip to Jeddah, Medina, and Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia in August 2017. Read more

Shannon Jackson, professor at BCNM, moderated "Envisioning Equity in the Arts" a discussion at the Oakland Book Festival. Read more

Ken Goldberg featured in "Cloud Robotics Promises to Simplify Machine Tending" in Robotics Business Review Read more

Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS.  Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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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

Alum Tiffany Ng is fundraising for minority students to have the opportunity to learn the carillon Read more

Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more

Ken Goldberg was featured on NPR discussing robots and our automated future Read more

BCNM was well represented at CHI 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Read more

Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more

Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux on being named a Bakar Faculty Fellow and recipient of the Spark Fund Award for 2017-2018! Read more

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

Will Payne presented his research at the American Association of Geographers this April in Boston, MA. Read more

Ashley Hunt discussed the visibility of prisons as part of our Commons Conversations series Read more

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

Ed Campion (Music) received $5,000 to build a sound habitat with Ron Rael (Architecture) as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

Nicholas de Monchaux presented a lecture at the Eikones National Center of Competence in Research as part of the “Planning, Contingency and the Image of the Modern City” series. Read more

Goldberg was featured in an article by MIT's Technology Review on robot learning and human tele-operation of machines. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies held its 2017 Conference at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park 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

Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more

Juliana Friend and Laura K Nelson will lead the talk Digital Technologies and the Future of Qualitative and Interpretive Analysis. Read more

An amazing talk by Kavita Philip 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

This past Fall, we were pleased to offer several grants to help support our students in sharing their research at the premiere conferences in their field Read more

Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more

Don't miss out on this great discussion between Geoff Manaugh and Nicholas de Monchaux on Urban Data Operations at the Storefront for Art & Architecture this January 18 from 7-9pm! 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

The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more

Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more

We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more

Drawing Futures 2016 is a conference on "Speculations on Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture" taking place at the Bartlett School of Architecture Read more

A guide written by Bonnie Ruberg, a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at USC Read more

Held on October 24th and 25th in the Palais d'Egmont of Brussels, Belgium Read more

The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more

Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! Read more

The series hosts Irene Chien, BCNM alumna, to speak on moving through South Asian cities both within video games  Read more

In the East Bay Express's monthly discussion, artists gather in Bay Area living rooms to discuss new media. Read more

BCNM's de Monchaux will attend the 13th International Bauhaus Colloquium, which will be held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany Read more

The third and final installment of Henry Jenkins' interview series with BCNM professor Gail de Kosnik has now been published Read more

Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more

Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more

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

At the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association's Urban Center in San Francisco Read more

BCNM undergrad Jingyi Li and a friend built a data scraper for the fan-content archive, Archive of Our Own Read more

A trove of visual culture preserved by the archive, with live accompaniment by Pixies guitarist Paz Lenchantin. Read more

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

Niemeyer taught at the Digital Art History Summer School in Malaga, Spain from September 4th to 9th 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

These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 Read more

Horbinski researched at the Harvard Yenching Library on Japanese Manga Read more

de Monchaux will speak as a part of the Architecture school's "Get Lectured" series Read more

Gipson received a summer research award from the BCNM to support her dissertation research by attending the Popular Culture Summer Research Workshop Read more

Alumna Bonnie Ruberg had her article 'Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography' published in a special issue  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 Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more

The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more

Greg Niemeyer will create radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more

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

The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more

Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more

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

Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more

Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more

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

BCNM was thrilled to be so widely represented at the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia Read more

BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more

BCNM's De Kosnik has received a Berkeley Collegium grant for her joint graduate/undergraduate class, "Making Sense of Cultural Data" Read more

Ashley has been extensively engaged in areas of research that touch upon 3D imaging, art history, art practice, and archaeology 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

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

BCNM faculty were featured in a recent New York Times piece on monitoring and data security in the UC system Read more

BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more

On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more

We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more

with Benjamin Bratton 

a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) Read more

Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more

with Claus Pias

Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

Featuring Kristen Whissel (UC Berkeley), Andrew Utterson (Ithaca College), Jordan Schonig (University of Chicago) Read more

The CITRIS Invention Lab is practically the home of contemporary innovation at Berkeley Read more

ArtReach is a non-profit mobile arts organization that is reframing the artist residency Read more

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

We are now accepting proposals for New Media courses that can be taught in the summer session of 2016 from our graduate students and faculty! Read more

Both courses will offer hands-on practice and satisfy the new media Designated Emphasis technology-focused requirement 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

Radio Heart is an excerpt from her larger full-length collection Love, Robot currently under review Read more

Projects approached UI design from many angles and different purposes 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

She discusses how the Joe Goode Performance Group is developing the piece "Poetics of Space", which is slated to open this September Read more

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

 faculty member in rhetoric as well as theater, dance and performance studies (TDPS), Shannon Jackson currently directs the campus’s Arts Research Center 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

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

BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more

Bonnie will be teaching and conducting research under the guidance of game industry veterans Read more

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

Prof. De Kosnik has shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting graduate students Read more

Over the course of the day, participants created new articles and enhanced existing entries relating to women and art Read more

She is Visiting Instructor of Music History at St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley 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

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

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

The special issue, entitled "Hacking the Black/White Binary," features a unique section called "Feminist Hacks" Read more

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

On Thursday, December 11th, the Berkeley Center for New Media, in partnership with.. 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

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

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

The Jacob's Institute for Design Innovation is offering this great class for undergraduate students! Information here. 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

Xavier Lucchesi’s art takes the traditions of the nude, the portrait, and the still life into the digital age 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

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

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

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

Fellow BCNM DE Margaret Rhee interviewed Ashley for her HASTAC blog, and you can read their wonderful and illuminating conversation here Read more

Joseph is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric Read more

This piece grows from Naomi's past teaching at Youth Uprising community center in East Oakland Read more

This Friday, she will facilitating a kimchi poetry activity along with performance artist Erin O'Brien Read more

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

“I think everyone enjoys a nice murder, provided he is not the victim.” ~Alfred Hitchcock Read more

In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

BCNM former Director and Executive Committee member David Bates details how computers shape our minds in this article in Le Monde! 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

Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! Each student will receive $1,000 of summer assistance to support their research initiatives. Read more

This summer, BCNM DE Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching New Media 150 AC – “Playing Race: Investigating American Racial Identities through Video Games,” which will fulfill the American Cultures requirement Read more

Carla Diana, panelist in BCNM's upcoming Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, published "The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends" in the Atlantic 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

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

We're thrilled to see Futures of the Book partner, the Books in Browsers conference, share their conference proceedings Read more

Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting a WikiWomen's edit-a-thon to encourage The more women to edit Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia’s coverage of women's history 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

Bellouin's music is otherworldly, haunting, and as unique as the instrument that created it 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

The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! 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

Applications Due: February 1, 2014 Read more

Every month, BCNM and OTSP recognize a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score Read more

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

A Response to Eyal Weizman’s “Forensic Architecture” by Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric and Designated Emphasis in New Media) 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

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

Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric) responds to the most recent History & Theory of New Media Lecture 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

Crittenden recently published a blog post entitled "Public Open Data: the Good, the Bad, the Future" Read more

The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media with support from CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Read more

We are excited to announce the launch of a new online chat game for UC Berkeley's incoming class of 2013, the Turing Test Tournament. Read more

Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students Read more

The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answer Read more

Congratulations to all! Read more

UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more

We are delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs! Read more

Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 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

An account of a screening of the film "Robot and Frank," by Charlotte Capaldo Read more

For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” Read more

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

*Update: online registration is now full, however please feel free to register for the wait list Read more

Summer Stipend of $5,000
Applications Due: February 11, 2013
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Hsin-Hsien Chiu, Ph.D. candidate in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more

Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more

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

Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more

Congratulations to the following students! Read more

This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more

We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more

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

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

Currently, Powers of Ten will be showing at SFMOMA Six Lines of Flight on Sept. 15-Dec. 30, 2012
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Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more

Applications due February 6, 2012 Read more

We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more

Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more

The Tomato Quintet at Machine Project, Los Angeles, involved five pods filled with Tomatoes Read more

Dor Abrahamson, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Education Cognition and Development: Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology, UC Berkeley Read more

Are We There Yet?, A Responsive Sound Installation, Ken Goldberg & Gil Gershoni, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Read more