Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media.  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

A butterfly flaps its wings. The air ripples, and time flows. Months later, a typhoon starts brewing above the ocean. Read more

What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more

We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more

Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more

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

William Morgan traveled to Brussels to present a paper at the Intersetions of Finance and Society Conference. Read more

This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more

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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Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more

Elnaz received a summer research grant to work on an augmented reality project. Read more

Weiying Li received a BCNM 2023 summer research award. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Kelsey Choe, Em Erce, and Anna Ma.  Read more

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

Professor Eric Paulos has been appointed as the new Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation (effective 1 July 2023).  Read more

Jacob Gaboury has published a review of  Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway Read more

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

The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal thinking. Read more

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

Applications are due November 1, 2023. 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

This public humanities project proposes to create a space where women can access creative writing and healing techniques as critical tools to address their experiences with different daily social problems on the island of Puerto Rico.  Read more

Clancy Wilmott has released a new research article titled "Critical computation on a geographical register." Read more

Katherine presented "Lotio: Lotion-Mediated Interaction with an Electronic Skin-Worn Display" and "Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy Storage." Read more

Artists Trevor Paglen, Khyati Trehan, and Sebastian Errazuris discuss the metaverse, NFTs, A.I., and what it all means for the art world and debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work. Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! 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

Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more

April Riddle reviews Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects in Media-N! Read more

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

Ken Goldberg joins host Mark Pesce to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Read more

With Brian Michael Murphy, alum Kris Paulsen co-edits a special issue of Media N on Afterlives of Data. 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

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more

Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more

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

Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more

This new curated Instagram account focuses on depictions of Black girls and women in the media. Read more

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

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

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

McCourt Institute's “Web3 &” series continues, taking a specific look at digital democracy. The second event in the series will address the state of digital democracy in our current and future web paradigms, featuring alum Jen Schradie. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Victor Tze and Winnona Li! Read more

The smartest person in the Marvel universe, how ‘Black Panther’ – and its sequel – changed Hollywood, and why representation in pop culture matters 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

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood spoke about Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures at NACIS 2022. Read more

Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more

Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022.  Read more

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

Our alum Christine presents Project Primrose: Reflective Light-Diffuser Modules for Non-Emissive Flexible Display Systems. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more

The Hellman Fellows Fund supports promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Read more

Hannah Zeavin was featured in the event on September 29, 2022. Read more

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

Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more

A great new course being offered by Emma Fraser this Spring 2023! Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media builds more just and equitable futures. Read more

As educators and researchers at UC Berkeley Center for New Media we stand in solidarity with Iranian women who are demanding their basic human rights. Read more

Read about Amanda's preparation for a Spring 2023 exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle’s Asian Pacific American history museum. Read more

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

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more

Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more

Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more

This interview with alum Michelle Carney is part of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE)’s “I am the future of AI.” Read more

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

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

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

She features on Gwyneth Paltrow's podcast The Goop. Read more

Listen to the TED interviews podcast of alum Jane McGonigal sharing how to predict the future. Read more

Revisit this great event with Adam and Zack Khalil on "Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures.” Read more

Paul Darvasi interviews alum Jane McGonigal on "Harnessing the power of future-forecasting to help invent a better world." Read more

Dr. Grace Gipson speaks on Black gamers as part of Temple University's series on Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism. Read more

As part of her Fellowship, Gail is giving a lecture on July 11th! Watch it online! Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal features on Steve Levitt's popular podcast. Read more

Haripriya shared her research at the Environmental Design Research Association Health in Design conference. Read more

Twitter was on fire after #theslap incident and alum Grace Gipson analyzes some of what's going on. Read more

Haripriya presented her research at the The Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more

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

BCNMers Molly Nicholas, Sarah Sterman, and Eric Paulos received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more

Antonia Violante is in conversation with Jane McGonigal on Behavioral Scientist.  Read more

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

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

Rainn and Reza sit down with futurist Jane McGonigal to ponder, "How Can You Tell The Future?"  Read more

As every day we hear new reports of laws limiting LGBTQ+ rights, UC Berkeley professors weigh in on the current experience of our LGBTQ+ community. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal shares five key insights from her new book, Imaginable. Read more

Bonnie Ruberg's The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games is reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly. Read more

BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse."  Read more

In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Read more

Jane McGonigal is featured in this VOX interview with Sigal Samuel. Read more

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

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Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome. Read more

Jane McGonigal was interviewed on The Tim Ferriss Show on discussing how to become the expert of your own future and cultivate optimism. Read more

Jane McGonigal published the article "The Urgent Future Questionnaire" on Porchlight. Read more

The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal's “Imaginable” is reviewed in the Datebook. Read more

Emily Bobrow writes "Jane McGonigal Believes Games Can Change the World" for the WSJ. Read more

Dawn Chan reviews Jane McGonigal's IMAGINABLE: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything ― Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.
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Google Developer Studio celebrated global women in tech and trailblazers in honor of women's history month, featuring our own alum Michelle Carney! Read more

Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more

Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more

'Imaginable' is the most important book you’ll read this year! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more

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

Jane McGonigal's latest book Imaginable was reviewed by Shira Abramovich on Reboot.  Read more

Grace Gipson was featured in a conversation on the topic of Black Women and Theories of the Future! Read more

This semester, we were thrilled to support our students in digital storytelling. Read more

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

Kaitlin Forcier's High-Tech Orientalism and Science Fiction Futures in Astria Suparak’s "Virtually Asian" is featured in Media N on the issue of Art and the Technologies of Race. Read more

Congratulations to Clement Hil Goldberg's 'Let Me Let You Go' for receiving the Creative Capital Award which supports artists who are pushing boundaries and asking challenging questions! Read more

Jane McGonigal is unusually adept at anticipating events that most of us can't even fathom. In this eye-opening, actionable book, she teaches you how to widen your peripheral vision, extend your imagination farther into the future, and conceive of the inconceivable. Read more

Publisher's Weekly published a book review on Jane McGonigal's 'Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today'. Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media is now accepting applications for admission to the Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media and the Graduate Certificate in New Media programs. All applications for Spring 2022 admittance are due March 1, 2022. Read more

We're pleased to share the transcript of our Common Conversations event with founder of Stamen Design Eric Rodenbeck. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more

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

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

BCNM alum Grace Gipson was featured on a panel discussing women in media and entertainment at the University of Rochester. Read more

BCNM alum Grace Gipson gave a lecture about representations of the Black experience for the Freedom School 3.0 lecture series. Read more

BCNM D.E. and Geography PhD Xiaowei Wang's essay "Shadow Visions" was published in DING Magazine. Read more

Marketplace spoke with BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg about Ambi Robotics, which he co-founded.  Read more

Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces.  Read more

Check out the updated transcript and video for Cathy Thomas's “Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora”. Read more

Hannah Zeavin discusses INSERT in Future's Gaming, Social, Virtual Worlds Newsletter. Read more

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

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more

Lashon Daley shares how the support of the Peter Lyman felowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more

Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more

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

This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more

Grace Gipson chatted with the Chicago Humanities Festival on comics, characters, and authors! Check it out! 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

Pablo Paredes features on Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health's The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring. Read more

Watch Jane talk about futurist and mindful thinking with a Buddhist entrepreneur. Read more

It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021.  Read more

BCNM was thrilled to cosponsor this great event from the Center for Race and Gender, now viewable online! Read more

Janaki Vivrekar discusses the critical designs that make up our digital social media experiences in her new technical report. Read more

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

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

BCNM alum jazmin caldéron torres's collective, Lead to Life, premiered its newest ritual film, "between starshine & clay" in May! Read more

Grace Gipson recently discussed Black women's impact on the history and future of comic books during the Chicago Humanities Festival. Read more

Social media is overflowing with lifestyle Influencers categorized as self-care promoters. What are the political and ideoogical implications of self-care messaging and branding, particularly in the context of gendered and racialized discourses of femininity and (post)feminism? Read more

Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was recently featured in the All About Blockchain podcast, where she discussed the future social benefits of blockchain innovation.  Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke at IBM Think 2021, a conference focused on all things related to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Read more

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

Check out the updated transcript for the Fandom + Race Panel! Read more

Congratulations to our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate graduates! We are proud of their accomplishments and high level of scholarship here at Cal, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors.  Read more

Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies.  Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes published a study in the journal Chronic Stress on stress markers of depression and anxiety. Read more

Professor Abigail De Kosnik discusses the connection between media/ film studies and the current moment in the Townsend Center for the Humanities lecture series, (Re)making Sense: The Humanities and Pandemic Culture. Read more

BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series.  Read more

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal is instructing a Coursera course on handling life after Covid-19 through the Institute for the Future.  Read more

BCNM faculty member Celeste Kidd is a recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for her work on knowledge acquisition! Read more

UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ken Goldberg recently sat down to talk about the future of robotics through the University of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar Series.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang is being featured in artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen's online VR ecological art event, focused on the intersection between ecology, sustainability, and technologies.

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Jane McGonigal prepares us for post-pandemic life with her online Coursera course Life After COVID-19. Read more

Submit to an upcoming anthology that will imagine and explore futures for Richmond,VA through an Afrofuturist lens. Read more

This year, arm the next generation of innovators with the tools to build just and equitable technological futures through the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

danah boyd & Gail De Kosnik were featured in an article from the Pew Research Center and Elon University on Imagining the Internet, predicting how technology, climate change, and politics will effect a post-Covid-19 world. Read more

Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. Read more

Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more

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

BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more

Jen Schradie recently appeared on France 24 to discuss regulating Big Tech companies. 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

Xiaowei features in Guernica magazine with their piece "Future Fashions: The Pår". Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM graduates, jazmin calderón torres and Yairamen Roman Maldonado! Read more

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

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

Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project was recently featured by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Read more

Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project is now online! Read more

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

Bo Ruberg's podcast interview on PlayThink is now available!  Read more

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

Ken Goldberg worked on a global study with Tata Communications, looking at the potential impact of AI on human thinking. Read more

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

What will you do when the next “unthinkable” change happens? Play this game to find out. Read more

Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by Document Journal on "CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics." Read more

Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more

COVID-19 curtailed travel, but Chris Chan continued to develop relationships with artists in China and Taiwan.  Read more

Sam Illingworth reviewed alum Alenda's Chang latest book on ecology in video games. Read more

Media+Environment publishes its latest issue, with three new essays on reconciling art and science. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal has us ask ourselves three questions during the pandemic. Read more

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

Alum Jane McGonigal's work is featured for how to save the world with games. Read more

Betsy Brey reviews Bo Ruberg's book in "The Queer Games We Play." Read more

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

The visual intervention was published in the journal of Visual Communication and considers what the city could be by investigating the cities of today. Read more

Jane asks: Can the innovation of games prepare us for the future? Read more

A huge congratulations to our incredible team of assistants who are graduating this year! They have been essential to BCNM life and we'll miss them greatly! Read more

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

Bélgica del Rio, a Spring 2020 Conference Grant recipient, presented "The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body” at the American Indian and Indigenous Collective’s 6th Annual Symposium. Read more

Our BCNM alum Brooke Belisle co-edited the Journal of Visual Culture's issue on Virtual Reality: Immersion and Empathy. Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more

We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! 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

As the Coronavirus becomes more widespread she argues that we need to learn how to adapt quickly to global changes that will continue to disrupt our daily lives.  Read more

In the interview, Malika talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex, and ancestors as a black feminist. Read more

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

Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! 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

Trevor Paglen's video installation, "Circles," will be showcased in the upcoming "Art in the Age of Anxiety" exhibition. Read more

Belgian newspaper De Tiljd reviews Jane McGonigal's "Futures Thinking Specialization" classes on Coursera. Read more

Jane McGonigal was featured in futurist compendium After Shock. Read more

Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020.  Read more

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! Read more

Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more

Stuart Geiger talks about the "various trends in the lengths of published papers in ACM CSCW from 2000-2018" at CSCW 2019. Read more

Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

Rebecca Levitan, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, ran a workshop on Discussing Next Steps for Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects at annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more

Ken Goldberg attended the California Future of Work Commission's October 2019 meeting.  Read more

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

Alum Jane McGonigal is now on Coursera teaching us how to be futurist thinkers! Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg keynoted the UC Irvine Esports conference with a presentation on diversity and Esports. Read more

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

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

BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik published 'Piracy and the Future of Culture' in the journal Third Text. 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

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. 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 premier conferences in their field. Read more

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

Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.

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The article, co-authored with Richard Paquin Morel and Cynthia Coburn, was published in Educational Researcher. Read more

Jacob writes for the blog Still Searching on a history and theory of the computer screenshot. Read more

Alum Christo Sims published his essay in Zócalo Public Square. 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

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more

William presented "Calculative Reason and its Reproduction" at the 2019 Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) Conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. 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 for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more

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

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

William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more

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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

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

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

Jacob discussed the queer history of computing in the Jacob Institute's For Whom? By Whom? program. Read more

McGonigal will teach a course titled, "How to Think Like a Futurist: Improve Your Powers of Imagination, Invention, and Capacity for Change." Read more

The Creativity and Cognition Graduate Student Symposium provides a forum in which students have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. Read more

Gaboury was a featured speaker at A Symposium on Representation, Computation, and Experimental Scholarship this past March. Read more

BCNM alum Christo Sims presented at Media Design Practices' New…… Now! Thesis Symposium. Read more

Episode No. 381 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Trevor Paglen. Read more

Artist Trevor Paglen’s work featured on KPBS Read more

"It's About Power" by alum Jenni Higgs and Sepehr Vakil was published in the March 2019 volume of Communications of the ACM. 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

The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. Read more

The future of space suits and what it means for space exploration. Read more

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

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

Two more publications have reviewed alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Game Studies. 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

BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg will present at the 2019 Game Developers' Conference Read more

Ken Goldberg to attend Amazon's re:MARS Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

TechCrunch highlights a new suite of robots pushing current boundaries on agility. 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

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

Critical Making: Designing for Activism, featuring BCNM faculty Eric Paulos and Jill Miller as instructors, will be at the 10th International UBI Summer School in Oulu, Finland.  Read more

Malika Imhotep received a conference grant from the BCNM to help defray costs associated with attending African American Digital Humanities initiative conference. Read more

BCNM faculty Nicholas de Monchaux, Shannon Jackson and Ken Goldberg, along with DE student Malika Imhotep participated in San Francisco's Night of Ideas. Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more

Sonia Katyal is one of the technology experts who shared their thoughts and opinions on AI in the workforce at the Our People-Centered Digital Future conference. Read more

Ken Goldberg visited the Blum Center to speak on the future of work and on human and AI interaction. Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

Cal State Long Beach recently collaborated with Jane McGonigal on a project to gather feedback on how to develop the campus. 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

Forbes magazine featured Ken Goldberg and his work and study regarding the dependence of AI on human workers, and vice versa. Read more

BCNM Alum Reginold Royston presented at the 2018 African Studies Association Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and his group at Berkeley are currently research and testing the capcities of robots that can - possibly - clean a whole house. Read more

Andrew Atwood was featured in Issue 7 of Project Journal at Archinect Outpost. Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg published article on straight-washing in the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures. Read more

BCNM alum Christo Sims was published in a collection of short essays, Keywords for Ethnography and Design. Read more

Nicholas de Monchaux's Modem and Neyran Turan's Nemestudio were featured in 7x7's roundup of the amazing Bay Area Now exhibition! 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

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

Ken Goldberg weighs in on Autodesk's new Lego-building robot on Fast Company! Read more

The 2018 Conference for UNC Chapel Hill's Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program focused on Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurities. Read more

"Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. Read more

This invitation-only, small, roundtable discussion that lasts several days to encourage in-depth discussions of frontier research of leading scientists around the globe. Read more

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

Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more

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

Clement Hil Goldberg's Our Future Ends plays at Outfest Los Angeles this July 13, 2018! Read more

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg, was reviewed on Electronic Book Review. 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 was a speaker at ICRA 2018's workshop on advances in robotic warehouse automation.  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

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

Ken Goldberg attended the annual Executive Leadership Conference to discuss Can Robots Really Handle Consumer Packaged Goods?. 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

Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more

Selected from more than 600 proposals, Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan were two of 74 recipients of a Graham Foundation grant.  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

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

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

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

Professors Jeremy Rue and Richard Koci Hernandez were featured in an article in California Magazine on augmented reality. Read more

Read Trevor Paglen's article on Fedorov's Geographies of Time on e-Flux Read more

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

Ken Goldberg participated in arts 'laboratory' at NCCA, Moscow Read more

Paglen discusses his Orbital Reflector during "Speculative CubeSats" on the Center for Human Imagination's podcast.
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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

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

Graduate students are now invited to apply for Spring 2018 admission into the BCNM program. Read more

"A ‘Sanctuary City’ but who gets to live here?"
with Leslie Dreyer ACES Artist in Residence and BCNM Alum Read more

Ken Goldberg was featured on the podcast, The Next Ten Billion Seconds. Read more

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in First Person Scholar. Read more

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

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

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

Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. Read more

Sonia Katyal, a BCNM faculty member and law professor at Berkeley, publishes an article on why you should be suspicious of that study claiming A.I. can detect a person’s sexual orientation. Read more

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

BCNM alum Reginold Royston presented at the first day of the Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa conference. Read more

Eric Paulos is one of the researchers from the Hybrid Ecologies Lab at UC Berkeley working with Adobe on their new endeavors. Read more

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

Graduates are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM program.
Applications due November 1. Read more

Microsoft teaches gliders how to fly on their own; Prof. Goldberg brings insight to this NYT article Read more

Hil Goldberg's "Our Future Ends" will be showcased at the established experimental performance space in San Francisco. Read more

Don't miss out on this opportunity to hear Prof. de Monchaux discuss human space travel with Adam Savage, famed industrial designer. 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

Amidst all the talk of future migration to Mars, one overlooked subject is perhaps the most important: what will we wear? Read more

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

This BCNM grad contributed to a paper on the reconceptualization of educational inquiry in the March issue of Review of Research of Education. Read more

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

De Monchaux spoke at WEAR 2017 about his book Fashioning Apollo! Read more

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

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

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

Niemeyer is hosting a Media Inclusion & Innovation course DJ Spooky Read more

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

BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux performed with Tom Sachs in the closing performance piece of the Europa landing exhibition 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

Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object.  Read more

An anthology co-edited by Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola, and produced by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Arts Research Center of UC Berkeley 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

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

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BCNM was pleased to partner with the University of California Davis Libraries and Digital Humanities at Berkeley to bring PressForward to UC Berkeley Read more

Genevieve Quick, Eric Paolos, and Alex Cruse shared recent projects and works in progress at the Bay Area Living Room Light Exchange  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

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

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

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making 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

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

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

The California Report Card was developed by BCNM Professor Ken Goldberg and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Read more

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

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

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

with Benjamin Bratton 

a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) 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

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

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

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

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

Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs 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

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As technology keeps getting better and better, we humans keep asking ourselves, what separates us from our robotic creations? 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

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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

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

Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster Read more

Applications for Fall 2013 admittance to both programs are due March 1, 2013 Read more

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

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

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September 4, 2012, 7pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street (at Presidio) Read more

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