Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums
Featuring Margaret Rhee, Reginold Royston,and Ryan Shaw. Moderated by Clancy Wilmott. Presented as a part of BCNM’s Grad Chats, a series focused on navigating the academic job market and career development with UC Berkeley grads.Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Workshops
Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums
Featuring Alenda Chang, Neha Kumar, and Aaminah Norris
Moderated by Jacob Gaboury, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Read more
11 Apr, 2017
Special Events
New Technology and Archaeology Symposium
Sponsored by the History of Art Department, The Computer Science Undergraduate Association, the Organization of Graduate Students in the Digital Humanities, the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and Digital Humanities @ Berkeley. Read more
20 Mar, 2017
Special Events
Color of New Media 2017 Open House!
Learn more about the diverse ecology of new media activities happening on campus! Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Workshops
Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital Cities
Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the School of Information's Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. Read more
03 Sep, 2015
Special Events
Welcome Back! BCNM's Fall Open House
Celebrate the new semester with us, here at BCNM Read more
11 Dec, 2014
Special Events
Count Me In: Walking & the City
Presented by students, faculty and staff from the Global Urban Humanities program, CITRIS, BCNM, and the CITRIS Social Apps Lab Read more
10 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Student Research Presentations and New DE Welcome
Cutting edge research happening here at BCNM! Join us in celebration of these amazing grad students. Read more
14 Mar, 2013
Special Events
Disembodied: Literature and Transmission in a Digital Age
A day of presentations & panel discussions for Anthropology, Architecture, Area Studies, Comparative Literature, + Theology scholars. Don't miss it! Read more
12 Apr, 2012
Workshops
Mutated Text: a Cross-Genre Creative Writing Workshop
In celebration of "Improper Informalities :: Strange Writing :: Eclectic Ties" Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more
10 Dec, 2021
Conference Grant Reports: Juliana Friend on Wearing Illicit Images
Juliana attended the 2021 meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Conference and presented a paper entitled, “Wearing Illicit Images: Fabrics of Pornography and Citizenship in Senegal." Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Summer 2022 Research Award Applications Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jahara Cayabyab on Designing Hospital Spaces
Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces. Read more
13 Oct, 2021
Announcing the Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working on media literacy, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
16 Aug, 2021
Vincente Perez Named Poetry and the Senses Fellow
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30 Jul, 2021
Fall 2021 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers and online events! Featuring more events from our Indigenous Technologies Initiative, the artists Lisa Reihana and Maria Thereza Alves, and more. Read more
23 Jul, 2021
BCNM Around the Web July 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
05 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Grasping and Picking Winners
Ken Goldberg describes the complicated technology that goes into robotic grasping mechanics in COSMOS' new article. Read more
08 Jun, 2021
Choyang Ponsar on The Forensic Imaginary
Choyang Ponsar received a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on A Forensic Imaginary under the mentorship of Tory Jeffay. Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Riley Lenane on Influencers & Self Care
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
21 May, 2021
Congratulating our 2021 Graduates
These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields.
Rebecca Abraham on Rachel Chen's Magical Musical Mat
Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? Read more
19 Jun, 2020
Gabrielle Clement on New Media Technology in the Courtroom
"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more
17 Jun, 2020
Bryan Truitt on Mediating the Human Face
Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more
30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: Bélgica del Rio on The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body
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
Harry Burson is named 2020 Lemelson Center Fellow and will focus his research on the creation of a new mode of acoustic perspective. Read more
05 Mar, 2020
Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Jacob Gaboury Townsend Assistant Professor Fellow
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07 Feb, 2020
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum Live Feb 12
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! Read more
01 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: Rebecca Levitan on the Digital Futures of Ancient Objects
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
20 Nov, 2019
Summer 2020 Research Award Applications Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
07 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
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
23 Sep, 2019
Open House Fall 2019 Revisited
This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more
22 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Tory Jeffay on Photographic Evidence & Police Body Cameras
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19 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: KC Forcier on the Computational Loop in Network Culture
KC examined how artworks engage with the looping logic of code, with its potential for ongoing and indefinite temporality, and how this relates to the perception of temporality in networked culture as similarly indeterminate. Read more
24 Jun, 2019
Stephanie Tang on the Heart Sounds Bench
Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more
16 Jun, 2019
Arianna Ninh on Alterwear
Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more
08 Jun, 2019
Camryn Bell on Algorithmic Gentrification with Will Payne
Camryn received an BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on Algorithmic Gentrification under the mentorship of Will Payne. Read more
Jessica Adams on Virtual Reality Narratives at the AAAL
Jessica presented "Envisioning the Globe: Symbolic Competence in 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Narratives" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Claudia von Vacano in Daily Cal
Claudia von Vacano moderated a panel around issues of diversity on campus. Read more
Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
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
14 Feb, 2019
Announcing the 2019 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Fionce Siow. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Summer 2019 Research Award Applications Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
BCNM Students & Faculty Named GloUH Townsend Fellows
Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. Read more
30 Jul, 2018
Grace Gipson Presents at UNC's 2018 MURAP Conference
The 2018 Conference for UNC Chapel Hill's Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program focused on Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurities. Read more
20 Jul, 2018
Asma Kazmi on the Outcomes of Cranes & Cube
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09 Jul, 2018
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the LASA 2018 Conference
Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more
19 Jun, 2018
Greg Niemeyer at Digital Art History Summer School in Málaga
Head to Spain this September to learn about Data & the Arts from Greg Niemeyer! Read more
18 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on the Peder Sather E-Lit Bergen Collaboration
Alex Saum-Pascual summarizes the amazing work that developed out of the Peder Sather grant funded collaboration between UCB and Bergen University on electronic literature. Read more
Ken Goldberg Receives Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest
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30 Apr, 2018
Harry Burson at SCMS
Through funding from the 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Harry Burson attended and shared his research at SCMS 2018. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
KC Forcier at SCMS 2018
As one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Confrence Grant, KC Forcier received funding to attend and present her research findings at the Society for Film and Media Studies Annual Conference. Read more
16 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Open Source Stewart Platform
We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more
Are you a UC Berkeley student interested in participating in Human-Computer Interaction research? Join the Hybrid Ecologies Lab! Read more
25 Jan, 2018
Announcing the 2018 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more
22 Jan, 2018
Spring 2018 Applications Now Open for the Graduate Designated Emphasis & Certificate Program
Graduate students are now invited to apply for Spring 2018 admission into the BCNM program. Read more
09 Nov, 2017
Summer Fellowships Now Available
Applications for Summer 2018 are now available! BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer research. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
5 Questions with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg sits down with the UCB Student Affairs to answer prospective students' questions. Read more
24 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum and Scott Rettberg Awarded Peder Sather Grant
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
23 Oct, 2017
From Berkeley to Spain: A Summer of Digital Art History
Greg Niemeyer, Berkeley Center of New Media Director, and Justin Underhill speak about their experiences at the Digital Art History Summer School 2017 in Malaga, Spain. Read more
14 Oct, 2017
Summer Research Dispatch: Maija Hynninen & Sounding Sculpture
Read about Maija Hynninen's BCNM-funded research as she builds and improves the sound diffusion system for 'Sounding Sculpture.' Read more
26 Sep, 2017
Fall 2017 Applications Now Open Undergraduate Certificate Program
Undergraduated are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM undergrad program. Applications due November 1.Read more
19 Sep, 2017
Fall 2017 Applications Now Open for the Graduate Designated Emphasis & Certificate Program
Graduates are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM program. Applications due November 1.Read more
19 Sep, 2017
Summer Research Dispatch: Molly Nicholas & Wearable Tech in Hospitals
Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more
22 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Juliana Friend and Many-to-Many
Read about Friend's ethnographic research for her Many-to-Many project, funded by BCNM Read more
17 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Malika Imhotep at the International School for Decolonial Black Feminism
Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more
15 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Humanizing Deportation
Read Yairamaren Roman Maldonado's account of collaborating with the UC Digital Storytelling project, funded by BCNM Read more
15 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Miyoko Conley on Holograms in K-Pop
Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more
31 May, 2017
Call for Students: Cranes and Cube: Architecture, Built and Unbuilt
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
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
Asma Kazmi Receives Seed Grant for Cranes and Cube
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12 May, 2017
Damon Young Receives Seed Grant for After the Private Self
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
13 Apr, 2017
Announcing our 2017-2018 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
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11 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations: Color of New Media Working Group Transcription
The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more
22 Mar, 2017
Interview with Asma Kazmi!
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
16 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Syncing... Subject, Media, Society"
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28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the 2017 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Media Innovation Scholarship was awarded to this forward-thinking student. Read more
23 Feb, 2017
BCNM Alums’ QGCon 2017 Moves to LA
The Queerness and Games Conference takes the trip from NorCal to SoCal. Read more
12 Dec, 2016
Summer 2017 Research Fellowships Now Open for Applications
BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer doctoral or pre-doctoral research Read more
28 Nov, 2016
Skintillates from Hybrid Ecologies Lab Featured in MakeZine
Skintillates was featured in MakeZine's article "Light Up Your Body with Temporary Tattoo Circuits" Read more
14 Nov, 2016
AMPLab to Become RISELab
We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more
25 Oct, 2016
Revisited: Press Forward
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
08 Sep, 2016
Revisited: Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital City
We recap a masterclass around how technology functions in relation to Jane Jacobs' notion of community in cities Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Caitlin Marshall receives Postdoc Fellowship
Marshall will be headed to the University of Maryland Read more
21 Jun, 2016
BCNM Seed Grants 2017: Abigail De Kosnik's TorrentMap
Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Abigail De Kosnik to build her innovative tool TorrentMap Read more
We're so pleased to be able to share their achievements and wish them the best in their future projects! Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Graduates
Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
18 May, 2016
Summer Research Opportunities: Hybrid Ecologies Lab
The Hybrid Ecologies Lab, headed by Eric Paulos, is looking for skilled and passionate undergraduate and graduate students to join us this summer Read more
26 Apr, 2016
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: MacKenzie Alessi, John Scott, and Data Visualization
What if we could map learning in the social realm? How would classroom engagement appear and shift over time? And how could we use this data to improve teaching? Read more
06 Apr, 2016
Alumna Bonnie Ruberg to Join Informatics at UC Irvine
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16 Feb, 2016
Revisited: "Machine Generated Culpability"
Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more
19 Jan, 2016
Skintillates: UC Berkeley Students engineer electronic temporary tattoo
It comes as no surprise that Skintillates won the Maker of Merit honor in the National Maker Faire Read more
16 Nov, 2015
Björn Hartmann's SceneSkim on Engadget
24 Sep, 2015
Technology Award Dispatches: Rama Gottfried
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01 Sep, 2015
Summer Dispatches 2015: Andrea Horbinski
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03 Aug, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: Kiera Chase
Kiera Chase's dissertation refines cognitive-science theoretical models that illuminate opportunities in children’s development of mathematical conceptsRead more
30 Jul, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: KC Forcier
Here's what KC Forcier gained from the experience Read more
27 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Naomi Bragin
This year, the BCNM awarded five new media graduate students with technology services and training awards to help them fund the support they need to further their research agendas Read more
Revisited: Lunch with Product Design Pioneer Patricia Moore
We recap a wonderful lunch with the first woman to graduate from the Rochester Institite of Technology as a product designer Read more
08 Jul, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: Grace Gipson
07 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Félix Treviño
02 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Bonnie Ruberg
02 Jul, 2015
Propose a Summer 2015 Course
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
26 Jun, 2015
Gail De Kosnik Awarded Tenure
Congratulations, Gail De Kosnik for being awarded tenure in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and New Media! Read more
16 Jun, 2015
BCNM Faculty and Students Represent UCB at National Makers Faire
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Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for Innovation in New Media
Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more
15 Dec, 2014
Revisited: "Count Me In - Walking & the City"
On Thursday, December 11th, the Berkeley Center for New Media, in partnership with.. Read more
05 Nov, 2014
Interactive Seating Design Competition
The Jacob's Institute for Design Innovation is offering this great class for undergraduate students! Information here. Read more
03 Sep, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Kyle Booten
Kyle Booten (Education) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Read more
13 Aug, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Laura Devendorf
Laura Devendorf (Information) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award Read more
12 Aug, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Adam Hutz
Adam Hutz (Rhetoric) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what he's done so far! Read more
06 Aug, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Andrea Horbinski
Andrea Horbinski was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what she's done so far! Read more
08 Apr, 2014
Andrea Horbinski Awarded Koo Fellowship
The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Meet BCNM's Gail De Kosnik and the Fan Data & Net Differences Team
These UC Berkeley professors have pioneered new methods of exploring internet cultures Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Technology Services and Training Fellowship
This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more
21 Mar, 2014
BCNM Welcomes New Students to the Graduate Certificate in New Media
We are delighted to welcome 3 new graduate students to our Masters Certificate program Read more
21 Mar, 2014
Margaret Rhee at the Graduate Research and Education Advocacy Day
Margaret traveled to Sacramento to speak to legislators on the digital education project she works on with incarcerated women in an SF jail Read more
28 Jan, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more
25 Nov, 2013
BCNM Welcomes New Students to the DE & Graduate Certificate in New Media
We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs Read more
Supported by UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. Organized by Professor Abigail De Kosnik (BCNM, TDPS) Read more
21 Jul, 2013
Hellman Grant Awarded to BCNM's Gail de Kosnik
The Hellman Grant supports the research of promising assistant professors who “show capacity for great distinction in their chosen fields of endeavor Read more
07 May, 2013
BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media
BCNM New Media Students showcase Research at Spring Semester Presentation
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
10 Apr, 2013
BCNM Welcomes New Students to the DE & Graduate Certificate in New Media
We are delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs! Read more
10 Dec, 2012
BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research
Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more
04 Dec, 2012
BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media
We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more
16 May, 2012
Mutated Text Workshop
Mutated Text, a cross-genre creative writing workshop co-organized by Margaret Rhee with support from BCNM, was held this past April Read more
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Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
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Faculty Seed Grants
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