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History & Theory
Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements
with Lauren Klein
Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University
Presented with the Digital Humanities program and co-sponsored by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CCDS), the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and the Media Studies program Read more
11 Apr, 2024
Special Events
Questioning History in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Keynote: Shane Denson, Stanford University
5-7pm on Thursday, April 11
in Dwinelle 142
Seminars Thursday, 4/11
in the Social Sciences Matrix Read more
08 Apr, 2024
Commons Conversations
Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
with Sylvain Parasie
Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris) and Director of Sciences Po's Media Lab
A Commons Conversation Read more
01 Apr, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: AI is Weird
with Erik Davis
Writer, Journalist, and Lecturer
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for Humanities. Read more
13 Mar, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: Artificial Intelligence and Translation
with Behrooz Ghorbani, Researcher, OpenAI
Cathy Park Hong, English, UC Berkeley
Hoyt Long, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
12 Feb, 2024
Art, Tech & Culture
After Man: Alterhuman Ethics and Poetics at the Climate Change Tipping Point
with micha cárdenas
Associate Professor, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, University of California, Santa Cruz
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Echoes from the Borderlands
with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum, and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event, presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the American Cultures Center. Read more
16 Oct, 2023
History & Theory
Rerouting Media in the Living Forest
with Martina Broner
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College, and Co-Founder of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies and Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLAS), the Media Studies program, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
11 Oct, 2023
History & Theory
[* Postponed / New Date Forthcoming *] AI and the Humanities: Generative Creativity and Interpretation
with Timnit Gebru, Founder & Executive Director, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); Vikram Chandra, Writer and Co-Founder, Granthika Co.; Hannah Zeavin, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley
Presented with the Townsend Center for Humanities Read more
11 Jul, 2023
Conference
ELO 2023 | Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change Read more
12 Apr, 2023
Special Events
Rivers, Forests & Earth: Speculating Dalit Histories and Dalit Futures in Bengal
Featuring Hugo and Nebula Prize Nominee Mimi Mondal
Presented by UC Berkeley's Bangali Student Association (BSA) with the support of Institute for South Asia Studies, the South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African (SSWANA) Initiative, and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM). Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Special Events
The Parables Experience at MozFest Virtual
with curators ill Weaver (a Detroit-based artist and organizer. They co-founded Emergence Media and Complex Movements)
and Valencia James (a performer, maker, and researcher from Barbados, interested in the intersection between dance, theater, technology, and activism, currently pursuing an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley)
This event is hosted by MozFest, which is part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. Read more
10 Mar, 2023
Conference
Hydrocolonialism Symposium
Featuring: Katie Anania (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Craig Cohen (UCSF), Mina Girgis (UC Berkeley), Mahmoud Hassan (Fayoum University), Isabel Hofmeyr (New York University), Rita Lucarelli (UC Berkeley), Mercy Mueni (TMWDP), Ibrahim Mwakare (TMWDP), Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley), Xitlaly Olivera (UC Berkeley), Patrick Owuor (York University), Sera Young (Northwestern University) and many more TBA.
Co-presented with the Department of Art Practice, with support from the Haas Scholars Program. Read more
06 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with
Teddy Cruz, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Fonna Forman, Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, Center on Global Justice, University of California San Diego
Co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art Practice, the Arts Research Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies Read more
02 Mar, 2023
Commons Conversations
Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia
with Maggie Jack (Syracuse University, The School of Information)
Presented by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS), and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is co-sponsoring. Read more
07 Nov, 2022
History & Theory
Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
with Gillian Rose
Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media Studies Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Special Events
Author Meets Critics: “Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy”
with Darieck Scott
Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley
Moderated by Greg Niemeyer, Professor of Media Innovation, and Toban Fellow, Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix and the Department of African American Studies Read more
18 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Data & Life in the Metaverse
Join media innovators to explore the potentials of the metaverse, both exciting and terrifying. With Emma Fraser, Don Hanson, Wade Wallerstein, and Richmond Wong.
Presented by Human Technology Futures Group and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley. Read more
15 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
with Dario Robleto
Artist, Houston; ARC's Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence
Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Latinx Research Center, and BCNM. Read more
14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
14 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversations
with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Read more
07 Feb, 2022
History & Theory
Tequiologies: Indigenous Solutions Against Climate Catastrophe
with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Linguist, writer, translator, language rights activist and researcher ayuujk (mixe)
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Alianza UCMX, Spanish & Portuguese, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
09 Nov, 2021
Special Events
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
08 Nov, 2021
Commons Conversations
Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine
with Liat Berdugo
Artist and Writer, Associate Professor, The University of San Francisco Read more
25 Oct, 2021
History & Theory
Beyond Settler Sex and Family: Kim TallBear in Conversation
with Kim TallBear
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
In conversation with Marcelo Garzo Montalvo
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, San Marcos
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, American Cultures, Anthropology, The Program in Critical Theory, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
25 Oct, 2021
Commons Conversations
with Eric Rodenbeck
Founder, Stamen Design
Moderated by Eric Paulos
Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) Read more
04 Oct, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
Colonial Practices and Cultural Repression by the Municipality against the Community Museum of the Valle de Xico but “It is our 25th anniversary and we are still here.”
with Maria Thereza Alves
Artist
Moderated by Edgar Fabián Frias
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, the Center for Race and Gender, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program.
Read more
30 Sep, 2021
Special Events
The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online
with Kelly Baker Josephs
Professor of English at York College, CUNY
Presented by Media Studies and co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department and BCNM. Read more
29 Sep, 2021
Special Events
Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more
28 Sep, 2021
Special Events
The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more
30 Aug, 2021
Commons Conversations
Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora
with Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderated by BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
22 Apr, 2021
History & Theory
with Elizabeth LaPensée
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice.
Image credit: Elizabeth LaPensée Read more
07 Apr, 2021
Special Events
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of Unjust Detention
Join Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s unjust imprisonment by the Chinese government. Read more
01 Mar, 2021
History & Theory
A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies
with Margo Robbins
Co-founder and President of the Cultural Fire Management Council
and Valentin Lopez
Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Presented in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays.
Read more
18 Feb, 2021
Women in Tech Symposium – The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction,
We're co-sponsoring! Read more
03 Feb, 2021
History & Theory
Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action
with Marisa Duarte
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the School of Information, American Cultures, and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Special Events
Performing Cultural Exchange on Ohlone Homelands in Huichin
with Pauline Lampton, Director of Miriki Performing Arts
Corrina Gould, co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Erica Estrada, Northern Pomo Dancer
Presented with UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays. Read more
07 Nov, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL
with Lawrence Lek
Artist, Filmmaker and Musician
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
05 Nov, 2020
History & Theory
World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures
with Skawennati
Artist & Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Image credit: Skawennati, "Renewal" 2016 Read more
25 Oct, 2020
Special Events
Crisis and Creativity: Virtual Artists in Residence at UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative
With Mithu Sen
Performs conceptual and interactive multi-format byproducts which include drawing, poetry, moving images, sculptures, installations, sound
And Brendan Fernandes
Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Commons Conversations
Cultural Heritage & Cultural Consumption
with Gu Jiang
National Center for Industry Research
Nanjing University Read more
10 Sep, 2020
History & Theory
A Conversation with the Sogorea Te' Land Trust
with Corrina Gould
Lisjan Ohlone leader and co-founder of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust
moderated by Marcelo Garzo Montalvo Read more
16 Apr, 2020
History & Theory
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Christiane Paul
Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Professor at The New School and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Response from Claudia Schmuckli
Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Co-sponsored by AutoLab, Arts + Design, the Arts Research Center, Art Practice, BAMPFA, and held in conjunction with the DH Faire. Read more
15 Apr, 2020
Special Events
13 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
ONLINE: Neural Abstractions
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Tom White
Artist and Researcher
Victoria University of Wellington School of Design
Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire.
Read more
06 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years
with William Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
12 Mar, 2020
History & Theory
ONLINE: Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Francesca Coppa, co-founder Organization for Transformative Works
and Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson, co-founders Transformative Works & Cultures
Co-sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the School of Information, the D-Lab, UC Berkeley Libraries, and the Department of Film & Media Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Special Events
with James Hodge
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media as part of the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar
Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
with Margaret Rhee
Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
with Amy LaViers
Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
22 Jan, 2020
Commons Conversations
Digital Hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities
with Rahul Gairola
Murdoch University
Co-sponsored by the Color of New Media Working Group. Read more
04 Nov, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Leonel Moura
Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies
with Marisa Morán Jahn
Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Robots Are Creatures, Not Things
with Madeline Gannon
Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
29 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Adam Savage
Mythbusters, CA
a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with
Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
18 Apr, 2019
Special Events
DH Fair: 3D Printed Replicas of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities
with Rita Lucarelli
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
17 Apr, 2019
DH Fair: Building and Preserving Collections for Digital Humanities Research
This session will feature panelists building collections and tools for local digital humanities projects.
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
Special Events
DH Fair: Reception and Poster Session
Please join us in kicking off the 2019 DH Fair by enjoying refreshments with colleagues while browsing posters on recent and current Digital Humanities work at Berkeley.
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
DH Fair: Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity
with Zeynep Tufekci
Professor, UNC
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Special Events
Sarah Winchester and the Origins of Silicon Valley
with Homay King
Bryn Mawr College
Presented by the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
04 Apr, 2019
History & Theory
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe
with Stefanos Geroulanos
New York University
Presented by the Department of Rhetoric, in conjunction with the Berkeley Center for New Media's History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of History. Read more
03 Apr, 2019
History & Theory
The Human Computer in the Stone Age: Technology, Prehistory, and the Redefinition of the Human after World War II
with Stefanos Geroulanos
New York University Read more
01 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Rhonda Holberton
Artist, Oakland
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
20 Mar, 2019
History & Theory
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
with Safiya Umoja Noble
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the CITRIS Policy Lab Read more
18 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
with Morehshin Allahyari
Artist, New York
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University Read more
04 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
with Nnedi Okorafor
Artist, Olympia Fields, IL
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
In and out of the Body and into the Machine
with Chico MacMurtrie
Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
News of the Future and the Future of News
with Kevin Delaney
Editor, Quartz
In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
08 Feb, 2019
Special Events
HIGH/LOW: Taste, Quality, and Resolution
Film & Media Graduate Student Conference
February 8-9, 2019 Read more
19 Nov, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech
Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
with Kim Stanley Robinson
Author, Davis, CA
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One
Read more
19 Oct, 2018
Special Events
Hacking Politics: Symposium
Join us to explore how our political system has been — and might be — “hacked” in ways its framers could never have imagined. Read more
18 Oct, 2018
Special Events
Hacking Politics: Civic Data Solidarity Panel
with Burak Arikan, artist, founder of Graph Commons
Sinduja Rangarajan, data reporter, Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting
Jin Zhu, artist, member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Read more
15 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kerry Tribe
Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Networked Avant-garde
with Kelani Nichole
Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
04 Oct, 2018
History & Theory
Learning To Interact: Cybernetics and Play
with Timothy Stott
Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture
Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology Read more
14 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations
Love bytes and intimate machines
Analysing news media representations of human- robot interactions
with Belinda Middleweek
University of Technology Sydney Read more
12 Sep, 2018
History & Theory
Architectural Intelligence
with Molly Wright Steenson
Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
In partnership with the Department of Architecture Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Special Events
BCNM Fall 2018 Open House
Join the BCNM for our annual open house, filled with art, demonstrations, and new media programs from across campus! Read more
02 May, 2018
Special Events
Come to the free Critical Making Showcase at Jacobs Hall taking place Wednesday, May 2nd from 2-3:30pm as part of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Spring Read more
27 Apr, 2018
Special Events
Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Medium/Environment
Berkeley Film & Media’s 4th biennial conference seeks to bring together leading international media theorists working on questions of “environmental media” broadly conceived Read more
16 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Angela Davis
Activist and Professor, CA
interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media
A 2018 Regents Lecture
Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
new art, flag art, good art, portal art
with Ian Cheng
Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and as part of the Arts + Design Monday Nights at BAMPFA program. Read more
06 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Workshop
Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. Read more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
With rapid advances in modern documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, how must our study of the past and its material legacy adapt? Read more
04 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Exhibition
Deep Dive Or the Limits of Immersion was curated by Asma Kazmi. We preview the show as part of the Past is Present. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Yugoexport Is the Name of this Oral Corporation
With Irena Haiduk
Artist, Belgrade, Serbia
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
05 Mar, 2018
Special Events
Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework
with Moya Bailey
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-sponsored by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; the BAD CRIPP community forum; Professor Karen Nakamura, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies; and the Disability Studies Research Cluster Read more
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more
05 Feb, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Connectivity as a Human Right
with Nick Negroponte
Architect, MIT, Massachussetts
Presented in partnership with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
29 Jan, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kris Paulsen
Associate Professor of History of Art and the Film Studies Program at The Ohio State University
An Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium lecture. Presented in partnership with the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series as part of Monday nights as BAMPFA. Read more
15 Nov, 2017
Special Events
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation: A Digital Storytelling Project
Witness the presentation of this fascinating ethical, and political archive on mass human displacement, this November Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Special Events
The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Workshop
with Scott Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture, Norway.
Presented in partnership with Digital Humanities at Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Peder Sather Grant. Read more
06 Nov, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
We Must Conjure Our Gods Before We Obey Them
With Michael Rock
Designer, 2x4, NY.
Presenting in partnership with the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning Read more
23 Oct, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Socially Engaged Internet-Art: Aesthetics of Information Ethics
with Paolo Cirio
Artist, NY
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art Practice Read more
17 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui
Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack
with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more
12 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Datasense: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience
with Natasha Schull
Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU
Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society
Read more
05 Oct, 2017
Commons Conversations
Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media
New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. Read more
25 Sep, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
with Frank Foer
National correspondent for The Atlantic and fellow at the New America Foundation.
Presented in partnership with the Graduate School of Journalism Read more
22 Aug, 2017
Special Events
BCNM Fall 2017 Open House
Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house Read more
14 Aug, 2017
Special Events
Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute
Don't miss out on this annual series of digital humanities discussions and workshops! Read more
03 May, 2017
Special Events
Spring Critical Making Showcase
Come celebrate the projects of Design Innovation students! Read more
28 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Listening Session and Launch Party Read more
13 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington Read more
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
06 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Nicholas de Monchaux on Local Code: 3659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities
Join BCNM at the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive with an author talk with Nicholas de Monchaux. Read more
04 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe
with Jan De Vos
Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (BE) Read more
03 Apr, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Remapping History: The Unwanted Population - CANCELED
with Tiffany Chung, internationally noted cartographer Read more
15 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Wild Robots: Bodies & Signs
with Ian Ingram, LA-based artist Read more
02 Mar, 2017
History & Theory
with Kavita Philip, Associate Professor of History Read more
01 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
with Adam Greenfield, information architect and designer Read more
24 Feb, 2017
Special Events
Syncing… Subject, Media, Society.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference! Don't miss it! Read more
11 Feb, 2017
Special Events
Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA
Prof. Niemeyer on the latest exhibition Read more
09 Dec, 2016
Special Events
"Rogue Archives" Book Launch: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
"Rogue Archives" is authored by Prof. Gail De Kosnik Read more
07 Dec, 2016
Special Events
Jacobs 2016 Winter Design Showcase
Jacobs Institute opens its doors to showcase students' final projects! Read more
28 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor Read more
26 Nov, 2016
Special Events
"Local Code" Book Launch: a Conversation & Reading
with Nicholas de Monchaux Read more
13 Nov, 2016
History & Theory
Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes
with Virginia Kuhn,
Associate Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Special Events
"Boom California": Launch Party for Special Global Urban Humanities Issue
We're celebrating the latest issue of BOOM California Magazine! Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Special Events
Sex, Lies, and Data Mining
with Luke DuBois, co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data Read more
09 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials in Three Acts
Ronald Rael is an applied architectural researcher, author, design entrepreneur, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture Read more
14 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
A continuation of the Symposium, sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
13 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
Sponsored by the Townsend Center, the Dean of Humanities, the Berkeley Center for New Media, and the Department of Rhetoric. Read more
29 Sep, 2016
History & Theory
A Workshop on Network Analysis for Film & Media
with Miriam Posner Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Special Events
Jane Jacobs and the Digital City
in partnership with SPUR San Francisco 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
22 Sep, 2016
& Media Student Conference
with Kristopher Fallon (Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis) and Jenny Odell (Digital Media Artist) Read more
13 Sep, 2016
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session
Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! Read more
11 Jul, 2016
Special Events
BCNM at Graduate Programs Fair
Learn about our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate in New Media programs! Read more
04 May, 2016
Special Events
Experience this season's NWMEDIA203 Showcase at Jacobs Hall Read more
17 Mar, 2016
History & Theory
Mary Flanagan will explore this rich history and point to the theoretical concerns that arise when playing critically. Read more
03 Mar, 2016
Special Events
A conversation with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason & Brewster Kahle Read more
02 Mar, 2016
Special Events
with Brewster Kahle
The Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive brings an insightful lecture to BCNM, as part of the Regents Lecture Series. Read more
11 Feb, 2016
History & Theory
Machine Generated Culpability
with Ahmed Ghappour, law professor at UC Hastings Read more
16 Nov, 2015
History & Theory
Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing
with Benjamin Bratton, UCSD Professor and Design Theorist Read more
17 Oct, 2015
Workshops
2015 Queerness and Games Conference
QGCon is now in its second year of celebrating LGBT identities in gaming. Free to public. Read more
14 Sep, 2015
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session
Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! 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
17 Aug, 2015
Workshops
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Digital Humanities at Berkeley will be running a summer institute of intensive workshops led by DH experts Read more
14 May, 2015
Special Events
We're co-hosting keynote addresses, lightning talks, and panel discussions on individual agency in an increasingly digital world Read more
07 May, 2015
Special Events
Critical Making Course Exhibition
Taught by Instructor Eric Paulos, GSI Emily Chen, and Lab Manager Chris Myers Read more
01 May, 2015
Special Events
Precarious Aesthetics Conference Call for Papers Deadline
Deadline May 1, 2015 Read more
09 Apr, 2015
Special Events
Preserving Our Intellectual Legacies in the Digital Age
An Authors Alliance event presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities Read more
08 Apr, 2015
Special Events
Design for All: Inclusivity By Design
with Pattie Moore, Designer and Gerontologist
Read more
08 Apr, 2015
Workshops
Lunch with Product Design Pioneer Patricia Moore
A special opportunity for BCNM students and faculty to discuss inclusive design and share projects Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
with Jose Carlos Martinat, artist, and Enrique Mayorga, researcher Read more
05 Apr, 2015
Workshops
Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal
A Masterclass with Jose Carlos Martinat. Open to artists, inventors, and engineers Read more
03 Apr, 2015
Special Events
Artists, humanists, and technologists interested in new media gathering for a fantastic night of conversation and food Read more
02 Apr, 2015
History & Theory
A lecture on "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music"
by Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern Professor Read more
09 Mar, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments
by Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic composer Read more
05 Mar, 2015
History & Theory
Against the Cultural Singularity
A lecture by Alan Liu, UCSB Profesor Read more
26 Feb, 2015
History & Theory
by Chris Goto-Jones, Leiden University Read more
23 Feb, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
19 Feb, 2015
History & Theory
An HTNM lecture by Elizabeth Freeman, UCD Professor Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Special Events
Queering Agriculture: Food Security in the Nation's Capital and the Crises of Reproductive American Familism
by Bailey Kier, PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park 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
19 Nov, 2014
Special Events
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Join us for a night of art and conversation around innovative ways to tackle climate change Read more
17 Nov, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial
An ATC lecture by Rick Lowe Read more
13 Nov, 2014
History & Theory
Cold War Multimedia: The Democratic Surround
An HTNM lecture by Fred Turner, Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University Read more
13 Nov, 2014
Special Events
Inter/nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World
"Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies," a lecture by Steven Salaita Read more
02 Oct, 2014
History & Theory
A lecture by Jennifer Holt (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB) this October, held at Stephens Hall Read more
26 Jun, 2014
Special Events
The release of Ritwik Banerji's (DE) project, Maxine Read more
07 May, 2014
Special Events
Critical Making Final Class Exhibition
Experience this semester's student critiques of new media Read more
24 Apr, 2014
Special Events
A conference on music, technologies, and the digital media that shapes it all Read more
19 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum
A practicum of artist-led workshops that develop exercises, prompts, or actions that engage questions of art, labor, and economics. Don't miss out! Read more
18 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Theory/Post Theory Rhetoric Conference
01 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Participate in a hackathon in honor of the Free Speech Movement's 50th anniversary! First prize: a MacBook Air Read more
29 Mar, 2014
Special Events
We're bringing wifi, food, API's, an amazing community... You bring ideas help this "economy of kindness" Read more
17 Mar, 2014
Special Events
Prospective Student Open House
With a keynote address by Francesco Spagnolo, UC Berkeley Music Lecturer, "Mapping Diasporas: Jews, Material Culture, and the Digital Humanities" Read more
06 Mar, 2014
History & Theory
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
A History and Theory lecture by Alex Galloway, philosophy writer and programmer. Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Read more
06 Mar, 2014
Special Events
We invite you to this symposium of discussions on privacy protections, surveillance methods, and resistance in our digital world Read more
15 Feb, 2014
Create Your Bot Hackathon
Learn how to build Chatbots with renowned artificial intelligence programmer and ChatScript language designer Bruce Wilcox as you compete to create the most human chatbot! Read more
04 Dec, 2013
Special Events
Townsend Book Chat: Polartides
Conversation with Professor Greg Niemeyer, BCNM Director Read more
28 Oct, 2013
History & Theory
A History and Theory of New Media lecture by Eyal Weizman, architect, University of London Professor Read more
26 Oct, 2013
Special Events
The Queerness and Games Conference
Gear up for another fantastic schedule at the Queerness and Games Conference, hosted here at UC Berkeley Read more
23 Oct, 2013
Special Events
Creating Minds: An Academic Conference on Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
12 Oct, 2013
Special Events
Register here to help out with the Turing Test Tournament! Read more
19 Sep, 2013
History & Theory
Mia Laboro: How To Do Generative Humanities
with Peter Lunenfeld, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Read more
16 Sep, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional
with Allan deSouza, UC Berkeley faculty and photographer Read more
26 Aug, 2013
Special Events
This event is open to students currently enrolled in a degree program at UC Berkeley Read more
04 Feb, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Social Prosthetics: Technology and the Human Form
A lecture by Kate Hartman, leader of wearable technology Read more
24 Jan, 2013
Special Events
Streams, Gardens, and Clouds: Visualizing Dynamic Data for Engagement, Education and the Environment
A CITRIS Data and Democracy event to celebrate Data Innovation Day Read more
22 Jan, 2013
Special Events
"Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only," Video Art Exhibition
View new work by Jason Fritz at the BCNM Commons! Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Needy Robotics and Our Intimate Interrelationship with Technology
Listen to Alex Reben, engineer and artist, discuss the line that separates thought from data Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Needy Robotics and Our Intimate Interrelationship with Technology
Listen to Alex Reben, engineer and artist, discuss the line that separates thought from data Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Hawking, Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
A discussion in celebration of Hacia Mialet's book, Hawking, Incorporated. Featuring David Bates (Rhetoric) and Cori Hayden (Anthropology) Read more
10 Dec, 2012
Special Events
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest
A panel of leading video activists, filmmakers, + technology developers on the implications for human rights investigations, advocacy campaigns, and social justice Read more
03 Dec, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Luminous Currents: Tracing Modernism from Bauhaus to Beehive
An Arts + Technology Colloquium lecture by JoAnne Northrup, former chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art Read more
27 Nov, 2012
Workshops
Provoking Reflection and Exploration with Aesthetic Interaction
Laura Devendorf will discuss AnyType, an Android application that generates unique typefaces from photographs of shapes that people find in their environment Read more
15 Nov, 2012
Special Events
"Marry Me to the End of Love," an Interactive Performance
In this interactive performance, Baradaran will marry anyone he can convince to enter a temporary marriage Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
FutARism: The Possiblities of Augmented Reality in Art Making
with Amir Baradaran, Media and Performance Artist, New York Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
14 Nov, 2012
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
13 Nov, 2012
Special Events
What Can Digital Humanities do for You?
A panel, fair, and poster session on this emerging interdiscilinary research field. Read more
13 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Anthropology as BIG DATA: Making the Case for Ethnography as a Critical Dimension in Digital Media and Technology Studies
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, on big data in human comunication research Read more
06 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents
Leila Takayama, research scientist, on communicating with robots Read more
17 Sep, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
A Tale of Two Eyes, One Brain, One Hand, and One Pen
with Ryan and Trevor Oakes, visual artists whose work has been featured in Chicago's Millennium Park and Palazzo Strozzi Museum in Florence Italy -- to name a few Read more
02 May, 2012
Artist Talk at the BiD Lab with Walter Kim
Lunch and conversation with Walter Kim, artist and engineer based in San Francisco Read more
26 Apr, 2012
Special Events
Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media
Reflections on the nature of knowledge in the digital age, a symposium Read more
26 Apr, 2012
History & Theory
with Rita Raley, Associate Prof. of English, among other distinguished appointments Read more
15 Mar, 2012
Special Events
Break/ing Ground: Critical Dialogues in Sound and Motion
A conversation with Dr. DeFrant and Dr. Fred Moten (Duke) Read more
21 Feb, 2012
Special Events
with Wendy Ju, California College of Arts, Read more
16 Feb, 2012
Special Events
with Christopher M. Kelty, UCLA Associate Professor Read more
21 Nov, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape
with Marc Horowitz, interdisciplinary artist. A part of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
18 Nov, 2011
History & Theory
Lydia Liu, in conversation with Martin Jay and David Bates on her new book, "The Freudian Robot"
The author of "The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious" talking to Martin Jay (History) and David Bates (Rhetoric) Read more
03 Nov, 2011
History & Theory
A History and Theory of New Media lecture by Henry Jenkins (USC) Read more
13 Oct, 2011
History & Theory
How to Knit a Popular History of Media
with Kristen Haring (Auburn University) Read more
10 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface
with Kal Spelletich, SF-based artist Read more
06 Oct, 2011
Special Events
Asian Horror Cinema and Beyond
A symposium of contemporary horror cinema -- exploring issues of memory, desire, and media in East Asian and Southeast Asian cinema Read more
19 Sep, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Social Turns and Reciprocal Systems
with Shannon Jackson, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the Arts Research Center Read more
07 Sep, 2011
Special Events
Desirée Holman in Conversation with Sherry Turkle
artist Holman and MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self at MIT Turkle Read more
06 Sep, 2011
History & Theory
Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies
with Sherry Turkle -- pioneering technologist; professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist Read more
02 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth
with Christopher Alexander, Prof. of Architecture here at UC Berkeley Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Advancing the New Machine, Human Rights and Technology Conference
A symposium for anyone interested in uniting the tech-world and the human rights community Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Pure Engineering – Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and Consumerism
with Raffaello D’Andrea, an artist and Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Read more
17 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Futurefarmers Think Lodge*
*(hint: think tank and sweat lodge) Read more
13 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement
with Parul Vora, Wikimedia Foundation Read more
12 Apr, 2011
Special Events
New Media Research Roundtable: Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham
"New Media and Human Rights Research Methods" Read more
16 Mar, 2011
Special Events
Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences
Speakers from across UC Berkeley departments on social media and journalism. Read the distinguished roster in full here. Read more
09 Mar, 2011
Special Events
New Media Research Roundtable: A Moving Image – Media and Metaphor in Stage Performance
An informal talk and screening led by Ellen Bromberg, Guggenheim Fellow, choreographer, and media artist Read more
07 Feb, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Surfaces of Constant Simultaneity
Jose Alvarez on his own personal journey of investigation into the realms of consciousness, mysticism, spirituality Read more
11 Oct, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
Art and the Utopian Imaginary
with Mark Tribe, artist and occasional curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics Read more
5 days ago
Clancy Wilmott Awarded UCHRI Grant
The University of California Humanities Research Institute facilitates experimental, interdisciplinary humanities scholarship through partnerships, research initiatives, and competitive grants. Read more
5 days ago
STITCH: Augmented Dexterity for Suture Throws Including Thread Coordination and Handoffs
A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team! Read more
1 week ago
Ken Goldberg and Catie Cuan's Breathless Reviewed in Forbes
Teaching Machines To Be Human, And Humans To Live With Machines, an article by Benjamin Wolff. Read more
15 Apr, 2024
Video now online! Commons Conversations - 'Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity’ with Sylvain Parasie
Missed the talk with Sylvain Parasie? The video is now uploaded to Youtube! Read more
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients
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
05 Apr, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Talks to the Author of “The Riddles of the Sphinx”
Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords Read more
04 Apr, 2024
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías' Art is on the Moon
Read more
01 Apr, 2024
Zekarias Musele Thompson and Lee Crandall at the Living Room Light Exchange
Two of our grad students are featured at tonight's Living Room Light Exchange! Read more
31 Mar, 2024
Announcing Our Spring 2024 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Yangyang Yang. Read more
22 Mar, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Interviews Alice Notley
Alice Notley, The Art of Poetry No. 116 Interviewed by Hannah Zeavin Read more
21 Mar, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more
11 Mar, 2024
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more
22 Feb, 2024
Hannah Zeavin has a new article on the telepath and psychoanalysis in Tank. Read more
21 Feb, 2024
Alex Saum-Pascual in Conversation with Mercedes Bunz and Joan Fontcuberta
Mercedes Bunz, researcher in the fields of digital culture, and the photographer Joan Fontcuberta spoke with BCNM faculty member Alex Saum-Pascual about artificial intelligence and artistic creation. Read more
15 Feb, 2024
Announcing the 2024 Lyman Recipient
Congratulations Vincente Perez! Read more
07 Feb, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Interviews Adam Shatz
Read more
06 Feb, 2024
Nicole Starosielski in Elements Symposium
Read more
25 Jan, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more
22 Jan, 2024
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WISH. Read more
17 Jan, 2024
Summer Research Reports: Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter
We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more
15 Jan, 2024
Spring 2024 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more
29 Dec, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Awarded 2023 Peder Sather Grant
Alex was awarded a grant for "Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity." Read more
28 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg Isn't Afraid of Artificial Intelligence
Roboticist and artist Ken Goldberg takes the temperature of the current AI moment. Read more
24 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg in The Robot Report Year in Review
On this episode of the Robot Report Podcast titled, "2023 year in review: GenAI, humanoids dominate robotics industry", editors Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, and Mike Oitzman sit down and review their favorite robotics news stories from 2023. Read more
20 Dec, 2023
Seed Grant Report — Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development
Celeste Kidd's lab received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development." Read more about the results of the project! Read more
07 Dec, 2023
Congratulating Our Fall 2023 Graduates
Omnidirectional wifi speaker, Hae Sung Park. Read more
05 Dec, 2023
Seed Grant Report: Clancy Wilmott and Before You Were Here
Clancy Wilmott received a faculty seed grant to create a map using experimental techniques combining GIS, geocomputation and hand drafting. Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Haya Constellation Altar, 2019, Arianna Khmelniuk Read more
04 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2023 Faculty Seed Grants
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
01 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 23 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more
19 Oct, 2023
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías in Lush Computation
Edgar's work is featured in The M. Rosetta Hunter gallery at Seattle Central's latest exhibition. Read more
15 Oct, 2023
Julia Irwin on a History of Artificial Perception
Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more
05 Oct, 2023
World Building for Immersive Storytelling
Interview with Alex McDowell RDI Read more
20 Sep, 2023
Jaclyn Zhou and Caleb Murray-Bozeman to Lead New Media Working Group
We're thrilled to announce that Jaclyn Zhou and Caleb Murray-Bozeman are the new coordinators of the New Media Working Group! Read more
18 Sep, 2023
Announcing the 2023 Jarvis Scholarship Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Kelsey Choe, Em Erce, and Anna Ma. Read more
15 Sep, 2023
A Memoir of Contested Illness That Takes On the Legacy of Hysteria
Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention. Read more
10 Aug, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
27 Jul, 2023
Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers this fall! Featuring multi-disciplinary visual artist Jen Liu, UC Irvine Professor of Electronic Art & Design Jesse Colin Jackson, Indigenous Technologies lectures by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon and Dartmouth Professor Martina Broner, an “AI & The Humanities” roundtable discussion with Black in AI co-founder Timnit Gebru, plus so much more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Jen Liu, Jesse Colin Jackson, Valeria Luiselli, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Paloma Duong, Erik Davis, Lauren Klein, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies lecture series, featuring Eduardo Costa, Martina Broner, micha cárdenas, and more! Read more
25 Jul, 2023
The Future of Digital Space by Emma Fraser
The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal thinking. Read more
17 Jul, 2023
Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. Read more
10 Jul, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual & Shannon Jackson Named 2023 Townsend Fellows
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities has encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostered innovative research, and promoted intellectual conversation across academic fields. Read more
05 Jul, 2023
Fall 2023 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Applications are due November 1, 2023. Read more
29 Jun, 2023
Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman on Art, Surveillance, and Investigation
Trevor and Eyal discuss how art and architecture can be harnessed to challenge structures of power and state control. Read more
28 Jun, 2023
How AI can distort human beliefs
Celeste Kidd and co-author Abeba Birhane have a new article in Science on how models can convey biases and false information to users! Read more
27 Jun, 2023
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
15 Jun, 2023
Announcing BCNM's New Director Tom McEnaney
Read more
13 Jun, 2023
Conference Grant Reports: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan at Elevate
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more
13 Jun, 2023
Ken Goldberg Exhibiting Trees, Time and Technology
Trees, Time, and Technology: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology Read more
08 Jun, 2023
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado Launches Escritura Publica
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
08 Jun, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Co-Edits Special Issue of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
Read more
07 Jun, 2023
Real Life in Real Time Co-Edited by Bo Ruberg
Published by MIT Press, this new volume explores the cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Read more
01 Jun, 2023
Jacob Gaboury 2023 HCI History Award Winner
Read more
01 Jun, 2023
Critical Computation on a Geographical Register
Clancy Wilmott has released a new research article titled "Critical computation on a geographical register." Read more
30 May, 2023
Undergraduate Research Reports: Riya Manimaran on Hybrid Learning
Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more
30 May, 2023
Conference Reports: Weiying Li at AERA 2023
Weiying Li shares her experience at the AERA 2023 Conference on “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth.” Read more
26 May, 2023
Kimiko Ryokai & Team Awarded 1.29M
Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more
26 May, 2023
Conference Grants: Katherine Song at CHI 23
Katherine presented "Lotio: Lotion-Mediated Interaction with an Electronic Skin-Worn Display" and "Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy Storage." Read more
25 May, 2023
Jacob Gaboury Co-Edits Critical Inquiry
Weihong Bao, Daniel Morgan, and our own Jacob Gaboury co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on Medium/Environment. Read more
25 May, 2023
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2023
Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more
24 May, 2023
Clancy Wilmott Receives Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentorship Award
The UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award honors members of the Berkeley faculty and teaching staff who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students. Read more
19 May, 2023
Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Graduates
Art by Tiare Ribeaux. Read more
18 May, 2023
Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more
10 May, 2023
Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at CHI 23
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Eric Rawn presented my paper “Understanding Version Control as Material Interaction with Quickpose” at the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI (Conference on Computer-Human Interaction) in Hamburg, Germany Read more
02 May, 2023
Celeste Kidd on Why Aren't Babies Little Adults
Why are babies small and grownups big? Why are babies so helpless, instead of little versions of adults? Do babies know they're babies? How do babies grow? How do babies learn to talk? Read more
24 Apr, 2023
Celeste Kidd Publishes on Why We Disagree So Often
Is a dog more similar to a chicken or an eagle? Is a penguin noisy? Is a whale friendly?
Celeste Kidd and team say these absurd-sounding questions might help us better understand what’s at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments. Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual in Poetry & the Senses Chapbook
The Arts Research Center published a chapbook featuring their 2020 Poetry & the Senses Fellows, including Alex Saum-Pascual! Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum at the Rorschach Theatre
Alum Miyoko Conley's play was presented as a reading earlier this month. Read more
14 Apr, 2023
Morgan Ames Publishes Algorithmic Modernity
Read more
06 Apr, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more
05 Apr, 2023
CoRL Papers Published in Proceedings of Machine Learning
Ken Goldberg has been included in the Conference on Robotic Learning proceedings. Read more
03 Apr, 2023
BCNM Around the Web April 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this April! Read more
02 Apr, 2023
Ken Goldberg on Creative Robots for Nautil.us
Jeanne Carstensen spotlights Ken Goldberg's work on creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.
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31 Mar, 2023
BCNM Around the Web March 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this March! Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
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
20 Mar, 2023
Valencia James Co-Curates The Parables Experience
The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients
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
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
27 Feb, 2023
Rachel Chen to Join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Doctoral student in specical education and new media Rachel Chen to join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Read more
27 Feb, 2023
Hannah Zeavin on the Triumph of the Therapeutic
Hannah Zeavin talks with Alex Colston about navigating Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis. . Read more
07 Feb, 2023
Grace Gipson on Pop Junctions
On the Pop Junctions blog, BCNM alum Grace Gipson discusses race, fandom, and casting Halle Bailey in the the 2023 live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Gillian Rose Video & Transcript Now Online
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05 Jan, 2023
Spring 2023 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more
30 Dec, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
29 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at SHOT 2022
Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Digital Literature for the End of the World
Digital technologies, climate damage, algorithms, capitalocene, ecology, environmental studies, and digital literature! Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022
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22 Dec, 2022
Fall 2022 Events in Review
Thank you so much for joining us for another semester of BCNM events! We've collected our event transcripts and videos so you can tune in to amazing lectures from Pua Case, BCNM alumni Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, Visiting Scholar Gillian Rose, and more. Read more
16 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the National Humanities Conference
Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more
16 Dec, 2022
Yasnaya Aguilar Gil Video & Transcript Now Online
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09 Dec, 2022
Grace Gipson Helps Launch Black Girls Magic in Media
This new curated Instagram account focuses on depictions of Black girls and women in the media. Read more
05 Dec, 2022
Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
01 Dec, 2022
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more
29 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Class Fund Recipients
We’re thrilled to be able to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more
29 Nov, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on the Composite Case
Hannah writes about the fate of the children of psychoanalysis for Parapraxis. Read more
28 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our 2022 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
27 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Valencia James: AI_am Read more
18 Nov, 2022
BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
18 Nov, 2022
Sim2Real & Optimist with Ken Goldberg
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16 Nov, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Launches Parapraxis
A print magazine devoted to psychoanalysis called Parapraxis. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Alum Bo Ruberg on Queer Digital Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Read more
15 Nov, 2022
BCNM Around the Web November
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
14 Nov, 2022
AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M
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09 Nov, 2022
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) encourages the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2022
Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
BCNM at American Studies Association 2022
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
26 Oct, 2022
Now Accepting Applications for 2023 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more
25 Oct, 2022
Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more
24 Oct, 2022
BCNM Around the Web October
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this October! Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Melancholic Media by Hannah Zeavin
Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more
20 Oct, 2022
Pablo Paredes Joins the University of Maryland
Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads with Liza Gak
BCNM DE Liza Gak joins Data Skeptic to discuss her research on harmful weight loss advertising. Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Conference Grants: William Morgan at SLSA 2022
William Morgan, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant recipient, presented “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
A Century of Women & the Carillon
Alum Tiffany Ng is the PI on this beautiful new digital humanities project. Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Image caption: Video still of Bruno Latour lecturing at UC Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2005 Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Congratulations to Sarah Sterman on being named a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Announcing the Fall 2022 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more
27 Sep, 2022
BCNM Statement in Solidarity with Iranian Protestors
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
16 Sep, 2022
Why ‘environments’ in games are always historical: a provocation
Emma Fraser is featured in Historical Games Network. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Celeste Kidd's "Learning with certainty in childhood"
Celeste Kidd and Carolyn Baer published "Learning with certainty in childhood" in Science Direct. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Summer Research Report: Irma Barbosa
Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more
27 Aug, 2022
Fall 2022 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more
18 Aug, 2022
Lyman Report: Julia Irwin
Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more
17 Aug, 2022
Justin Berner Appointed Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Justin Berner joins NYU Shanghai as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
Summer 2022 Research with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan
Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more
12 Aug, 2022
BCNM Around the Web August 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
09 Aug, 2022
Conference Report: Molly Nicholas at Creativity and Cognition
Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more
07 Aug, 2022
Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information
New research from Celeste Kidd published in Biology Letters. Read more
06 Aug, 2022
The United States in Collapse
Gail De Kosnik writes for the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs. Read more
06 Aug, 2022
I'm Baby: Digital Reproduction in the Metavese
Hannah Zeavin has a new article out in The Baffler. Read more
04 Aug, 2022
BCNM Around the Web July 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
02 Aug, 2022
Why Are Pictures of Space So Powerful?
Trevor Paglen is interviewed for VICE Magazine.
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28 Jul, 2022
Xiaowei Wang Co-Editor of Logic Magazine
Congratulations and best wishes to Xiaowei Wang who will co-lead Logic Magazine's pivot to becoming the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine. Read more
21 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series, featuring Kelli Moore, Gloria Emeagwali, Gillian Rose, and more! Read more
17 Jul, 2022
The Distance Cure Reviewed in The Nation
Danielle Carr review's Hannah Zeavin's "The Distance Cure" in The Nation. Read more
10 Jul, 2022
#BlackGamersMatter: Gaming and the Black Imaginary
Dr. Grace Gipson speaks on Black gamers as part of Temple University's series on Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism. Read more
08 Jul, 2022
Abigail Lomibao on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
BCNM Around the Web June 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
24 Jun, 2022
Liat Berdugo Transcript Now Online
Revisit this great event with Liat Berdugo on "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine." Read more
23 Jun, 2022
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 BCNM Events in Review
Check out our roundup of the last year of BCNM events, featuring event details, video recordings, and transcripts! Read more
15 Jun, 2022
Michelle Carney on Bringing ML and UX Together
Alum Michelle Carney speaks to the Experiencing Data podcast about her mission to bring machine learning and user interface design together. Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
02 Jun, 2022
Conference Reports: Katherine Song at CHI 2022
Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more
21 May, 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
17 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Graduates
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías Read more
16 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
Project by Jessie Mindel with Selin Longmire, Angelica Song, Bradley Russo. Read more
11 May, 2022
Grace Gipson's Course Featured in VCU News
We love learning about our alumni's courses across the country! Check out this feature in Viriginia Commonwealth University News about Grace Gipson's Humanizing the Black Female Voice in Television. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Conference Grant Reports: Elisa Giardina Papa at the Venice Biennale
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28 Apr, 2022
The Queer Posthumanism of Video Games that cannot be Played
Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
People Are Not Fixed Media by Ritwik Banerji
Ritwik published an article illustrating the Fixed media which are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Noura Howell on Cracks in the Success Narrative
Noura Howell reflects on her failures in design research practice in "Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnogrpahy". Read more
19 Apr, 2022
BCNM at Data and the Metaverse
BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse." Read more
19 Apr, 2022
Algorithms Adore Extreme Right Content
Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!
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13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
08 Apr, 2022
Imaginable Featured in Big Think
Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome. Read more
05 Apr, 2022
Liza Gak Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship & Tonya Nguyen Receives Honorable Mention
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Therapy With a Human Face by Hannah Zeavin
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Michelle Carney on Building More Human, Helpful, and Ethical Systems
Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
The Wall Street Journal Reviews Imaginable
Emily Bobrow writes "Jane McGonigal Believes Games Can Change the World" for the WSJ. Read more
30 Mar, 2022
Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more
12 Mar, 2022
Announcing the Spring 2022 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more
07 Mar, 2022
Sophia Hussain in The Poetry Project
Sophia Hussain is featured in the remembrances of Etel Adnan!
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02 Mar, 2022
BCNM Around the Web March 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this March! Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Announcing the 2022 Lyman Recipient
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24 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
18 Feb, 2022
HTNM Video Now Online: Yásnaya Aguilar Gil
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26 Jan, 2022
2022 Robotics Predictions with Ken Goldberg
The Robot Report shares robotics predictions from industry experts, including our own Ken Goldberg. Read more
23 Jan, 2022
An Ode to Handwriting by Greg Niemeyer
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22 Jan, 2022
BCNM Around the Web January 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Alex Saum-Pascual in Hyperrhiz
Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut appears in Hyperrhiz 24's Fall issue. Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Spring 2022 Applications for the Designated Emphasis and Certificate Now Open
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
13 Jan, 2022
Alenda Chang Reviews Feral Atlas
Alenda Y Chang's review of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene is featured in the Winter 2021 issue of the journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
04 Jan, 2022
Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more
29 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg on The Golem & AI
Ken Goldberg discusses artificial intelligence in relation to the classic film, The Golem. Read more
26 Dec, 2021
New Paper on Learning Efficient Grasping Sets
Ken Goldberg's lab publishes "LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasping Sets for Exploratory Grasping." Read more
16 Dec, 2021
Congratulating Our Fall 2021 Graduates
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
14 Dec, 2021
Andrew Key Reviews The Distance Cure
Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in The Point Magazine. Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Xincun Du. Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Laura Cushing-Harries Reviews The Distance Cure
Hannah Zeavin's book is reviewed in The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. Read more
12 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Grasping in Science News for Students
"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! Read more
08 Dec, 2021
Bo Ruberg's Queer Games Avant-Garde Reviewed
Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and Culture Read more
08 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web November 2021
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
07 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo
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06 Dec, 2021
ATC Video Now Online: Maria Thereza Alves
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16 Nov, 2021
Noura Howell Joins Georgia Tech
BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Grace Gipson on Humanizing the Black Experience
BCNM alum Grace Gipson gave a lecture about representations of the Black experience for the Freedom School 3.0 lecture series. Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Conference Grants: Vincente Perez on ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS
Vincente Perez, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipient, presented "ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS: BLACK TWITTER, SIGNIFYIN', AND THE MUNDANE" at the 22nd annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Read more
14 Nov, 2021
Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more
18 Oct, 2021
On the Wings of Ada Lovelace by Camille Crittenden
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more
18 Oct, 2021
Grace Gipson Making Our Stories Visible
Grace Gipson recently presented a compelling and thorough lecture on Black experiences portrayed in television. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
BCNM Around the Web October 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! 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
02 Oct, 2021
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin discusses empathy as a computational model in a guest post for AI Now Institute. Read more
27 Sep, 2021
Jenna Burrell Joins BCNM Executive Committee
We extend a warm welcome to Professor Jenna Burrell, who has joined BCNM's executive committee. Read more
14 Sep, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Media + Environment
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Julia Irwin & the Gilbreth Archives
Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more
01 Sep, 2021
E&T Reviews Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure
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30 Aug, 2021
Summer Research: Hala Kaddoura on Joy
Hala Kaddoura received a BCNM summer research award to advance her art practice. She traveled to Lebanon to begin a new project on joy. Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg and a Roadmap for US Robotics
Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition". Read more
21 Aug, 2021
BCNM Around the Web August 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more
21 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on The Distance Cure with Adam Savage
Hannah Zeavin features on KQED Broadcast to speak with Adam Savage about The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Mental Healthcare in the Washington Post
The U.S. has never tried a comprehensive approach to mental health care, writes Hannah Zeavin the Washington Post. Read more
19 Aug, 2021
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jessie Mindel on Kaleidoscope
Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Grace Gipson's Favorite Comic Book Characters
Grace Gipson chatted with the Chicago Humanities Festival on comics, characters, and authors! Check it out! Read more
14 Aug, 2021
Alenda Chang's Argument for the Environmental Digital Humanities
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30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 History and Theory of New Media Season
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
And now for something different! Eric Paulos on Capturing the Cosmos
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25 Jul, 2021
Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL and IRL Spheres Now Online
BCNM was thrilled to cosponsor this great event from the Center for Race and Gender, now viewable online! 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
22 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg Co-Author on Optimization for Imitation Learning
Ken Goldberg co-authored a paper with Zaynah Javed, Daniel S. Brown, Satvik Sharma, Jerry Zhu, Ashwin Balakrishna, Marek Petrik, and Anca D. Dragan on Policy Gradient Bayesian Robust Optimization for Imitation Learning. Read more
20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Insights Robotics
Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more
10 Jul, 2021
KC Forcier Reviews Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more
10 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Robots and Creativity
Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
Fall 2021 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate Now Open
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26 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg & the CDL Reading Group on Klara and the Sun
Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more
25 Jun, 2021
Neyran Turan's Venice Biennale Exhibition Featured in the News
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25 Jun, 2021
Tiffany Ng Promoted to Associate Professor
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22 Jun, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more
19 Jun, 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
18 Jun, 2021
Noura Howell on Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring
Artwork by Noura Howell Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Getting a Grip on Reality
Ken Goldberg recently published the editorial for Science Robotics. Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Grace Gipson on The Past and Future of Comics
Grace Gipson recently discussed Black women's impact on the history and future of comic books during the Chicago Humanities Festival. Read more
04 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on AmbiRobotics on the Robot Report
BCNM's Ken Goldberg features on The Robot Report Podcast to give the inside scoop on robotics and automation and intelligent systems at Ambi Robotics. Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Interview in Mad in America
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin speaks on teletherapy and other communicative technologies in her interview with Mad in America. Read more
29 May, 2021
Miyoko Conley in the Bay Area Playwright's Festival
BCNM alum Miyoko Conley's play Human Museum will be featured in the 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Read more
27 May, 2021
Camille Crittenden Excellence in Management Award
Congratulations to BCNM's Camille Crittendon for receiving the Berkeley Staff Assembly’s 2021 Excellence in Management Award! Read more
26 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg on AI and Robots in a Post Pandemic World
Ken Goldberg recently spoke at IBM Think 2021, a conference focused on all things related to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Read more
26 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Christiane Paul
Check out the updated transcript for Christiane Paul's HTNM lecture, "Online: Art & AI"! Read more
25 May, 2021
BCNM Around the Web May 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! 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.
Artwork by Tina Piracci Read more
21 May, 2021
Congratulating Our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
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
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Ambi Robotics on the Robot Report
Ken Goldberg recently featured on Episode 41 of The Robot Report Podcast to talk about his team's work in powering Ambi Robotics' robots. Read more
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Emerges from Stealth
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08 May, 2021
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
07 May, 2021
Watch CITRIS Women in Tech Videos Now
Check out the videos of the 5th Annual CITRIS Women in Tech Symposium available online! Read more
03 May, 2021
Abigail De Kosnik on Humanities and Pandemic Culture
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
30 Apr, 2021
BCNM at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more
25 Apr, 2021
David Bamman on Characterizing English Variation on Social Media
BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more
25 Apr, 2021
Watch Alenda Chang Talk on Playing for the Planet
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
24 Apr, 2021
David Bamman Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations, David Bamman, on being promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Information. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
Jacob Gaboury Promoted to Associate Professor
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21 Apr, 2021
Janaki Vivrekar on Discovering HCI at Berkeley
BCNM Certificate and EECS graduate student Janaki Vivrekar has compiled a list of on-campus resources, departments, and centers for those interested in studying the intersection of technology, communication, society, arts and design. Read more
20 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Other Intelligence
Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! Read more
17 Apr, 2021
BCNM Around the Web April 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more
17 Apr, 2021
Björn Hartmann on Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off
Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more
17 Apr, 2021
Celeste Kidd Receives Janet Taylor Spence Award
BCNM faculty member Celeste Kidd is a recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for her work on knowledge acquisition! Read more
08 Apr, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 Faculty Seed Grants
Photo credit: Jill Miller. Read more
08 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on the New Wave of Robotic Grasping
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
01 Apr, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Non-Volitional Behavior Change in Everyday Robotics
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' paper is featured in the proceedings of the International Conference on the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction. Read more
31 Mar, 2021
Call for Entries: Refamiliarization
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29 Mar, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
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19 Mar, 2021
The Book of the Dead in 3D with Rita Lucarelli
UC Berkeley Professor and Egypgytologist Rita Lucarelli's BCNM funded 3D coffin modeling project is set to debut at the Phoebe Hearst Museum later this year. Read more
18 Mar, 2021
Alenda Chang Interview at Serpentine Galleries
Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more
16 Mar, 2021
Trevor Paglen Interview on the Art Angle
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed on the Art Angle podcast. Check it out! Read more
15 Mar, 2021
BCNM Around the Web March 2021
Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more
09 Mar, 2021
"What Can a Robot Do?" With Ken Goldberg
Professor Ken Goldberg recently delved into the connections between nature and technology in a Nero Magazine interview. Read more
09 Mar, 2021
Rita Lucarelli on Crocodile Mummies in Ancient Egypt
Rita Lucarelli, a UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Egyptology, spoke about crocodile mummies in the Fiat Vox podcast.
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01 Mar, 2021
Eric Paulos Promoted to Full Professor
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22 Feb, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Medical Design
Ken Goldberg recently spoke with Medical Design and Outsourcing on artifical intelligence and surgical robots. Read more
19 Feb, 2021
Björn Hartmann on Debugging Deep Learning Programs
Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Debugging Deep Learning Programs using Program Structure and Model Behavior". Read more
14 Feb, 2021
Black Future Feminist Launched by Grace Gipson
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08 Feb, 2021
BCNM Around the Web February 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
07 Feb, 2021
BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Celeste Kidd at AI Debate 2
Celeste Kidd speaks at AI Debate 2 "Moving AI Forward: An Interdisciplinary Approach". Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Six Books About Robots & AI from Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Alenda Chang on Gamers with Glasses
Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
29 Jan, 2021
BCNM Around the Web January 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
24 Jan, 2021
Tom McEnaney Awarded Mellon New Directions Fellowship
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24 Jan, 2021
Ken Goldberg Awarded Toyota Research Institute Grant
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17 Dec, 2020
Celeste Kidd on Why Babies Aren't Just Little Adults
How do babies learn to talk? Do babies know they're babies? Celeste Kidd answers these questions in VPR's new podcast episode! Read more
10 Dec, 2020
Into Beethoven's Sound Box by Alum Olivia Ting
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09 Dec, 2020
Spring 2021 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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01 Dec, 2020
Björn Hartmann on Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages
Björn Hartmann recently published a paper titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages." Read more
30 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more
28 Nov, 2020
Bo Ruberg in Queer Gaming In Conversation
Bo Ruberg leads a conversation with fellow designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer to talk about queer game design and the thought processes behind it. Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI, Automation, and Work in the Age of Anxiety
Ken Golberg describes the role of artificial intelligence and automation technology in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
19 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities
Alex Saum-Pascual's essay is featured in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices. Read more
14 Nov, 2020
Playing Nature Reviewed in ISLE
Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE. Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Announcing our 2020 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2020 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!
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12 Nov, 2020
Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
09 Nov, 2020
Miyoko Conley Awarded Tailspinners Fellowship
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06 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web November 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more
01 Nov, 2020
Celeste Kidd on Let's Learn About
Celeste Kidd features on Let's Learn About: How Humans Form Knowledge Read more
31 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Receives BCNM Faculty Seed Grant
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19 Oct, 2020
Alum Jingyi Li in Ada Lovelace Week
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12 Oct, 2020
Claudia von Vacano on Building STEAM for DH and Electronic Literature
Claudia von Vacano publishes an article on Electronic Book Review! Read more
11 Oct, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Published
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07 Oct, 2020
Alenda Chang and Playing Nature Featured in ASLE
Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Janaki Vivrekar's QuarantineAI
Janaki Vivrekar was recently interviewed by the Life in Quarantine Project on her Quarantined AI work. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg and Tata Communications on How AI Can Diversify Human Thinking
Ken Goldberg worked on a global study with Tata Communications, looking at the potential impact of AI on human thinking. Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
29 Sep, 2020
John Scott Co-Authors Paper on Popularity of Peer-Shared Artifacts in Online Learning Environments
John Scott's co-authored paper earned an honorable mention for best paper submission at the Conference on Educational Data Science 2020. Read more
24 Sep, 2020
Trevor Paglen Interviewed in Document Journal
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
23 Sep, 2020
Justin Berner Publishes Unhelpful Tools
Justin Berner published an essay titled "Unhelpful Tools: Reexamining the Digital Humanities through Eugenio Tisselli’s degenerative and regenerative" on Electronic Book Review earlier this month! Read more
23 Sep, 2020
Seed Grants Recipient: Celeste Kidd and The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition during Belief Formation in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more
02 Sep, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik Named the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media
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30 Aug, 2020
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2020 Class Fund Recipients
We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more
29 Aug, 2020
Ken Goldberg on the Uncanny Valley on Double Talk
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15 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment
Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more
10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 History and Theory of New Media Season
This year, we are thrilled to share that our theme for the 2020-2021 series is Indigenous Technologies. Read more
08 Aug, 2020
Mediating Art and Science Co-Edited by Alenda Chang
Media+Environment publishes its latest issue, with three new essays on reconciling art and science. Read more
07 Aug, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking
The article is included in the Gathering: Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities. Read more
06 Aug, 2020
Noura Howell Joins NC State University
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03 Aug, 2020
Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities
Alex Saum-Pascual co-edits this amazing collection that features a host of BCNM contributions! Read more
29 Jul, 2020
Fall 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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24 Jul, 2020
Mechademia Guest-Edited by Andrea Horbinski Published
The issue on "Transnational Fandom" is available via the University of Minnesota Press. Read more
18 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Lab Teaches Robots to Sew Sutures
Look forward to robotic surgeon assistants! Read more
17 Jul, 2020
BCNM Around the Web July 2020
Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more
09 Jul, 2020
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes A Manifesto for Environmental Game Design
"The landscapes we inhabit are in part a product of our representations, and increasingly they will need to be consciously designed rather than left to chance." Read more
08 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Robot Grasping on Marketplace
The pandemic has increased demand to automate warehouses, but the technology isn’t quite there yet to improve conditions for, much less replace, human workers. Read more
06 Jul, 2020
Trevor Paglen on The Art Angle
A new podcast on why alum Trevor Paglen is doing everything he can to warn humanity about artificial intelligence. Read more
02 Jul, 2020
Clancy Wilmott & Emma Fraser Publish Ruins of the Smart City
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
01 Jul, 2020
Juliana Friend Named Woodrow Wilson Newcombe Fellow
This prestigious fellowship supports promising scholars in the completion of their dissertations examining ethics and religion. Read more
18 Jun, 2020
Bo Ruberg Published in Indie Games in the Digital Age
"The powers and pitfalls of queer indie game-making: An interview with Mo Cohen" appears in this Bloomsbury edition. Read more
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
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Around the Web June 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more
10 Jun, 2020
Critical Making Projects in Spring 2020 Made @ Berkeley
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03 Jun, 2020
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Tony McDade. We say their names in order to express our horror and rage at the ongoing crisis of anti-Black police violence in this country and across the world. Read more
30 May, 2020
Electronic Literature Final Projects
Check out the awesome final projects for Alex Saum-Pascual's Electronic Literature class! Image credit: Sergio Cabada Ortiz, Las abajeñas
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30 May, 2020
Video Games Have Always Been Queer Reviewed in American Journal of Play
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15 May, 2020
Poetry from Alex Saum-Pascual in The New River
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14 May, 2020
BCNM Around the Web May 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more
13 May, 2020
Alenda Chang on Advisory Board of Video Games and the Humanities
Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more
12 May, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature"
BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual published "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature? And Why Should We Care?" in the 2019 Electronic Literature Organization essay collection. Read more
30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: William Morgan on Machine Learning and the Digital Realization of Deleuze
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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
29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating Our 2020 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!
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29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating our 2020 Graduates
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27 Apr, 2020
The Berkeley Center for New Media to Join the College of Engineering
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020. Read more
26 Apr, 2020
Revisited: Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
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
21 Apr, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Summer Research Fellows
We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more
16 Apr, 2020
BCNM Around the Web April 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
14 Apr, 2020
Alum Katherine Chandler Publishes Unmanning
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12 Apr, 2020
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
05 Apr, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Margaret Rhee
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01 Apr, 2020
Rogue Archives in Digital Humanities Quarterly
A live-tweeted review of Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was published in DHQ. Read more
30 Mar, 2020
Announcing Our Spring 2020 Graduate Cohort
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17 Mar, 2020
Video Now Online: Visit Day Live
A great video tour of some of the many Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, prototyping, and designcreative spaces at UC Berkeley, now online! Read more
17 Mar, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Joins ELO’s Board of Directors
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13 Mar, 2020
Ken Goldberg on How AI Amplifies Human Competencies
Ken Goldberg was interviewed on AI and machine learning for the Rotman School of Management's Winter 2020 magazine issue. Read more
10 Mar, 2020
BCNM Around the Web March 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more
09 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Rahul Gairola
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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
04 Mar, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Machine Landscapes
Trevor Paglen contributed to the February 2019 issue of Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene. Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: BCNM at the Shenzhen Biennale
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
27 Feb, 2020
Francis McKay Receives Research Position at Oxford
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20 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang's Media+Environment Featured at UCSB
Alenda Chang and her colleagues established an online journal Media+Environment. Check out the UCSB in depth discussion here! Read more
20 Feb, 2020
BCNM Around the Web February 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Shannon Jackson at After Tomorrow
The After Tomorrow: Oakland and Saint-Denis cooperation project officially launched at Cal's Global Urban Humanities Department. Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Irene Chien Joins Board of the Journal of Visual Culture
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19 Feb, 2020
Celeste Kidd Receives John Templeton Grant
Celeste Kidd receives John Templeton Grant which is awarded to the development of curiosity in childhood. Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
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
06 Feb, 2020
Commons Conversation Revisited: Rahul Gairola
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06 Feb, 2020
DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI in Pew Research
Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life Read more
05 Feb, 2020
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
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg Keynotes Healthcare Robotics Forum
Ken Goldberg was a keynote speaker at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum 2019 in Santa Clara. Read more
04 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: Xiaowei Wang on Pearl Parties at SLSA
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
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
29 Jan, 2020
Conference Grants: Harry Burson on the Sound of Globalization
Harry Burson, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented his research on "The Sound of Globalization: An Archaeology of Immersive Media at the World’s Fair" at the Media Matter: Media-Archaeological Research and Artistic Practice conference. Read more
28 Jan, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellows
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
13 Jan, 2020
BCNM Around the Web January 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more
12 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Marisa Morán Jahn
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11 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Being Human
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more
10 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Madeline Gannon
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08 Jan, 2020
Björn Hartmann and Eric Paulos at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium. Read more
07 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen on Human Biases in AI
Monocle Weekly published an interview with alum Trevor Paglen on our artificial intelligence systems. Read more
05 Jan, 2020
Jacob Gaboury Speaks at Training Humans
Jacob Gaboury spoke at the Fondazione Prada Exhibition, Training Humans, by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford. Read more
26 Dec, 2019
Revisited: Critical Practices Showcase
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24 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen’s ImageNet Roulette
ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more
20 Dec, 2019
See the BCNM Commons in its Interstellar Glory
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20 Dec, 2019
BCNM Around the Web December 2019
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
18 Dec, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes Playing Nature
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16 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Deep Learning Transfer
Hate making your bed? This new bed finds a fun new robotic solution! Read more
08 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen at Nam June Paik Art Center
Trevor Paglen's first solo exhibition in Korea is held at the Nam June Paik Art Center until February 2, 2020. Read more
02 Dec, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik on Baby Yoda in the Washington Post
BCNM Director Abigail de Kosnik wrote about the Baby Yoda "GIF Takedown" and why it matters in a recent article for the Washington Post. Read more
27 Nov, 2019
Spring 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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19 Nov, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more
17 Nov, 2019
Announcing our Fall 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Shuang Yan. Read more
02 Nov, 2019
BCNM Around the Web November 2019
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
22 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
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17 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Rhonda Holberton
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16 Oct, 2019
BCNM around the Web October 2019
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
16 Oct, 2019
BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more
15 Oct, 2019
Art by BCNM faculty is being featured in the HyperObjects exhibit at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery in Wurster Hall. Read more
15 Oct, 2019
Alumni Juliana Friend and Ritwik Banerji in Fieldsights
Juliana Friend reviews Ritwik Banerji's work on algorithm and anthropology. 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
25 Sep, 2019
Nicholas de Monchaux on the Planetary Radio
De Monchaux discusses Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo on Planetary Radio, the Planetary Society podcast. 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 Sep, 2019
Kris Fallon Publishes Where Truth Lies
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10 Sep, 2019
Trevor Paglen as the Fall 2019 Lamar Dodd Chair at UGA
The University of Georgia awards Trevor Paglen with the Lama Dodd Professional Chair as he joins them this year to teach an interdisciplinary seminar. Read more
04 Sep, 2019
BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico. Read more
01 Sep, 2019
BCNM around the Web September 2019
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
29 Aug, 2019
Keith Feldman on Racism and Refugees
Keith Feldman published a striking op-ed on racism and refugees in the Daily Cal. Read more
29 Aug, 2019
Zeynep Tufekci on Digital Infrastructures That Serve Humanity
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28 Aug, 2019
Tom McEnaney Promoted to Associate Professor
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22 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Tory Jeffay on Photographic Evidence & Police Body Cameras
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21 Aug, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg and Queerness in Video Games on Team LFG
Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG Read more
20 Aug, 2019
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
18 Aug, 2019
Conference Grants: Malika Imhotep on Toni Morrison and Digital Humanities
Malika presented “On Sethe’s Back: rememory, afro-cyborgues and black feminist ante-humanism" at the 2019 American Literature Association annual meeting. Read more
14 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at New Approaches to Transmedia Language Pedagogy International Conference
Alex presented the keynote at this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. Read more
03 Aug, 2019
Training Humans at Fondazione Prada
Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford for the Fondazione Prada exhibition, running from 12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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11 Jul, 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review
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
09 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more
08 Jul, 2019
Fall 2019 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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05 Jul, 2019
Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review
Working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media, Ken shares his thoughts on making robots less clumsy when grabbing objects. Read more
04 Jul, 2019
Trevor Paglen & Kronos Quartet's Sight Machine at the Barbican
Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. 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
22 Jun, 2019
Welcoming Keith Feldman to BCNM's Executive Committee
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19 Jun, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Co-Editor of Media + Environment
Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more
11 Jun, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Regimes of Identification
Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more
08 Jun, 2019
Qian Yu on Computer Relationships at CHI 2019
Qian presented "I Almost Fell in Love with a Machine: Speaking with Computers Affects Closeness and Self-disclosure" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
07 Jun, 2019
Stefanos Geroulanos HTNM Video Now Online
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30 May, 2019
Revisited: Art as Critique Conference
Felix Rosen recaps ARC’s Art as Critique Conference from March 1, 2019, which BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor. Read more
29 May, 2019
Celeste Kidd and the Role of Reasoning and Metacognition in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more
28 May, 2019
Soravis Prakkamakul on VR at CHI 2019
Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
27 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Co-Chairing AI & Inclusivity Signature Initiative
The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more
21 May, 2019
Noura Howell on Sensors in Public Urban Environments at CHI 2019
Noura presented "The Heart Sounds Bench" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference of 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
19 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Graduates
Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more
19 May, 2019
Alum Jenni Higgs Publishes Learning as Movement in Social Design-Based Experiments
The article, written with Kris Gutiérrez, José Lizárraga, and Eduardo Rivero, was published in Human Development 2019, volume 62! Read more
18 May, 2019
Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more
18 May, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in Entangled Realities at HEK
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
09 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more
07 May, 2019
Alum Naomi Bragin Receives NEH Summer Stipend
Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970." Read more
02 May, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual Promoted to Associate Professor
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28 Apr, 2019
HTNM Revisited: Stefanos Geroulanos
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23 Apr, 2019
Machine Learning in Robotics Highlighted in NYT with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg shares his insights into machine learning in the New York Times. Read more
20 Apr, 2019
César Torres Appointed Assistant Professor at UT Arlington
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19 Apr, 2019
Grace Gipson at MSU Comics Forum
Talking Comics and (Dis)ability in the Midwest at the 2019 Michigan State University Comics Forum. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
Tory Jeffay on Surveillance at SCMS
Tory presented "Body/Camera: Viewing Raw Images of Policing through the Lens of Early Film" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more
14 Apr, 2019
ATC Revisited: Rhonda Holberton
Photo by Malachi Tran. Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
10 Apr, 2019
Kirsten Chen Curates Play Me Love You
BCNM undergrad Kirsten Chen curates a virtual reality art show at Swim Gallery! Read more
02 Apr, 2019
Eric Paulos a Mentor at the C&C Graduate Student Symposium
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
23 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kim Stanley Robinson
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22 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kelani Nichole
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21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
15 Mar, 2019
Gail De Kosnik Co-Edits Special Issue of Transformative Works and Cultures Published
Co-edited with andré carrington, the issue's theme is "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color." Read more
14 Mar, 2019
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 Mar, 2019
Alum Margaret Rhee Receives Best Book Award from AAAS
The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. Read more
04 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg's DexNet 4.0 in Axios
"Berkeley's two-armed robot hints at a new future for warehouses" writes Kaveh Waddell for Axios. Read more
28 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net 4.0 in Forbes
Goldberg's work is featured in the Forbe's article, "Getting a Better Grip on Reality, Robots Poised for Wider Role on Assembly Lines" Read more
28 Feb, 2019
Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more
26 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on AI & the Future of Work
Goldberg is featured on the NewRetirement podcast in a brand new episode title, "AI, Automation and the Future of Work" Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Music & Architecture: Selected Bibliography Compiled by Alum Tiffany Ng
Alum Tiffany Ng's Music & Architecture: Selected Bibliography is available on Humanities Commons Read more
23 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg in MIT Sloan Webinar on AI
Ken Goldberg joins Ally MacDonald to discuss how AI and humans can work together. Read more
21 Feb, 2019
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
19 Feb, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at MLA Commons
Alex Saum-Pascual attended the 2019 Chicago Modern Language Association Convention, presenting her research on the intersection of digital humanities and Hispanic studies. Read more
18 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Robots in Nature Machine Intelligence
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
17 Feb, 2019
Alum Ritwik Banerji at the MMaP Research Center
Check out this video of Ritwik discussing "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation" Read more
16 Feb, 2019
Stuart Geiger at University of Washington eScience Institute
Alum Stuart Geiger, ethnographer of computation and computational ethnographer; research staff at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, gave a talk on the human aspects of data science research. Read more
15 Feb, 2019
On June 10-14, alum Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching a course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Read more
14 Feb, 2019
BCNM Alumni Help Launch Digital Studies Institute at Michigan
This new institute explores the impact of technology on identity, inequality, and ethics.
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11 Feb, 2019
Malika Imhotep at the National African American Digital Humanities Conference
Malika Imhotep received a conference grant from the BCNM to help defray costs associated with attending African American Digital Humanities initiative conference. Read more
09 Feb, 2019
BCNM in Vision & Light: Processing Perception
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04 Feb, 2019
Now Accepting Applications for our 2019-2020 Faculty Seed Grants
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04 Feb, 2019
Molly Nicholas Receives SNAP Fellowship
BCNM DE student Molly Nicholas recieved the 2019 Snap Fellowship! Read more
29 Jan, 2019
Spring 2019 Applications for the Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more
28 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg in Bloomberg Review
Goldberg was quoted in an article on the development of robotic stunts performed at Disney theme parks. Read more
15 Jan, 2019
BCNM at Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association 2018
Shannon Jackson and alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Caitlin Marshall participated in States of Emergence from November 8-11, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. Read more
11 Jan, 2019
Online Hate Index in the News
Claudia Von Vacano and Brittan Heller's research on hate speech identifying AI was recently covered in the California Magazine. Read more
11 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg at the Blum Center
Ken Goldberg visited the Blum Center to speak on the future of work and on human and AI interaction. Read more
31 Dec, 2018
Ken Goldberg at the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science on Robot & Frank
Ken Goldberg discussed how Robot and Frank has inspired him at the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science Film Festival. Read more
26 Dec, 2018
Announcing Our Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Cosmo Caixa
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
28 Nov, 2018
Jacob Gaboury at Situations
Jacob Gaboury presented a lecture on queer computing and the concept of data processing beyond successful communication. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Teams Up with Kronos Quartet for Sight Machine
Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
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26 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg in Forbes on The Workforce
Forbes magazine featured Ken Goldberg and his work and study regarding the dependence of AI on human workers, and vice versa. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Conference Grants: Grace Gipson and Malika Imhotep at ‘Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black’
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26 Nov, 2018
ATC Revisited: Kim Stanley Robinson
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21 Nov, 2018
Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
07 Nov, 2018
Trevor Paglen Featured in ArtNet Article on AI in Art
In an exploration of the art movement pushed forward by AI, Trevor Paglen's work is analyzed in Art Net. Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Legacies of Gaming and Technology
Bonnie Ruberg attended the 2018-19 digital humanities symposium, "My Mother Was a Computer: Legacies of Gender and Technology," as a panelist. Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg on Queer Indie Video Games in American Quarterly
Volume 70 of American Quarterly features pieces on the Digital Humanities, one work of which is written by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg. Read more
31 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg in 5 Takeaways from TechCrunch Disrupt
Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.
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29 Oct, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Conference Grant Recipients
We’re thrilled to be supporting our graduates as they travel across the globe to share their scholarship. Read more
24 Oct, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen's Art Acquired by Stanford's Denning House
Alum Trevor Paglen's two dye sublimation prints were recently acquired by Stanford University. Read more
04 Oct, 2018
Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Geospatial Representation, Design, and Critical Cartography
Recruitment opens September 24th, 2018 and runs through November 5th, 2018. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Ryan Ikeda & Electronic Literature
This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press
Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
26 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations Revisited: Belinda Middleweek
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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
24 Sep, 2018
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018
BCNM professor Ken Goldberg, UCOT's Chris Ategeka and Google AI's Timnit Gebru presented "Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It" at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2018. Read more
17 Sep, 2018
Ken Goldberg Interview in the Sloan Review
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
12 Sep, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on #PostWeb at IberoAmericana
Join Alex in Madrid for a book talk on her amazing new work #PostWeb! Read more
30 Aug, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Noura Howell on Biosensing
This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. Read more
23 Aug, 2018
Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
From architectural intelligence to cybernetics and play, algorithms of oppression to the human computer in the stone age, we have a fantastic line up for this year's program! Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Tom McEnaney Launches GloUH Colloquium
Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more
20 Aug, 2018
The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more
17 Aug, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Machine Learning & UX Panel at IDEO
The IDEO MLUX Industry Panel focused on Designing and using Data Science Ethically. Read more
15 Aug, 2018
Claudia von Vacano on AI that Recognizes Hate Speech
Cronkite News highlights the work by the D-Lab on the Online Hate Index. Read more
14 Aug, 2018
The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. Read more
12 Aug, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibited at the Halsey McKay Gallery
The East Hampton Gallery features work by Nina Beier, Judith Hopf, John Miller, and Trevor Paglen, until August 26th. 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
27 Jul, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen in NYT Article on Facial Recognition Technology
In "What Do Facial Recognition Technologies Mean for Our Privacy?" Teicher focuses on how artists are using these apps. Read more
24 Jul, 2018
Alum Naomi Bragin in Topics of Meta
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18 Jul, 2018
Ritwik Banerji Published on Interactions with Artificial Social Agents
The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more
16 Jul, 2018
Help Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net Improve!
Wired magazine shares how we can enhance robots' ability to grasp through submitting object designs to Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net. Read more
10 Jul, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at the 2018 Seattle Art Fair
From August 2-5, 2018, you can see work by Trevor Paglen in Seattle! Read more
28 Jun, 2018
Fall 2018 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more
27 Jun, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Science on the Screen
Join Ken Goldberg on June 27th for a screening of Operator, followed by a discussion on the technologies presented in the film. Read more
26 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual at the DH Summer Lecture Series
This year, DH at Berkeley hosts a weekly DH Summer Lecture series, highlighting the distinguished work of faculty and scholars engaged in the digital humanities at UC Berkeley. Read more
25 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes #Postweb!
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20 Jun, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen in Time Magazine's "How Drones are Revolutionizing Art"
Time magazine explores how drones are altering our perspective and fundamentally changing the terms of art. Read more
19 Jun, 2018
Eric Paulos at On-Body Interaction at Dagstuhl
Eric Paulos was an invited Participant at the Dagstuh seminar "Embodied Cognition Meets Sensor/Actuator Engineering to Design New Interfaces." 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
Conference Grants: Malika Imhotep at AAG Annual Meeting
Malika Imhotep presented "Tracing Black Queer Spatialities" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting with help from a BCNM Conference Grant. Read more
14 Jun, 2018
Jacob Gaboury Quoted in The International Business Times on Virtual Plotting
Jacob Gaboury weighs in on movies that are adjusted to the brain waves of viewers. Read more
07 Jun, 2018
Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more
30 May, 2018
We're Hiring! - Office Manager & Events Coordinator Wanted!
The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. Read more
30 May, 2018
Soravis Prakkamakul on Facial Perception
Soravis Prakkamakul received a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant to present his paper "Reflexive Visual Inspection of Cleft Lip Faces — Analysis of Lookzone Focus Over Time" at the 63rd Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more
28 May, 2018
Queer Game Studies Reviewed on Electronic Book Review
Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg, was reviewed on Electronic Book Review. Read more
28 May, 2018
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Marissa Ahmed on Music, Improvisation, Ethnography
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
28 May, 2018
Jacob Gaboury Published in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities
Jacob Gaboury's "Critical Unmaking, or Queer Computation as a Radical Practice" was published in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Read more
28 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg on TechCrunch Robotics at Berkeley in CGTN America
Ken Goldberg, who was a keynote speaker at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, was featured on America CGTN. Read more
27 May, 2018
Research Dispatches: Joyce Lee on Auditory Data Representation
Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship. Read more
27 May, 2018
After the Private Self with Damon Young
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27 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg Published in The Wall Street Journal on The Robot-Human Alliance
Ken Goldberg contributed a commentary piece on human-machine collaboration to The Wall Street Journal. Read more
27 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg & Robots Featured in NBC Bay Area News
Ken Goldberg and his lab were interviewed by NBC Bay Area about the progress being made in robotics development at UC Berkeley. Read more
23 May, 2018
Welcome Claudia Von Vacano
We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more
18 May, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Published in Bodies of Information
Bodies of Information is a collection of feminist contributions to digital humanities, and one of the published authors to be featured in the book is alum Bonnie Ruberg. Read more
18 May, 2018
Molly Nicholas at CHI 2018
Molly Nicholas is a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient who attended "Engage at CHI" 2019 in Montréal, Canada. Read more
17 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net Research Spotlighted in Nature
Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more
17 May, 2018
ATC Video Now Online: Nicholas Negroponte
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16 May, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on the Human Contexts of Computation and Data at UC San Diego
The University of California, San Diego invited alum Stuart Geiger to present a talk on his research. Read more
08 May, 2018
Alum Jenni Higgs at the Digital Learning Symposium
Jenni Higgs was a presenter at the "Digital Learning in the Humanities and Beyond" sympopsium that took place at the University of California, Irvine. Read more
08 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at UTS, Australia
Ken Goldberg visited the UTS in Australia to discuss the boundaries between alive and live-like. Read more
07 May, 2018
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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07 May, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on #PostWeb at Bergen
As a part of Saum-Pascual's visit to the University of Bergen, she gave an overview of her forthcoming book release. Read more
03 May, 2018
Congratulating our 2018 New Media Undergraduate Certificate Class
Congratulations to these four stellar women, who have made a big impact at Cal in the New Media space. Read more
03 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Michigan School of Information
Ken Goldberg was recently invited by the University of Michigan to give a talk on the campus about his previous work and research. Read more
02 May, 2018
Undergraduate Certificate in the Daily Cal
The Undergraduate Certificate in New Media was listed as one of the 10 "cool majors" at UC Berkeley by The Daily Californian. Read more
30 Apr, 2018
Molly Nicholas at TEI 2018
As one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Molly Nicholas received funding to attend and present her research findings at TEI 2018. Read more
30 Apr, 2018
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Wired on Robot Manipulation
Ken Goldberg was quoted in "A Robot Does the Impossible: Assembling an Ikea Chair Without Having a Meltdown" in Wired. Read more
25 Apr, 2018
Research Insights: Algorithmic Ethnography with Ritwik Banerji
Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Greg Niemeyer Exhibiting in Joy Forum
BCNM faculty Greg Niemeyer will be participating in the "Hyperobjects" exhbition taking place in the Joy Forum & Rom 61 from April 26-30. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Exhibition
Asma Kazmi curated a fantastic virtual reality exhibition we were thrilled to preview as part of the Past is Present. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Symposium
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18 Apr, 2018
Announcing 2018 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! We are excited to support the amazing work these students will be completing over the summer. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
New Ken Goldberg Dex-Net Video Online
A video of Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 is now online, featured in publications such as the MIT Technology Review and Mashable. Read more
11 Apr, 2018
ATC Revisited: Irena Haiduk
Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Designated Emphasis & Certificate Cohort
We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
The BCNM Guide to CHI 2018
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
09 Apr, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger at the Data Science Institute at Manchester
Stuart Geiger spoke at the University of Manchester's Data Science Institute on The Human Contexts of Data: Infrastructures, Institutions, and Interpretations. Read more
20 Mar, 2018
HairIO by Hybrid Ecologies in the Press
BCNM Designated Emphasis Students Molly Nicholas and Christine Dierk, aided by BCNM faculty Eric Paulos, project HäirIÖ was featured heavily in the media! Read more
20 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Driverless Cars
Ken Goldberg was quoted in NY Times article on Driverless Cars. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Announcing the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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19 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Ken Goldberg gave a lounge lecture, "Beyond the Uncanny Valley of Dolls," at the Hearst Museum. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg at CITRIS Silicon Valley
Ken Goldberg will be attending the CITRIS Silicon Valley Forum, a new monthly series from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, on April 5. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Computational Ethnography at University of Copenhagen
Stuart Geiger gave a public talk at the IT University of Copenhagen about the ethnography of computation. Read more
13 Mar, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibited in Frankfurter Kunstverein
Trevor Paglen's work featured at exhibit at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Read more
13 Mar, 2018
Goldberg at Industry of Things World USA 2018
Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Photographs from Koci Hernandez Featured in Two New Books
Multimedia and Journalism Prof. Koci-Hernandez' photographs are featured in 100 Great Street Photographs and Mobile Street Photography. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Goldberg and da Vinci Robot in Wired
Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci robot's surgical potential was featured in Wired. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at the Cleveland Museum
Alum Trevor Paglen to speak at Cleveland Museum of Art Read more
05 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Robotics May 11
Ken Goldberg will be a speaker in the lineup for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics 2018 this coming May.
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02 Mar, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Computational Ethnography at the University of Maryland
Geiger spoke on Computational Ethnography as part of U of M iSchool's speaker series. Read more
02 Mar, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Beyond Academia Conference
Horbinski spoke at the Beyond Academia Conference as part of the Media and Communication panel. Read more
23 Feb, 2018
David Bates Presents Annual Straker Lecture at UBC
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
20 Feb, 2018
Announcing the Lyman 2018 Fellowship Recipients
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20 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg Included in Oxford's AI in a Week
Goldberg is included in the content on 'AI in a Week,' a crash-course on AI launched by Oxford Insights Read more
09 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen on e-Flux
Read Trevor Paglen's article on Fedorov's Geographies of Time on e-Flux Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Robot Renaissance in Wired
Goldberg was quoted in "Your Online Shopping Habit is Fueling a Robotics Renaissance" in Wired. Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Disco Ball Launched from New Zealand
Trevor Paglen launches 'Disco Ball' into space from New Zealand! Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity in RIA Robotics Online
Ken Goldberg featured on article on the multiplicity in Robotics Industries Association: Robotics Online. Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibited at the ICA Boston
Trevor Paglen's work is being exhibited in Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Read more
05 Feb, 2018
HTNM Natasha Schüll Video Now Online
Missed out on Natasha Schüll's talk about self-tracking devices? The video of her lecture is now live. Read more
04 Feb, 2018
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation Video Now Online
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
02 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at mono.klub
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
02 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Multiplicity in Wired
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
31 Jan, 2018
Hybrid Ecologies Lab Seeking Undergraduate Assistants
Are you a UC Berkeley student interested in participating in Human-Computer Interaction research? Join the Hybrid Ecologies Lab! Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Ken Goldberg at the Culture of the Future in Moscow
Ken Goldberg participated in arts 'laboratory' at NCCA, Moscow Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger at All Things in Moderation Conference
Stuart Geiger presented on Wikipedia algorithms at UCLA's All Things in Moderation Conference Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen on "Into the Impossible" Podcast
Paglen discusses his Orbital Reflector during "Speculative CubeSats" on the Center for Human Imagination's podcast.
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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
25 Jan, 2018
BCNM Now Accepting Applications for 2018-2019 Faculty Seed Grants
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25 Jan, 2018
Introducing our Spring 2018 Research Assistants
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
24 Jan, 2018
Goldberg Demystifying the Science in WALL-E
Prof. Ken Goldberg will demystify the science in WALL-E on Feb. 10th with JCCCSF. Read more
23 Jan, 2018
Congratulations to our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates!
Congratulations to Shangjun (Jenny) Jiang and Allison Nguyen our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Read more
23 Jan, 2018
Alum Kris Fallon on Docalogue December
Kris Fallon's film "Networks, Connection and Information" was featured on Docalogue! Read more
11 Jan, 2018
SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News
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05 Dec, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted on Kuri and Home Robotics in Wired
BCNM's Ken Goldberg was quoted in Wired on robotic help in the home. Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Trevor Paglen and Art in the Age of Mass Surveillance in The Guardian
BCNM alum and artist Trevor Paglen and his art were featured on an article on art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Ken Goldberg on The Next Billion Seconds
Ken Goldberg was featured on the podcast, The Next Ten Billion Seconds. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Grace Gipson on Gwendolyn Brooks in Black Perspectives
Grace Gipson penned a biography about Black poet laureate and committed activist Gwendolyn Brooks, celebrating the life and work she left behind. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort
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
20 Nov, 2017
Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort
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17 Nov, 2017
Shannon Jackson at PARSE Conference 2017
Shannon Jackson participated in the "Vocabularies of Exclusion" strand at the PARSE Conference 2017 this week. Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Niemeyer Receives Hewlett 50 Arts Commission Grant
Greg Niemeyer and collaborators DJ Spooky and the Internet Archive receive prestigious Hewlett 50 Arts Commission grant for data sonified hip-hop opera! Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the NRI PI Meeting
Ken Goldberg to present "Scalable Collaborative Human-Robot Learning" at the National Robotics Initiative PI meeting.
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13 Nov, 2017
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado Part of "Boricuas in Berkeley" Aiding Puerto Rico
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado, a BCNM graduate student, joins Boricuas in Berkeley to aid Puerto Rico. Read more
13 Nov, 2017
Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political
Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg on CBS Local on AI and the Workforce
Ken Goldberg is quoted by CBS Local in discussing the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg on RoBhat Labs in Daily Cal
Ken Goldberg is quoted in a Daily Cal article about RoBhat Labs and their latest Google Chrome extension release, Botcheck.me. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg and Team Published on BAIR
Ken Goldberg and team published on BAIR about DART: Noise Injection for Robust Imitation Learning. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Conference Grants: Will Payne at the Future of Food in St. Louis
Will Payne reflects on his experience at the Future of Food Studies conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Experts on Building Faster, More Secure AI Systems
Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more
27 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum-Pascual on Teaching Electronic Literature
Alex Saum-Pascual writes about her Digital Humanities course on e-literature, which she developed as a DH Fellow. Read more
24 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg at Collaborative Robots and Advance Vision Conference
Ken Goldberg speaks on the new wave in robot grasping at the Collaborative Robots and Advanced Vision Conference November 16th, 2017. 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
23 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger Published in ACM Proceedings
Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in ACM Proceedings. Read more
22 Oct, 2017
Revisited: Frank Foer, "World Without Mind"
Revisiting Frank Foer's ATC speaker event about his new book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Read more
19 Oct, 2017
Alum Reginold Royston Interviewed on Digital Humanities Research and Pedagogies
Reginold Royston is a media and cultural studies scholar who has recelty been interviewed on his work with digital humanities. Read more
18 Oct, 2017
Grace Gipson on Afrofuturism and Comic Books in Black Perspectives
Grace Gipson writes about the role of Black Women in the superhero comic book universe in works such as Misty Knight and Moon Girl. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
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
17 Oct, 2017
New York Times on BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen's Space Art
The New York Times features alum Trevor Paglen and his futuristic art. Read more
16 Oct, 2017
HTNM Revisited: Natasha Schüll
From the NYU professor's talk, "Datasense," in which she discussed from her forthcoming book, "Keeping Track: Sensor Tehnology, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life." Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society. Read more
12 Oct, 2017
Alum Trevor Paglen Named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow
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10 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger at the Bay Area Science Festival
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
10 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Robot Multiplicity
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
10 Oct, 2017
Sonia Katyal in Slate on AI, Algorithms, and Sexual Orientation
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
10 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Bloomberg on Anthropomorphized AI
Goldberg gives his opinion on Mark Sagar's creation "BabyX", a robotic baby that is terrifyingly lifelike. Read more
03 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg & Automation Lab on RTVE
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
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
18 Sep, 2017
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
07 Sep, 2017
Live Fieldwork with Bob & Maxine's Virtual Free Improvisation Orchestra
Human improviser meets machine improviser. Ritwik Banerji's Maxine improvises with Ken Ueno. Read more
31 Aug, 2017
Revisited: Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute
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29 Aug, 2017
Greg Niemeyer & Ron Rael at Focus on the Visual Conference
This year's UC Berkeley Librarian Association conference turns its eyes to the digital humanities field Read more
23 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! 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
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
08 Aug, 2017
Ryan Ikeda at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Ryan Ikeda reflects on his experience at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) this June in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Read more
02 Aug, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux at Exploratorium After Dark, Discussing Space Suits
Don't miss out on this opportunity to hear Prof. de Monchaux discuss human space travel with Adam Savage, famed industrial designer. Read more
02 Aug, 2017
Alpha60 White Paper Published and in the News!
Prof. Abigail de Kosnik's seed grant funded digital humanities tool has been garnering major attention in the news! Read more
01 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more
01 Aug, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Preparing Preschoolers for an Automated Economy
Prof. Goldberg commented on the growing trend of emphasizing coding skills in young children's classrooms. Read more
28 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the Applied Innovation Exchange
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
19 Jul, 2017
DexNet Collaboration with the Siemens Institute
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18 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg's WSJ Article Quoted in Forbes
Forbes draws from an article Professor Goldberg published earlier last month. Read more
15 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg in the Wall Street Journal
Goldberg recently published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on growing human-robotic partnerships. Read more
01 Jun, 2017
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Carmen Zheng
Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more
01 Jun, 2017
Abigail De Kosnik's Alpha 60 Featured in Daily Cal's Innovation Round Up
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01 Jun, 2017
Shannon Jackson on Arts & Public Service at SFMOMA
Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more
26 May, 2017
Shannon Jackson at Oakland Book Festival
Shannon Jackson, professor at BCNM, moderated "Envisioning Equity in the Arts" a discussion at the Oakland Book Festival. Read more
25 May, 2017
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Canyon Perry
Canyon Perry was selected to work with Yaira Roman Madonado on her project Literary and Digital Avant-Gardes in Post-National Puerto Rico. Read more
22 May, 2017
Grace Gipson at Black Imagine Oakland
Grace Gipson shared insights on comics and afrofuturism at the Black Imagine Oakland convention. Read more
13 May, 2017
Neyran Turan Receives Seed Grant for Cadavre Exquis
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11 May, 2017
Arts + Design Mondays @BAMPFA Videos Now Online
Check out the videos from some of the great lectures this semester, including our Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
08 May, 2017
NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making Showcase 2017 Revisited
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08 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Our Automated Future on NPR
Ken Goldberg was featured on NPR discussing robots and our automated future Read more
05 May, 2017
BCNM was well represented at CHI 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Read more
02 May, 2017
//supraliminal - Greg Niemeyer at ZKM
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01 May, 2017
Revisited: "Many to Many"
Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more
28 Apr, 2017
Ohmni TeleRobot Harnesses 20 Year-Old Research from Eric Paulos
Research from Eric Paulos’ 20 year-old PRoP research group is still creating products! Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Will Payne at the American Association of Geographers
Will Payne presented his research at the American Association of Geographers this April in Boston, MA. Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Technology and Forensic Evidence in Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina, Prof. of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Read more
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
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award Recipients
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06 Apr, 2017
Revisited Update: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
BCNM was proud to be part of UC Berkeley's 2017 Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon Read more
05 Apr, 2017
Revisited: "Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe"
with Jan De Vos Read more
05 Apr, 2017
Ken Goldberg in MIT Technology Review
Goldberg was featured in an article by MIT's Technology Review on robot learning and human tele-operation of machines. Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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20 Mar, 2017
CNMAT Website Soft-Launch
The Center of New Music and Audio Technologies‘ new website went public earlier this semester in a “soft” release. Read more
16 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: "Radical Technologies" with Adam Greenfield
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16 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Syncing... Subject, Media, Society"
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13 Mar, 2017
DH Fellows Talk with Juliana Friend
Juliana Friend and Laura K Nelson will lead the talk Digital Technologies and the Future of Qualitative and Interpretive Analysis. Read more
07 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Designing for Truth"
CatalogTree's Joris Maltha discussed using data design for richer narratives. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Greg Niemeyer’s Teaching Philosophy Featured in Le Monde
The BCNM faculty and Art Practice professor gave an interview in the renowned newspaper. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Radical Technologies"
with Adam Greenfield Read more
28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the Lyman 2017 Fellowship Recipients
This year's Lyman fellow and runner-up goes to... Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Hybrid Ecologies Lab Wins a Best Paper at CHI 2017
Light as a physical material? This paper won a major award for it. Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Introducing Our Undergraduate Research Fellows
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17 Feb, 2017
BCNM Now Accepting Applications for Faculty Seed Grants!
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16 Feb, 2017
Revisited: "Our Landscape Futures"
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
03 Feb, 2017
Engaged Courses: Critical Making Designs Protest Object
Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object. Read more
25 Jan, 2017
Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA
23 Jan, 2017
Walter Hood interviewed by Shannon Jackson in Boom California
Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more
19 Jan, 2017
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen in New York Times
Trevor Paglen was featured in the New York Times article "A String Quartet Concert, With an A.I. Assist" Read more
19 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg featured in Fast Company
The BCNM professor and his research in Dex-Net was recently featured in the article "Why It's so Hard for Robots to Get a Grip" Read more
18 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the 12th Annual Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
UC Berkeley students and faculty attended the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) Read more
13 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg on the Future of Work at the Mill Library
On Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 6:30pm Read more
16 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Rogue Archives" Book Launch
The discussion of Prof. De Kosnik's new book was held at University Press. Read more
12 Dec, 2016
Ken Goldberg at the 17th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Patent Law Conference
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08 Dec, 2016
Video Now Online: “Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes”
with Virginia Kuhn. Check it out! Read more
06 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Reading Robot Poetry!"
We revisit alum Margaret Rhee's reading from her new published collection Read more
22 Nov, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort
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
17 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes”
Miyoko Conley, BCNM DE candidate, recaps Virginia Kuhn's HTNM lecture, "Video Analytics From Keywords to Keyframes." Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Announcing the Fall 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are very excited to welcome our newest cohort of Ph.D Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate students Read more
14 Nov, 2016
Revisited: Technology, Space and Reason
Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more
25 Oct, 2016
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
24 Oct, 2016
The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more
24 Oct, 2016
GloUH: Gaming Virtual Bodies: Video Games in South Asian Cities
The series hosts Irene Chien, BCNM alumna, to speak on moving through South Asian cities both within video games Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Eric Paulos at Living Light in East Bay Express
In the East Bay Express's monthly discussion, artists gather in Bay Area living rooms to discuss new media. Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Ken Goldberg at the Samsung CEO Summit
The theme this year was "The Age of Insight and Learning" Read more
20 Oct, 2016
Henry Jenkins Interviews Gail de Kosnik on Rogue Archives
The third and final installment of Henry Jenkins' interview series with BCNM professor Gail de Kosnik has now been published Read more
18 Oct, 2016
Shannon Jackson at SFMOMA on Art & Performance
As a part of "Cosmic Ray: Bay Area Art and Experiment, 1950s to Now", a conversation series hosted on Tuesdays from October 11 to November 15th Read more
18 Oct, 2016
Together, we can think bigger and shape the future of new media Read more
18 Oct, 2016
BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor Lessons in NetProv: Collaborative Writing in the Digital Age Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Revisited: "Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene"
We recap this exciting lecture by Paul Edwards. Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Lydia Tuan and Digital Technology in Education
Lydia Tuan was selected to work with Amy Koehler-Catterson (Education) on digital technologies as pedagogical tools Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Announcing the BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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
11 Oct, 2016
Local Code by Nicholas de Monchaux Out Now at University of Princeton Architectural Press
04 Oct, 2016
Revisited: "Network Analysis of Media Studies"
On Miriam Posner's workshop event, recapped by Miyoko Conley. Read more
04 Oct, 2016
Rogue Archives Published!
An examination of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, looking in particular at Internet fan fiction archives. Congrats, Prof. De Kosnik! Read more
26 Sep, 2016
Alumna Margaret Rhee featured in S&F Online!
S&F Online is a triannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal of feminist theories and women’s movements Read more
12 Sep, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium
This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more
09 Sep, 2016
Greg Niemeyer at Malaga Digital Art History Summer School
Niemeyer taught at the Digital Art History Summer School in Malaga, Spain from September 4th to 9th 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
01 Sep, 2016
Announcing Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium
This event is a partnership between BCNM and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open!
All applications for Spring 2017 admittance are due November 1, 2016 Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Ken Goldberg at International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
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
01 Sep, 2016
Ritwik Banerji: How the Virtual Free Improviser Maxine Works
30 Aug, 2016
Jenni Higgs & Kyle Booten Receive National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships
These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season
his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Andrea Gagliano and Kyle Booten Featured on Berkeley ISchool News
A feature in the Berkeley School of Information news article "Teaching a Computer to Write Poetry" Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Revisited: BCNM 2016 Open House
As always, the conversations were deeply engaging and we were excited to find new possibilities for collaborations across the disciplines Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez and Software Aesthetics
Nicholaus Gutierrez was selected to teach "Software and Aesthetics" as a NWMEDIA R1B this past summer. Here, he describes the experience Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Digital Stories and Popular Voices in Puerto Rico
Here's what she discovered with a BCNM-funded grant Read more
23 Aug, 2016
Revisited: Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute 2016
Check out the photos from the event as well as the highlights of the various courses and lectures on offer Read more
11 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Reports: Ryan Ikeda on Technology as Learning
Ryan Ikeda received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on how technology in the classroom impacts modes of learning Read more
01 Aug, 2016
Many-to-Many Receives Digital Humanities Grant
Juliana Friend (Anthropology) received a Collaborative Research Grant from Digital Humanities at Berkeley for her project, Many to Many Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity at Tata Communication Summit
11 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the relationship between Man and Robot
11 Jul, 2016
Greetings from the New Director
We are delighted to welcome Nicholas de Monchaux to his new role as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media Read more
07 Jul, 2016
Two Honorable Mentions and a Best Paper at DIS 2016
This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more
05 Jul, 2016
Eric Paulos Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Eric has been a driving force in advancing research at the intersection of design, art, innovation, and development, and on campus Read more
30 Jun, 2016
Laura Devendorf and Abigail De Kosnik's paper wins Best Paper Award!
Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more
30 Jun, 2016
Laura Devendorf to Join ATLAS at CU Boulder
Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more
21 Jun, 2016
Lark Buckingham and Everything After
Lark Buckingham’s art centers around the forces that shape human identities, particularly those of the queer community 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
18 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg and robotic system changing laparoscopic surgery
The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more
31 May, 2016
Abigail de Kosnik receives Berkeley Collegium Grant
Prof. De Kosnik received the Collegium's grant, Narrowing the Gap Between Teaching and Research Read more
26 May, 2016
Through Practice: Ashley Ferro-Murray and Mark Lam
“Through Practice” by Ashley Ferro-Murray is a somatic exploration of the contemporary relationship between biomedicine and new media, or genetics (DNA code) Read more
26 May, 2016
Meet Lark Buckingham: Critical Design
Animator, filmmaker, performance artist, designer, tinkerer, activist, and data scientist, Lark Buckingham is a versatile and multidisciplinary provocateur. Read more
24 May, 2016
E-Literature Success in the Classroom
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24 May, 2016
Ashley Jerbic on her Undergrad Experience at Cal
Ashley Jerbic received her BA in Art Practice and Art History and a BCNM undergraduate certificate Read more
23 May, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual Receives Humanities Research Fellowship
Alex Saum-Pascual has received a Humanities Research Fellowship for the 2016-2017 year to study electronic literature in Spain! Read more
23 May, 2016
BCNM was thrilled to be so widely represented at the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia Read more
23 May, 2016
BCNM Alumna Margaret Rhee in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 pairs full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces from scholarly blogs and conference presentations Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing Our 2016 Undergraduate Certificate Grads
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
BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual & Kyle Booten at ELO 2016
BCNM was thrilled to be represented by Alex Saum-Pascual and Kyle Booten at the Electronic Literature Organization 2016 conference 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
17 May, 2016
Congratulations to the incredible faculty and students who represented BCNM at CHI 2016, the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. Read more
17 May, 2016
Motherhood and Raspberry Pi: Challenges for Mothers in Technology
The lack of gender diversity in technology fields has become a hot topic of late, for good reason Read more
17 May, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual's #SelfiePoetry Exhibited at code/switch Chicago
If you're in Chicago this summer, don't miss out on code/switch at the Women Made Gallery Read more
17 May, 2016
Ken Goldberg Quoted in MIT Technology Review
Author Will Knight turned to BCNM's Ken Goldberg to understand the importance of the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) Read more
12 May, 2016
BCNM is pleased to announce the awards of its first ever Faculty Seed Grant Read more
12 May, 2016
Revisited: Critical Making Exhibition
Critical Making students operationalize and critique the practice of making through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
09 May, 2016
Interactive Urban Lighting Recommended for NEA
UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media - one of 64 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town projects selected nationwide Read more
04 May, 2016
BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more
28 Apr, 2016
Gail De Kosnik Receives Berkeley Collegium Grant
BCNM's De Kosnik has received a Berkeley Collegium grant for her joint graduate/undergraduate class, "Making Sense of Cultural Data" Read more
26 Apr, 2016
Revisited: "Change and Stillness: Bodies and Gestures within Sensor Technology"
We recap this fascinating talk on this past showcase of sensor-technology art 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
19 Apr, 2016
Ashley Jerbic at the Stanford Learning Summit
Ashley has been extensively engaged in areas of research that touch upon 3D imaging, art history, art practice, and archaeology Read more
19 Apr, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual on DH Faire 2016
Check out Alex Saum-Pascual's blog on the event! Read more
14 Apr, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux and Alex Saum Pascual at 2016 Digital Humanities Faire
Check out social media from the event! Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Revisited: "A Right to Remember"
with Brewster Kahle, invited by the UC Berkeley Regents Lecture Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Announcing 2016 Summer Research Awards
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are all completing Read more
06 Apr, 2016
Alumna Bonnie Ruberg to Join Informatics at UC Irvine
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05 Apr, 2016
Before It's Too Late - Archiving What We (Don't) Care About
An astute lesson from Brewster Kahle, archive.org founder, shared with our director Read more
04 Apr, 2016
Video Now Online: "Locking the Web Open"
with Brewster Kahle Read more
29 Mar, 2016
Revisited: Insurgent Aesthetics
Ronak Kapadia, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, gave a talk on March 18th. Read the recap here. Read more
29 Mar, 2016
Ken Goldberg and Nicholas De Monchaux in Robolog
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21 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Critical Play"
A recap of Mary Flanagan's lecture, recapped by Kate Mattingly. Read more
17 Mar, 2016
Announcing the Spring 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
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15 Mar, 2016
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Rolling Stone
A Rolling Stone article was recently published, featuring Ken Goldberg, artist + professor Read more
02 Mar, 2016
At "The Art of Humanizing Robotics" with Ken Goldberg
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17 Feb, 2016
BCNM was pleased to host an open house for the Berkeley Engineering Annual Research Symposium of 2016 Read more
16 Feb, 2016
Revisited: "Machine Generated Culpability"
Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more
28 Jan, 2016
Apply now for the DE & Certificate in New Media
Applications for Fall 2016 admittance are due March 1, 2016 Read more
11 Dec, 2015
BCNM Undergraduate Ashley Jerbic featured on Digital Humanities
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10 Dec, 2015
Video Now Online: "Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process"
Watch this ATC lecture by Adrien Segal online here Read more
08 Dec, 2015
NWMEDIA 201 Final Presentations
We were excited to see the final presentations of NWMEDIA 201, Questioning New Media, our foundational seminar on art, technology, and culture! Read more
04 Dec, 2015
Revisited: "Everything After: Opossum Impressions"
We revisit Lark Buckingham's installation from this past week Read more
04 Dec, 2015
Meet BCNM Undergrad Andrew Frankel
A part of sound artist Tarek Atoui's BAM/PFA Matrix program at UC Berkeley. Read more
01 Dec, 2015
New Undergraduates Announcement!
Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Shannon Jackson in 809 | Artists as Activists
A discussion panel of Chicago-based artists who use their art to create social impact Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Alex Saum Pascual's @deshumani
@deshumani, which seeks to take Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset's "The Dehumanization of Art" into the 21st century Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Kate Mattingly on the Forty Part Motet
BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at De Young Museum
On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more
23 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
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23 Nov, 2015
Announcing our Newest Cohort of Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate Students
We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more
17 Nov, 2015
Ashley Ferro-Murray was three when she took her first ballet lesson — she hasn’t stopped dancing since, no matter the obstacle she’s faced. Read more
17 Nov, 2015
Raised in an Anglo-Spanish household in Madrid, Alex has always been fascinated by language Read more
16 Nov, 2015
Revisited: "Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing"
with Benjamin Bratton
a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) Read more
16 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Art, Technology, and Innovation in the Bay Area
09 Nov, 2015
First Set of Precarious Aesthetics Papers Online
You can read excerpts from the paper below and also click the paper titles to read the full text of the documents Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at 2015 Fortune Global Forum
02 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2015
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26 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg Counters Robotics Sensationalism in "Nature"
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21 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg's book review in Nature
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21 Oct, 2015
Greg Niemeyer on Sciences/Humanities in The Daily Cal
The article speaks about the division between the sciences and the humanities, and presents various opinions and experiences of students and faculty as they approach this divide Read more
20 Oct, 2015
Kate Mattingly on Dancer's Group
19 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg Paper at IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2015
You can see the other presentations in the technical program here! Read more
15 Oct, 2015
Professor Shannon Jackson On The Work of Andrea Fraser
This was the first event in the CCA Wattis Institute's year-long season about and around the work of Andrea Fraser Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2015 Conference
Ken was a co-author on "Transition State Clustering: Unsupervised Surgical Trajectory Segmentation For Robot Learning " Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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08 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Recommended Spring 16 Courses Now Out!
Check out the highlights of new media courses on offer this Spring 2016! And here are a few we're proud to be offering. Read more
06 Oct, 2015
New Spring 2016 Undergrad E-Lit Course!
This upper-division undergraduate course epitomizes digital humanities - literary analysis alongside basic programming skills and DH tools and methods! Read more
01 Oct, 2015
Video Now Online: Vito Acconci
Didn't snag a seat at Vito Acconci's ATC lecture? We saved one for you here. Read more
01 Oct, 2015
Field Notes: Kyle Booten and a Digital Verse Lab
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30 Sep, 2015
In Memory of Tim Campbell
His incredible positive energy gave us all strength and inspired us in our creative pursuits Read more
25 Sep, 2015
BCNM's Annual Open House Calls for Applications for Emphasis and Certificate in New Media!
24 Sep, 2015
Announcing the 2015-2016 HTNM Series!
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24 Sep, 2015
Gail de Kosnik on Critical Approaches to the Digital Humanities
BCNM is proud to be a supporting partner of the first UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Summer Institute Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Alan Liu and Clifford Lynch at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
BCNM is proud to be a supporting partner of the 1st UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Summer Institute Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Greg Niemeyer and MacKenzie Alessi at DHSI
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24 Sep, 2015
David Bamman at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Check out the highlights from Friday, August 21st’s presentation by David Bamman Read more
16 Sep, 2015
GNOSISONG: An Audiovisual Installation by Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer
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01 Sep, 2015
Research Opportunity: Textile Display Technology
"We are currently looking to work with 2-3 graduate or undergraduate researchers..." Read more
01 Sep, 2015
Calling Artists, Coders, E-Lit Lovers: GSR Opportunity
Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual! Read more
19 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual Published in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
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13 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual: Exhibitions, Research, and Writing
10 Aug, 2015
MacKenzie Alessi Explores Data Arts with Digital Humanities
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05 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual E-Literature Class Funded by Digital Humanities
We're thrilled to see that Alex Saum-Pascual's (Spanish) new electronic literature course has been funded by Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley! Read more
27 Jul, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Robots and the Cloud in Time Magazine
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21 Jul, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: Nick Gutierrez
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20 Jul, 2015
Revisited: Critical Making Course Exhibition
Check out photos of amazing student work! Read more
20 Jul, 2015
Revisited: Alexander Weheliye
from his HTNM lecture, "System Addicts," earlier this April Read more
20 Jul, 2015
HTNM Video Now Online: System Addict
A recording of Alexander Weheliye's lecture, "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music" Read more
13 Jul, 2015
Best Video Prize at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge
07 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Félix Treviño
02 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Bonnie Ruberg
01 Jul, 2015
Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks. Read more
30 Jun, 2015
Björn Hartmann Awarded Tenure
23 Jun, 2015
The Berkeley Center for New Media was well represented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2015 in Victoria, Canada this year! Read more
15 Jun, 2015
Margaret Rhee Robot Poetry Collection
Radio Heart is an excerpt from her larger full-length collection Love, Robot currently under review Read more
11 Jun, 2015
Ken Goldberg at Brain Bar Budapest
29 Apr, 2015
Announcing our Spring 2015 Graduating Class
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
07 Apr, 2015
Revisited: "Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal"
The masterclass workshop led by Peruvian artist Jose Carlos Martinat and Enrique Mayorga, revisited Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Revisited: 2015 Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
Written by Anna Carey, event co-organizer Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Summer 2015 Research Awards
BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more
24 Mar, 2015
Precarious Aesthetics Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more
18 Mar, 2015
BCNM Welcomes Spring 2015 DE & Certificate Students
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
10 Mar, 2015
from the UCSB professor's talk, "Against the Cultural Singularity" Read more
03 Mar, 2015
Bonnie Ruberg Discusses Queerness and Games
In Bonnie's introduction, "Video Games, Queerness, and Beyond," she makes a case for the importance of talking about queerness when we talk about games Read more
17 Feb, 2015
The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more
11 Feb, 2015
Kimiko's research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of beyond-desktop computational media Read more
11 Feb, 2015
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Being the Machine is a project that explores the relationship between humans-that-make and machines-that-make Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley Read more
10 Feb, 2015
'My dissertation, “Pixel Whipped: Pain, Pleasure, and Media,” uses the concept of virtual pain to reimagine the role of embodiment in supposedly disembodied media form' Read more
03 Feb, 2015
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
09 Dec, 2014
Questioning New Media Final Presentations
Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement Read more
03 Dec, 2014
Welcoming New Undergraduate Certificate Students
Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Welcoming New DE and Certificate Students
10 Nov, 2014
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain: "Robots, Botox, and Google Glass"
BCNM's Ken Goldberg and his wife, Tiffany Shlain, have made a new mini-documentary Read more
14 Oct, 2014
Image as Location – Xavier Lucchesi "Glance Inside the Body"
Xavier Lucchesi’s art takes the traditions of the nude, the portrait, and the still life into the digital age Read more
30 Sep, 2014
We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more
29 Sep, 2014
Bates’ discourse drew from the post-WWII linking of human thought processes with that of artificial intelligence Read more
11 Sep, 2014
Announcing IMAGE as LOCATION
A Bay Area Festival that explores the relationship between people, pictures, and places 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
03 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence Read more
02 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more
01 Sep, 2014
A roboticist, artist, critic, filmmaker, scientist, teacher, and academic, Ken Goldberg has long been pushing the boundaries of art and technology 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
01 Aug, 2014
This month, hear how BCNM Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch supports open source information through diversifying Wikipedia and digitizing small museums’ archives
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22 Jul, 2014
Why We Love Robots Wins Botsker
The Robot Film Festival is "an annual celebration of robots on screen and in performance" Read more
01 Jul, 2014
Meet Kimiko Ryokai and Laura Devendorf
We’re sharing ten stories of BCNM’s life so far Read more
02 Jun, 2014
We're celebrating our 10th year! Hear how BCNM professor Eric Paulos designs devices that transform how we understand our world Read more
19 May, 2014
Cyberphysical Democracy: Online Platforms and Offline Action
Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more
01 May, 2014
Jen Schradie has never been afraid to confront the societal inequality she witnesses Read more
24 Apr, 2014
Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class
We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more
15 Apr, 2014
Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept
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
10 Apr, 2014
Announcing BCNM's 2014 Summer Research Awards
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
07 Apr, 2014
David Bates at the Centre Pompidou
Check out his thoughtful discussion of the relationship between technology and humans 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
27 Mar, 2014
The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends – The Atlantic
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
26 Mar, 2014
Presenting the Robots and New Media Symposium
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
03 Mar, 2014
This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Ng explores urban spaces through the architecture of music. Read more
24 Feb, 2014
TTT Revisted: Create Your Bot Hackathon
This past Saturday, the Turing Test Tournament Team at the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the Create Your Chatbot Hackathon Read more
03 Feb, 2014
Connect with BCNM's Ashley Bellouin and Rare Instruments
Bellouin's music is otherworldly, haunting, and as unique as the instrument that created it Read more
21 Jan, 2014
Connect with BCNM's Naomi Bragin and Street Dance
This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Naomi Bragin explores power structures through street dance. Read more
04 Dec, 2013
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
02 Dec, 2013
Connect with Chris Goetz and QGCon
The Berkeley Center for New Media’s interdisciplinary environment has provided Chris with a research home that allows him to draw from various fields — from psychology to computer science to design 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
19 Nov, 2013
Announcing October 2013 Turing Test Tournament Winner
Every month, BCNM and OTSP recognize a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score Read more
06 Nov, 2013
A Response to Eyal Weizman’s “Forensic Architecture” by Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric and Designated Emphasis in New Media) Read more
29 Oct, 2013
Revisited: Creating Minds
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
15 Oct, 2013
First Winner of the Turing Test Tournament
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
15 Oct, 2013
"What Can Robots Teach Us About Ourselves?"
As technology keeps getting better and better, we humans keep asking ourselves, what separates us from our robotic creations? Read more
24 Sep, 2013
HTNM Revisited: Peter Lunenfeld
24 Sep, 2013
HTNM Blog - Peter Lunenfeld
Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric) responds to the most recent History & Theory of New Media Lecture Read more
17 Sep, 2013
BCNM Accepting Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate Applications!
28 Aug, 2013
The Color of New Media Working Group
Supported by UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. Organized by Professor Abigail De Kosnik (BCNM, TDPS) Read more
14 Aug, 2013
Announcing the 2013-2014 History and Theory in New Media Lecture Series
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
07 Aug, 2013
Introducing BCNM's New Graduate Adviser
Coye is an Associate Professor at the School of Information and a longtime member of the Berkeley Center for New Media Executive Committee Read more
22 Jul, 2013
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
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
20 May, 2013
New Media 2013 Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM Designated Emphasis Students
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
08 May, 2013
BCNM to create Turing Test game for "On the Same Page" program
The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answer Read more
07 May, 2013
BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media
Congratulations to all! Read more
23 Apr, 2013
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
19 Mar, 2013
ATC Lecture: "Art of the Exoskeleton: 3D Printing for the Human Condition"
By Scott Summit, designer and founder of Bespoke Innovations Read more
27 Feb, 2013
BCNM faculty, Kimiko Ryokai, wins Google Faculty Research Award
20 Feb, 2013
Björn Hartmann awarded 2013 Sloan Foundation Fellowship
04 Feb, 2013
Video Art in the BCNM Commons, New Work by Jason Fritz, "Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only"
Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster Read more
28 Jan, 2013
Applications for M.A./Ph.D. Academic Programs in New Media due March 1, 2013
Applications for Fall 2013 admittance to both programs are due March 1, 2013 Read more
21 Dec, 2012
Body Conscious Design, Hsin-Hsien Chiu, Featured in Taiwanese Design Magazine La Vie
Hsin-Hsien Chiu, Ph.D. candidate in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
12 Dec, 2012
Human Rights Day: How Social Video Changes the Game for Advocacy and Accountability
To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, Camille Crittenden, the executive director of CITRIS's Data and Democracy Initiative, wrote an article in the Huffington Post 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
29 Nov, 2012
Berkeley Center for New Media Seeking Webmaster
Experience in web design with skills in Wordpress and PHP is essential. Familiarity with JavaScript, XML, MySQL, and UNIX commands also helpful Read more
07 Nov, 2012
Interface Design for Intelligent Elderly Home Care Environments
Hsin-Hsien visited Living 3.0, a national research institution based in Taiwan, to learn more about the latest technologies that are being used to create smart space Read more
10 Oct, 2012
International Day of the Girl and the Ongoing Need for More Girls in STEM Fields
CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative Director, Camille Crittenden wrote for the Huffington Post on Tuesday to advocate for continued efforts to bring girls into STEM fields Read more
18 Sep, 2012
Applications for M.A./Ph.D. Academic Programs in New Media
Due November 1, 2012 Read more
05 Sep, 2012
Announcing the Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series
Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more
04 Sep, 2012
BCNM students collaborate on ZERO1 Biennial performance piece "Tulle/Tool"
Ashley Ferro-Murray and Erin Colleen Johnson recently collaborated on "Tulle/Tool," a performance piece commissioned by ZERO1 Biennial Read more
31 Aug, 2012
Alenda Chang, Ph.D. Rhetoric, DE in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
30 Jun, 2012
Forest by Bit, Using LiDAR to Represent Sierra Nevada Forests
07 Jun, 2012
BCNM Welcomes New Faculty Member Eric Paulos
14 May, 2012
Research in Computational Aesthetics
Brian A. Barsky is Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science at UC Berkeley Read more
14 May, 2012
Who’s Achievement? — Evaluating Self-Constructed and Peer-Evaluated Badge Systems in Online Classrooms
07 May, 2012
Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Innovation at Chicago's Field Museum
Professor and BCNM Executive Committee member Paz Gutierrez will be exhibiting one of her digitally fabricated walls made of agricultural infill at the Field Museum Read more
07 May, 2012
Welcoming BCNM's New DE and Certificate Students
We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more
04 May, 2012
Kony 2012 Video Inspires Students to Take Action
07 Mar, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Peter Lyman Fellow
For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more
01 Feb, 2012
A Variation on the Powers of Ten: Framework for Understanding Research
Currently, Powers of Ten will be showing at SFMOMA Six Lines of Flight on Sept. 15-Dec. 30, 2012
Read more
11 Jan, 2012
Artist Talk with Walter Kim on Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces
Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more
25 Oct, 2011
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011)
We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more
20 Oct, 2011
Hybrid Wisdom is offering a $1000 prize for the best idea contributed! Read more
19 Oct, 2011
Applications for M.A./Ph.D. Academic Programs in New Media due March 1, 2012
03 Oct, 2011
The Human Rights Center presents Women, War, and Peace Screening - "I Came to Testify"
October 19, 2011 Read more
12 Sep, 2011
Turning Data into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at CITRIS
12 Sep, 2011
'Friend' of the Court: New Media and Transitional Justice
01 Sep, 2011
Position Open: Assistant Professor, New Media, Tenure Track
Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more
29 Aug, 2011
HyperSource: Bridging the Gap Between Source and Code-Related Web Sites
14 Jul, 2011
Eden: A Professional Multitouch Tool for Constructing Virtual Organic Environments
15 Jun, 2011
The New Social App Lab at CITRIS
The Social App Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative and supported at UC Berkeley by CITRIS Read more
15 Jun, 2011
CITRIS Launches Data and Democracy Initiative
Read more
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Applications are now open. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
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New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 18, 2024
Applications are due March 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Next deadline - November 1, 2024
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Applications are now open. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
Applications for Summer 2024 are due March 5, 2024.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 18, 2024
Applications are due March 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Next deadline - November 1, 2024
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