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
17 Mar, 2023
Conference
The Past into the Future: Afrofuturism and Ancient Egypt
with Rita Lucarelli (UC Berkeley), Max Jefferson (UC Berkeley), Ytasha Womack (Chicago), Vorris Nunley (UC Riverside), Darryl Smith (UC Berkeley), John Jennings (UC Riverside), Stanford Carpenter (University of Chicago), Claudia Attimonelli (University of Bari, Italy), Dexter Story (UCLA), Luciana Parisi (Duke University), Abu Qadim Haqq, and more.
Presented by Center of Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) with the support of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS), the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC), and the Italian Institute of Culture, San Francisco. Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with Osman Khan
Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the South Asia Art Initiative Read more
08 Mar, 2023
Special Events
Ferguson Rises: Black Grief, Insurgent Memory, and the Politics of Transformation
with Rashad Arman Timmons, Abolition Democracy Dissertation Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory and PhD Candidate African American Studies, UC Berkeley; Michael Brown Sr, Father of Michael Brown Jr. and Founder, The Michael Brown Organization/Chosen For Change; Cal Brown, Stepmother of Michael Brown Jr. and Co-Founder, The Michael Brown Organization/Chosen For Change. Read more
09 Feb, 2023
Special Events
Hollywood Internships for AAPI Students
AAPI industry leaders Jason Lin (Producer, Story Arch Pictures), Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright (Executive Director, Hillman Grad Productions), and Laura Reddy (Manager, Range Media Partners). Read more
30 Jan, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Generative Art and Deep Learning AI
with Nettrice Gaskins
Digital artist, academic, and cultural critic
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Jacobs Institute for Design, 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
12 Sep, 2022
Commons Conversations
Body Language: Sick and Disabled Crazy Femmes in Conversation
with Ra Malika Imhotep
Black feminist writer, performance artist, and scholar
and Caleb Luna
Artist and public scholar
Moderated by Miyuki Baker
with an introduction from BCNM's Director Gail De Kosnik
Co-presented with the Color of New Media Working Group and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Department of English, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Read more
07 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Asian Americans in Hollywood: Breaking Through with Lasting Impact in the Industry
with Daniel Wu, Melvin Mar, Jason Lin, and Gail De Kosnik
Co-sponsored by Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. The first in a two part series on Asian Americans and AAPI in the media and entertainment industry. The event will be free of charge and open to the public, but will encourage attendees to make donations to the new Scholarship for AAPI and Media & Entertainment Creatives. 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
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
Event with Edgar Fabián Frías and short film screenings 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
01 Jul, 2021
Special Events
Black Feminist Cyborg Study: Panel and Celebration
BCNM is pleased to co-sponsor The Black Feminist Cyborg Study Session end of semester panel and celebration! Read more
18 Feb, 2021
Special Events
Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres
with Janel Martinez, Zahira Kelly & Alan Pelaez Lopez
Hosted by the Center for Race & Gender and co-sponsored by the Multicultural Community Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative, UC Berkeley Graduate Women’s Project, and the UC Berkeley Sexual Orientation and Gender Advocacy Project. Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Clancy Wilmott: Green Parks, Red Dust: Maps, Visual Imperialism and the Cartographic imagination
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
18 Nov, 2019
Commons Conversations
Insurgent Aesthetics: Flight, Freedom, and Fantasy on the Frontiers of US Empire
with Ronak K. Kapadia
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Co-sponsored by the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, the Center for Race and Gender, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Gender and Women's Studies Department 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
06 Mar, 2019
Special Events
with Gina Marchetti
University of Hong Kong
Hosted by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Department of Film Studies, and the Center for Chinese Studies. 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
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
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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
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
28 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor 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
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
14 Oct, 2015
with Claus Pias, Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more
05 Apr, 2015
Workshops
Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal
A Masterclass with Jose Carlos Martinat. Open to artists, inventors, and engineers 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
26 Feb, 2015
History & Theory
by Chris Goto-Jones, Leiden 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
10 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Student Research Presentations and New DE Welcome
Cutting edge research happening here at BCNM! Join us in celebration of these amazing grad students. Read more
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
16 Sep, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional
with Allan deSouza, UC Berkeley faculty and photographer 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
23 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums
with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
13 Feb, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
All the West is Wasteland: Art in the Post-Agrarian Landscape
with Fernando Garcia Dory, artist and agro-ecologist Read more
23 Jan, 2012
Special Events
Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy
with Howard Rheingold, independent scholar at Stanford's Department of Communication 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
21 Sep, 2011
Special Events
Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Video Voyages
An evening at the BCNM Commons 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
17 Nov, 2010
Special Events
Artist Lecture: Nao Bustamante
Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing Read more
5 days ago
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
Faculty Seed Grants: Asma Kazmi & After Jahangir
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24 Apr, 2023
Celeste Kidd on You Are Not So Smart
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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
18 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Untitled (atomic) form 2
Alex published her latest work in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Read more
12 Apr, 2023
Osman Khan Video & Transcript Now Online!
Read more
06 Apr, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more
06 Apr, 2023
Work by Edgar Fabián Frías at the Riverside Art Museum
The exhibition Land of Milk and Honey takes place February 25–May 28, 2023. Read more
05 Apr, 2023
Profile of Alum Edgar Fabian Frias in Voyage LA
Check out this new interview with alum Edgar Fabián Frías in VoyageLA! Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Abigail De Kosnik Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Valencia James Co-Curates The Parables Experience
The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more
16 Mar, 2023
Nettrice Gaskins Video & Transcript Now Online
Read more
19 Jan, 2023
Asian Americans in Hollywood Video and Transcript Now Online
Read more
17 Jan, 2023
Ra Malika Imhotep, and Caleb Luna, “Body Language Sick and Disabled Crazy Femmes in Conversation”
Artists Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb explore the beauty that lives within them through embodied study and research as well as everyday practices of solidarity and collective liberation Read more
15 Dec, 2022
Summer 2023 Courses: NWMEDIA 151AC
Transforming Tech: Issues and Interventions in STEM and Silicon Valley offered online with Matthew Berry! Read more
09 Dec, 2022
Darieck Scott on Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
We were thrilled to co-sponsor "Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics," by Darieck Scott. 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
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
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
26 Oct, 2022
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías Co-curates TheyFriend
THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! Read more
26 Oct, 2022
The 7th annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication will feature Berkeley professors Eric Paulos and Bjoern Hartmann and other experts and enthusiasts from many areas of academia and industry, in order to explore the use of computational tools for the creation of physical things. 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
13 Oct, 2022
Tom McEnaney on the Problems of Removing Accents from Call Centers
Tom speaks on the issues involved in filtering accented speech in a talk with KQED. Read more
11 Oct, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías Starts Mutant Musings
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías launches a new channel and discusses cryptoart and censorship. 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
06 Oct, 2022
Apply for the AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
We are thrilled to launch the inaugural UC Berkeley Center for New Media AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship. Applications are due March 1, 2023. Read more
18 Aug, 2022
Lyman Report: Julia Irwin
Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more
05 Aug, 2022
Reginold Royston at Ghana as Crossroads 2022
Alum Reginold Royston presented Digital Diaspora / Digital Ambivalence. 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
21 Jul, 2022
Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance
The latest paper from alum Reginold Royston in Social Media + Society. Read more
18 Jul, 2022
Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary
Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. 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
22 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature Reviewed in the Journal of Environmental Media
Read the review by Kara Stone of "Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games" Read more
21 Jun, 2022
BCNM Spring '22 In-Person Graduation
As a celebration of our Spring 2022 BCNM graduates, we hosted a successful in person event for them on May 2nd, in which they were presented with BCNM certificates. Read more
19 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on Ecology & Technology
Watch Alenda Chang present at Penn State on ecology and technology! Read more
14 Jun, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías at TheyFriend
Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the 2021 TheyFriend Nonbinary performance festival and you can see their work online! Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
17 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Graduates
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías Read more
17 May, 2022
Affect & Algorithm with Hannah Zeavin
Hannah discussed Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Read more
29 Apr, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías Performs in HI, Solo #11
HI, SOLO is a bi-annual performance series conceived by Alexx Shilling and Devika Wickremesinghe. 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
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!
Read more
30 Mar, 2022
Pop Mythology Reviews Imaginable
'Imaginable' is the most important book you’ll read this year! Read more
28 Mar, 2022
Ukrainians are rallying global support via social media. But don’t call it a TikTok war, writes alum Jen Schradie for the Washington Post. Read more
23 Mar, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías and Jill Miller present at ICA SF's Meantime. Read more
11 Mar, 2022
Asian Americans in Hollywood Video Now Online
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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
Read more
15 Feb, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías on Making Room For Your Art
Edgar Fabián Frías shared their "Time Magic, NFTs, and Unlearning Capitalist Panic" in the podcast. Read more
11 Feb, 2022
BCNM Around the Web February 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Reginold Royston on Podcasting Africa: Pedagogy, Research and Praxis
Reginold Royston discusses pedagogy, research, and praxis in a roundtable discussion with the African Studies Association. Read more
31 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in In Collaboration with Earth
Edgar Fabián Frías joined the exhibition In Collaboration with Earth at Gearbox Gallery which ran December 6–17, 2021 Read more
27 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web December 2021
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more
15 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias in UncannySFValley
Edgar's work on Astral Projection appears in Casey Kauffmann’s curated exhibition within NFT Oasis, Everybody’s Doing The Emails. Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Xincun Du. Read more
10 Dec, 2021
Is the Future of Mental Health Care Digital? With Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin talks about her book The Distance Cure on Al Jazeera's The Stream. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! 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
Edgar Fabián Frías in Shoutout LA
Meet Edgar Fabián Frías | Contemporary Artist, Psychotherapist, Brujx & Educator Read more
05 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in Transcendence
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías. Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías on Social Media and Queer Invention
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías co-hosted an episode of the podcast Queer Chaos, discussing social media and queer invention. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías at Wxtch Craft
Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the opening lecture of the Fall Cycle of Wxtch Craft - Studium Generale lecture series 2021-22. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías Cultural Ambassador for SFAC
Edgar Fabián Frías was selected as a cultural ambassador for the San Francisco Arts Commission. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in Monolith
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías will be exhibiting their installation project as part of the group exhibition Monolith presented by Southern Exposure. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
The Mutant Magic of Edgar Fabián Frías
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías was featured on an episode of podcast The Spiritual Gaze. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías on GIPHY Arts
BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías was interviewed alongside Nicky Rojo about their participation in GIPHY Arts' first book, Frame by Frame. 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
08 Oct, 2021
Reginold Royston on New Orality in the African Mediascape
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08 Oct, 2021
Vincente Perez on Declarations of Interdependence
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07 Oct, 2021
Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora: Cathy Thomas Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the updated transcript and video for Cathy Thomas's “Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora”. Read more
25 Sep, 2021
BCNM Around the Web September 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
18 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías & Charlie Amáyá Scott on Ancestors
Edgar Fabián Frías and Charlie Amáyá Scott speak on connecting to their ancestors in "You Are Also Your Ancestors". Read more
14 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías Featured in Frame by Frame
Current MFA Candidate Edgar Fabián Frías was recently published in Frame by Frame, a GIF-based book. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Erica Deeman, Fast Fashion, & Jamaica
Erica Deeman received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work exploring the cultural heritage of her ancestors and expressing her findings through a video performance. Read more
02 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias Speaks to Bunny Michaels about Queer Ancestors
The conversation with Bunny Michaels is part of Edgar's Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project. Read more
01 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias Speaks to Michael Espinoza about Queer Ancestors
Edgar Fabián Frías and Michael Espinoza speaks on identity and ancestry in "I Am A Spiritual Being Because Of My Queerness". Read more
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
Reginold Royston on Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape
BCNM alum Dr. Reginold Royston's article on podcasting in African cultures was published in New Media and Society. Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías and Rainbow Visions at ESMOA
Edgar Fabián Frías speaks on creative ingenuity and reframing traditional ways of thinking with ESMoA in "Rainbow Visions Prismatic Beings". Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Disruptive Fixations Reviewed in Anthro Book Forum
Disruptive Fixations, a book on techno-idealism by alum Chrsito Sims, was given a glowing review in the Anthropology Book Forum. 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
19 Aug, 2021
BCNM Students Win 2021 Cadogan Awards
Art from Edgar Fabián Frías Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías at Techno-Intimacy
Edgar Fabián Frías presents work at MOCA Jacksonville's latest exhibition Techno-Intimacy, on show until February 13th! Read more
17 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Edgar Fabián Frías and the Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project
You can now watch Edgar's conversations with leading artists on Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors. Plus, look out for billboards near you! Read more
01 Aug, 2021
Jen Schradie on the Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era
Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers and online events! Featuring more events from our Indigenous Technologies Initiative, the artists Lisa Reihana and Maria Thereza Alves, and more. Read more
28 Jul, 2021
De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche by Jacob Gaboury
Jacob published De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche in LA HAUTE ET LA BASSE DÉFINITION DES IMAGES: Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Read more
26 Jul, 2021
We're Hiring: Fall 2021 Work Study Student Assistant
Join the BCNM Events & Communications team! Read more
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
07 Jun, 2021
Ra Malika Imhotep on The Reparations Show
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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
08 May, 2021
Celeste Kidd on the Ethics of AI
Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
BCNM Mourns the Passing of Beth Bird
Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. 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
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
11 Apr, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Summer Research Fellows
Image by Edgar Fabián Frias. Read more
10 Apr, 2021
Dark Matters by Tiffany Ng Released
Tiffany Ng's new album of carillon music by Stephen Rush dropped! Read more
08 Apr, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 Faculty Seed Grants
Photo credit: Jill Miller. Read more
31 Mar, 2021
Miyoko Conley Receives Outstanding GSI Award
Miyoko Conley, a TDPS and DE student at Berkeley, has been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award for her work as a GSI in NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech. Read more
29 Mar, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
Photo credit: Yuyao Jin 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
19 Feb, 2021
Reginold Royston on Podcasts and the Study of Africa
BCNM alum Dr. Reginold Royston was a featured panelist discussing the impact of the digital technology on research, teaching, and public engagement. Read more
16 Feb, 2021
Kate Mattingly on BalletX in the Classical Review
Kate Mattingly recently wrote about ballet company BalletX in the Classical Review. 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
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
23 Jan, 2021
We're Hiring: Spring 2021 Student Assistant
Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more
07 Dec, 2020
Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM Graduates!
Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM graduates, jazmin calderón torres and Yairamen Roman Maldonado! 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
18 Nov, 2020
Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries
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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
Renée Pastel Appointed Assistant Professor at Boston College
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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
24 Sep, 2020
Reggie Royston on Configuring Ghana
Reggie Royston's research article, "Configuring Ghana's diaspora" is now available in African Diaspora. 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
18 Sep, 2020
Neyran Turan Promoted to Associate Professor
Read more
10 Sep, 2020
Lyman Dispatch: Anushah Hossain
Anushah Hossain shares how the support of the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Alum Trevor Paglen Featured in Wall Street Journal Magazine
Trevor Paglen was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal Magazine on his work in art and artificial intelligence. Read more
02 Aug, 2020
Reggie Royston in AI4Afrika Team
AI4Afrika's goal is to make AI more inclusive and aware of Afrikan perspectives. Read more
30 Jul, 2020
We're Hiring: Fall 2020 Student Assistant
Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more
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
19 Jul, 2020
Trevor Paglen's Opposite Geometries at the Carnegie Museum of Art
The show runs from Sep 4, 2020–Mar 14, 2021. Read more
20 Jun, 2020
Seldom Recorded from Keith Feldman's Ethnic Studies Students
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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
10 Jun, 2020
Jen Schradie on How Twitter favors the Right
BCNM alum Jen Schradie claims Twitter favors the right, contradicting President Trump's statement that it favors the left. Read more
30 May, 2020
Bo Ruberg Publishes on Biased Definitions Of Sexual Content in Video Game Live Streaming
Bo Ruberg, BCNM alum, publishes article "'Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise, objectionable'; Biased definitions of sexual content in videogame live streaming." 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
Photo: Bowen Wei. 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
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
12 Apr, 2020
Camille Crittenden Featured on UC IT Blog
Camille Crittenden was featured on the UC IT Blog, participating in a Q&A interview about her work at CITRIS and her experience as a woman in tech. Read more
12 Apr, 2020
New Course: NWMEDIA 151AC
We're offering a new course this fall, NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech! Don't miss out! Read more
03 Apr, 2020
HTNM Revisited: Feminist Open Access & Internet Publishing
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
Read more
05 Mar, 2020
Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
27 Feb, 2020
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! 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
Malika Imhotep Wins Award for Critical Writing
Gulf Coast announced the winner of the 2019 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, Ra Malika Imhotep, for her essay "On Retrieval." Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Keith Feldman on Anti Muslim Racism Beyond Islamophobia
Keith Feldman wrote on anti-Muslim racism for American Quarterly's December 2019 issue. Read more
06 Feb, 2020
Commons Conversation Revisited: Rahul Gairola
Read more
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
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
16 Jan, 2020
We're Hiring: 2020 Student Assistants
Join the BCNM communication and events team! Read more
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
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
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
04 Dec, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie on WashingTech on Social Media Bias
Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more
20 Nov, 2019
Conference Grants: Miyoko Conley on the Nebulous Transnational Fandom Archive
Miyoko Conley, a recipients of our Fall 2019 Conference grant, presented her research on transnational fandoms at the annual Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA) conference. Read more
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
04 Nov, 2019
Laurie Macfee to Lead Poetry and the Senses at ARC
Event coordinator Laurie Macfee has accepted a fantastic role leading the Poetry and the Senses initiative at the Arts Research Center. 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
06 Sep, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Brian Bartz in Trevor Paglen's Studio
Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. 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
23 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual in Fobias Fonias Fagias
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19 Aug, 2019
We're Hiring: 2019-2020 Student Assistants
Join the BCNM communication and events team! Read more
15 Aug, 2019
Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Featured in the Washington Monthly
Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more
07 Aug, 2019
Laura Lozano Marín on Alex Saum Pascual's Poetry
Lozano Marín studies the characteristics of electronic poetry written by females. 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
16 Jul, 2019
Jen Schradie on The Debate
Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. 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
25 Jun, 2019
Malika Imhotep at Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo
Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo, a screening program curated by Erin Christovale, followed by a conversation between the curator and Ra Malika Imhotep. Read more
03 Jun, 2019
Alum Christo Sims at the Business & Society Research Seminar
If you're in Paris, join Christo Sims on June 13th for his talk on Disruptive Fixation! 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
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
19 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Graduates
Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more
30 Apr, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual at Festival El Aleph
Alex will join a panel on Relecturas borgeanas desde los nuevos medios. Read more
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
HTNM Revisited: Safiya Noble
Photo by Adriel Olmos. 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
21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
15 Mar, 2019
Sonia Katyal in Fast Company on Automated Decision Making
Fast Company features Katyal's article in writing about the conflict between civil rights and artificial intelligence. 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
10 Mar, 2019
Sonia Katyal on Private Accountability in the Age of AI
The UCLA Law Review published Sonia Katyal's paper on accountability and artificial intelligence. Read more
28 Feb, 2019
New Reviews of Queer Games Studies
Two more publications have reviewed alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Game Studies. Read more
28 Feb, 2019
Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more
24 Feb, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in HKW Video Stop Making Sense
Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more
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
27 Dec, 2018
Alum Reginold Royston at IC Africa
The University of Ghana hosted IC Africa with the theme African Digital Cultures: Emerging Research, Practices and Innovations. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Alum Reginold Royston at ASA 2018
BCNM Alum Reginold Royston presented at the 2018 African Studies Association 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.
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
Alum Jen Schradie Appointed as Asst Professor at the Sciences Po
BCNM Alum Jen Schradie was appointed an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Read more
15 Jul, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes on Sex Workers in Video Games
Feminist Media Studies published Bonnie's article "Representing sex workers in video games: feminisms, fantasies of exceptionalism, and the value of erotic labor" Read more
06 Jul, 2018
Alum Christo Sims Keynotes at Education Disrupted
Christo talked about techno-idealism and the possibilities for failed disruption. Read more
25 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes #Postweb!
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
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
27 Apr, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik Awarded an IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Fellowship
BCNM faculty, Abigail De Kosnik, will be in residance at the IAS from August 23 and September 22 as part of her awarded fellowship. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux & Neyran Turan Receive Graham Foundation Award
Selected from more than 600 proposals, Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan were two of 74 recipients of a Graham Foundation grant. Read more
11 Apr, 2018
Jen Schradie Keynote Speaker at Media Sociology Preconference
BCNM alum Jen Schradie will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Media Sociology Preconference taking place in August. Read more
11 Apr, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Em Tech Digital 2018
Ken Goldberg delivered a presentation at this year's EmTech Digital at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Announcing the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Trevor Paglen Named Artistic Fellow at AI Now Institute
Trevor Paglen was named an artist fellow at AI Now Institute, tasked with supporting the institute's research in examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. Read more
02 Mar, 2018
Rue and Koci Hernandez on AR in the California Magazine
Professors Jeremy Rue and Richard Koci Hernandez were featured in an article in California Magazine on augmented reality. Read more
12 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at Webstock
Trevor Paglen will be speaking at this year's Webstock conference in New Zealand. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
Malika Imhotep at NWSA 2017
As one of the recipients of the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant, Malika Imhotep received funding to attend and present her research findings at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Conference. 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
02 Nov, 2017
Alum Jen Schradie Published in Media and Class, Edited by June Deery
Jen Schradie received her PhD from Berkeley and recently published Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture, which can be bought on Amazon. 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
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
Nicholas de Monchaux Quoted in The Guardian on the Hyperloop
Nicholas de Monchaux, an associate professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley, commented on Elon Musk's dream for an underground highway in Los Angeles. Read more
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
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
Alum Christo Sims on Disruptive Fixation on KPFA and Databite
Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. Read more
19 Sep, 2017
Summer Research Dispatch: Molly Nicholas & Wearable Tech in Hospitals
Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more
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
17 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Malika Imhotep at the International School for Decolonial Black Feminism
Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more
01 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg & Camille Crittenden at CITRIS Inclusive AI Symposium
Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. 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
12 May, 2017
Damon Young Receives Seed Grant for After the Private Self
Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award Recipients
Read more
06 Apr, 2017
Grace Gipson at the National Council of Black Studies
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21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Read more
09 Feb, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux Exhibition and Lecture at Univ. of Tennessee
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
Grace Gipson as "Doctor of Comic Books"
Lashon Daley featured Grace Gipson, also a BCNM Designated Emphasis student, on her podcast Stories&Slams! Read more
04 Nov, 2016
Grace Gipson at >Play Conference
>play is the largest student-run digital media and technology conference Read more
26 Oct, 2016
Andrea Horbinski Presents at the 2016 EU-Japan Agora Forum in Brussels
Held on October 24th and 25th in the Palais d'Egmont of Brussels, Belgium 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
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
04 Oct, 2016
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Lark Buckingham and Advanced Digital Animation
Here, Buckingham describes teaching Advanced Digital Animation” as a NWMEDIA 90 this past summer 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
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 Aug, 2016
Bonnie Ruberg and 'Doing it for free'
Alumna Bonnie Ruberg had her article 'Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography' published in a special issue Read more
27 Jul, 2016
Valencia: Now Available to Rent on Vimeo
Clement Hil Goldberg, recent Art Practice and BCNM DE graduate, produced the experimental feature length film with Michelle Tea Read more
05 Jul, 2016
Cultural Committee of the Danish Parliament Visits BCNM
The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 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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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
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
02 Mar, 2016
At "The Art of Humanizing Robotics" with Ken Goldberg
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19 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Precarious Aesthetics Conference"]
Keynote speakers included: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago; Christine Ross, McGill University; Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley; Jeffrey Skoller, UC Berkeley; Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook University; W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago 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
16 Nov, 2015
Björn Hartmann's SceneSkim on Engadget
28 Oct, 2015
HTNM 5th Anniversary and Revisited: "Technologies of Simulation"
with Claus Pias
Leuphana University of Lüneberg 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!
Read more
13 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual: Exhibitions, Research, and Writing
17 Jun, 2015
Fall 2015 Events Sneak Preview
Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Summer 2015 Research Awards
BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! 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
17 Mar, 2015
HTNM Video Now Online: "Gamic Orientalism"
A lecture by Chris Goto-Jones, Comparative Philosophy Chair at Leiden University Read more
04 Feb, 2015
Natural Frequencies Feature by KQED
03 Feb, 2015
Revisited: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance
A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) 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
Read more
05 May, 2014
In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more
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
18 Apr, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more
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
02 Apr, 2014
Sarah Stierch Featured in East Bay Express
Stierch has been featured in the East Bay Express for her work to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia 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
16 Oct, 2013
ATC Revisited: Jennifer González
For those unable to attend the ATC lecture on Monday, October 14th, we've brought you a brief recap of the highlights! Read more
01 Aug, 2013
DE Student Jen Schradie Featured on PBS.org
Jen Schradie's (Sociology) article on the impact of income inequality on Big Data appears on pbs.org Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Tablets, Africa's Next Leap-Frog Technology
by Reginold Royston, Ph.D. candidate in the African Diaspora Program with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
29 Oct, 2012
Cyberculture and Access in Ghana
Reginold Royston has been in Accra, Ghana since 2012, doing dissertation research on Internet access and local cyberculture Read more
31 Aug, 2012
Alenda Chang, Ph.D. Rhetoric, DE in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
14 May, 2012
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium
This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more
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