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

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

With the support of the Lyman Fellowship, Rashad Timmons traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to engage in fieldwork and archival research for my dissertation. Read more

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

Givenchy Beauty collaborates with three digital artists to each create a digital art piece on the metaverse platform. Read more

For the entire month of June, alum Edgar Fabián Frías' art, "Hechizo Tuutú," was featured on the Salesforce tower! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

Isabel Li worked with Elnaz Tafrihi on InsightXR, a project which aims to provide accessible, remote co-design in architectural contexts through mobile AR experiences. Read more

Xiaowen Yuan worked with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on a project based on virtual reality and built environment design. Read more

Check out this new article from Ken Goldberg! Read more

Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more

Published in Wired, the article explores the history and implications of parental surveillance technologies, focusing on baby monitors. Read more

Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more

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

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

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

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

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

MUSFORUM is the online network for women organists. Read more

Hannah Zeavin and collaborator Alex Colston talk Freud on the podcast Ordinary Unhappiness! Read more

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

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

We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

Rebecca presented her work "New Research on Roman and Late Antique Living Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more

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

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

Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more

If Sex Workers Owned the Internet: A Conversation with Senegalese Activists about Digital Privacy and Security Read more

The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more

Examining Sociocultural Issues through TikTok with Meg Everett Read more

We're so sad to bid farewell to Sophia Hussain but excited for her future endeavors at AK Press! Read more

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

Hannah writes about the fate of the children of psychoanalysis for Parapraxis. Read more

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

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

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alum Bo Ruberg talks to the Sex Industry Book Club about their new book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more

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

Alum Bo Ruberg's article is featured in Sexualities. Read more

Shout out to Xiaowei Wang for being a fellow at the National Center on Race & Digital Justice! Read more

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

Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more

Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more

Rebecca works on the digital documentation of ancient art! Read more

The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more

Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more

Matthew Sparkes features the work from Ken Goldberg's lab in "Robot unties knotted cables but can't pick them up off the floor" for the New Scientist. Read more

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

Hannah Zeavin's latest publication appears in Technology and Culture. Read more

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

Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more

Tory's dissertation was titled “The Forensic Imaginary: Visual Media and Evidentiary Culture.” Read more

Check out Ra's work July 9th – August 28th in New Orleans. Read more

Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more

Björn Hartmann co-authors this new paper with Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel. Read more

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

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

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

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

Ra Malika Imhotep joins Lost City Books to discuss her new collection, gossypin. Read more

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

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

Akemi was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanaryanan on graduate level research, supporting Haripriya's project on spatial design in pediatric healthcare spaces. Read more

Bo Ruberg discusses Hot Tub streaming and what it brings to erotic lesiure culture. Read more

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

Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more

Digital Art During the Pandemic features an interview with Alex Saum-Pascual. Read more

Jenna Burrell shares a new Data & Society research agenda in the earliest stages of discussion and planning.  Read more

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

The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Read more

Camille Crittenden publishes an article on the Berkeley Blog on women in energy in honor of Women's History Month. Read more

The Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media is awarded by The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías and Jill Miller present at ICA SF's Meantime. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg chats about queer gaming with designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer. Read more

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

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

Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more

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

'Gossypiin' by Ra Malika Imhotep is recommended as the poetry book that captures the black experience on BookRiot. Read more

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

Hannah's latest article appears in Differences, a journal of feminist cultural studies. Read more

The Robot Report shares robotics predictions from industry experts, including our own Ken Goldberg. Read more

Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías joined the exhibition In Collaboration with Earth at Gearbox Gallery which ran December 6–17, 2021 Read more

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

Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

Roar, building a "music metaverse," raised $7million in their first round of funding. Read more

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects! Read more

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

Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd has joined Georgetown University for the year as a distinguished visiting professor. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more

Eric Paulos' Adroid features on IEEE Spectrum's "Video Friday: Dusty at Work > Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos". Read more

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

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

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

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin discusses empathy as a computational model in a guest post for AI Now Institute. Read more

Eric Paulos received a 2020-2021 BCNM faculty seed grant for his work developing Kaleidoscope. Read more

Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways.  Read more

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

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

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

Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more

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

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

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

Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more

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

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

Juliana Friend receieved a BCNM Conference Grant to help her attend the 27th Annual Lavendar Languages and Linguistics Conference. Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more

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

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin speaks on teletherapy and other communicative technologies in her interview with Mad in America. Read more

BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! Read more

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

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

Tiffany Ng's new album of carillon music by Stephen Rush dropped! Read more

Berkeley High Jacket celebrated the women of Berkeley this March and spotlighted the incredible arts organization of Shannon Jackson. Read more

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

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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

Kevin Lo and alex cruse come together to launch Return the Eye. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

Virtual exhibition UUU (Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021) recently opened and features BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual and Jill Miller! Check it out! Read more

Bo Ruberg and Daniel Lark recently published a paper titled "Livestreaming from the bedroom: Performing intimacy through domestic space on Twitch"! Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more

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

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

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

Bo Ruberg contributes to the first edition of Game Studies textbook Independent Videogames. Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep writes on 19th Century slavery abolitionists and modern day activists, and the suprising (literal) link of thread that connects them. Read more

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

As Chinese demand for pork grows and grows, traditional small-scale farms are being replaced by vast, AI-assisted operations that feel more like smartphone factories than bucolic countryside havens. Read more

Bo Ruberg's and Amanda Cullen's article has been published on Digital Culture and Society!  Read more

Claudia von Vacano publishes an article on Electronic Book Review! Read more

Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more

Jenni Higgs recently published an academic article titled "Digital Discourse in Classrooms: Language Arts Teachers’ Reported Perceptions and Implementation." Read more

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

John Scott's co-authored paper earned an honorable mention for best paper submission at the Conference on Educational Data Science 2020. Read more

Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more

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

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

The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more

Kevin Lo and his longtime collaborator were excited to present their art in physical space, but have no returned to the digital realm in light of COVID-19. Read more

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

Alum Jen Schradie's article “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action” was recognized in the CITAMS 2020 awards. Read more

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

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

The article is included in the Gathering: Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities. Read more

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

BCNM Designated Emphasis (D.E) program, Leah Rosenbaum published "Shaping Perception: Designing for Participatory Facilitation of Collaborative Geometry” Read more

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

Alum Bonnie Ruberg's latest book, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, was given a glowing review by Times Higher Education.  Read more

"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more

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

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more

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

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

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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

Harry Burson is named 2020 Lemelson Center Fellow and will focus his research on the creation of a new mode of acoustic perspective.  Read more

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

Jill Miller's UC Berkeley class, Food Fight/Art 160, transitions to remote learning, developing the "COVID Cookbook." Read more

CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more

Ken Goldberg was recently featured in VentureBeat for his work with UC Berkeley's AUTOLAB in developing a polyculture garden. Read more

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

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

AllegraLab, a book review journal, offers glowing praise of Abigail de Kosnik, Keith Feldman, and the Color of New Media Working Group's #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation.  Read more

Foreword Reviews recently featured Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more

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

Alenda Chang and her colleagues established an online journal Media+Environment. Check out the UCSB in depth discussion here! Read more

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

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

The After Tomorrow: Oakland and Saint-Denis cooperation project officially launched at Cal's Global Urban Humanities Department. Read more

Malika Imhotep was featured on the Cite Black Women podcast for her work with The Church of Black Feminist Thought.  Read more

Bo Ruberg was featured in Television and New Media's special issue, "Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor."  Read more

Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! Read more

DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year.  Read more

Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on  Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life Read more

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

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

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

Neyran Turan's studio Nemestudio was featured in the 2019 Biennale on the Collective City. Read more

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

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

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

Bo Ruberg published "Nothing But a 'Titty Streamer'" in Critical Studies in Media Communication with Amanda Cullen and Kathryn Brewster. Read more

Claudia presented her co-authored work on measuring hate speech in big data by unifying deep learning with item response theory. Read more

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

A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more

Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more

The IEEE Annual Information Technological Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference invites Eric Paulos as one of their keynote speakers. Read more

BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

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

Keith Feldman published a striking op-ed on racism and refugees in the Daily Cal. Read more

Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more

Camille spoke on the Pacific Research Platform. Read more

Alum Christo Sims published his essay in Zócalo Public Square. Read more

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

Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more

BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more

Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more

Bo's article appeared in a Special Issue of Television & New Media on Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor. Read more

Vox talks to Jen about "Why conservatives are winning the internet." The Revolution That Wasn't ​explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals. Read more

Jane shares the benefits of bringing positive emotions to your work through play. Read more

Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo, a screening program curated by Erin Christovale, followed by a conversation between the curator and Ra Malika Imhotep. Read more

Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more

BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference!  Read more

Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more

Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more

Will Payne presented "Crawling the City: Mobilizing Free Labor in the Spatial Data Economy" at the American Association of Geographer's 2019 Conference. Read more

Felix Rosen recaps ARC’s Art as Critique Conference from March 1, 2019, which BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor. Read more

The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more

Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more

Harry presented "Stereo in the 19th Century: Space, Audition, and the Théâtrophone" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, Washington. Read more

Ken Goldberg shares his insights into machine learning in the New York Times. Read more

KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more

We're  to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen discuss Network Simulation, first presented in San Francisco, with DJ Spooky at Norway's Kunstnernes Hus. Read more

Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more

Ken Goldberg joins Ally MacDonald to discuss how AI and humans can work together. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more

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

The team will study the invisible work of maintaining open-source software Read more

On June 10-14, alum Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching a course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Read more

This new institute explores the impact of technology on identity, inequality, and ethics.

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

Apply for Semester Long Collaborative Opportunity through CITRIS, in partnership with Tecnológico de Monterrey! Includes travel to Mexico this summer! Read more

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

Goldberg was quoted in an article on the development of robotic stunts performed at Disney theme parks. Read more

Jen Schradie published her findings on the class and race gap in the digital democracy for the LSE US Centre. Read more

The project is a collaboration between Greg Niemeyer and DJ Spooky and celebrates the internet's evolution. Read more

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

Daniel Seita, Jeff Mahler, Mike Danielczuk, Matthew Matl, and Ken Goldberg shared their research on depth sensing in Drilling Down on Depth Sensing and Deep Learning. Read more

The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

Ken Goldberg discussed how Robot and Frank has inspired him at the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science Film Festival. Read more

Trevor Paglen contributed to a collaborative publication between McSweeney's and the EFF. Read more

Bonnie Ruberg helped organize several panels at the premiere international event dedicated to celebrating independent games from around the globe.  Read more

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

NPR brings Trevor Paglen's art to life in this great feature! Read more

WIlliam Morgan's article "Big Data’s Accursed Share: Locating
Waste in the Infosphere"and art installation brought together new media and environment. Read more

Ken Goldberg was one of the guest speakers at a weekly robotics seminar held at Stanford. Read more

Ken Goldberg was featured as a robotics expert in a debate which examined the future of collaborative robots and the transformation of future work environments.  Read more

The American Musicological Society Society for Music Theory featured Ritwik Banerji and his piece The Opportunity Cost of Experimentalism: Cultural Economics, Popular Music, and the Avant-Garde in Salvador, Brazil. Read more

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

The annual Queerness and Games Conference began in 2013 at the hands of BCNM Alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz. It continues to flourish and to create safe spaces, this year in Montréal. Read more

We’re thrilled to be supporting our graduates as they travel across the globe to share their scholarship. Read more

Recruitment opens September 24th, 2018 and runs through November 5th, 2018. Read more

Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more

This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: JOSE FERREIRA + ASMA KAZMI runs from September 10 – 28, 2018. Read more

Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more

The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more

The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. Read more

The Dexterity-Network from AutoLab gets a well-deserved feature in the Daily Cal. Read more

Jillian Caddell writes "Trevor Paglen reveals the hidden networks that rule our lives."

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The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

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

The Collaborative Robotics, Advanced Vision, and Artificial Intelligence conference will be held October 24-25 in Santa Clara, CA. Read more

A new report in SocArXiv investigates career prospects in academic Data Science.  Read more

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

This year's Art+Tech festival was themed #ARTOBOTS and featured Ken Goldberg as a speaker! Read more

Join Ken Goldberg on June 27th for a screening of Operator, followed by a discussion on the technologies presented in the film. Read more

Eric Paulos discusses "Cosmetic Computing: Towards Personal, Performative, Provocative, and Poetic Wearables." Read more

"The Types, Roles, and Practices of Documentation in Data Analytics Open Source Software Libraries" was published on May 29th, 2018. Read more

Eric Paulos was an invited Participant at the Dagstuh seminar "Embodied Cognition Meets Sensor/Actuator Engineering to Design New Interfaces." Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual summarizes the amazing work that developed out of the Peder Sather grant funded collaboration between UCB and Bergen University on electronic literature. Read more

Ken Goldberg's latest research on the evaluation systems used in online shopping is featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie and an international team of collaborators won a European Commission Grant to study online hate speech against Muslims Read more

Marissa Ahmed was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Ritwik Banerji on his research about human sociality and algorithmic ethnography. Read more

The All Bay Collective, a team co-led by BCNM, was featured in Curbed SF after the results of the Resilient by Design Challenge was released. Read more

Ken Goldberg contributed a commentary piece on human-machine collaboration to The Wall Street Journal.  Read more

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

The annual May festival celebrates the work of both local and international artists and photographers in the CONTACT gallery. Read more

The 2018 Graduate Student Conference at Harvard starred BCNM Assisant Professor's Jacob Gaboury as a keynote speaker.  Read more

Jennifer Higgs, Leah Rosenbaum, and Bjoern Hartmann presented their respective research at AERA 2018. Read more

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

Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month.  Read more

Christo Sims' work titled "Idealism" discusses the intersection between design, ethnography, and anthropology. It was recently published in the Journal of Cultural Anthropology. Read more

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

Stuart Geiger spoke at the University of Manchester's Data Science Institute on The Human Contexts of Data: Infrastructures, Institutions, and Interpretations. Read more

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

We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more

Geiger spoke on Computational Ethnography as part of U of M iSchool's speaker series.  Read more

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

Goldberg was quoted in "Your Online Shopping Habit is Fueling a Robotics Renaissance" in Wired. Read more

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

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

BCNM Alum Jen Schradie gave a talk, "The Digital Activism Gap: Social Media, Social Movements and Social Class," at Cal! Read more

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

Paglen discusses his Orbital Reflector during "Speculative CubeSats" on the Center for Human Imagination's podcast.
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Schradie published "The Digital Activism Gap" in Social Problems Read more

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

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

Alum Erin Johnson is exhibiting The Way Things Can Happen at the Power Pant Gallery in Durham, NC. Read more

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

Watch former US Secretary of Labor and UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich give the keynote address for the Reply All symposium. The video is now available to the public via YouTube.  Read more

Ken Goldberg to present "Scalable Collaborative Human-Robot Learning" at the National Robotics Initiative PI meeting. 

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

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

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

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

Alum Bonnie Ruberg and Amanda Philips are guest editors for a special issue in Game Studies, the international journal of computer game research.   Read more

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

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

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in ACM Proceedings. Read more

Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz, co-organizers and founders of the Queerness and Games Conference, collaborated on a published piece titled "In Practice: Queerness and Games." Read more

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

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

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November.  Read more

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

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

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

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

Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more

Join cross-disciplinary experts from UC Berkeley and beyond as they share perspectives on data's influence on learning environments (think: how bCourses became bCourses) Read more

Read about Friend's ethnographic research for her Many-to-Many project, funded by BCNM Read more

Read Yairamaren Roman Maldonado's account of collaborating with the UC Digital Storytelling project, funded by BCNM Read more

Ryan Ikeda reflects on his experience at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) this June in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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

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

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

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

The Center of New Music and Audio Technologies‘ new website went public earlier this semester in a “soft” release. Read more

What will you be learning this summer? We're offering two courses in New Media Read more

These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more

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

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

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

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

The fellowship is supported by donations from Professor Barrie Thorne, Sage Publications and many individual friends and faculty Read more

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

Goldberg gave an address at the plenary session on August 30, entitled "Multiplicity: What Robots and AI Can Teach Us about Being Human" Read more

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

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

Kate Mattingly, Designated Emphasis student, wrote about UCB's relationship with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Read more

Devendorf's project is focused on how to use thermochromic pigments in weaving and crocheted materials Read more

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

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

Tthe Berkeley Center for New Media presents a interview with John Graznow, one of the many collaborators on the construction of the bell's sound Read more

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

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

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

with Benjamin Bratton 

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

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

We recap a wonderful lunch with the first woman to graduate from the Rochester Institite of Technology as a product designer Read more

from his HTNM lecture, "System Addicts," earlier this April Read more

A recording of Alexander Weheliye's lecture, "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music" Read more

Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks.  Read more

Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

México Participa is an innovative civic engagement platform based on the model of the California Report Card Read more

From their probing talk, "A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat," a part of the ATC series here at BCNM Read more

BCNM turned ten! Read more

We recap this wonderful discussion, "Reality Environments," hosted at the David Brower Center Read more

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

The masterclass workshop led by Peruvian artist Jose Carlos Martinat and Enrique Mayorga, revisited Read more

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

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more

This was a great opportunity to build community and emphasize the close collaboration that the Berkeley Center for New Media prizes Read more

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

From her ATC lecture, "What Is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Art Degrees?" Read more

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

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

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

At “Creative Interventions and Social Activation” on November 3rd, Cheryl Haines discussed her collaboration with the artist and activist Ai Weiwei  Read more

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

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

This year-long course is targeted at students with backgrounds in art, film, or computer science who intend to work in the visual effects, animation, and entertainment industries Read more

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

On Saturday, March 29th the Berkeley Center for New Media collaborated with Impossible.com to bring to the Bay Area the Impossible Hackathon Read more

A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more

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

Professor Nakamura took a closer look at archival documents left from the largely invisbilized history of a corporation that employed thousands of Navajo women from the '60s to '70s Read more

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

BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more

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

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

An eye-opening lecture last Thursday evening, November 7th, from Professor Lisa Parks marked the third installment of our 2013-2014 series Read more

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

Creating Minds, an academic conference on reading and writing in the digital age had over 300 attendees throughout the day's talks and panels! Read more

Check out photos here! Read more

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

This course is offered with the support of CITRIS and the Educational Partnerships Office at UCOP Read more

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

For his project "Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems" Read more

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

Bak Strandgaard studies the expansion of self-service technologies related to pubic transport Read more

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

Congratulations to all! Read more

Rhee is the recipient of an honorable mention for the 2013 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize which honors young social activists Read more

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

Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 Read more

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

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

Focusing on research justice and participatory methods, DataCenter partners with marginalized communities providing training and resources in research Read more

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

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Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more

Currently, Powers of Ten will be showing at SFMOMA Six Lines of Flight on Sept. 15-Dec. 30, 2012
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Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more

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

"Opinion Space" is a social media technology designed to help communities generate and exchange ideas about important issues and policies. Read more

The Social App Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative and supported at UC Berkeley by CITRIS Read more