5 days ago
History & Theory
Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements
with Lauren Klein
Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University
Presented with the Digital Humanities program and co-sponsored by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CCDS), the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and the Media Studies program Read more
01 Apr, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: AI is Weird
with Erik Davis
Writer, Journalist, and Lecturer
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for Humanities. Read more
13 Mar, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: Artificial Intelligence and Translation
with Behrooz Ghorbani, Researcher, OpenAI
Cathy Park Hong, English, UC Berkeley
Hoyt Long, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
26 Feb, 2024
History & Theory
Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics
with Christina Leza, Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College, and Trevor Reed, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Moderated by Sierra Edd, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Art Practice Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Echoes from the Borderlands
with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum, and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event, presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the American Cultures Center. Read more
29 Nov, 2023
Special Events
Echoes from the Borderlands (Audio Excerpt Listening Session)
featuring the work of Valeria Luiselli
Artist
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies special event, presented with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Read more
18 Sep, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
A Historical Dance of New Media
with Eduardo Costa
Artist
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice Read more
28 Aug, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
The ghost in the machine is me.
with Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice Read more
11 Jul, 2023
Conference
ELO 2023 | Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change 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
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
14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
14 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversations
with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Read more
07 Feb, 2022
History & Theory
Tequiologies: Indigenous Solutions Against Climate Catastrophe
with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Linguist, writer, translator, language rights activist and researcher ayuujk (mixe)
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Alianza UCMX, Spanish & Portuguese, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
13 Sep, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
How Can a Maori Girl Recolonise the Screen Using Mighty Pixels
with Lisa Reihana
Artist, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program. 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
04 Mar, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction”
with Kavita Philip
The President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at the University of British Columbia and a Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Special Events
Performing Cultural Exchange on Ohlone Homelands in Huichin
with Pauline Lampton, Director of Miriki Performing Arts
Corrina Gould, co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Erica Estrada, Northern Pomo Dancer
Presented with UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays. Read more
16 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations
Blockchain Chicken Farm and Grass Mud Horses
with Xiaowei Wang
Writer and artist; author of Blockchain Chicken Farm
& An Xiao Mina
Writer and artist; author of From Memes to Movements Read more
07 Nov, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL
with Lawrence Lek
Artist, Filmmaker and Musician
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
21 Sep, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire??
with Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
15 Apr, 2020
Special Events
13 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
ONLINE: Neural Abstractions
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Tom White
Artist and Researcher
Victoria University of Wellington School of Design
Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire.
Read more
06 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years
with William Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
16 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations
ONLINE: Expanded Internet Art
with Ceci Moss, curator, writer, education, LA
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom* Read more
12 Mar, 2020
History & Theory
ONLINE: Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Francesca Coppa, co-founder Organization for Transformative Works
and Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson, co-founders Transformative Works & Cultures
Co-sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the School of Information, the D-Lab, UC Berkeley Libraries, and the Department of Film & Media Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
with Margaret Rhee
Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
with Amy LaViers
Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
04 Nov, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Leonel Moura
Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies
with Marisa Morán Jahn
Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Robots Are Creatures, Not Things
with Madeline Gannon
Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
15 Apr, 2019
DH Fair: Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity
with Zeynep Tufekci
Professor, UNC
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
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
05 Dec, 2018
Special Events
Critical Practices 2018 Showcase
See the great projects of Critical Practices at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Winter Showcase! Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
with Kim Stanley Robinson
Author, Davis, CA
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One
Read more
12 Apr, 2018
Special Events
EV’RY BODY, THIS TIME: A Sexuality Studies Conference
A conference free and open to the public hosted by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Special Events
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz 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
25 Sep, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
with Frank Foer
National correspondent for The Atlantic and fellow at the New America Foundation.
Presented in partnership with the Graduate School of Journalism Read more
25 Sep, 2017
Special Events
Tool Talk — Mario Krell, "Field Studies with Multimedia Big Data"
Learn about a new tool that allows researchers to leverage large user generated data, such as Flickr, without being experts in data processing. Read more
28 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Listening Session and Launch Party Read more
25 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations
BCNM, in partnership with the School of Information and Graduate School of Journalism, turn to the particular role, and power, of digital tools to express and organize political dissent, and create greater institutional and political transparency! Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Special Events
Sex, Lies, and Data Mining
with Luke DuBois, co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data Read more
22 Sep, 2016
& Media Student Conference
with Kristopher Fallon (Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis) and Jenny Odell (Digital Media Artist) Read more
01 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Four Thoughts about the Impact of Globalization on Artists
with Sarah Thornton, writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture Read more
17 Aug, 2015
Workshops
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Digital Humanities at Berkeley will be running a summer institute of intensive workshops led by DH experts Read more
13 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat
with Jesse Drew, UC Davis Professor, and Glenda Drew, artist and designer Read more
26 Feb, 2015
History & Theory
by Chris Goto-Jones, Leiden University Read more
22 Oct, 2014
Special Events
Image as Location Conference
When man-made images are the evidence of our environment and existence, how is our perception of the world shaped? Read more
29 Sep, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
This not-to-be-missed lecture by renowned American architect, Maya Lin Read more
10 Mar, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
How Complicated Could a Metronome Be?
Witness this lectre by an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers, a part of our ATC series Read more
24 Feb, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
ULTRACONCENTRATED: Image, Media, Software
Casey Reas, LA-based artist and educator, talks about the possibilies of software in the visual arts Read more
15 Feb, 2014
Create Your Bot Hackathon
Learn how to build Chatbots with renowned artificial intelligence programmer and ChatScript language designer Bruce Wilcox as you compete to create the most human chatbot! Read more
14 Mar, 2013
Special Events
Disembodied: Literature and Transmission in a Digital Age
A day of presentations & panel discussions for Anthropology, Architecture, Area Studies, Comparative Literature, + Theology scholars. Don't miss it! Read more
31 Jan, 2013
History & Theory
An HTNM lecture by Stefan Andriopoulos, Germanic Languages Chair at Coumbia University Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
14 Nov, 2012
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
26 Apr, 2012
History & Theory
with Rita Raley, Associate Prof. of English, among other distinguished appointments 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
05 Dec, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Heaven Can Wait: The Revolving Restaurant as Hypercinema
Bull.Miletic: Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic, recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's "Video Maker Award" Read more
18 Nov, 2011
History & Theory
Lydia Liu, in conversation with Martin Jay and David Bates on her new book, "The Freudian Robot"
The author of "The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious" talking to Martin Jay (History) and David Bates (Rhetoric) Read more
06 Oct, 2011
Special Events
Asian Horror Cinema and Beyond
A symposium of contemporary horror cinema -- exploring issues of memory, desire, and media in East Asian and Southeast Asian cinema Read more
04 May, 2011
Special Events
Regents Lecture: Green Technologies – Enabling the Radical Innovations to Come (Sooner!)
A special lecture by Bill Joy, renowned technologist and partner in leading venture capital firm KPBC's Greentech Practice Read more
03 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Finding Christopher Alexander’s Fifteen Fundamental Properties in the Berkeley Rose Garden
A unique field trip to the Berkeley Rose Garden, led by Maggie Alexander Read more
02 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth
with Christopher Alexander, Prof. of Architecture here at UC Berkeley Read more
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media. Read more
05 Apr, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Talks to the Author of “The Riddles of the Sphinx”
Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords Read more
04 Apr, 2024
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías' Art is on the Moon
Read more
31 Mar, 2024
Announcing Our Spring 2024 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Yangyang Yang. Read more
21 Mar, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Conference Grant Recipients
The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more
25 Jan, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more
28 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg Isn't Afraid of Artificial Intelligence
Roboticist and artist Ken Goldberg takes the temperature of the current AI moment. Read more
04 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg at CORL 2023
Check out the new papers Ken Goldberg and team presented at CoRL 2023! Read more
01 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 23 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more
05 Oct, 2023
World Building for Immersive Storytelling
Interview with Alex McDowell RDI Read more
28 Sep, 2023
Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more
17 Aug, 2023
Edgar Fabian Frias at Australia's TWFineArts
16 Aug, 2023
Jacob Gaboury Reviews Uncomputable
Jacob Gaboury has published a review of Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway Read more
11 Aug, 2023
Dongho Shin on Digital Systems Generating Mnemonics
Read about Dongho Shin's project to develop digital systems capable of generating mnemonics—strategies that enhance memory retention, such as creating wordplay, narratives, and visuals. Read more
10 Aug, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Paloma Duong, Erik Davis, Lauren Klein, and more! Read more
03 Jul, 2023
Bjoern Hartmann at DIS 2023
Herding AI Cats: Lessons from Designing a Chatbot by Prompting GPT-3 Read more
27 Jun, 2023
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
30 May, 2023
Conference Reports: Weiying Li at AERA 2023
Weiying Li shares her experience at the AERA 2023 Conference on “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth.” Read more
26 May, 2023
Celeste Kidd's Research in Scientific American
Read more
02 May, 2023
Celeste Kidd on Why Aren't Babies Little Adults
Why are babies small and grownups big? Why are babies so helpless, instead of little versions of adults? Do babies know they're babies? How do babies grow? How do babies learn to talk? Read more
30 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Featured in Caracteres
The exhibition runs from 04/21/2023 to 05/12/2023! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
13 Apr, 2023
Visiting Scholar at BCNM: Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang was a visiting scholar at BCNM during 2022. Read more
05 Apr, 2023
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the Indigenous Imaginarium
Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
27 Feb, 2023
Ryan Shaw Publishes Conceptual Modeling as Language Design
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
06 Jan, 2023
Kidd Lab at Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023
Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022
Read more
22 Dec, 2022
Fall 2022 Events in Review
Thank you so much for joining us for another semester of BCNM events! We've collected our event transcripts and videos so you can tune in to amazing lectures from Pua Case, BCNM alumni Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, Visiting Scholar Gillian Rose, and more. Read more
16 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the National Humanities Conference
Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more
16 Dec, 2022
Yasnaya Aguilar Gil Video & Transcript Now Online
Read more
05 Dec, 2022
Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
27 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Valencia James: AI_am Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Alum Bo Ruberg on Queer Digital Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Conference Grants: William Morgan at SLSA 2022
William Morgan, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant recipient, presented “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Image caption: Video still of Bruno Latour lecturing at UC Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2005 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
23 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Report: Lani Alden
Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more
17 Aug, 2022
Justin Berner Appointed Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Justin Berner joins NYU Shanghai as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. Read more
16 Aug, 2022
Ritwik Banerji Appointed Assistant Professor at Iowa State University
Read more
16 Aug, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 Class Grants
We're pleased to support Tom McEnaney's course on Sounding American. Read more
11 Aug, 2022
Queer Affects at the Origins of Computation
Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
22 Jul, 2022
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Featuring BCNM poet alums Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, UCB Professor of Music Ken Ueno, Indigenous Technologies, and more! 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
20 Jun, 2022
Morgan Ames on the Received Wisdom Podcast
Where did the One Laptop Per Child project go wrong? Morgan Ames gives some answers. Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
21 May, 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
17 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Graduates
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías Read more
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
13 Apr, 2022
Abby Yue Gao's Wildfire Disaster Response in Berkeley News
Berkeley Alumnae Tackle Language Gaps in Wildfire Emergency Communication. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Therapy With a Human Face by Hannah Zeavin
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
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
18 Feb, 2022
HTNM Video Now Online: Yásnaya Aguilar Gil
Read more
23 Jan, 2022
An Ode to Handwriting by Greg Niemeyer
Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
04 Jan, 2022
Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more
04 Jan, 2022
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Japan's Green Monsters
BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinksi reviews Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema in H-Net Reviews' December 2021 edition. Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Xincun Du. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! Read more
14 Nov, 2021
Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
05 Nov, 2021
Announcing the Fall 2022 Faculty Seed Grants
BCNM is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2022 Faculty Seed Grants! Read more
19 Sep, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Mobile Stress Management
Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on using Chatbots to aid in stress management. Read more
29 Aug, 2021
Engineering and Art: An interview with Ken Goldberg
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
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 History and Theory of New Media Season
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more
05 Jul, 2021
Juliana Friend at the LavLang Conference
Juliana Friend receieved a BCNM Conference Grant to help her attend the 27th Annual Lavendar Languages and Linguistics Conference. Read more
19 Jun, 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
25 May, 2021
BCNM Around the Web May 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more
25 Apr, 2021
David Bamman on Characterizing English Variation on Social Media
BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more
24 Apr, 2021
David Bamman Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations, David Bamman, on being promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Information. Read more
13 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg Wins Stonewall Book Award
Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more
07 Feb, 2021
BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more
01 Dec, 2020
Björn Hartmann on Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages
Björn Hartmann recently published a paper titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages." Read more
19 Nov, 2020
Keith Feldman on Beyond Analogy
Keith Feldman recently wrote an article titled "Beyond Analogy" for Contending Modernities. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual in ICIDS Exhibition
Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Announcing our 2020 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2020 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!
Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory Highlighted at UCLA
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project was recently featured by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Read more
12 Nov, 2020
The Future of Memory Now Online
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project is now online! Read more
10 Nov, 2020
Ra Malika Imhotep We Need More Fugitives
Read more
04 Nov, 2020
Pablo Paredes Featured in El Mercurio
BCNM Alum Pablo Parades is featured in El Mercurio, where he speaks of his projects related to mental health. Read more
14 Oct, 2020
Now Accepting Applications for 2021 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2021. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Jenni Higgs on Digital Discourse in Classrooms
Jenni Higgs recently published an academic article titled "Digital Discourse in Classrooms: Language Arts Teachers’ Reported Perceptions and Implementation." Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
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
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
10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
Image provided by Lawrence Lek. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
Bryan Truitt on Mediating the Human Face
Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Around the Web June 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more
30 May, 2020
Electronic Literature Final Projects
Check out the awesome final projects for Alex Saum-Pascual's Electronic Literature class! Image credit: Sergio Cabada Ortiz, Las abajeñas
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15 May, 2020
Poetry from Alex Saum-Pascual in The New River
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20 Apr, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual on Poetry and the Senses
Check out Alex Saum-Pascual's short blog post with ARC about her planned project and thumb blisters! 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
05 Apr, 2020
Bo Ruberg in Lambda Literary
Bo Ruberg's book 'Queer Games Avant-Garde' was featured in 'March’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books' in Lambda Literary Read more
17 Mar, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Joins ELO’s Board of Directors
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20 Feb, 2020
Announcing the 2020 Lyman Fellowship Recipient
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19 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang on Digital Morphogenesis
Alenda Chang's article, "Between Plants and Polygons: SpeedTrees and an Even Speedier History of Digital Morphogenesis" was included in the December 2019 issue of the journal "Natural Media". Read more
10 Feb, 2020
Alum Jen Schradie on Internet Inequality
BCNM alum Jen Schradie was featured on French-language site Usbek+Rica. Read more
07 Feb, 2020
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum Live Feb 12
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! Read more
13 Jan, 2020
BCNM Around the Web January 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more
22 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
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15 Oct, 2019
Xiaowei Wang Receives Mozilla Creative Media Award
The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Open House Fall 2019 Revisited
This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more
12 Sep, 2019
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory Exhibited by Schloss & ZKM
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20 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more
19 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: KC Forcier on the Computational Loop in Network Culture
KC examined how artworks engage with the looping logic of code, with its potential for ongoing and indefinite temporality, and how this relates to the perception of temporality in networked culture as similarly indeterminate. Read more
14 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at New Approaches to Transmedia Language Pedagogy International Conference
Alex presented the keynote at this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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11 Jul, 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
06 Jul, 2019
Black Feminist Theory Study Atlas Co-created by Malika Imhotep Now Available
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16 Jun, 2019
Arianna Ninh on Alterwear
Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more
11 Jun, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Regimes of Identification
Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more
28 May, 2019
Soravis Prakkamakul on VR at CHI 2019
Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
18 May, 2019
Nicholaus Gutierrez on Alternative Programming Paradigms at What is Technology
Nicholaus presented “Model Machines: Alternative Programming Paradigms and the Question of Technological Subjectivity.” Read more
07 May, 2019
Jessica Adams on Virtual Reality Narratives at the AAAL
Jessica presented "Envisioning the Globe: Symbolic Competence in 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Narratives" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Read more
07 May, 2019
Alum Naomi Bragin Receives NEH Summer Stipend
Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970." Read more
28 Apr, 2019
HTNM Revisited: Stefanos Geroulanos
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11 Apr, 2019
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
10 Apr, 2019
Kirsten Chen Curates Play Me Love You
BCNM undergrad Kirsten Chen curates a virtual reality art show at Swim Gallery! Read more
23 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kim Stanley Robinson
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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
19 Feb, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at MLA Commons
Alex Saum-Pascual attended the 2019 Chicago Modern Language Association Convention, presenting her research on the intersection of digital humanities and Hispanic studies. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
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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
20 Aug, 2018
The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more
18 Jul, 2018
Ritwik Banerji Published on Interactions with Artificial Social Agents
The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more
28 May, 2018
2018 Seed Grants: Rita Lucarelli & the New Media of the Book of the Dead
The BCNM Faculty Seed Grant Program awarded $5000 to Rita Lucarelli (Near Eastern Studies) to digitally transposition Egyptian coffins into 3D models. Read more
23 May, 2018
Welcome Claudia Von Vacano
We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more
08 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at UTS, Australia
Ken Goldberg visited the UTS in Australia to discuss the boundaries between alive and live-like. Read more
03 May, 2018
Electronic Literature in Spanish & Digital Poetry Reading by Alex Saum Pascual at Bergen
On May 2nd, Alexandra Saum-Pascal visited UiB from UC Berkeley to present on electronic literature in Spanish. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Announcing 2018 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! We are excited to support the amazing work these students will be completing over the summer. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Welcome to BCNM Spring 2018 Visiting Scholar Michael Stevenson
A warm welcome to visiting scholar Michael Stevenson, web historian and Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam! Read more
16 Mar, 2018
HTNM Revisited: "Software Arts" with Warren Sacks
Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year! Read more
13 Mar, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger at UH Open Sciences Symposium
Alum Stuart Geiger delivered the keynote lecture at the UH Open Sciences Symposium. Read more
23 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at WEF meeting
BCNM Alumnus Trevor Paglen was selected to attend the 48th Annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort
From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus. Read more
20 Nov, 2017
Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort
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17 Nov, 2017
Shannon Jackson at PARSE Conference 2017
Shannon Jackson participated in the "Vocabularies of Exclusion" strand at the PARSE Conference 2017 this week. Read more
13 Nov, 2017
Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political
Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
27 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum-Pascual on Teaching Electronic Literature
Alex Saum-Pascual writes about her Digital Humanities course on e-literature, which she developed as a DH Fellow. Read more
23 Oct, 2017
From Berkeley to Spain: A Summer of Digital Art History
Greg Niemeyer, Berkeley Center of New Media Director, and Justin Underhill speak about their experiences at the Digital Art History Summer School 2017 in Malaga, Spain. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
Greg Niemeyer in Open Codes Exhibition at ZKM
Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more
03 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg & Automation Lab on RTVE
Ken Goldberg and the Automation Lab make an appearance on RTVE's "El cazador de crebros," or "The Brain Hunter," to talk about artificial intelligence. Read more
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
08 Aug, 2017
Ryan Ikeda at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Ryan Ikeda reflects on his experience at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) this June in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Read more
18 Jul, 2017
Five Questions with Adam Hutz
The Jacobs Institute sat down with Adam Hutz, a doctoral candidate in rhetoric & new media, who also teaches NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making alongside Eric Paulos. Read more
24 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg and T-ASE Add Note to Practitioners
Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS. Read more
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
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11 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations: Color of New Media Working Group Transcription
The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award Recipients
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22 Mar, 2017
Interview with Asma Kazmi!
Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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07 Mar, 2017
Revisited: “Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini"
Missed Tanya Lombardo's lecture? No worries. We recapped it for you. Read more
27 Feb, 2017
Ken Goldberg Receives Google Research Grant
The 2016 Google Research Machine Learning and Data Mining Award goes to a BCNM faculty! Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Introducing Our Undergraduate Research Fellows
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17 Feb, 2017
Jenni Higgs at Writing Research Across Borders IV in Colombia
22 Nov, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort
These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more
17 Nov, 2016
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
10 Nov, 2016
#TateExchange Highlights with Shannon Jackson
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24 Oct, 2016
Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Shannon Jackson at the Tate Exchange
The assistant professor in Rhetoric and Performance Studies will participate in a series of events at the renowned London museum Read more
30 Aug, 2016
Jenni Higgs & Kyle Booten Receive National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships
These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 Read more
30 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Andrea Horbinski and Japanese Manga
Horbinski researched at the Harvard Yenching Library on Japanese Manga Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Andrea Gagliano and Kyle Booten Featured on Berkeley ISchool News
A feature in the Berkeley School of Information news article "Teaching a Computer to Write Poetry" Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity at Tata Communication Summit
07 Jul, 2016
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: Jennifer Hartman, Lark Buckingham, and Everything After
Jennifer Hartman was selected to work with Lark Buckingham (Art Practice) on her artistic exploration of the culture surrounding sexual violence Read more
21 Jun, 2016
Lark Buckingham and Everything After
Lark Buckingham’s art centers around the forces that shape human identities, particularly those of the queer community Read more
21 Jun, 2016
BCNM Seed Grants 2017: Abigail De Kosnik's TorrentMap
Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Abigail De Kosnik to build her innovative tool TorrentMap Read more
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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05 Apr, 2016
Before It's Too Late - Archiving What We (Don't) Care About
An astute lesson from Brewster Kahle, archive.org founder, shared with our director Read more
21 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Critical Play"
A recap of Mary Flanagan's lecture, recapped by Kate Mattingly. Read more
17 Mar, 2016
Announcing the Spring 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
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04 Dec, 2015
Revisited: "Everything After: Opossum Impressions"
We revisit Lark Buckingham's installation from this past week Read more
01 Dec, 2015
New Undergraduates Announcement!
Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Kate Mattingly on the Forty Part Motet
BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more
23 Nov, 2015
Announcing our Newest Cohort of Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate Students
We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more
17 Nov, 2015
From a young age, Andrea was drawn to fantasy and science fiction Read more
17 Nov, 2015
Raised in an Anglo-Spanish household in Madrid, Alex has always been fascinated by language Read more
28 Oct, 2015
HTNM 5th Anniversary and Revisited: "Technologies of Simulation"
with Claus Pias
Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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01 Oct, 2015
Field Notes: Kyle Booten and a Digital Verse Lab
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24 Sep, 2015
David Bamman at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Check out the highlights from Friday, August 21st’s presentation by David Bamman Read more
05 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual E-Literature Class Funded by Digital Humanities
We're thrilled to see that Alex Saum-Pascual's (Spanish) new electronic literature course has been funded by Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley! Read more
02 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Bonnie Ruberg
06 May, 2015
Revisited: CITRIS Mobile App Challenge
What a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps that addresses civic needs entailed! Read more
06 May, 2015
Revisited: CITRIS Mobile App Challenge
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) hosted a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps Read more
29 Apr, 2015
Announcing our Spring 2015 Graduating Class
We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Summer 2015 Research Awards
BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! 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
03 Mar, 2015
Announcing the 2015 Peter Lyman Fellow
he Fellowship seeks to support a Ph.D. candidate in the writing of his or her dissertation on a topic related to new media through a summer stipend Read more
03 Sep, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Kyle Booten
Kyle Booten (Education) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Read more
03 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence Read more
01 Aug, 2014
This month, hear how BCNM Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch supports open source information through diversifying Wikipedia and digitizing small museums’ archives
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21 Jul, 2014
The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more
24 Apr, 2014
Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class
We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more
15 Apr, 2014
Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept
A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Technology Services and Training Fellowship
This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more
24 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Don Buchla
Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
18 Mar, 2014
HTNM Revisited: The Black Box, the Light Box and Photo-Receptivity
A contribution by Katherine Chandler on Alexander Galloway's recent HTNM talk Read more
04 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Casey Reas
The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more
24 Feb, 2014
TTT Revisted: Create Your Bot Hackathon
This past Saturday, the Turing Test Tournament Team at the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the Create Your Chatbot Hackathon Read more
09 Jan, 2014
New Media Exhibit Developer: Interactive Data Visualizations
The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more
25 Nov, 2013
BCNM Welcomes New Students to the DE & Graduate Certificate in New Media
We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs Read more
20 May, 2013
Inventing the Future of Games 2013: Interactive Storytelling Symposium, Report by Chris Goetz
IFOG 2013 Symposium brought together academics and practitioners (as well as academic practitioners) for a stimulating conversation about storytelling in videogames Read more
20 May, 2013
New Media 2013 Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM Designated Emphasis Students
Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students Read more
23 Apr, 2013
BCNM New Media Students showcase Research at Spring Semester Presentation
UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more
19 Mar, 2013
Announcing the 2013 Peter Lyman Fellow, T. Geronimo Johnson
For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” Read more
10 Dec, 2012
BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research
Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more
04 Dec, 2012
BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media
We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more
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 Aug, 2011
ShowMeHow: Translating User Interface Instructions Between Similar Applications
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
Applications are now open. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
Applications for Summer 2024 are due March 5, 2024.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 18, 2024
Applications are due March 1, 2024
Applications are now open. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
Applications for Summer 2024 are due March 5, 2024.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 18, 2024
Applications are due March 1, 2024
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