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

Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more

Mercedes Bunz, researcher in the fields of digital culture, and the photographer Joan Fontcuberta spoke with BCNM faculty member Alex Saum-Pascual about artificial intelligence and artistic creation. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions! Read more

Alex spoke about AI and Research Innovation Across Disciplines! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2023 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!  Read more

Wish Wang received an undergraduate research fellowship and was mentored by Xinwei Zhuang. Read more

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

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

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

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

The Arts Research Center published a chapbook featuring their 2020 Poetry & the Senses Fellows, including Alex Saum-Pascual! Read more

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

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

We've scoured the listings and added our favorite new media classes in one handy place! Read more

Blockchain Chicken Farm has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2023 $10,000 science and literature awards! Read more

Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more

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

Digital technologies, climate damage, algorithms, capitalocene, ecology, environmental studies, and digital literature! Read more

Join us at BCNM curating and offering an exciting array of programs, including our popular Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies program! Read more

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

We’re thrilled to be able to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more

Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022.  Read more

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

BCNM alumni Lashon Daley's first vlog is up! Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual's Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas is featured in Hispanic writings from the exocanon. Read more

Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more

Justin Berner joins NYU Shanghai as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. Read more

We're pleased to support Tom McEnaney's course on Sounding American. Read more

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

Read the review by Kara Stone of "Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games" Read more

Watch Alenda Chang present at Penn State on ecology and technology! Read more

Lina Matine worked with Harry Burson on his research into the development of “Ambisonics". Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!

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Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects is reviewed by Michael Eby in Artforum, discussing how digital graphics remade the material world. Read more

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

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

The article appears in American Literature and argues that the AIDS crisis indicates the "present absence of queerness in video games." Read more

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

Alenda Y Chang's review of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene is featured in the Winter 2021 issue of the journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.  Read more

Interested in the intersection of literature and technology? Take a deep dive into the field of "electronic literature"! Read more

Alex's electronic literature appears in the new anthology Texts of Discomfort. Read more

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

Developed by alum Lashon Daley, this web series bring together children’s literature authors and scholars to discuss critical topics brewing within the field. Read more

BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2022. Read more

Lashon describes her journey into writing Children's Literature, and publishing of "Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables" in 2016.  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

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

We extend a warm welcome to Associate Professor Dan O'Neill, who will be joinging BCNM's Executive Committee. 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

Lashon Daley writes about rupturing the color line in American children’s literature. Read more

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

Grace Gipson published an article on Southern hip hop in the Black Perspectives blog.   Read more

Lashon Daley's article on Black girl rage in film and literature has been published in the UChicago Journal of Women and Culture in Society. Read more

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

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

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

Congratulations to our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate graduates! We are proud of their accomplishments and high level of scholarship here at Cal, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors.  Read more

Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more

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

BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more

Ryan Ikeda recently published an article titled "Excavating Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature: Antiracism as Infrastructural Critique" in the Electronic Book Review. Check it out! Read more

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

Alex Saum-Pascual's essay is featured in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices.  Read more

Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE. Read more

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

Justin Berner published an essay titled "Unhelpful Tools: Reexamining the Digital Humanities through Eugenio Tisselli’s degenerative and regenerative" on Electronic Book Review earlier this month! Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual and Élika Ortega interview experts in e-lit for their "Digital Literary Arts" graduate seminar. Read more

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

Alex Saum-Pascual recently published an article titled "Memory Traces: Printed Electronic Literature as a Site of Remembrance" in Comparative Literature Studies. Read more

We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more

Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more

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

Alex Saum-Pascual co-edits this amazing collection that features a host of BCNM contributions! Read more

"In the era of algorithms and big data [...] the issue of who is or is not “counted” profoundly affects visibility, access, and power in the digital realm." Read more

Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more

Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more

BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual published "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature? And Why Should We Care?" in the 2019 Electronic Literature Organization essay collection.  Read more

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

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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

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

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

Keith Feldman wrote on anti-Muslim racism for American Quarterly's December 2019 issue.  Read more

BCNM professor Tom McEnaney was quoted in a New York Times article on the difficulties for female politicians that arise from their speech.  Read more

Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more

Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

Bo Ruberg contributed to an overview on the work in Feminist and Queer Game Studies for Oxford Bibliographies. Read more

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

Saum's work is exhibited at the 'todo mal' pavilion at the The Wrong's Biennale  Read more

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet.  Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more

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

This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! 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

Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG  Read more

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

Malika presented “On Sethe’s Back: rememory, afro-cyborgues and black feminist ante-humanism" at the 2019 American Literature Association annual meeting. Read more

The article, co-authored with Richard Paquin Morel and Cynthia Coburn, was published in Educational Researcher. Read more

The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's Thirteenth Biennial Conference was held at UC Davis in June. Read more

Alum Andrea Horbinksi is on the Sirens team reviewing fantasy literature by women authors. Read more

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

William presented "Calculative Reason and its Reproduction" at the 2019 Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) Conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. Read more

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

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

Bo chats about the history of video games through the lens of LGBTQ theory! Read more

Bo's incredibly popular Game Developer's Conference lecture is now available for free to view online! Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg was part of a panel discussion at UCLA's Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration on International Women's Day.  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

Earl Aguilera examines Christo Sims’ Disruptive Fixation and its contributions to the growing body of literature on technology in education. Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng's Music & Architecture: Selected Bibliography is available on Humanities Commons Read more

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

Check out this year's round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more

“Out of Mind" was the theme for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Read more

This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Read more

Alex Saum participated in the 13th International Colloquium in Computational Creativity organized by the friends of UAM Cuajimalpa in Mexico City, under the direction of Rafael Pérez.  Read more

This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more

Join Alex in Madrid for a book talk on her amazing new work #PostWeb! Read more

Justin Berner taught New Media R1B: "What is an @uthor?" this summer. 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

Join alum Andrea Horbinski to discuss transitioning out of academia at Sirens 2018! Read more

Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more

This year, DH at Berkeley hosts a weekly DH Summer Lecture series, highlighting the distinguished work of faculty and scholars engaged in the digital humanities at UC Berkeley. Read more

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

The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. Read more

Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship.  Read more

As a part of Saum-Pascual's visit to the University of Bergen, she gave an overview of her forthcoming book release. Read more

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

Amateurism Across the Arts, a symposium co-sponsored by BCNM, drew a crowd of 70 community members who explore DIY artistic production. Read more

If you were unable to attend Professor Scott Rettberg's discussion about electronic literature last November, a video of his talk is now available for public viewing. Read more

Yairamaren Roman Maldonado reflects on her experience at the Imagining America conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more

Andrea Horbinski will be participating in two program items for the Sirens 2017 Conference in Colorado. 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

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

Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities.  Read more

Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more

Steffen Moestrup joins us from the University of Copenhagen to study personality driven journalism Read more

Last week, Assistant Professor Saum-Pascual and BCNM alum Lydia Tuan shared their scholarship with the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Portugal. Read more

Canyon Perry was selected to work with Yaira Roman Madonado on her project Literary and Digital Avant-Gardes in Post-National Puerto Rico. Read more

A new book exploring the prehistory of wireless culture from BCNM Alum Tom McEnany Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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We are sad to hear of the passing of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Read more

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

Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object.  Read more

Sabbatical is not slowing down Prof. Alex Saum-Pascual, BCNM and Spanish, who has been traveling across Europe to attended and present at several conferences!  Read more

A guide written by Bonnie Ruberg, a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at USC Read more

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

Lydia Tuan was selected to work with Amy Koehler-Catterson (Education) on digital technologies as pedagogical tools Read more

These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 Read more

Gipson received a summer research award from the BCNM to support her dissertation research by attending the Popular Culture Summer Research Workshop Read more

Alumna Bonnie Ruberg had her article 'Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography' published in a special issue  Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more

Professor Alex Saum-Pascual, Spanish and Portuguese Assistant Professor, has published two solo authored articles in important Hispanic Studies journals Read more

See photos and tweets from the event! Read more

Check out Alex Saum-Pascual's blog on the event! Read more

Saum-Pascual's article explores two similar manifestations of computational practices and electronic literature in print from Spain Read more

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

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Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

Both courses will offer hands-on practice and satisfy the new media Designated Emphasis technology-focused requirement 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

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

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more

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

BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more

This summer, BCNM DE Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching New Media 150 AC – “Playing Race: Investigating American Racial Identities through Video Games,” which will fulfill the American Cultures requirement Read more

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

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

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

Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more

Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more

We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more

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