BCNM alum Jen Schradie will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Media Sociology Preconference taking place in August. Read more

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

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

Trevor Paglen's solo show for Altman Siegel was featured in San Francisco Art Quarterly.  Read more

BCNM Designated Emphasis Students Molly Nicholas and Christine Dierk, aided by BCNM faculty Eric Paulos, project HäirIÖ was featuresd in Hackster.io! 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

A Berkeley Center for New Media GSI has received an the "Outstanding GSI Award" from the GSI Teaching and Resource Center. Read more

Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year!  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

Tan Hoang Nguyen interrogated the art and film of Norman Yonemoto drawing out the unique socio-political elements that pervade Yonemoto's work.  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

On March 6, the UC Berkeley Library, in partnership with American Cultures, Art History/Classics Library, the Berkeley Center for New Media, DH at Berkeley, the D-Lab, and the Wiki Education Foundation hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to improve the coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism, race, justice, and the arts. Read more

Multimedia and Journalism Prof. Koci-Hernandez' photographs are featured in 100 Great Street Photographs and Mobile Street Photography. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie published an article on the North Carolina Moral Monday protests in Social Media & Society Read more

The BAMPFA will be hosting a talk with Jacob Gaboury, as part of their Berkeley Art + Design programming.  Read more

Professors Jeremy Rue and Richard Koci Hernandez were featured in an article in California Magazine on augmented reality. Read more

Lyndsey Ogle and her work were featured on an episode of 'Mythicist Miwaukee' Read more

Horbinski spoke at the Beyond Academia Conference as part of the Media and Communication panel. Read more

BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury was selected as one of 10 fellows for the 2018 Media Archaeology Lab's residency program.  Read more

Prof. David Bates is presenting "Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence” for the STS Program’s Annual Straker lecture. The lecture will occur on Tuesday, March 6th at 5 PM in Swing 122. Read more

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

Read Trevor Paglen's article on Fedorov's Geographies of Time on e-Flux Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun were Keynote Speakers at Ways of Knowing Cities Conference by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia.

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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

Watch the Reply All conference speakers discuss how various spaces, physical and digital, demand different responses and protections for free speech. The video is now available for public viewing on Youtube.  Read more

Couldn't make it out to the all-day symposium, Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media, last semester? All the panels, addresses and remarks have now been uploaded onto Youtube.  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

Video from the conference, co-organized by Ken Goldberg, are now online Read more

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

BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg received the Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award at UCI for work diversifying esports. Read more

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

Alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the American Historical Association's 132nd Annual Meeting. Read more

Paglen's work was featured in "The Future of Art," a short film series on Artsy.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik discusses Game of Thrones and shares her pro-piracy argument with the data she has collected through her project titled "alpha60". Read more

Congratulations to Shangjun (Jenny) Jiang and Allison Nguyen our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Read more

Graduate students are now invited to apply for Spring 2018 admission into the BCNM program. Read more

Alum Kris Paulsen has received the prestigious Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Read more

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

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed by Leondardo Reviews. Read more

"A ‘Sanctuary City’ but who gets to live here?"
with Leslie Dreyer ACES Artist in Residence and BCNM Alum Read more

As one of the recipients of the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant, Lashon Daley received funding to attend and present her research findings at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Conference. 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

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

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

Applications for Summer 2018 are now available! BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer research. Read more

Ken Goldberg is quoted in a Daily Cal article about RoBhat Labs and their latest Google Chrome extension release, Botcheck.me. Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg has been published in the June 2017 issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. 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

Jen Schradie received her PhD from Berkeley and recently published Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture, which can be bought on Amazon. Read more

BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg's book, Queer Game Studies, was reviewed in the Critical Studies in Media Communication journal.  Read more

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed in Archives & Manuscripts!  Read more

Bonnie Ruberg, BCNM alum, was a panelist at the Gaming Representation Symposium at Smith College to talk about her contributions to a new book.  Read more

We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more

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

Jen Schradie, BCNM alum and sociologist with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, discussed "hashtag activism" and the possibility of #MeToo becoming a part of a larger movement.  Read more

Check out our recommended Cal New Media courses being offered Spring 2018! Read more

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

TF Tierney's book talk about intelligent infrastructure is now available for public viewing.  Read more

Reginold Royston is a media and cultural studies scholar who has recelty been interviewed on his work with digital humanities. 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

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

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

At the beginning of October, alum Bonnie Ruberg attended IndieCade in Downtown Los Angeles to speak about the relationship between games and politics. Read more

Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. Read more

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

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

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

Graduates are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM 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

How should university campuses facilitate free speech when there is the potential for violence?
An opinion lab presented in partnership with Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media Symposium Read more

Upcoming ATC speaker and Cal alumnus Ian Chang talks to CALIFORNIA Magazine about his MoMA-exhibited art, his experience at UC Berkeley, and his professional and personal journey after graduation. Read more

BCNM alumna Jen Schradie critiques how the press sensationalized protests in Berkeley. Read more

New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. We're gathering faculty, students, and staff to address these changes. Read more

A Quartz article quoted De Monchaux about Elon Musk's Instagram post of SpaceX spacesuit prototype.  Read more

From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! Read more

Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more

Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more

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

Listen to this witty show's episode shared between Obie Award-winning Schneider and Alum Ashley Ferro-Murray. Read more

From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more

Transformative Works and Cultures, a journal of fan scholarship, wants your submissions on fan communities of color! Read more

This year, BCNM initiated its undergraduate research fellowships, which offer undergraduates the chance to engage in direct research experience with BCNM graduates. Read more

Justin Berner presented paper "Waking up to a World in Color" for Happiness Conference at NYU. 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

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

Grace Gipson shared insights on comics and afrofuturism at the Black Imagine Oakland convention. Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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Andrew Atwood received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to create interactive app designs as a way to engage and attract new audiences to architecture Read more

Jenni Higgs reflects on her experience at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) this May in San Antonio, Texas Read more

Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more

Check out the videos from some of the great lectures this semester, including our Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more

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

If you missed our recent Arts, Technology and Culture colloquium with Andy and Deborah Rappaport - the video is now live Read more

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

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

Ashley Hunt discussed the visibility of prisons as part of our Commons Conversations series Read more

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

Ed Campion (Music) received $5,000 to build a sound habitat with Ron Rael (Architecture) as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

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

with Jan De Vos Read more

with Ron Rael Read more

Andy and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project, which houses affordable spaces for artists and non-profits, shared the pleasures and challenges of collecting art objects in this digital age. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies held its 2017 Conference at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Read more

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

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

Juliana Friend and Laura K Nelson will lead the talk Digital Technologies and the Future of Qualitative and Interpretive Analysis. Read more

An amazing talk by Kavita Philip Read more

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

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

BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer doctoral or pre-doctoral research 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

Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more

Missed Miriam Posner's workshop the other day? No worries. Watch it here. Read more

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

BCNM was pleased to partner with the University of California Davis Libraries and Digital Humanities at Berkeley to bring PressForward to UC Berkeley Read more

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

Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! Read more

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

In the East Bay Express's monthly discussion, artists gather in Bay Area living rooms to discuss new media. Read more

BCNM's de Monchaux will attend the 13th International Bauhaus Colloquium, which will be held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany Read more

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

The BCNM and SPUR presented a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence Read more

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

Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more

Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more

On Miriam Posner's workshop event, recapped by Miyoko Conley. Read more

Here, Buckingham describes teaching Advanced Digital Animation” as a NWMEDIA 90 this past summer Read more

Genevieve Quick, Eric Paolos, and Alex Cruse shared recent projects and works in progress at the Bay Area Living Room Light Exchange  Read more

A trove of visual culture preserved by the archive, with live accompaniment by Pixies guitarist Paz Lenchantin. 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

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

Readers may remember her from the No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica exhibition currently on display in the Doe Library Read more

Save the date!  Read more

This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more

The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more

Greg Niemeyer will create radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more

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

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making 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

Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more

Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more

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

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 pairs full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces from scholarly blogs and conference presentations Read more

See photos and tweets from the event! 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

We recap this fascinating talk on this past showcase of sensor-technology art 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

We recap Brewster Kahle's lecture on privacy and free speech in the world wide web Read more

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

BCNM faculty were featured in a recent New York Times piece on monitoring and data security in the UC system Read more

Applications Due: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Read more

We revisit Lark Buckingham's installation from this past week 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

Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more

with Claus Pias

Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

Featuring Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen), David Rokeby (Ryerson University, Toronto), and Mark B. Hansen (Duke University) Read more

The CITRIS Invention Lab is practically the home of contemporary innovation at Berkeley Read more

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

This year, the BCNM awarded five new media graduate students with technology services and training awards to help them fund the support they need to further their research agendas Read more

Check out photos of amazing student work! 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

We are now accepting proposals for New Media courses that can be taught in the summer session of 2016 from our graduate students and faculty! Read more

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

Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more

Three Editor's Choice awards were awarded to NWMEDIA 203: Critical Making projects at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire Read more

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

Projects approached UI design from many angles and different purposes Read more

What a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps that addresses civic needs entailed! Read more

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

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

From her lecture, "Design for All: Inclusivity By Design". With Student porject demos Read more

 faculty member in rhetoric as well as theater, dance and performance studies (TDPS), Shannon Jackson currently directs the campus’s Arts Research Center 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

Written by Anna Carey, event co-organizer Read more

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

Bonnie will be teaching and conducting research under the guidance of game industry veterans Read more

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

A lecture by Chris Goto-Jones, Comparative Philosophy Chair at Leiden University Read more

Over the course of the day, participants created new articles and enhanced existing entries relating to women and art 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

We review the electroacoustic artist's riveting talk on instumentation for those hard of hearing Read more

from the UCSB professor's talk, "Against the Cultural Singularity" Read more

from his lecture, "Gamic Orientalism" Read more

We revisit UCD Professor Elizabeth Freeman's lecture, "Sex in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gerard & Kelly's Kisses" Read more

by renowned Thai artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija Read more

The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more

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

Michelle Ott is currently a MFA Student at the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice Read more

A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

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

A recording of the community organizer's lecture, "Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial" Read more

The special issue, entitled "Hacking the Black/White Binary," features a unique section called "Feminist Hacks" Read more

NWMEDIA 202: Sensing Cityscapes Read more

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

Eric Paulos' CS160: User Interface Design Course was presented the challenge and opportunity of creating app which incorporate both smartphones and the Toq Smartwatc Read more

Kimiko Ryokai's NWMEDIA/INFO C262: Tangible User Interfaces created new products aimed at shifting the way we interact with technology Read more

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

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

Missed out on this standing-room only lecture “Cold War Multimedia: The Democratic Surround”? Catch it here. Read more

We partnered with Authors Alliance for an exciting workshop! Read about what happened, here. Read more

We recap this ATC lecture on planning for urban housing by community organizer Rick Lowe Read more

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

Winners of Hack the Bells, the first international carillon remix competition, have been selected 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

In partnership with Books in Browsers, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and swissnex San Francisco Read more

The Image as Location conference was brought to you by BCNM, swissnex San Francisco, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate San Francisco, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Read more

A lecture by the community artist and muralist earlier this month Read more

UCSB's Film and Media Studies Associate Professor sat down with us earlier this month. Read highlights here. Read more

We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more

A Bay Area Festival that explores the relationship between people, pictures, and places Read more

We highlight a past lecture by Grateful Dead songwriter, on moving from monotheism to pantheism Read more

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

Jospeh Akel, a BCNM DE from Rhetoric, contribute a catalogue essay to the San Francisco Jessica Silverman Gallery's show, titled "The History of Technology" Read more

The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more

Fellow BCNM DE Margaret Rhee interviewed Ashley for her HASTAC blog, and you can read their wonderful and illuminating conversation here 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

BCNM was excited to offer NWMEDIA 198 this semester, a decal associated with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society's (CITRIS) Mobile Apps Challenge Read more

The New Media Working Group visited the Exploratorium last Tuesday, May 6th for a tour of new media exhibits and discussion of the production of new media works Read more

Our graduating students have all contributed so much to the intellectual life of BCNM and we will miss how they have challenged and inspired us Read more

In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more

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

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

The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” 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

The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley 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

Zueger explores new forms of civil disobedience that emerge on the Internet using both political philosophy and qualitative methods to inform her research Read more

Stierch has been featured in the East Bay Express for her work to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia Read more

Interested in taking part in the Center for New Media's WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon? Join us this Saturday from 1pm to 5pm to create edits that stick! Read more

Carla Diana, panelist in BCNM's upcoming Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, published "The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends" in the Atlantic Read more

The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more

Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more

We are delighted to welcome 3 new graduate students to our Masters Certificate program Read more

We're thrilled to see Futures of the Book partner, the Books in Browsers conference, share their conference proceedings Read more

Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting a WikiWomen's edit-a-thon to encourage The more women to edit Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia’s coverage of women's history Read more

A contribution by Katherine Chandler on Alexander Galloway's recent HTNM talk Read more

The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more

This past Saturday, the Turing Test Tournament Team at the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the Create Your Chatbot Hackathon 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