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 LiteratureRead 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
Non-Human Art
with Leonel Moura
Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)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 InnovationRead 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
09 Mar, 2018
Special Events
Amateurism Across the Arts
Amateurism Across the Arts is an event hosted by the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, and co-sponsored in part by BCNM. Read more
15 Nov, 2017
Special Events
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation: A Digital Storytelling Project
Witness the presentation of this fascinating ethical, and political archive on mass human displacement, this November Read more
14 Aug, 2017
Special Events
Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute
Don't miss out on this annual series of digital humanities discussions and workshops! 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
05 Apr, 2015
Workshops
Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal
A Masterclass with Jose Carlos Martinat.Open to artists, inventors, and engineers Read more
29 Mar, 2014
Special Events
Impossible Hackathon
We're bringing wifi, food, API's, an amazing community... You bring ideas help this "economy of kindness" Read more
15 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Visual Identities, Recorded Subjects and ‘Pant-Pages’ in Late Narratives in Spanish, from a Transatlantic Perspective
A lecture by Vicente Luis Mora, Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Technologies at Brown University Read more
07 Aug, 2019
Laura Lozano Marín on Alex Saum Pascual's Poetry
Lozano Marín studies the characteristics of electronic poetry written by females. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Read more
02 May, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual Promoted to Associate Professor
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
14 Feb, 2019
Announcing the 2019 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Fionce Siow. Read more
Join Alex in Madrid for a book talk on her amazing new work #PostWeb! Read more
30 Aug, 2018
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Justin Berner and New Media Reading and Composition
Justin Berner taught New Media R1B: "What is an @uthor?" this summer. Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Tom McEnaney Launches GloUH Colloquium
Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more
20 Aug, 2018
BCNM at ELO 2018
The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more
26 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual at the DH Summer Lecture Series
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 on the Peder Sather E-Lit Bergen Collaboration
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
07 May, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on #PostWeb at Bergen
As a part of Saum-Pascual's visit to the University of Bergen, she gave an overview of her forthcoming book release. 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
04 Feb, 2018
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation Video Now Online
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
25 Jan, 2018
Announcing the 2018 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. 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
24 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum and Scott Rettberg Awarded Peder Sather Grant
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
17 Oct, 2017
Welcome Tom McEnaney
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
07 Jun, 2017
Justin Berner at the NYU-Columbia Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Conference
Justin Berner presented paper "Waking up to a World in Color" for Happiness Conference at NYU. Read more
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award Recipients
Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Read more
07 Mar, 2017
New E-Lit Poem by Alex Saum-Pascual on Inventor of First E-Book
Saum-Pascual just published an e-lit poem on the inventor of the first e-book, Dona Angelita Read more
28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the 2017 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Media Innovation Scholarship was awarded to this forward-thinking student. Read more
21 Feb, 2017
No Legacy Exhibition Opening | California College of the Arts
Check out the launch of this exciting exhibition! Read more
19 Jan, 2017
Alex Saum in Europe!
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
Summer Research Report: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Digital Stories and Popular Voices in Puerto Rico
Here's what she discovered with a BCNM-funded grant Read more
01 Aug, 2016
E-lit #selfie poetry and Alex Saum Pascual in Berkeley News
Highlights of not only her academic studies in electronic literature, but also her creative e-lit poetry projects Read more
27 Jul, 2016
New #SELFIE Poetry from Alex Saum-Pascual
Readers may remember her from the No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica exhibition currently on display in the Doe Library Read more
24 Jun, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual Selfie Poetry to be Exhibited
Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more
24 Jun, 2016
California Report Card Featured in The Promise of Berkeley
The California Report Card was developed by BCNM Professor Ken Goldberg and Lt. Gov. Gavin NewsomRead more
26 May, 2016
New Publications from Alex Saum-Pascual
Professor Alex Saum-Pascual, Spanish and Portuguese Assistant Professor, has published two solo authored articles in important Hispanic Studies journals Read more
Alex Saum-Pascual Receives Humanities Research Fellowship
Alex Saum-Pascual has received a Humanities Research Fellowship for the 2016-2017 year to study electronic literature in Spain! Read more
20 Apr, 2016
Revisited: "telep0es1s: Experiments in Creative Literature"
Check out the highlights of Rui Torres's lecture on digital art Read more
20 Apr, 2016
Digital Artist Rui Torres at UCB
World-famous digital artist, Rui Torres has been the artist in residence in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UC Berkeley Read more
16 Feb, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual's Article Published in Letras Hispanas
Saum-Pascual's article explores two similar manifestations of computational practices and electronic literature in print from Spain Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Alex Saum Pascual's @deshumani
@deshumani, which seeks to take Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset's "The Dehumanization of Art" into the 21st century 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
Meet Alex Saum-Pascual
Raised in an Anglo-Spanish household in Madrid, Alex has always been fascinated by language Read more
02 Nov, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual Teaching Spanish E-Lit this Spring
Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Read more
08 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Recommended Spring 16 Courses Now Out!
Check out the highlights of new media courses on offer this Spring 2016! And here are a few we're proud to be offering. Read more
06 Oct, 2015
New Spring 2016 Undergrad E-Lit Course!
This upper-division undergraduate course epitomizes digital humanities - literary analysis alongside basic programming skills and DH tools and methods! Read more
Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual!Read more
13 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual: Exhibitions, Research, and Writing
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
23 Jun, 2015
BCNM at DHSI 2015
The Berkeley Center for New Media was well represented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2015 in Victoria, Canada this year! Read more
02 Jun, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual Awarded a Hellman
10 Feb, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual
Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for Innovation in New Media
Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Welcoming New DE and Certificate Students
16 Apr, 2014
Revisited: Impossible
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
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
Fall 2019
Spring 2018
Applications for Summer 2020 are due March 14, 2020
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – October 1, 2019
Conference Grants
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Applications for Summer 2020 are due March 14, 2020
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – October 1, 2019
Conference Grants
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
