2 days ago

Spring 2025 Recommended Courses Now Online

We've scoured the listings for our favorite new media courses. Check them out in one handy place! Read more

02 Oct, 2024

BCNM 2023-2024 Publications

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

02 Oct, 2024

Summer Research Reports: Elizabeth Sun on the Video Data Bank

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Elizabeth Sun on the Video Data Bank! Read more

01 Oct, 2024

Summer Research Reports: Lee Crandall on Visualizing Crypto-Economic/Ecologic Networks

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Lee Crandall on Visualizing Crypto-Economic/Ecologic Networks! Read more

01 Oct, 2024

Summer Research Reports: Jaclyn Zhou on Anime Fan Tourism

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Jaclyn Zhou on Anime Fan Tourism! Read more

27 Sep, 2024

Seed Grant Report — Emma Fraser on Media in Ruins & the Strong Museum of Play

Emma Fraser received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for exploring the form and aesthetics of new media and digital technologies. Read more about the progress of her research! Read more

23 Sep, 2024

Announcing Our Fall 2024 Class Fund Recipients

We're excited to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more

23 Sep, 2024

Lyman Report: Vincente Perez

We're pleased to have awarded Vincente Perez the 2024 Lyman Fellowship. Read more

22 Sep, 2024

Xiaowei R. Wang's New Exhibition at / (Slash) Art Gallery

Alum Xiaowei R. Wang's collaborative exhibition Fictions of Presence is on view at / (Slash) Art Gallery! Read more

21 Sep, 2024

BCNM Around the Web Summer 2024

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

in 2 days History & Theory

Games @ Berkeley

with Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future; Greg Niemeyer, Data Artist and Professor of Media Innovation, UC Berkeley; Alex Leavitt, Principal Researcher, Roblox; Scotty Hoag, Interactive Software Engineer, Sphere Entertainment; Bo Ruberg, Professor, Film & Media Studies, School of Humanities, UC Irvine; Alenda Y. Chang, Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Christopher J. Goetz, Associate Professor, Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; Rob Curl, Museum Historian and Research Manager at the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment; Phil Salvador, Library Director, Video Game History Foundation; Danny O'Dwyer, Founder, Noclip; Henry Lowood, Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and Curator for Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries

A History and Theory of New Media special event co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Read more

in 5 days Art, Tech & Culture

Internet Tour

An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places

by Alex Saum-Pascual, Poet and Assoc Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, and Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona. With the participation of Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor of Art Practice, the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media, and the Indigenous Poetics Lab at the Arts Research Center. Read more

21 Oct, 2024 Art, Tech & Culture

Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality

with Damien McDuffie
Creative Technologist, Digital Archivist, Augmented Reality Artist, Founder of Black Terminus AR, and Black Public Media Visiting Artist Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An Oakland New Media event co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies Read more

25 Nov, 2024 History & Theory

The Khipu Model: An Indigenous Knowledge-Based Research Framework

with Mariaelena Huambachano
Professor, Environmental Humanities and Indigenous Studies, Syracuse University

An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC) Read more

10 Apr, 2025 Special Events

BCNM 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference

with BCNN alumni Andrea Gagliano, Brooke Belisle, Caitlin Marshall, Cesar Torres, David Humphrey, Katherine Chandler, Kris Paulsen, Laura Devendorf, Naomi Bragin, R. Stuart Geiger, Tiare Ribeaux, Therese Tierney, Will Payne (and more!)

A BCNM special event co-sponsored by the School of Information, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Department of African American Studies Read more

23 Apr, 2025 History & Theory

Data Are Made, Not Found

with danah boyd
Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University

Presented with the Digital Humanities program and co-sponsored by Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the School of Information Read more