News / Research

Congratulations to our 2025 Summer Research Award recipients from Ethnic Studies, Environmental Design, Geography, Information, Film and Media, Rhetoric, and Anthropology. Read more

We are thrilled to welcome this Spring's cohort—an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars from Film and Media, Information Science, Spanish and Portuguese, Envrionmental Design, Art Practice, Engineering, and Landscape Architecture! Read more

Looking for new media courses at UC Berkeley? We've scoured the listings and assembled our Fall 2025 Recommended Courses for new media, including the popular Questioning New Media, Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces, Cartographic Representation, and more! Read more

UC Berkeley professor Nicole Starosielski didn’t expect to become a leading expert on subsea internet cables, but now she’s at the forefront of making the internet’s hidden infrastructure visible and understood. In her feature on UC Berkeley News, she breaks down why these undersea fiber optic cables matter far more than you might think. Read more

We’re excited to share a testimonial from Minh Anh Van, the inaugural recipient of the AAPI Careers in Entertainment Creative Fellowship, who reflects on how this opportunity shaped her path and helped her take the next step in her career! Read more

The AAPI Careers in Entertainment Creative Fellowship supports students who have already secured a summer internship in entertainment by providing mentorship from industry leaders and a $1,500 stipend. We know finding these opportunities can be tough, so we’re sharing key resources to help fellows, as well as all students in entertainment, navigate the internship search! Read more

We are excited to announce our recommended New Media courses for Summer 2025! Whether you're drawn to sound design, tech geopolitics, feminist media studies, or animation, these courses will inspire creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on learning in the ever-evolving landscape of new media. Read more

Two new videos feature UC Berkeley students who are not only making an impact in the digital infrastructure space but will also be involved in our Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure, the first undergraduate program of its kind! Read more

At Gallery Talk: The Future of Water, BCNM faculty member Greg Niemeyer joins Monica Lewis-Patrick and Dr. Patrick Owuor to explore water access, Hydrocolonialism, and the impact of community-driven solutions from Detroit to Kenya! Read more

On The Debate by France 24, BCNM alumni Jen Schradie discusses the growing influence of Silicon Valley tech giants, Elon Musk’s bid for OpenAI, and the geopolitical battle over AI governance. Read more

Applications are due April 7, 2025. Read more

Missed Erik Davis's HTNM lecture on AI as part of our "AI & the Humanities" collaboration with Townsend Center for the Humanities? A recording of the talk has now been uploaded to YouTube! Read more

Missed Damien McDuffie's ATC lecture on augmented reality? A recording of the talk has now been uploaded to YouTube! Read more

On the Design Matters podcast, BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg and his partner Tiffany Shlain delve into their artistic collaboration, creative processes, and work-life balance! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Jaclyn Zhou presented on Diversity Scoring at the Modern Language Association convention in New Orleans! Read more

Calling all digital infrastructures experts! Be part of an exciting new curriculum. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Evan Sakuma presented “Good Shot, Babe!-- Guns n’ Glamour Reimagining Asian American Womanhood" at the American Studies Association Conference in Baltimore! Read more

Jacob Gaboury received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for exploring the historical and contemporary usage of computer screenshots! Read more

BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg speaks about his background in robotics on the Armchair Expert podcast! Read more

BCNM members Alex Saum-Pascual, Elizabeth Sun, and Nisa Zamora are featured as panelists for Teaching Language, Literature & Culture in an Age of AI! Read more

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías's work is on show at The Broad! Read more

Applications due March 1, 2025. Read more

BCNM faculty member Shannon Jackson leads a multiyear initiative supported by a $2.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! 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

BCNM faculty member Abigail De Kosnik has been awarded the inaugural LOFT Faculty Arts Development Grant! Read more

BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg's “Breathless: Catie and the Robot” is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle! Read more

BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg's "Augmented Dexterity" approach to surgery is featured in R&D World! Read more

BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg's collaborative exhibition “Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology” is featured in Cultured Magazine! Read more

BCNM faculty member Hannah Zeavin's "Parallel Processes" is published in n+1 Magazine! Read more

Application deadline: February 7, 2025 Read more

An article from Pendarvis Harshaw on Greg Niemeyer's newest art installation. Read more

We are very excited to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes! Read more

Check out alum Trevor Paglen's incredible work around the web this fall! Read more

As the winners of the Sage Teaching category, Abigail De Kosnik, Jingyi Li, and Jaclyn Zhou have been awarded a Sage Concept Grant for the Media Education Research Lab at UC Berkeley! Read more

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal presents a keynote talk on how humanity can move from reacting to global crises to actively shaping an optimal future! Read more

BCNM faculty member Abigail De Kosnik has been awarded the AAPI Data Faculty Seed Grant! Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2024 graduates! We wish them all the best in their future endeavors! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2024 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!  Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Arianna Khmelniuk, a second-year graduate student in Art Practice, presented on olfaction, cinema, and cultural identity at the ASTR conference in Seattle! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Alexis Wood presented her database project, State of Mine (Mind), at the NACIS annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Vincente Perez presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation in Hip-Hop" at PAMLA in Palm Springs, California.  Read more

BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain's installation Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology has been spotlighted in Hyperallergic. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Tonya Nguyen presented on SFUSD's algorithmic school assignment system at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Jose, Costa Rica.  Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Caleb Murray-Bozeman presented “The Failure of Participation in Aram Bartholl's Dead Drops” at ASAP in New York! Read more

Applications are due March 1, 2025. Read more

In his new paper on Augmented Dexterity, Ken Goldberg explores how robots could help close surgeons’ skill gaps! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Caleb Murray-Bozeman on Mapping Union Square! Read more

Sophia Perez has been announced as one of the fellows for the 2024 PEAK Writers Fellowship! Read more

Seed grant awardee Evan Orticio's psychology study is featured in Berkeley News! Read more

Xiaowei Wang presents Feral Frequencies: live performance and radio séance at / (Slash) Art Gallery! Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's evaluation of the authenticity and value of humanoid robot videos! Read more

Join artists Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain for a special guided walkthrough of their new exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Lani Alden on Onnagata Voices in Early Sound Recordings! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Meg Everett on Studying Youth on TikTok! Read more

BCNM faculty member Luisa Caldas receives the 2024 Lau Just Climate Futures Accelerator Grant! Read more

Congratulations to Alexis Wood for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program award! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Alexis Wood on Social Media and sSecessionist Movements! Read more

Check out the work Ken Goldberg presented at the 2024 International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering! Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Nisa Zamora and Em Erce. 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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's work presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2024! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Adrian Montufar on Designing New Digital Musical Instruments! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Evan Sakuma on Triggered Identities!

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Check out the work Ken Goldberg presented at the 2024 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Eda Er on Marbled Narratives! Read more

A seminar and performance with Alex Saum-Pascual! Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Applications are due October 23, 2024! Read more

BCNM graduate Katherine Song will be joining Tu Delft as an Assistant Professor! Read more

Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg's AI startup is featured in The Robot Report and Business Wire! Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen's solo exhibition CARDINALS will be presented at the Altman Siegel Gallery!  Read more

Published in The New York Review, Hannah Zeavin's new article explores the work of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. Read more

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías is spotlighted in Hyundai Art Lab! Read more

William Morgan presented "Human-AI Interaction Design (HAIID): Synthetic Personae, Shoggoths and Alignment."  Read more

Abigail De Kosnik talks about Kamala Harris' presidential campaign and pop and meme culture. Read more

The latest article from Jason Pohl on Berkeley News discusses how this year's choose-your-own-adventure way of viewing has democratized how, when and even who we watch. Read more

An article in Berkeley News highlighting the work of Damon Young. Read more

Alexis presented “Constellations as Critical Cartographic Method." Read more

Applications are due November 1, 2024! Read more

Sophia Perez presented “Island Time" at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Read more

Hannah Zeavin's interview with the sci-fi author is published by WIRED. Read more

BCNM's own Raphael Cohen spotlights Charley Nordin's journey for KALW. Read more

Meg Everett presented “Centering Student Experiences with TikTok in a Critical Media Literacy Course."  Read more

Jillian (Lee) Crandall presented “Real Estate Tokenization: Digital Transformations in Land, Property, and Technoeconomic Development in Post-Industrial Contexts” and "Critical, Creative, Collaborative." Read more

Nicole Starosielski and Iago Bojczuk published this article in e-Flux Architecture. Read more

Katherine presented Füpop! Read more

A class by Ken Goldberg and Lisa Wymore is featured in Berkeley Engineer! Read more

Jillian (Lee) Crandall publishes a book chapter in "Imaginary Wilds: ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS FOR THE THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE." Read more

Alum Jen Schradie in a Sciences Po podcast with Sergei Guriev. Read more

An exhibition curated by alum Kris Paulsen. Read more

A new article from Jillian Crandall on Blockchain Imperialism and Crypto-colonialism in Global Development. Read more

Alum Eleni Oikonomaki in Placemaking Week! Read more

BCNM student Xinwei Zhuang and BCNM faculty Luisa Caldas published this article on Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling. Read more

Alum TF Tierney on a history of Ladera Housing Cooperative, 1944-1950. Read more

Fascinating new article from alum Alenda Chang on modeling in videogames! Read more

Featuring an essay by alumni Kris Paulsen and Kaitlin Forcier. Read more

The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field.  Read more

Eleni Oikonomaki co-authors this paper on an assessment of 100 citizen-led urban greening projects. Read more

A new article from alum Lashon Daley in Meridians. Read more

BCNM student Xinwei Zhuang and BCNM faculty member Luisa Caldas presented this paper at the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)! Read more

A chapter from Colleen Morgan in "Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era." Read more

Christo co-edited this special on Science and the State. Read more

New paper from Ken Goldberg and team! Read more

A new paper co-authored by Emma Fraser in Dialogues in Human Geography. Read more

Featuring a range of essays, including from our own Hannah Zeavin! Read more

The Interactive Film and Media Theory of Lillian Moller Gilbreth by Julia Irwin! Read more

Congratulations to the authors of "Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X." Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024!  Read more

This prestigious fellowship provides funding to diverse doctoral students that allow them to prioritize and focus on completing the dissertation. Read more

Congratulations, Jaclyn! Read more

Berkeley News highlights the work of Nicole Starosielski and her students in building awareness of this hidden, yet essential, infrastructure. Read more

Trevor's work is spotlighted in Emily Steer's article on "How the Cosmos and Night Sky Inspire Contemporary Artists." Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more

New paper from Clancy Wilmott! Read more

Get to know alum Edgar Fabián Frías in a new article published by CANVASREBEL! Read more

alum danah boyd in conversation with Taylor Lorenz. Read more

alum danah boyd talks the possibilities of tech regulation. Read more

The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields. Read more

The University of California Humanities Research Institute facilitates experimental, interdisciplinary humanities scholarship through partnerships, research initiatives, and competitive grants. Read more

A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team! Read more

Congratulations Greg Niemeyer, Clancy Wilmott, and Emma Fraser! Read more

Teaching Machines To Be Human, And Humans To Live With Machines, an article by Benjamin Wolff. Read more

A video installation that gleans new meanings from endings, writes Xiaowei Wang for Bomb magazine. Read more

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

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

A new article from alum Renée Pastel in The Velvet Light Trap. Read more

Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords Read more

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

Congratulations to Yeonhee Choi! Read more

Two of our grad students are featured at tonight's Living Room Light Exchange! Read more

Check out the work Ken Goldberg is presenting at ICRA 2024! Read more

In this forum, five scholars from different but intersecting fields of historical research engage with Hannah Zeavin and Jeremy Greene’s recent books on telehealth and telemedicine. Read more

Alice Notley, The Art of Poetry No. 116 Interviewed by Hannah Zeavin Read more

A new paper by danah boyd published in Sociologica! 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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more

Hear Andrea Horbinski speak about Toriyama's legacy. Read more

New paper from BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg. Read more

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more

Jacobi Robotics was founded by a quartet of UC Berkeley robotics students, along with professor Ken Goldberg. Read more

This robot sews up a wound with six stitches all by itself. Read more

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more

From secret CIA prisons to the images that train AI, this article shares how Trevor Paglen looks where we cannot see. Read more

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías talks to Sarah M. Chappell in The Think Piece podcast. Read more

Hannah Zeavin has a new article on the telepath and psychoanalysis in Tank. Read more

Our BCNM alumni are helping to steer one of the most important new media museums in the world. 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

Alum Trevor Paglen is featured in this latest program, exploring the interstices of natural, urban and digital worlds. Read more

A butterfly flaps its wings. The air ripples, and time flows. Months later, a typhoon starts brewing above the ocean. Read more

Each month, Passerby asks a writer to speak about what’s on their mind and share their tabs in our monthly recommendations. This month’s guest curator is our own Hannah Zeavin. Read more

A report detailing best practices in Subsea Telecommunications Cable Sustainability from research from our own Nicole Starosielski's team! Read more

What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more

This panel seeks to examine the role that institutional arrangements play in shaping science and technology by interrogating what happens when institutions are threatened or collapse. Read more

In this paper, alum danah boyd and Maria P. Agnel unpack the theory of change at the center of the “duty of care." 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

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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WISH. Read more

We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more

Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more

Alex was awarded a grant for "Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity." Read more

Roboticist and artist Ken Goldberg takes the temperature of the current AI moment. Read more

Indiana Public Media interviews Hannah Zeavin on psychoanalysis. Read more

Ken Goldberg talks the future of robots with Brian Heater. Read more

On this episode of the Robot Report Podcast titled, "2023 year in review: GenAI, humanoids dominate robotics industry", editors Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, and Mike Oitzman sit down and review their favorite robotics news stories from 2023. Read more

Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions! Read more

Ken Goldberg has addressed "the teenage problem" with a cleaning machine robot!  Read more

The award is offered by the New Media Caucus.  Read more

Celeste Kidd's lab received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development." Read more about the results of the project! Read more

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

Alum Trevor Paglen's work is highlighted in an article by Max Blue. Read more

Edgar talks art and their journey to reach their current practice. Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Fall 2023! Read more

Ken Goldberg partners with The House Fund, potential $115M to prospective Berkeley AI startups! 

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TA for Transforming Tech or Digital Infrastructures this summer! Read more

Clancy Wilmott received a faculty seed grant to create a map using experimental techniques combining GIS, geocomputation and hand drafting. Read more

Check out the new papers Ken Goldberg and team presented at CoRL 2023! Read more

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

Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more

Minh Anh Van reflects on her experience as the inaugural BCNM AAPI Media Creatives Fellow! Read more

Stiegler made these remarks available for view in 2016.  Read more

William Morgan traveled to Brussels to present a paper at the Intersetions of Finance and Society Conference. Read more

Emma Fraser speaks on November 8th at the Geography colloquium. Read more

This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented their paper on ""Encoding Urban Ecologies: Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling" at ACADIA.

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Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more

We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Alexis Wood on Digital Landscapes in Northern California.  Read more

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

Alexis Wood (Department of Geography & BCNM DE) presented her paper, “Erosion As Method(ology): Theorizing and Mapping Structures of Feeling” at the at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Conference. Read more

Haripriya Sathyanarayanan traveled to La Jolla to present at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA)​ Conference. Read more

A new article from Hannah Zeavin in The Chronicle of Higher Education Read more

BCNM faculty member Nicole Starosielski has recently published the research article, "Flying the skies to wire the seas: Subsea cables, remote work, and the social fabric of a media industry."  Read more

Elnaz received a summer research grant to work on an augmented reality project. Read more

Asma Kazmi speaks on a project she's leading with Jill Miller to build a web-based curated repository of hand-made digital objects. Read more

Edgar's work is featured in The M. Rosetta Hunter gallery at Seattle Central's latest exhibition. Read more

Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more

Weiying Li received a BCNM 2023 summer research award. Read more

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

Edgar's work is featured in the exhibition Lifelike! Read more

Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Kelsey Choe, Em Erce, and Anna Ma.  Read more

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

Valencia James will be presenting a new iteration of their art installation, Landship Valiant Star at SomArts Gallery in San Francisco. Read more

Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention. Read more

Professor Eric Paulos has been appointed as the new Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation (effective 1 July 2023).  Read more

With the support of the Lyman Fellowship, Rashad Timmons traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to engage in fieldwork and archival research for my dissertation. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen features in new video published by cheddar news.  Read more

BCNM is proud to highlight Hannah Zeavin and Nicholaus Gutierrez at The 14th annual conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS]. Read more

Read about Vincente Perez's research into Hip-Hop poetics Read more

Jacob Gaboury has published a review of  Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway Read more

Read about Valencia James and Landship Valiant Star; a multimodal research project in which I am exploring the living history of the Barbados Landship. Read more

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

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

The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal thinking. Read more

Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. Read more

Hannah Zeavin joins Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Sophie Hamacher and Rea McNamara to discuss the intersection of parenting and technology. Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authors a perspective essay on artificial intelligence and medical robotics for Science AI. Read more

Alum Cesar Torres presented multiple papers, including "Cogcues: Shifting Perception through Interactive Projected Cues in Still Life Drawing," which won a Best Paper Award. Read more

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities has encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostered innovative research, and promoted intellectual conversation across academic fields. Read more

Applications are due November 1, 2023. Read more

Herding AI Cats: Lessons from Designing a Chatbot by Prompting GPT-3 Read more

William Morgan traveled to Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Beijing to conduct and present elements of his research as part of the Antikythera Program. Read more

Trevor and Eyal discuss how art and architecture can be harnessed to challenge structures of power and state control. Read more

Givenchy Beauty collaborates with three digital artists to each create a digital art piece on the metaverse platform. Read more

Watch Greg's talk at the Universität der Künste Berlin online now! Read more

For the entire month of June, alum Edgar Fabián Frías' art, "Hechizo Tuutú," was featured on the Salesforce tower! Read more

Celeste Kidd and co-author Abeba Birhane have a new article in Science on how models can convey biases and false information to users! Read more

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

Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications Read more

We're moving from “surveillance capitalism” to an even more manipulative era, the artist said. Read more

Isabel Li worked with Elnaz Tafrihi on InsightXR, a project which aims to provide accessible, remote co-design in architectural contexts through mobile AR experiences. Read more

The paper appears in the open access publication Screen Images. In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field.  Read more

Indiana Public Media published a podcast with Hannah Zeavin, one of the founders of Parapraxis, on psychoanalysis. Read more

Trees, Time, and Technology: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology Read more

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

The Ballad of Morton Hellig: On VR's Mythic Past was published in JCMS Journal! Read more

Trevor Paglen’s photography is suited to moments of acute representational crisis. It suggests a form of political engagement that both acknowledges our dire political circumstances and avoids the imaginative foreclosure enforced by a seemingly permanent state of exception.  Read more

This public humanities project proposes to create a space where women can access creative writing and healing techniques as critical tools to address their experiences with different daily social problems on the island of Puerto Rico.  Read more

Check out the awesome work our undergraduate certificate students are doing around Cal! Read more

Published by MIT Press, this new volume explores the cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Read more

Check out this new article from Ken Goldberg! Read more

Clancy Wilmott has released a new research article titled "Critical computation on a geographical register." Read more

Congratulations to former undergraduate certificate student Jingy Li on joining Pomona as an Assistant Professor.  Read more

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

Weiying Li shares her experience at the AERA 2023 Conference on “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth.” Read more

Harry Burson presented his paper, "“Metaverse, Multiverse, Server-verse: Fantasies of Control and Connection”, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference. Read more

Published in Wired, the article explores the history and implications of parental surveillance technologies, focusing on baby monitors. Read more

Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more

Katherine presented "Lotio: Lotion-Mediated Interaction with an Electronic Skin-Worn Display" and "Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy Storage." Read more

Artists Trevor Paglen, Khyati Trehan, and Sebastian Errazuris discuss the metaverse, NFTs, A.I., and what it all means for the art world and debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work. Read more

Weihong Bao, Daniel Morgan, and our own Jacob Gaboury co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on Medium/Environment. Read more

Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more

The UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award honors members of the Berkeley faculty and teaching staff who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students.  Read more

Pratiti presented their work "Ghosts (of) in Calcutta: Viewing the Cities ‘Dead’" at the annual meeting of the British Association for South Asian Studies. Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Eric Rawn presented my paper “Understanding Version Control as Material Interaction with Quickpose” at the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI (Conference on Computer-Human Interaction) in Hamburg, Germany Read more

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

The exhibition runs from 04/21/2023 to 05/12/2023! Read more

Is a dog more similar to a chicken or an eagle? Is a penguin noisy? Is a whale friendly?

Celeste Kidd and team say these absurd-sounding questions might help us better understand what’s at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments.  Read more

MUSFORUM is the online network for women organists. Read more

Hannah Zeavin and collaborator Alex Colston talk Freud on the podcast Ordinary Unhappiness! Read more

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society awarded alum danah boyd its prestigious Morrison Prize and lecture. Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

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

Check out the video of Celeste Kidd on truth, lies and misinformation during cognitive development. Read more

Alex published her latest work in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Read more

Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more

Alum Miyoko Conley's play was presented as a reading earlier this month. Read more

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn talks to alum and artist Trevor Paglen about mass surveillance. Read more

Alum Grace Gipson was the keynote speaker at this comic-con style event! Read more

Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood presented their upcoming paper, “All your base [maps] are belong to us,” at the 2023 American Associations of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Denver, Colorado on March 24th. Read more

Xuan Wang was a visiting scholar at BCNM during 2022. Read more

BCNM AAPI Fellow directs To the Water and Back! Read more

Congratulations to Minh Anh Van! Read more

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

The exhibition Land of Milk and Honey takes place February 25–May 28, 2023. Read more

Next review date: Thursday, Apr 20, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Read more

Ken Goldberg has been included in the Conference on Robotic Learning proceedings. Read more

Check out this new interview with alum Edgar Fabián Frías in VoyageLA! Read more

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

Alum Kaitlin Forcier reviews Domenico Quaranta's Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs in Media-N! Read more

April Riddle reviews Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects in Media-N! Read more

Jeanne Carstensen spotlights Ken Goldberg's work on creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.

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

Ken Goldberg joins host Mark Pesce to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Read more

With Brian Michael Murphy, alum Kris Paulsen co-edits a special issue of Media N on Afterlives of Data. Read more

Alum Ra Malika Imhotep's poetry was originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 30, 2023. Read more

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

We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more

Jacob Gaboury, the author of “Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics” and 2022 Computer History Museum Book Prize winner, delves into the forgotten past of computer-generated images and their impact on our present and future. Read more

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

Rebecca presented her work "New Research on Roman and Late Antique Living Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more

SCMS recently announced the winners, including our own alum Bo Ruberg! Read more

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

Sonia K Katyal receives Dukeminier award for her recent writing on gender, sexuality and AI alongside undergraduate Berkeley student Jessica Y Jung.  Read more

Doctoral student in specical education and new media Rachel Chen to join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Read more

Hannah Zeavin talks with Alex Colston about navigating Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis. . Read more

Raphael Cohen will serve as the Center's Events Coordinator and Office Manager! Read more

Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too. Read more

"Ariel Pink Used Jill Miller's Face on His Album Cover Without Permission, So She Responded With ‘Ariel Stinks’ NFTs" writes Billboard. 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

In Parapraxis, Author Hannah Zeavin explores the question "What is psychoanalysis but the recuperation of history through its traumas and limits toward a curative and emancipatory end?” Read more

The recipient of the Light Bill Incubator Microgrant is Vincente Perez. They will receive $500, a slot in Sundress’s reading series, and a residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN. Read more

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

Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more

Andrea Horbinski presented at CasaCon22 this past December. Read more

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

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

Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more

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

Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more

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

If Sex Workers Owned the Internet: A Conversation with Senegalese Activists about Digital Privacy and Security Read more

For Hannah Zeavin, Bernadette Mayer was the greatest minor American poet of the 20th century, and the 21st too, in which she has become less minor. Read more

Computer Dating in the Classifieds: Complicating the Cultural History of Matchmaking by Machine Read more

The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more

Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more

Transforming Tech: Issues and Interventions in STEM and Silicon Valley offered online with Matthew Berry! Read more

Examining Sociocultural Issues through TikTok with Meg Everett Read more

Welcome Evelyn Arroyo, Nadeen Mohamed, and Andy Bui! Read more

What color was the pandemic for you? Read more

This new curated Instagram account focuses on depictions of Black girls and women in the media. Read more

We were thrilled to co-sponsor "Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics," by Darieck Scott. 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

We're so sad to bid farewell to Sophia Hussain but excited for her future endeavors at AK Press! 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

Listen to Discomfort by Design to learn to cope and be resilient. Read more

Hannah writes about the fate of the children of psychoanalysis for Parapraxis. Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

Find us at https://techhub.social/@bcnm Read more

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

McCourt Institute's “Web3 &” series continues, taking a specific look at digital democracy. The second event in the series will address the state of digital democracy in our current and future web paradigms, featuring alum Jen Schradie. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Victor Tze and Winnona Li! Read more

Eric Rawn, Morgan Ames, and Jacob Gaboury were featured in SIGCIS 2022:UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Read more

Congratulations to Jacob Gaboury for receiving the 2022 Computer History Museum Prize! Read more

The smartest person in the Marvel universe, how ‘Black Panther’ – and its sequel – changed Hollywood, and why representation in pop culture matters Read more

A print magazine devoted to psychoanalysis called Parapraxis. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. Read more

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

The 2022 Bay Area Robotics Symposium brings together roboticists from the Bay Area in an immersive program featuring BCNM professors.  Read more

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

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) encourages the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. Read more

Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood spoke about Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures at NACIS 2022. Read more

Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. 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

Check out the video and transcript from this incredible conversation. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more

THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! Read more

The 7th annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication will feature Berkeley professors Eric Paulos and Bjoern Hartmann and other experts and enthusiasts from many areas of academia and industry, in order to explore the use of computational tools for the creation of physical things.  Read more

Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the  American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more

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

Our alum Christine presents Project Primrose: Reflective Light-Diffuser Modules for Non-Emissive Flexible Display Systems. Read more

Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more

Our alum Bo Ruberg offers "A Sexual Prehistory of Realism in Video Games" on ROMchip, a journal of game histories. Read more

Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more

The Hellman Fellows Fund supports promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Read more

BCNM DE Liza Gak joins Data Skeptic to discuss her research on harmful weight loss advertising. 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

Alum Tiffany Ng is the PI on this beautiful new digital humanities project. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg talks to the Sex Industry Book Club about their new book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies! Read more

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

Tom speaks on the issues involved in filtering accented speech in a talk with KQED. Read more

Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology. Read more

Hannah Zeavin was featured in the event on September 29, 2022. Read more

Congratulations to Sarah Sterman on being named a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías launches a new channel and discusses cryptoart and censorship. Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more

Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023!  Read more

We are thrilled to launch the inaugural UC Berkeley Center for New Media AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship. Applications are due March 1, 2023. Read more

Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more

Alum Katherine Chandler writes on infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker. Read more

A great new course being offered by Emma Fraser this Spring 2023! Read more

Choose from projects on hybrid learning, immersive environments, and InsightXR. Applications are due November 1, 2022. Read more

We've scoured the listings and added our favorite new media classes from across campus! Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media builds more just and equitable futures. Read more

Hannah features as a guest on Committable discussing crisis hotlines and the evolution of mental health services. Read more

As educators and researchers at UC Berkeley Center for New Media we stand in solidarity with Iranian women who are demanding their basic human rights. Read more

Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin, winner of the 2022 DHA Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award for “Hot and Cool Mothers”!  Read more

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

Alum Grace Gipson is featured in "Teaching with Comics". Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg's article is featured in Sexualities. Read more

Emma Fraser is featured in Historical Games Network. Read more

Shout out to Xiaowei Wang for being a fellow at the National Center on Race & Digital Justice! Read more

Read about Amanda's preparation for a Spring 2023 exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle’s Asian Pacific American history museum. Read more

Berlant’s new book, On the Inconvenience of Other People, serves as a sequel of sorts to Cruel Optimism, the work that guaranteed Berlant’s fame beyond the academy. Read more

Celeste Kidd and Carolyn Baer published "Learning with certainty in childhood" in Science Direct. Read more

Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and team present four papers at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)! Read more

BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more

Read about William's work across the globe, from cybernetics to AI in science fiction! Read more

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more

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

Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more

Rebecca works on the digital documentation of ancient art! Read more

Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more

Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more

This interview with alum Michelle Carney is part of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE)’s “I am the future of AI.” Read more

danah boyd discusses "Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?" Read more

Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more

Listen to the Atlast Obscura podcast to hear BCNM alum discuss government surveillance, AI, and place! Read more

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

"I approach technology as a tool and an intervention. Certain futures are made easier because of technology, and certain futures get more complicated. We can make bets about the probabilities of certain futures, but we cannot see the future. We can only introduce other interventions." Read more

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

The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more

Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more

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

Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Matthew Sparkes features the work from Ken Goldberg's lab in "Robot unties knotted cables but can't pick them up off the floor" for the New Scientist. Read more

The 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) took place in in Chengdu, China and Mexico City, Mexico.  Read more

Xiaowei Wang has a new article in Just Tech. Read more

The Silvers Grants for Work in Progress are given annually to support writers working on long-form essays or full-length book projects in the fields of literary and arts criticism, political analysis, and social reportage. Read more

Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

Hannah reviews the history and evolution of the digital in her article for The New York Review, In the Flickering Light. Read more

New research from Celeste Kidd published in Biology Letters. Read more

Alenda Chang joins in an asynchronous roundtable discussion with Tara Fickle, Gregory Grieve, and Chris Patterson on Gaming Plus Project. Read more

Gail De Kosnik writes for the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs. Read more

Hannah Zeavin has a new article out in The Baffler. Read more

Alum Reginold Royston presented Digital Diaspora / Digital Ambivalence. Read more

Hear alum danah boyd speak about data and truth on Gnovis with Huseyn Panahov. Read more

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

Hannah Zeavin's latest publication appears in Technology and Culture. Read more

Katherine Song's research is featured in IEEE Spectrum! Read more

Congratulations and best wishes to Xiaowei Wang who will co-lead Logic Magazine's pivot to becoming the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine. Read more

The Fresno Bee goes in depth on blockchain with Camille Crittenden's expertise. Read more

She features on Gwyneth Paltrow's podcast The Goop. Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more

R.H. Cohen interviews Hannah Zeavin on her book The Distance Cure for Public Books.  Read more

Listen to the TED interviews podcast of alum Jane McGonigal sharing how to predict the future. Read more

The latest paper from alum Reginold Royston in Social Media + Society. Read more

Tonya Nguyen's research with Samantha Robertson and Niloufar Salehi is featured in Oaklandside. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team won a Best Systems Paper Award for "Autonomously Untangling Long Cables" at Robotics Science and Systems 2022.  Read more

Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. Read more

Danielle Carr review's Hannah Zeavin's "The Distance Cure" in The Nation.  Read more

The 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics was held on June 22-24, 2022.  Read more

L'Obs interviewed Jen Schradie on the far right's organization to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more

Tory's dissertation was titled “The Forensic Imaginary: Visual Media and Evidentiary Culture.” Read more

Check out Ra's work July 9th – August 28th in New Orleans. Read more

Revisit this great event with Seitu Jones on "George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook" Read more

Hannah writes for Harpers about gullibility in the golden age of scams. Read more

Revisit this great event with Adam and Zack Khalil on "Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures.” Read more

Paul Darvasi interviews alum Jane McGonigal on "Harnessing the power of future-forecasting to help invent a better world." Read more

Dr. Grace Gipson speaks on Black gamers as part of Temple University's series on Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism. Read more

Camille Crittenden asks how engineers, computer scientists and technologists might engage more actively in creating solutions. Read more

Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more

Jacob Gaboury's book Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics was reviewed in Film Quarterly. Read more

As part of her Fellowship, Gail is giving a lecture on July 11th! Watch it online! Read more

CITRIS celebrates the tenth birthday of the Invention Lab - co-founded by our own Eric Paulos. Read more

Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more

Björn Hartmann co-authors this new paper with Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal features on Steve Levitt's popular podcast. Read more

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

Welcome back to Berkeley, Thérèse! Read more

Ken Goldberg is among the authors of this paper on how the cloud ecosystem, barely over fifteen years old, could evolve as it matures. Read more

Celeste Kidd's lab is featured on Berkeley News in the article titled "Like it or not, we’re prone to adopt popular beliefs, even fake ones." Read more

Alum Jen Schradie is interviewed in Le Monde about shootings in America targeting African Americans and Latin Americans.

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Revisit this great event with Liat Berdugo on "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine." Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and team published a new article featured in TechCrunch. Read more

Alum Christo Sims discusses Technologies of Enchantment at Apple's Corporate Headquarters on Public Culture. Read more

Where did the One Laptop Per Child project go wrong? Morgan Ames gives some answers. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang's Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley is in the amazing lineup for the recently published Uncanny Histories in Film and Media! Read more

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

Damon Young, with Debarati Sanyal and Mario Telò, edits a special issue of Representations on Proximities — Readings with Judith Butler. Read more

Shane Harris speaks to artist Trevor Paglen on Chatter to explore themes of surveillance, security, and secrecy.  Read more

Haripriya shared her research at the Environmental Design Research Association Health in Design conference. Read more

Twitter was on fire after #theslap incident and alum Grace Gipson analyzes some of what's going on. Read more

Watch a replay of this Porch Sit with Ra Malika Imhotep discussing gossypin'. Read more

Alum Michelle Carney speaks to the Experiencing Data podcast about her mission to bring machine learning and user interface design together. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the 2021 TheyFriend Nonbinary performance festival and you can see their work online! Read more

Haripriya presented her research at the The Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more

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

Congratulations to Clancy Wilmott on being a warded a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award for the branch of Northern California! Read more

BCNMers Molly Nicholas, Sarah Sterman, and Eric Paulos received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep joins Lost City Books to discuss her new collection, gossypin. Read more

Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more

Antonia Violante is in conversation with Jane McGonigal on Behavioral Scientist.  Read more

Morgan Ames features on The Real Python podcast discussing charismatic pitfalls in teaching programming! Read more

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

Hannah discussed Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Read more

Rainn and Reza sit down with futurist Jane McGonigal to ponder, "How Can You Tell The Future?"  Read more

In this short teaser for her book, The Revolution That Wasn't, Jen Schradie asks whether the internet is conservative. Read more

Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin for receiving the Courage to Dream Book Prize for her book The Distance Cure! Read more

Grégoire Barbey intervews alum Jen Schradie for Heidi.news on how the internet is dominated by conservative ideology. Read more

We love learning about our alumni's courses across the country! Check out this feature in Viriginia Commonwealth University News about Grace Gipson's Humanizing the Black Female Voice in Television. Read more

As every day we hear new reports of laws limiting LGBTQ+ rights, UC Berkeley professors weigh in on the current experience of our LGBTQ+ community. Read more

Vincente presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation" at the Silly Media conference at the University of Chicago. Read more

HI, SOLO is a bi-annual performance series conceived by Alexx Shilling and Devika Wickremesinghe. Read more

Our alum danah boyd published an article in the Harvard Data Science Review with Jayshree Sarathy.

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Alum Jane McGonigal shares five key insights from her new book, Imaginable. Read more

Akemi was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanaryanan on graduate level research, supporting Haripriya's project on spatial design in pediatric healthcare spaces. Read more

Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world.  Read more

Ritwik published an article illustrating the Fixed media which are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice.  Read more

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

Bonnie Ruberg's The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games is reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly. Read more

Bo Ruberg discusses Hot Tub streaming and what it brings to erotic lesiure culture. Read more

Noura Howell reflects on her failures in design research practice in "Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnogrpahy". Read more

Hannah Zeavin's new book focusing on psychoanalysis and mediation is featured in the Jacobin. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou present diversity Scores for films and television series on major streaming platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Read more

Eric Paulos speaks on the creative process of not only making but also unmaking. Read more

BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse."  Read more

In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Read more

Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more

Jane McGonigal is featured in this VOX interview with Sigal Samuel. Read more

The Helen Wallace Dissertation Award aims to advance and elevate graduate-level research at the intersection of MCAH, innovation, and technology. Read more

Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more

Interview with researcher Jen Schradie. Read more

Greg received a Pro Helvetia Grant for Data Art about Water in Africa! Read more

Congratulations to Haripriya for receiving an award in Health Facility Planning & Design! Read more

Digital Art During the Pandemic features an interview with Alex Saum-Pascual. Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep's poem "I Claim No Specific Religion" is featured in Scalawag. Read more

Jen Schradie explains how digital democracy is functioning in France this election cycle for the Conversation. Read more

Jenna Burrell shares a new Data & Society research agenda in the earliest stages of discussion and planning.  Read more

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

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Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more

Andrea Gagliano is featured in the first MLUX Seattle meetup. Read more

Berkeley Alumnae Tackle Language Gaps in Wildfire Emergency Communication. Read more

Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2022! Read more

Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome. Read more

Jane McGonigal was interviewed on The Tim Ferriss Show on discussing how to become the expert of your own future and cultivate optimism. Read more

Jane McGonigal published the article "The Urgent Future Questionnaire" on Porchlight. Read more

Bo Ruberg published on Live Streaming Gender and Sexuality in Television & New Media.

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The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more

Hannah Zeavin and Yana Calou published the article in State of Mind. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal's “Imaginable” is reviewed in the Datebook. Read more

The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Read more

Camille Crittenden publishes an article on the Berkeley Blog on women in energy in honor of Women's History Month. Read more

Hannah Zeavin is featured in N+1 Mag for publishing the article "Unfree Associations". Read more

Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems.  Read more

Emily Bobrow writes "Jane McGonigal Believes Games Can Change the World" for the WSJ. Read more

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

Dawn Chan reviews Jane McGonigal's IMAGINABLE: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything ― Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.
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Google Developer Studio celebrated global women in tech and trailblazers in honor of women's history month, featuring our own alum Michelle Carney! Read more

Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more

Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more

The Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media is awarded by The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more

'Imaginable' is the most important book you’ll read this year! Read more

Ukrainians are rallying global support via social media. But don’t call it a TikTok war, writes alum Jen Schradie for the Washington Post. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg joins Christopher Patterson, Aaron Trammell, and Kishonna Gray to discuss the diverse and not always harmless ways that pleasure moves us in and through play. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías and Jill Miller present at ICA SF's Meantime. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg chats about queer gaming with designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer. Read more

Check out new media classes taking place across campus! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more

Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects was reviewed in Information & Culture by Nabeel Siddiqui. Read more

Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more

Sophia Hussain is featured in the remembrances of Etel Adnan!

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Jen Schradie's work is featured in A Section of Now: Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. Read more

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

Jane McGonigal's latest book Imaginable was reviewed by Shira Abramovich on Reboot.  Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's article on Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation! Read more

Grace Gipson was featured in a conversation on the topic of Black Women and Theories of the Future! Read more

Hannah Zeavin discusses her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy with Town Hall Seattle. Read more

Ken Goldberg's work was recently featured in the International Journal of Robotics Research. Read more

Ken Goldberg applies new designs to improve patient outcomes. Read more

Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more

This semester, we were thrilled to support our students in digital storytelling. Read more

Vincente Perez's "Neighborhood Séance" was featured in River & South's 2021 year review! Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías shared their "Time Magic, NFTs, and Unlearning Capitalist Panic" in the podcast. Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's latest publication in IEEE Africon! Read more

Hannah discusses Black's novella on the pandemic, anti-police riots, love, and aliens. Read more

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

Hannah's book 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' is featured in Continuum Innovation. Read more

Kaitlin Forcier's High-Tech Orientalism and Science Fiction Futures in Astria Suparak’s "Virtually Asian" is featured in Media N on the issue of Art and the Technologies of Race. 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

Ken Goldberg and team present "Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects" at the Conference on Robotic Learning. Read more

A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team. Read more

Bo Ruberg's Trans Games Studies has been published in University of Michigan's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more

'Gossypiin' by Ra Malika Imhotep is recommended as the poetry book that captures the black experience on BookRiot. Read more

Congratulations to Clement Hil Goldberg's 'Let Me Let You Go' for receiving the Creative Capital Award which supports artists who are pushing boundaries and asking challenging questions! Read more

Jane McGonigal is unusually adept at anticipating events that most of us can't even fathom. In this eye-opening, actionable book, she teaches you how to widen your peripheral vision, extend your imagination farther into the future, and conceive of the inconceivable. Read more

Check out the transcript and video for Maria Thereza Alves' “Colonial Practices And Cultural Repression By The Municipality Against The Community Museum of the Valle De Xico but “It Is Our 25th Anniversary And We Are Still Here.” Read more

Wang Xuan is the director of the technical department of the Library at Communication University of China and the former associate director of the technical department of the Media Museum. Read more

Ruoxin Liu is an associate professor at the New Media Research Institute of Communication University of China. Read more

Publisher's Weekly published a book review on Jane McGonigal's 'Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today'. Read more

Jen Schradie joins The Debate on France 24 to talk about the impact a year later of the Capitol insurrection. Read more

Hannah's latest article appears in Differences, a journal of feminist cultural studies. Read more

Reginold Royston discusses pedagogy, research, and praxis in a roundtable discussion with the African Studies Association. Read more

Xiaowei explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China in this event with the Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy. Read more

BCNM DE Vincente Perez was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Fall 2021 and read work produced over the semester.  Read more

The Robot Report shares robotics predictions from industry experts, including our own Ken Goldberg. Read more

Women in AI Ethics recognizes BCNM faculty and alumni in their list of honors, including Jenna Burrell, Morgan Ames, danah boyd, and Michelle Carney! Read more

“Secondary Infection” by Beth Piatote appears in Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest. Read more

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

Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut appears in Hyperrhiz 24's Fall issue. Read more

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

The Berkeley Center for New Media is now accepting applications for admission to the Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media and the Graduate Certificate in New Media programs. All applications for Spring 2022 admittance are due March 1, 2022. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik joins "How Do You Like It So Far?" to discuss race in fandoms and fan studies. 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

We're pleased to share the transcript of our Common Conversations event with founder of Stamen Design Eric Rodenbeck. Read more

The Whole Note reviews BCNM alumn Tiffany Ng's Dark Matters. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more

BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinksi reviews Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema in H-Net Reviews' December 2021 edition. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and team publish a new paper on Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance. Read more

Jacob discusses his new book Image Objects (MIT, 2021). Read more

Hannah Zeavin's new book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in Book Forum. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías joined the exhibition In Collaboration with Earth at Gearbox Gallery which ran December 6–17, 2021 Read more

Ken Goldberg discusses artificial intelligence in relation to the classic film, The Golem. Read more

Modern-day carillonists are now facing the challenge of reclaiming the instrument to better represent and speak to our diverse community. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more

Ken Goldberg's lab publishes "LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasping Sets for Exploratory Grasping." Read more

Watch Alex talk discuss her creative path of subversion in poetry. Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more

Edgar's work on Astral Projection appears in Casey Kauffmann’s curated exhibition within NFT Oasis, Everybody’s Doing The Emails. Read more

Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in The Point Magazine. Read more

Hannah Zeavin's book is reviewed in The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. Read more

Ingrid Fadelli writes "Real2sim2real: A self-supervised learning technique applied to planar robot casting" featuring work by Ken Goldberg. Read more

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

Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more

Veronica Irwin introduces the Berkeley professor who’s helping robots get a grip. Read more

Letha Ch’ien reviews the art installation in San Jose that sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon. Read more

Hannah Zeavin talks about her book The Distance Cure on Al Jazeera's The Stream. Read more

Juliana attended the 2021 meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Conference and presented a paper entitled, “Wearing Illicit Images: Fabrics of Pornography and Citizenship in Senegal." Read more

Published in Jazz & Culture.  Read more

"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  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

Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and Culture Read more

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