The generous Eugene Jarvis Fellowship 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

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

Meet Edgar Fabián Frías | Contemporary Artist, Psychotherapist, Brujx & Educator Read more

The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience.  Read more

Trevor Paglen's work is exhibited at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf until February 6th. Read more

The Society for the History of Technology awards $10,000 for the Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology. Read more

Bo Ruberg gave the First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference Keynote address on October 21, 2021. Read more

Listen to Jen Schradie in conversation with Xavier de la Porte on France Inter on Why the Internet Favors the Right. Read more

The failures of One Laptop per Child have much to teach us about fixing educational inequities, Morgan Ames writes for Technology Review. Read more

Roar, building a "music metaverse," raised $7million in their first round of funding. Read more

Computer games can address ecological concerns. But is a game only ecological if it explicitly deals with environmental issues on the content level? Read more

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects! 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

BCNM alum Bo Ruberg has been promoted to Associate Professor at UC Irvine! Read more

BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías co-hosted an episode of the podcast Queer Chaos, discussing social media and queer invention. Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy was reviewed by Wendy Lotterman in Critical Inquiry. Read more

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

BCNM alum Grace Gipson was featured on a panel discussing women in media and entertainment at the University of Rochester. Read more

BCNM alum Grace Gipson gave a lecture about representations of the Black experience for the Freedom School 3.0 lecture series. Read more

Vincente Perez, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipient, presented "ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS: BLACK TWITTER, SIGNIFYIN', AND THE MUNDANE" at the 22nd annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was the keynote speaker at IEEE VIS 2021. Read more

BCNM D.E. and Geography PhD Xiaowei Wang's essay "Shadow Visions" was published in DING Magazine. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2022. Read more

Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on detecting stress levels through steering wheel angle data. Read more

BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury's book Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics was reviewed in GlassTire. Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavins was featured on Thoughts on Record, the podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Read more

BCNM is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2022 Faculty Seed Grants! Read more

Hannah Zeavin was interviewed by J.J. Mull about her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd has joined Georgetown University for the year as a distinguished visiting professor. Read more

Marketplace spoke with BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg about Ambi Robotics, which he co-founded.  Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more

Returning to the Concert Hall by Camille Crittenden Read more

"Trevor Paglen: Vision After Seeing" Opening Reception at the Athenaeum Read more

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

Eric Paulos' Adroid features on IEEE Spectrum's "Video Friday: Dusty at Work > Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos". Read more

Bo Ruberg speaks at AoIR 2021 on the relationship between video games and political participation. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the opening lecture of the Fall Cycle of Wxtch Craft - Studium Generale lecture series 2021-22. Read more

BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more

Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces.  Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías was selected as a cultural ambassador for the San Francisco Arts Commission.  Read more

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more

BCNM director Abigail De Kosnik's 2016 book Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom was reviewed by Michael J. Kramer of The Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Read more

BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías will be exhibiting their installation project as part of the group exhibition Monolith presented by Southern Exposure. Read more

BCNM executive commitee member Jenna Burrell has been promoted to full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information.  Read more

BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías was featured on an episode of podcast The Spiritual Gaze. Read more

BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen was interviewed by Spencer Bailey for the podcast Time Sensitive. Read more

BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías was interviewed alongside Nicky Rojo about their participation in GIPHY Arts' first book, Frame by Frame. Read more

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

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

Check out the updated transcript and video for Cathy Thomas's “Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora”. Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin discusses empathy as a computational model in a guest post for AI Now Institute. Read more

Check out new media classes across campus! Read more

Eric Paulos received a 2020-2021 BCNM faculty seed grant for his work developing Kaleidoscope. Read more

We extend a warm welcome to Professor Jenna Burrell, who has joined BCNM's executive committee. Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. Read more

Hannah Zeavin discusses INSERT in Future's Gaming, Social, Virtual Worlds Newsletter. Read more

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

Jacob Gaboury and Hannah Zeavin presented at the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society 2021 conference! Read more

Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways.  Read more

Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on using Chatbots to aid in stress management. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías and Charlie Amáyá Scott speak on connecting to their ancestors in "You Are Also Your Ancestors". Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin chats about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy in a conversation with Professor Fred Turner and Gray Area. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment.  Read more

The Baffler reviews BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Read more

Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more

Erica Deeman received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work exploring the cultural heritage of her ancestors and expressing her findings through a video performance. Read more

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more

Lashon Daley shares how the support of the Peter Lyman felowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more

The conversation with Bunny Michaels is part of Edgar's Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project.  Read more

Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías and Michael Espinoza speaks on identity and ancestry in "I Am A Spiritual Being Because Of My Queerness". Read more

Hala Kaddoura received a BCNM summer research award to advance her art practice. She traveled to Lebanon to begin a new project on joy. Read more

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was recently featured on the 3 Books podcast, where she discussed how she designs games to help people develop resilience and positive attitudes in the face of life's challenges.  Read more

Hannah speaks on the acessibility of mental healthcare in the face of teletherapy with The Guardian. Read more

Pablo Paredes will join The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Read more

5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers, featuring Alexandra Kleeman, JoAnna Novak, Andrew Palmer, Rafia Zakaria, and our own Hannah Zeavin. Read more

Check out the amazing work from Ken Goldberg and team at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2021!  Read more

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

Edgar Fabián Frías speaks on creative ingenuity and reframing traditional ways of thinking with ESMoA in "Rainbow Visions Prismatic Beings". Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition". Read more

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

Hannah Zeavin features on KQED Broadcast to speak with Adam Savage about The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Read more

The U.S. has never tried a comprehensive approach to mental health care, writes Hannah Zeavin the Washington Post. Read more

Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more

Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more

Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented a slew of new papers at the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Read more

This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more

Grace Gipson chatted with the Chicago Humanities Festival on comics, characters, and authors! Check it out! Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías presents work at MOCA Jacksonville's latest exhibition Techno-Intimacy, on show until February 13th! Read more

You can now watch Edgar's conversations with leading artists on Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors. Plus, look out for billboards near you! Read more

Ken Goldberg and his colleagues present Latent Space Safe Sets, a promising strategy for safe learning in high-dimensional state spaces. Read more

Hannah Zeavin recently joined two other panelists to discuss the promise and peril of teletherapy in PsiAN Forum Live: "Teletherapy -- Where do we go from here?". Read more

Clement Goldberg was selected as a Quarter Finalist for the the 2021 PAGE Awards! Read more

Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media.  Read more

Pablo Paredes features on Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health's The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring. Read more

Camille published this important call to California to keep public meetings open with the technologies we've used during the pandemic.  Read more

Congratulations to Nicholaus Gutierrez who will be teaching cinema and media studies this year at Wellesley. Read more

Jacob published De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche in LA HAUTE ET LA BASSE DÉFINITION DES IMAGES: Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Read more

Watch Jane talk about futurist and mindful thinking with a Buddhist entrepreneur. Read more

It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021.  Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep was published in this volume, an illustrated oral history of Queer and Trans resistance. Read more

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

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Ra Malika Imhotep was awarded an Emerging Writers’ Artistic Residency at A Studio in the Woods. Read more

Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more

BCNM was thrilled to cosponsor this great event from the Center for Race and Gender, now viewable online! Read more

Janaki Vivrekar discusses the critical designs that make up our digital social media experiences in her new technical report. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg co-authored a paper with Zaynah Javed, Daniel S. Brown, Satvik Sharma, Jerry Zhu, Ashwin Balakrishna, Marek Petrik, and Anca D. Dragan on Policy Gradient Bayesian Robust Optimization for Imitation Learning. 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

Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more

Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more

The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more

Juliana Friend receieved a BCNM Conference Grant to help her attend the 27th Annual Lavendar Languages and Linguistics Conference. Read more

Ken Goldberg describes the complicated technology that goes into robotic grasping mechanics in COSMOS' new article. Read more

Bo Ruberg & Rainforest Scully-Blaker publish Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games in the International Journal of Cultural Studies! Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed by Gamers with Glasses. Read more

Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more

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

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

Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed by the Art Robot Death podcast. Check it out! Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and team recently published a paper titled "Orienting Novel 3D Objects Using Self-Supervised Learning of Rotation Transforms." Check it out! Read more

BCNM Alum and architecture professor emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign T.F. Tierney was awarded a research and development grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Read more

BCNM alum jazmin caldéron torres's collective, Lead to Life, premiered its newest ritual film, "between starshine & clay" in May! Read more

Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2021! Read more

Ken Goldberg recently published the editorial for Science Robotics. Read more

Grace Gipson recently discussed Black women's impact on the history and future of comic books during the Chicago Humanities Festival. Read more

danah boyd recently published an article discussing creating or knitting a healthy social fabric that relies on real connections. Read more

Choyang Ponsar received a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on A Forensic Imaginary under the mentorship of Tory Jeffay. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang was recently featured on the Gamers with Glasses podcast where she discussed video games and environmentalism, among other interesting topics. Read more

BCNM's Ken Goldberg features on The Robot Report Podcast to give the inside scoop on robotics and automation and intelligent systems at Ambi Robotics.  Read more

Check out the transcript for the Piracy & Capitalism Panel! Read more

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

Social media is overflowing with lifestyle Influencers categorized as self-care promoters. What are the political and ideoogical implications of self-care messaging and branding, particularly in the context of gendered and racialized discourses of femininity and (post)feminism? Read more

BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! Read more

Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was recently featured in the All About Blockchain podcast, where she discussed the future social benefits of blockchain innovation.  Read more

Congratulations to BCNM's Camille Crittendon for receiving the Berkeley Staff Assembly’s 2021 Excellence in Management Award! Read more

BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen features on the 186th episode of The Quarantine Tapes. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke at IBM Think 2021, a conference focused on all things related to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Read more

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

Check out the updated transcript for the Fandom + Race Panel! Read more

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

Alum Tiffany Ng speaks on her musical influences in I Care If You Listen's "ListN Up." Read more

Ken Goldberg recently featured on Episode 41 of The Robot Report Podcast to talk about his team's work in powering Ambi Robotics' robots. Read more

Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies.  Read more

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

Check out the videos of the 5th Annual CITRIS Women in Tech Symposium available online! Read more

Yaara Bou Melham documentary Unseen Skies spotlights the work of alum Trevor Paglen. Read more

Check out the transcript for Kavita Philip's "Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction"! Read more

Check out the updated transcript for Lawrence Abu Hamndan's "The Sonic Image" Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang was featured in a rountable discussion in celebration of the online journal Media + Environment. Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes published a study in the journal Chronic Stress on stress markers of depression and anxiety. Read more

Professor Abigail De Kosnik discusses the connection between media/ film studies and the current moment in the Townsend Center for the Humanities lecture series, (Re)making Sense: The Humanities and Pandemic Culture. Read more

BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more

Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss cool gadgets he has around his house. Check it out! Read more

BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more

BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series.  Read more

In the wake of COVID-19, BCNM converted existing grant programs to support its students with need-based stipends. Read more

Alenda Chang has collaborated on a list of 10 nature-related games to play in honor of Earth Day.  Read more

Check out the updated transcript for Margo Robbins and Valentin Lopez's "A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies." Read more

Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. Read more

BCNM Certificate and EECS graduate student Janaki Vivrekar has compiled a list of on-campus resources, departments, and centers for those interested in studying the intersection of technology, communication, society, arts and design.  Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! Read more

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal is instructing a Coursera course on handling life after Covid-19 through the Institute for the Future.  Read more

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

Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more

BCNM faculty member Celeste Kidd is a recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for her work on knowledge acquisition! Read more

Rita Lucarelli has been using VR technologies to create new immersive experiences in Egyptology. Read more

Check out the updated transcript for Rebecca Wanzo's “How should we theorize injury in fan studies?”. Read more

Hannah Zeavin was invited as a guest in KQED's forum on the prevalence of therapy apps. Read more

Molly Fischer discusses therapy apps and talks to Hannah Zeavin, author of "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy," for The Cut. Read more

Ken Goldberg's articles were recently featured in the WAFR 2020 Proceedings. Read more

Tiffany Ng's new album of carillon music by Stephen Rush dropped! Read more

Berkeley High Jacket celebrated the women of Berkeley this March and spotlighted the incredible arts organization of Shannon Jackson. Read more

UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ken Goldberg recently sat down to talk about the future of robotics through the University of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar Series.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more

BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure."  Read more

BCNM alum Grace Gipson moderated a conversation on BIPOC voices in speculative fiction as part of the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book. Read more

UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Psychology Celeste Kidd was featured on the Under the Cortex podcast to discuss her research as a winner of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions.  Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' paper is featured in the proceedings of the International Conference on the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction.  Read more

Check out our new media finds from across campus! Read more

Miyoko Conley, a TDPS and DE student at Berkeley, has been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award for her work as a GSI in NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang is being featured in artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen's online VR ecological art event, focused on the intersection between ecology, sustainability, and technologies.

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Jane McGonigal prepares us for post-pandemic life with her online Coursera course Life After COVID-19. Read more

Submit to an upcoming anthology that will imagine and explore futures for Richmond,VA through an Afrofuturist lens. Read more

UC Berkeley Professor and Egypgytologist Rita Lucarelli's BCNM funded 3D coffin modeling project is set to debut at the Phoebe Hearst Museum later this year. Read more

Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more

As the first Asian American Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and as a first-generation American and woman, this hate crime hits particularly close to home. Read more

Neyran Turan's architectural practice, NEMESTUDIO, will be displaying its "86 Things" exhibition at the University of Arkansas!   Read more

Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Archives of American Art! Read more

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

BCNM's Juliana Friend interviewed George Paul Meiu for the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg recently delved into the connections between nature and technology in a Nero Magazine interview. Read more

Rita Lucarelli, a UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Egyptology, spoke about crocodile mummies in the Fiat Vox podcast. 

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This year, arm the next generation of innovators with the tools to build just and equitable technological futures through the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik recently wrote a reflection for United Nations Special Rapporteur E. Tendayi Achiume on border technologies and racism. Check it out! Read more

Check out the updated transcipt for Marisa Duarte's Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action! Read more

Xiaowei Wang published a beautiful essay on their mother for Tank Magazine titled "The other mother: workers, immigrants and the settler colonial state." Check it out! Read more

Bo Ruberg was recently featured on a Periscope livestream to discuss Co-Opting AI & Games. Check it out! Read more

danah boyd & Gail De Kosnik were featured in an article from the Pew Research Center and Elon University on Imagining the Internet, predicting how technology, climate change, and politics will effect a post-Covid-19 world. Read more

Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke with Medical Design and Outsourcing on artifical intelligence and surgical robots. Read more

Kevin Lo and alex cruse come together to launch Return the Eye. Read more

Jen Schradie was invited as a guest speaker in 'The Debate'. Read more

BCNM alum Dr. Reginold Royston was a featured panelist discussing the impact of the digital technology on research, teaching, and public engagement. Read more

Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Debugging Deep Learning Programs using Program Structure and Model Behavior". Read more

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

Tonya Nguyen and Richmond Wong recently published a paper titled "Timelines: A World-Building Activity for Values Advocacy." Check it out! Read more

Kate Mattingly recently wrote about ballet company BalletX in the Classical Review. Read more

Bo Ruberg is a guest on the sixth episode of public lecture series "Critical Perspectives on Technology." Read more

BCNM alum Bo Ruberg's book The Queer Games Avant-Garde is reviewed in the Information Communication & Society Journal. Read more

Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more

Virtual exhibition UUU (Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021) recently opened and features BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual and Jill Miller! Check it out! Read more

Kate Mattingly was recently featured in Wow Woman for her career and accomplishments! Read more

Eric Paulos published a Medium piece titled "67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know." Check it out! Read more

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

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

Trevor Paglen was recently featured in a Forbes article about his art dedicated to exposing the "biogtry of AI". Read more

Jen Schradie recently appeared on France 24 to discuss regulating Big Tech companies. Read more

Bo Ruberg and Daniel Lark recently published a paper titled "Livestreaming from the bedroom: Performing intimacy through domestic space on Twitch"! Read more

Jen Schradie went on The Current podcast to discuss the recent insurrection in the US Capitol. Read more

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

Celeste Kidd speaks at AI Debate 2 "Moving AI Forward: An Interdisciplinary Approach". Read more

Jane McGonigal shares her story and experience on Because Games Matter. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! 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 year's Fellows. Read more

Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more

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

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Alum Jane McGonigal speaks at Refuel conference on how games can help build mental resilience, channel positive attitudes, and encourage collaboration in the real world. Read more

Xiaowei features in Guernica magazine with their piece "Future Fashions: The Pår". Read more

How do babies learn to talk? Do babies know they're babies? Celeste Kidd answers these questions in VPR's new podcast episode! Read more

danah boyd recently wrote an article on Linkedin titled "The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO." Read more

Abigail De Kosnik recently wrote an article for Wired titled "2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy." Read more

Xiaowei Wang's book Blockchain Chicken Farm was recently reviewed by The Nation. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently published a paper titled "Semantic and Geometric Modeling with Neural Message Passing in 3D Scene Graphs for Hierarchical Mechanical Search." 

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

Tiffany Ng's carillon performance was recently posted on Youtube. Check it out! 

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Jen Shradie's book was reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology! Read more

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

danah boyd recently wrote a paper titled "Philanthropy’s Techno-Solutionism Problem" for the Knight Foundation. Read more

Xiaowei Wang recently spoke with Ling Ma on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm for Wired. Read more

Björn Hartmann recently published a paper titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages." Read more

Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2020. Read more

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

Xiaowei Wang speaks on technology, China, writing through your emotions, and the power of community. Read more

Bo Ruberg leads a conversation with fellow designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer to talk about queer game design and the thought processes behind it. Read more

Ken Golberg describes the role of artificial intelligence and automation technology in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

Jeffrey Ichnowski, Yahav Avigal, Vishal Satish, and Ken Goldberg published an important paper that could help companies create safer work environments. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke about his research at the 2020 Bay Area Robotics Symposium. Read more

Bo Ruberg contributes to the first edition of Game Studies textbook Independent Videogames. 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

Xiaowei Wang was recently interviewed by Rest of World on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm. Read more

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

Keith Feldman recently wrote an article titled "Beyond Analogy" for Contending Modernities. Read more

BCNM alum Trevor Paglen has joined the Alternative Art School with Mel Chin, and Janine Antoni. Read more

Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more

Check out the updated transcipt for Skawennati's World ReBuilding: Aboriginal Territories in CyberSpace and the Initiative for Indigenous Future! Read more

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

Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Lawrence Lek on The Sinofuturist Trilogy. Read more

Thank you KQED for a shoutout to Xiaowei Wang's new book, Blockchain Chicken Farm! Read more