BCNM Turns 20! Announcing our 2024-25 Public Events
BCNM is turning 20 this year! Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers and events to celebrate! Featuring renowned multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and technologist Trevor Paglen; celebrated scholar, researcher, and Data & Society founder danah boyd; Indigenous scholars of community development and food sovereignty, Laura Harjo and Mariaelena Huambachano; a day-long video-games conference bringing together a range of designers, developers, and scholars from both the industry and preservation arenas; and a two-day conference celebrating BCNM's 20 years with panel discussions critically examining the field of New Media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni... this year promises to be our most exciting one yet!
Thursday, September 5, 2024
4:00 — 6:00 PM, Platform Artspace
BCNM Open House
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Richard & Rhoda Goldman Theater at David Brower Center
You've Just Been F$%^#d By PSYOPs: UFOs, Magic, Electronic Warfare, Mind Control, Artificial Intelligence, and the Death of the Internet
Trevor Paglen, Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Filmmaker, Investigator, and Technologist
Presented as part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Co-sponsored by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) and the Arts Research Center (ARC).
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Monday, September 30, 2024
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Online
Muscogee (Creek) Tribal Town Futurity: Decolonial Imagining of Land Back
Laura Harjo, Mvskoke scholar and Associate Professor of Indigenous Planning, Community Development, and Indigenous Feminisms, University of Oklahoma
Presented as part of BCNM’s Indigenous Technologies program and History and Theory of New Media lecture series. Co-sponsored by the Native American Studies program, the Arts Research Center (ARC), and the Department of City & Regional Planning.
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Friday, October 11, 2024
9:00 AM — 5:00 PM, Banatao Auditorium (310 Sutardja Dai Hall)
Games @ Berkeley
Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future; Bo Ruberg, Professor, Film & Media Studies, School of Humanities, UC Irvine; Alenda Y. Chang, Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Phil Salvador, Library Director, Video Game History Foundation; Danny O'Dwyer, Founder, Noclip; Henry Lowood, Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and Curator for Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries.
Presented as part of BCNM’s History and Theory of New Media lecture series. Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.
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Monday, October 14, 2024
1:00 — 4:00 PM, Bus pick-up and return: Hearst Museum, UC Berkeley
Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, Elisava University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; The Indigenous Poetics Lab, Arts Research Center (ARC), University of California, Berkeley
Presented with the Arts Research Center (ARC) and returning to the Bay Area as part of BCNM's 20th year anniversary. Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
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Monday, October 21, 2024
5:00 — 6:30 PM, 102 Bauer Wurster Hall
Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality
Damien McDuffie, Creative Technologist, Digital Archivist, Augmented Reality Artist, Founder of Black Terminus AR, and Black Public Media Visiting Artist Fellow at Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Presented as part of BCNM's Oakland New Media program and Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies.
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Monday, November 25, 2024
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Online
The Khipu Model: An Indigenous, Knowledge-Based Research Framework
Mariaelena Huambachano, Native Peruvian Indigenous scholar and Assistant Professor, Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice, Syracuse University
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Indigenous Tehcnologies program and History and Theory of New Media lecture series. Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC).
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Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, 2025
9:00 AM — 5:00 PM, Sutardja Dai Hall
BCNM 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference
BCNN alumni Andrea Gagliano, Brooke Belisle, Caitlin Marshall, Cesar Torres, David Humphrey, Katherine Chandler, Kris Paulsen, Laura Devendorf, Naomi Bragin, R. Stuart Geiger, Tiare Ribeaux, Therese Tierney, Will Payne (and more!)
Co-sponsored by the School of Information, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Department of African American Studies.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Jacobs Institue for Design Innovation, Studio 310
danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University
Presented as the keynote lecture of the Digital Humanities Fair and the closing lecture of BCNM's 20th anniversary season. Co-sponsored by Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the School of Information.
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For more on our lecture series:
2024-25 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium events