BCNM Spring 2025 Events

BCNM is thrilled to be presenting and co-sponsoring a series of incredible events this semester, including our 20th anniversary alumni conference. See below for more info on what's in store this spring, and stayed tuned for additional events to be announced in the coming weeks.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
8:00 PM, Hertz Hall
Eco Ensemble: Best of Berkeley
UC Berkeley Music Department’s ensemble
Presented by Cal Performances. Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT), Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Music Department, and Meyer Sound.
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Monday, February 3, 2025
12:00 PM — 1:30 PM, Online (Join Zoom meeting here)
Moth Studios: Quantum Technology and Creative Practice
Declan Colquitt and Harry Kumar
A Commons Conversation.
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Friday, February 14, 2025
8:00 — 9:30 PM, Center for New Music and Assisted Technologies (CNMAT)
Terminal Island: Degrowth & Mismaking
Lovage Sharrock and Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly)
Presented by the Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT). Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).
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Monday, February 24, 2025
4:00 — 5:30 PM, Matrix Conference Room
Virtual Realities and Digital Spaces
Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley; Emma Fraser, Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley; Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley; Alex Saum-Pascual, Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley
Presented by the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix. Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Department of Geography, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of Media Studies.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
5:00 — 7:00 PM, Dwinelle Hall, Room 142 (Nestrick Theater)
The Critique of Instrumental Reason Circa 1976
Scott C. Richmond, Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto
Presented by the Department of Film and Media. Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).
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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.