13 Nov, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture What Gets Amplified with Raven Chacon Composer An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Music, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
28 Aug, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture The ghost in the machine is me. with Jen Liu, Artist Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice Read more
29 Sep, 2022 Special Events Person Specificity and Physiovalence: Performance Practice Toward Decolonizing Classical Music with Ken Ueno Composer, vocalist, improviser, sound artist, and Professor of Music, UC Berkeley Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by The Department of Ethnic Studies Read more
09 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Robots Are Creatures, Not Things with Madeline Gannon Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
29 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Places in Space Adam Savage Mythbusters, CA a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
01 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Body Without Borders with Rhonda Holberton Artist, Oakland Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
18 Mar, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures with Morehshin Allahyari Artist, New York In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University Read more
04 Mar, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor with Nnedi Okorafor Artist, Olympia Fields, IL In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture In and out of the Body and into the Machine with Chico MacMurtrie Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture News of the Future and the Future of News with Kevin Delaney Editor, Quartz In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
19 Nov, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson Author, Davis, CA In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
15 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Image and Amnesia with Kerry Tribe Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture The Networked Avant-garde with Kelani Nichole Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
02 Apr, 2012 Art, Tech & Culture The Comatose, the Cadaver, and the Chimera: Alternate Anatomical Architectures An Arts + Technology Colloquium with Stellarc, Read more
21 Sep, 2011 Special Events Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Video Voyages An evening at the BCNM Commons Read more
24 May, 2025 Conference Grant Reports: Yangyang Yang at CHI 2025 We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Yangyang Yang presented her paper, Being The Creek: Mobile Augmented Reality Experience as an Invitation for Exploring More-Than-Human Perspectives, at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Read more
23 May, 2025 Conference Grant Reports: Connie Gu at CHI 2025 We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Connie Gu presented on Mobile Technology and Teens at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Read more
21 Nov, 2024 Conference Grant Reports: Tonya Nguyen at CSCW 2024 We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Tonya Nguyen presented on SFUSD's algorithmic school assignment system at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Jose, Costa Rica. Read more
13 Oct, 2024 Announcing BCNM's Fall 2024 Conference Grant Recipients The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more
08 Jun, 2024 Conference Grant Reports: Katherine Song at CHI 2024 Katherine presented Füpop! Read more
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
21 Mar, 2024 Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Conference Grant Recipients The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more
11 Jul, 2023 Cesar Torres at Creativity & Cognition 2023 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
26 May, 2023 Conference Grants: Katherine Song at CHI 23 Katherine presented "Lotio: Lotion-Mediated Interaction with an Electronic Skin-Worn Display" and "Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy Storage." Read more
10 May, 2023 Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at CHI 23 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
19 Apr, 2023 BCNM at CHI 2023 Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
13 Mar, 2023 Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients 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
26 Oct, 2022 BCNM at ACM 2022 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
17 Aug, 2022 danah boyd Featured in People of ACM "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
07 Jun, 2022 BCNM Best Paper Award at Creativity & Cognition 2022 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
02 Jun, 2022 Conference Reports: Katherine Song at CHI 2022 Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more
21 Apr, 2022 Noura Howell on Cracks in the Success Narrative 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
13 Apr, 2022 BCNM at CHI 2022 Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
13 Apr, 2022 Abby Yue Gao's Wildfire Disaster Response in Berkeley News Berkeley Alumnae Tackle Language Gaps in Wildfire Emergency Communication. Read more
12 Mar, 2022 Announcing the Spring 2022 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more
14 Nov, 2021 BCNM at UIST 2021 Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
23 Sep, 2021 BCNM at SIGCIS 2021 Jacob Gaboury and Hannah Zeavin presented at the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society 2021 conference! Read more
25 Jul, 2021 BCNM at DIS 2021 Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more
18 Jun, 2021 Noura Howell on Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring Artwork by Noura Howell Read more
08 May, 2021 BCNM at CHI 2021 Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
01 Apr, 2021 Pablo Paredes on Non-Volitional Behavior Change in Everyday Robotics BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' paper is featured in the proceedings of the International Conference on the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction. Read more
03 Sep, 2020 Alum Pablo Paredes' Autonomous Vehicles Featured in Time Pablo Paredes' autonomous vehicle technologies were recently featured in Time. Read more
31 Aug, 2020 Björn Hartmann on Bridging Asymmetrical Communication Between External and VR Users The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more
12 Apr, 2020 BCNM at CHI 2020 CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more
05 Mar, 2020 Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
24 Feb, 2020 Abigail De Kosnik and Clement Hil Goldberg in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media "Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism" was published as a chapter in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media Read more
05 Feb, 2020 Stuart Geiger at CSCW 2019 Stuart Geiger talks about the "various trends in the lengths of published papers in ACM CSCW from 2000-2018" at CSCW 2019. Read more
08 Jan, 2020 BCNM at UIST 2019 Björn Hartmann and Eric Paulos at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium. Read more
11 Aug, 2019 Alum Bo Ruberg at FDG 2019 Ruberg presents "Necklines and ‘Naughty Bits’: Constructing and Regulating Bodies in Live Streaming Community Guidelines." Read more
11 Jul, 2019 ATC 2018-2019 In Review Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019 BCNM at DIS 2019 BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
23 Jun, 2019 BCNM at Creativity and Cognition 2019 BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference! Read more
18 Jun, 2019 BCNM at SIGGRAPH 2019 Jacob Gaboury and alum Bo Ruberg will speak at the Diversity and Inclusion Summit. Read more
08 Jun, 2019 Qian Yu on Computer Relationships at CHI 2019 Qian presented "I Almost Fell in Love with a Machine: Speaking with Computers Affects Closeness and Self-disclosure" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
28 May, 2019 Soravis Prakkamakul on VR at CHI 2019 Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
03 May, 2019 Cesar Torres on Actuators at TEI César presented "A Conversation with Actuator" at TEI 2019 on behalf of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab. Read more
02 Apr, 2019 Eric Paulos a Mentor at the C&C Graduate Student Symposium The Creativity and Cognition Graduate Student Symposium provides a forum in which students have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. Read more
19 Mar, 2019 Alum Jenni Higgs Published in Communications of the ACM "It's About Power" by alum Jenni Higgs and Sepehr Vakil was published in the March 2019 volume of Communications of the ACM. Read more
03 Jan, 2019 BCNM at CSCW 2018 The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
17 Sep, 2018 Alum Stuart Geiger Keynotes ACM's OpenSym BCNM alum Stuart Geiger gave te keynote address at the second day of OpenSym. Read more
21 Aug, 2018 Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
13 Jul, 2018 Ken Goldberg at RSS Workshop The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." Read more
18 May, 2018 Molly Nicholas at CHI 2018 Molly Nicholas is a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient who attended "Engage at CHI" 2019 in Montréal, Canada. Read more
30 Apr, 2018 Molly Nicholas at TEI 2018 As one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Molly Nicholas received funding to attend and present her research findings at TEI 2018. Read more
16 Apr, 2018 Cesar Torres Demo Arrangement Chair for Tei 2019 Cesar Torres, BCNM DE, was named demo arrangement co-chair for TEI 2019. Read more
09 Apr, 2018 The BCNM Guide to CHI 2018 Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more
03 Nov, 2017 5 Questions with Ken Goldberg Ken Goldberg sits down with the UCB Student Affairs to answer prospective students' questions. Read more
23 Oct, 2017 Alum Stuart Geiger Published in ACM Proceedings Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in ACM Proceedings. Read more
25 Jan, 2017 Conference Grants: Grace Gipson in Melbourne This past fall, we were pleased to offer several grants to help support our students in sharing their research at the premiere conferences in their field Read more
24 Oct, 2016 Cesar Torres at UIST The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more
07 Jul, 2016 Two Honorable Mentions and a Best Paper at DIS 2016 This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more
30 Jun, 2016 Laura Devendorf and Abigail De Kosnik's paper wins Best Paper Award! Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more
23 May, 2016 BCNM at DIS 2016 BCNM was thrilled to be so widely represented at the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia Read more
19 May, 2016 Announcing Our 2016 Undergraduate Certificate Grads We're so pleased to be able to share their achievements and wish them the best in their future projects! Read more
17 May, 2016 BCNM at CHI 2016 Congratulations to the incredible faculty and students who represented BCNM at CHI 2016, the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. Read more
16 Nov, 2015 Cesar Torres at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Read more
25 Sep, 2015 BCNM's Annual Open House Calls for Applications for Emphasis and Certificate in New Media!
29 Apr, 2015 Announcing our Spring 2015 Graduating Class We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more
20 May, 2013 New Media 2013 Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM Designated Emphasis Students Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students Read more
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