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

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

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

Applications are due November 1, 2023. Read more

Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications Read more

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

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

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

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

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

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! 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

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

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! 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

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

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020.  Read more

Camille Crittenden and the CITRIS Policy Lab investigate what blockchain technology could mean for vulnerable populations in the United States. Read more

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2021. Read more

Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more

Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more

The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more

The show runs from Sep 4, 2020–Mar 14, 2021. Read more

Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more

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

Ken Goldberg was part of the team to publish a new paper "VisuoSpatial Foresight for Multi-Step, Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation". Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more

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

Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! 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

Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more

BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with conference attenddance.  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

Applications are due February 1, 2020. Read more

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet.  Read more

Alum danah boyd and Dan Bouk are running an incredible workshop at Data & Society. Application deadline: November 25, 2019. Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more

BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with conference attenddance.  Read more

BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more

Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more

Harry presented "Stereo in the 19th Century: Space, Audition, and the Théâtrophone" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, Washington. Read more

We're  to our extraordinary 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 premier conferences in their field. Read more

Critical Making: Designing for Activism, featuring BCNM faculty Eric Paulos and Jill Miller as instructors, will be at the 10th International UBI Summer School in Oulu, Finland.  Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more

Ken Goldberg and other IEEE luminaries call for greater openness around reproducible benchmarks. Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

BCNM graduate students are invited to apply for funds to assist in their conference attendance. 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

Applications are due February 1, 2019. Read more

Recruitment opens September 24th, 2018 and runs through November 5th, 2018. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen's art exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's 'I was Raised by the Internet' Read more

BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018.  Read more

Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. Read more

"Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. Read more

The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more

Due October 1, 2018 Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. Read more

Ken Goldberg was a speaker at ICRA 2018's workshop on advances in robotic warehouse automation.  Read more

Ken Goldberg and his lab were interviewed by NBC Bay Area about the progress being made in robotics development at UC Berkeley.  Read more

Claudia Ruslim, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to act as a research assistant to Will Payne. Read more

Ken Goldberg attended the annual Executive Leadership Conference to discuss Can Robots Really Handle Consumer Packaged Goods?. Read more

Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more

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

Professors Jeremy Rue and Richard Koci Hernandez were featured in an article in California Magazine on augmented reality. Read more

Each year, the BCNM selects four graduate student projects that we believe will both interest and prove engaging to undergraduates. Undergraduates apply to be a research fellow and once selected, they have the opportunity to work on high-level research in concert with our graduates, who mentor them on research methods. Read more

Graduate students are now invited to apply for Spring 2018 admission into the BCNM program. Read more

Due March 1, 2018 Read more

Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more

Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more

We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more

Ken Goldberg speaks on the new wave in robot grasping at the Collaborative Robots and Advanced Vision Conference November 16th, 2017. Read more

Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities.  Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at JupyterCon this past August, offering a deeper understanding on how to use Jupyter in diverse ways and insights on the changing rituals around computation.  Read more

Undergraduated are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM undergrad program.
Applications due November 1. Read more

Graduates are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM program.
Applications due November 1. Read more

Calling BCNM Grad students! If you're presenting a paper at a conference, apply for these grants to help subsidize the costs! Read more

De Monchaux spoke at WEAR 2017 about his book Fashioning Apollo! Read more

Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS.  Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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Ed Campion (Music) received $5,000 to build a sound habitat with Ron Rael (Architecture) as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer doctoral or pre-doctoral research Read more

The BCNM is able to offer a small subsidy for students attending the premiere conferences in their fields Read more

The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more

We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more

The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more

Goldberg gave an address at the plenary session on August 30, entitled "Multiplicity: What Robots and AI Can Teach Us about Being Human" Read more

This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more

Greg Niemeyer will create radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more

This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making Read more

Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more

BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more

We recap this fascinating talk on this past showcase of sensor-technology art Read more

Applications Due: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Read more

We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more

ArtReach is a non-profit mobile arts organization that is reframing the artist residency Read more

Check out photos of amazing student work! Read more

Three Editor's Choice awards were awarded to NWMEDIA 203: Critical Making projects at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire Read more

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

BIB VI will explore new forms of stories that embrace hybrid digital forms, or play with the tension between digital and physical interfaces Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more

BCNM was excited to offer NWMEDIA 198 this semester, a decal associated with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society's (CITRIS) Mobile Apps Challenge Read more

The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more

Applications Due: February 1, 2014 Read more

UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more

Applications for Fall 2013 admittance to both programs are due March 1, 2013 Read more

Summer Stipend of $5,000
Applications Due: February 11, 2013
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Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more

Due November 1, 2012 Read more

Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more

We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more

Rama Gottfried will be working with the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team at IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou based in Paris Read more

Applications due February 6, 2012 Read more

Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more

The Social App Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative and supported at UC Berkeley by CITRIS Read more