We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024!  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

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces 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

SCMS recently announced the winners, including our own alum Bo Ruberg! 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

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

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

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. 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 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

R.H. Cohen interviews Hannah Zeavin on her book The Distance Cure for Public Books.  Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 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

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

"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more

In the wake of COVID-19, BCNM converted existing grant programs to support its students with need-based stipends. 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 faculty member Celeste Kidd is a recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for her work on knowledge acquisition! Read more

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

We're thrilled to share some highlights from Pope.L's Wiesenfeld and ATC lecture. Read more

COVID-19 curtailed travel, but Chris Chan continued to develop relationships with artists in China and Taiwan.  Read more

Kevin Lo and his longtime collaborator were excited to present their art in physical space, but have no returned to the digital realm in light of COVID-19. Read more

Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more

Artist Emily Gui created a new work using Zoom to document these unprecedented times.  Read more

Congratulations to the amazing BCNM students receiving prized awards from the Architecture Department. Read more

Collective Obscura, a project created by BCNM students, was one of the finalists for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2020.  Read more

Harry Burson is named 2020 Lemelson Center Fellow and will focus his research on the creation of a new mode of acoustic perspective.  Read more

BSHS Ayrton Prize 2019 Winners Announced and Excavating AI by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford is included. 

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CNET's list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years includes alum, Data & Society founder, danah boyd. 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

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

The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar'  Read more

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

Juliana traveled to Senegal to study shifting notions of digital privacy and publicity. Read more

KC examined how artworks engage with the looping logic of code, with its potential for ongoing and indefinite temporality, and how this relates to the perception of temporality in networked culture as similarly indeterminate. Read more

This summer, Rebecca traveled to Athens to study architectural sculpture and figural graffiti using cutting edge imaging. Read more

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

Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! 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

Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970."  Read more

The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. 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

Trevor Paglen has won the bi-annual Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, which comes with a $45,000 award and solo exhibition. Read more

This summer, Peter Humphrey explored the evolution of electroacoustic science and the history of sound recording. Read more

This summer, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado explored how Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content use new media to reconfigure power relations. Read more

This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more

This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more

This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. Read more

This summer, Yang Liu developed UNREAL, a Virtual Reality project for architectural design. Read more

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We're thrilled to share that alum Andrea Horbinski received an honorable mention for The Chute Award in the inaugural Comics Studies Society Awards.  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

Richard Koci Hernandez, an award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia, has been named the Bloomberg Chair at the Graduate School of Journalism. Read more

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From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus.  Read more

Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. 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

Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more

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

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

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This year, the BCNM awarded five new media graduate students with technology services and training awards to help them fund the support they need to further their research agendas 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

BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more

Prof. De Kosnik has shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting graduate students Read more

Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! Each student will receive $1,000 of summer assistance to support their research initiatives. Read more

This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more

Creating Minds, an academic conference on reading and writing in the digital age had over 300 attendees throughout the day's talks and panels! Read more

Every month, BCNM recognizes a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score and awards the designated UC Berkeley student organization with a $1000 prize Read more

The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media with support from CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Read more

For his project "Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems" Read more

The Murphy and Cadogan awards are designed to “help fuel the continued forward-thinking, visual arts movement that makes the Bay area unique” Read more

Rhee is the recipient of an honorable mention for the 2013 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize which honors young social activists Read more

The Sociology Program of the NSF awards grants that have "theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes" Read more