Search

11 Mar, 2027 Commons Conversations

The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference

with Abigail De Kosnik, Professor, Berkeley Center for New Media and Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, Plus Co-Editors Keith Feldman, Rashad Arman Timmons, Ra Malika Imhotep, and Contributing Authors

A Commons Conversation Read more

09 Apr, 2026 Special Events

Headshots of Brian Ang, Kyle Booten, Alex Saum-Pascual

Poetry in the Commons: Brian Ang, Kyle Booten, Alex Saum-Pascual, and graduate students

We invite the electronic literature community for an informal poetry reading on the occasion of BCNM alumnus Kyle Booten's new book, Gyms (dispersed holdings, 2025). Booten will be joined by poet Brian Ang and BCNM faculty member Alexandra Saum-Pascual, and select graduate students. Read more

29 Sep, 2025 Art, Tech & Culture

Coralations

with Melody Jue
Professor, English, University of California, Santa Barbara

A New Media & Oceans event Read more

07 Nov, 2022 History & Theory

Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time

with Gillian Rose
Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media Studies Read more

08 Nov, 2021 Commons Conversations

Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine

with Liat Berdugo
Artist and Writer, Associate Professor, The University of San Francisco Read more

16 Mar, 2020 Commons Conversations

ONLINE: Expanded Internet Art

with Ceci Moss, curator, writer, education, LA

*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom* Read more

21 Oct, 2019 Commons Conversations

On the Fringe of Minitel: Alternative Uses of a State-Sponsored Communications Network A Participatory Masterclass

with Julien Mailland
Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Indiana University Media School Read more

23 Apr, 2019 Special Events

DataEDGE 2019

The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more

01 Mar, 2018 History & Theory

The Software Arts

with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more

17 Oct, 2017 History & Theory

Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind

with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui
Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack
with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more

13 Apr, 2017 History & Theory

Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations

with Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington Read more

16 Mar, 2011 Special Events

Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences

Speakers from across UC Berkeley departments on social media and journalism. Read the distinguished roster in full here. Read more

21 Oct, 2024

Trevor Paglen Featured in Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World

Trevor Paglen is featured in Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World, a collection of more than 300 images celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees. Read more

27 May, 2024

Draw Your Phone: The Cellphone as an Intimate, Everyday Artefact

A chapter from Colleen Morgan in "Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era." Read more

09 Apr, 2024

Sacramento Paradox with Greg Niemeyer

Greg Niemeyer, Some Information Cannot Be Displayed, Digital print in etched glass frame, 2024. Read more

20 Dec, 2023

Alex Saum-Pascual on L&S in the Age of AI

Alex spoke about AI and Research Innovation Across Disciplines! Read more

16 Nov, 2022

Alum Bo Ruberg on Queer Digital Humanities

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Read more

14 Nov, 2022

AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M

24 Jun, 2022

Liat Berdugo Transcript Now Online

Revisit this great event with Liat Berdugo on "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine." Read more

11 Feb, 2022

Hannah Zeavin in Continuum Innovation

Hannah's book 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' is featured in Continuum Innovation. Read more

07 Dec, 2021

Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo

19 Jun, 2021

BCNM Around the Web June

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

03 Apr, 2021

danah boyd on Democracy's Data Infrastructure

BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure." Read more

15 Mar, 2021

BCNM Around the Web March 2021

Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more

22 Dec, 2020

Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot

30 Nov, 2020

BCNM Around the Web December

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

19 Nov, 2020

Alex Saum-Pascual in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities

Alex Saum-Pascual's essay is featured in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices. Read more

18 Nov, 2020

Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries

06 Oct, 2020

Monocle Interviews Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Monocle! Read more

24 Sep, 2020

Trevor Paglen's Bloom at Pace

18 Jun, 2020

Bo Ruberg Published in Indie Games in the Digital Age

"The powers and pitfalls of queer indie game-making: An interview with Mo Cohen" appears in this Bloomsbury edition. Read more

16 Apr, 2020

BCNM Around the Web April 2020

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

03 Apr, 2020

Ken and Blooma Goldberg Publish How to Train Your Robot

Ken Goldberg, a UC Berkeley professor of robotics, his 10-year-old daughter Blooma, and science communicator Ashley Chase wrote a delightful children's book called How to Train Your Robot！ Read more

03 Feb, 2020

Ritwik Banerji at SEM 2019

Ritwik Banerji presented a paper on free improvisation at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 64th annual meeting. Read more

30 Oct, 2019

Commons Conversation Revisited: Julien Mailland

09 Jun, 2019

Alum Grace Gipson Reviews Walking Raddy on Baby Dolls in New Orleans

Alum Grace Gipson published "The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation," a review on Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans in Black perspectives. Read more

28 Jan, 2019

Ken Goldberg in Bloomberg Review

Goldberg was quoted in an article on the development of robotic stunts performed at Disney theme parks. 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

18 Apr, 2018

Richard Koci Hernandez Named Bloomberg Chair

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

16 Mar, 2018

HTNM Revisited: "Software Arts" with Warren Sacks

Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year! Read more

10 Oct, 2017

Ken Goldberg Quoted in Bloomberg on Anthropomorphized AI

Goldberg gives his opinion on Mark Sagar's creation "BabyX", a robotic baby that is terrifyingly lifelike. Read more

03 Oct, 2017

BCNM 2016-2017 Publications

Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more

26 Sep, 2017

Nicholas de Monchaux at Ohio State University Oct 18

BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux will be speaking at Ohio State University as part of its fall lecture series. Read more

24 May, 2017

Greg Niemeyer at If You Weren't

24 May, 2017

Greg Niemeyer Publishes Alternate Reality Games with Antero Garcia

Alternate Reality Games at the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is a volume of scholarship on the state of alternate reality gaming. Read more

12 Dec, 2016

Ken Goldberg at the 17th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Patent Law Conference

10 Oct, 2016

Ken Goldberg on A Century of Art & Technology in the Bay Area

Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more

26 Aug, 2016

Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season

his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more

16 Feb, 2016

Ken Goldberg in SciArt in America

16 Feb, 2016

BCNM Ken Goldberg at Cal Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERs)

17 Nov, 2015

Meet Ashley Ferro-Murray

Ashley Ferro-Murray was three when she took her first ballet lesson — she hasn’t stopped dancing since, no matter the obstacle she’s faced. Read more

24 Sep, 2015

Earthquakes on your mind? Check out Ken Goldberg’s artwork, Bloom.

09 Jan, 2014

New Media Exhibit Developer: Interactive Data Visualizations

The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more

Jump links

Search, Support and Connect

The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference

Poetry in the Commons: Brian Ang, Kyle Booten, Alex Saum-Pascual, and graduate students

Coralations

Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time

Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine

ONLINE: Expanded Internet Art

On the Fringe of Minitel: Alternative Uses of a State-Sponsored Communications Network A Participatory Masterclass

DataEDGE 2019

The Software Arts

Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind

Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations

Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences

Trevor Paglen Featured in Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World

Draw Your Phone: The Cellphone as an Intimate, Everyday Artefact

Sacramento Paradox with Greg Niemeyer

Alex Saum-Pascual on L&S in the Age of AI

Alum Bo Ruberg on Queer Digital Humanities

AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M

Liat Berdugo Transcript Now Online

Hannah Zeavin in Continuum Innovation

Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo

BCNM Around the Web June

danah boyd on Democracy's Data Infrastructure

BCNM Around the Web March 2021

Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot

BCNM Around the Web December

Alex Saum-Pascual in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities

Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries

Monocle Interviews Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen's Bloom at Pace

Bo Ruberg Published in Indie Games in the Digital Age

BCNM Around the Web April 2020

Ken and Blooma Goldberg Publish How to Train Your Robot

Ritwik Banerji at SEM 2019

Commons Conversation Revisited: Julien Mailland

Alum Grace Gipson Reviews Walking Raddy on Baby Dolls in New Orleans

Ken Goldberg in Bloomberg Review

BCNM at CSCW 2018

Richard Koci Hernandez Named Bloomberg Chair

HTNM Revisited: "Software Arts" with Warren Sacks

Ken Goldberg Quoted in Bloomberg on Anthropomorphized AI

BCNM 2016-2017 Publications

Nicholas de Monchaux at Ohio State University Oct 18

Greg Niemeyer at If You Weren't

Greg Niemeyer Publishes Alternate Reality Games with Antero Garcia

Ken Goldberg at the 17th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Patent Law Conference

Ken Goldberg on A Century of Art & Technology in the Bay Area

Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season

Ken Goldberg in SciArt in America

BCNM Ken Goldberg at Cal Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERs)

Meet Ashley Ferro-Murray

Earthquakes on your mind? Check out Ken Goldberg’s artwork, Bloom.

New Media Exhibit Developer: Interactive Data Visualizations