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Special Events
Re-presenting Spaces: Literature, Ecology, the World We Share
The Cal Comp Lit Symposium featuring Emma Fraser as keynote. Read more
11 Apr, 2024
Special Events
Questioning History in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Keynote: Shane Denson, Stanford University
5-7pm on Thursday, April 11
in Dwinelle 142
Seminars Thursday, 4/11
in the Social Sciences Matrix Read more
01 Apr, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: AI is Weird
with Erik Davis
Writer, Journalist, and Lecturer
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for Humanities. Read more
21 Mar, 2024
History & Theory
Seeing and Seafaring: Maritime Navigation and the Scopic Regime of Computation
with Bernard Geoghegan
Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, King's College, London
A History & Theory of New Media lecture presented by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) Read more
13 Mar, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: Artificial Intelligence and Translation
with Behrooz Ghorbani, Researcher, OpenAI
Cathy Park Hong, English, UC Berkeley
Hoyt Long, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
04 Mar, 2024
History & Theory
Mediascapes of Postsocialism: Cuban New Media Cultures After the End of History
with Paloma Duong
Associate Professor of Latin American and Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) Read more
26 Feb, 2024
History & Theory
Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics
with Christina Leza, Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College, and Trevor Reed, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Moderated by Sierra Edd, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Art Practice Read more
05 Feb, 2024
Special Events
AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship Talkback
AAPI industry leaders Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright (Manager of Social Innovation, Endeavor), Jason Lin (Producer, Story Arch Pictures), and Laura Reddy (Manager, Range Media Partners). Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Echoes from the Borderlands
with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum, and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event, presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the American Cultures Center. Read more
29 Nov, 2023
Special Events
Echoes from the Borderlands (Audio Excerpt Listening Session)
featuring the work of Valeria Luiselli
Artist
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies special event, presented with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Read more
17 Oct, 2023
Special Events
Unleashing Nostalgia: 'Video Games and Playful Media' Class Explores the Past and Future of Gaming
Join us as we delve into the pixelated worlds of yesteryears and unveil the secrets of gaming's enduring legacy at UC Berkeley's exciting class taught by our very own BCNM faculty member, Emma Fraser! Read more
11 Oct, 2023
History & Theory
[* Postponed / New Date Forthcoming *] AI and the Humanities: Generative Creativity and Interpretation
with Timnit Gebru, Founder & Executive Director, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); Vikram Chandra, Writer and Co-Founder, Granthika Co.; Hannah Zeavin, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley
Presented with the Townsend Center for Humanities Read more
11 Sep, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later)
with Jesse Colin Jackson
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of Geography 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
11 Jul, 2023
Conference
ELO 2023 | Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change Read more
12 Apr, 2023
Special Events
Rivers, Forests & Earth: Speculating Dalit Histories and Dalit Futures in Bengal
Featuring Hugo and Nebula Prize Nominee Mimi Mondal
Presented by UC Berkeley's Bangali Student Association (BSA) with the support of Institute for South Asia Studies, the South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African (SSWANA) Initiative, and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM). Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Special Events
The Parables Experience at MozFest Virtual
with curators ill Weaver (a Detroit-based artist and organizer. They co-founded Emergence Media and Complex Movements)
and Valencia James (a performer, maker, and researcher from Barbados, interested in the intersection between dance, theater, technology, and activism, currently pursuing an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley)
This event is hosted by MozFest, which is part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. Read more
17 Mar, 2023
Conference
The Past into the Future: Afrofuturism and Ancient Egypt
with Rita Lucarelli (UC Berkeley), Max Jefferson (UC Berkeley), Ytasha Womack (Chicago), Vorris Nunley (UC Riverside), Darryl Smith (UC Berkeley), John Jennings (UC Riverside), Stanford Carpenter (University of Chicago), Claudia Attimonelli (University of Bari, Italy), Dexter Story (UCLA), Luciana Parisi (Duke University), Abu Qadim Haqq, and more.
Presented by Center of Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) with the support of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS), the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC), and the Italian Institute of Culture, San Francisco. Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with Osman Khan
Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the South Asia Art Initiative Read more
08 Mar, 2023
Special Events
Ferguson Rises: Black Grief, Insurgent Memory, and the Politics of Transformation
with Rashad Arman Timmons, Abolition Democracy Dissertation Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory and PhD Candidate African American Studies, UC Berkeley; Michael Brown Sr, Father of Michael Brown Jr. and Founder, The Michael Brown Organization/Chosen For Change; Cal Brown, Stepmother of Michael Brown Jr. and Co-Founder, The Michael Brown Organization/Chosen For Change. Read more
06 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with
Teddy Cruz, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Fonna Forman, Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, Center on Global Justice, University of California San Diego
Co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art Practice, the Arts Research Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies Read more
02 Mar, 2023
Commons Conversations
Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia
with Maggie Jack (Syracuse University, The School of Information)
Presented by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS), and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is co-sponsoring. Read more
09 Feb, 2023
Special Events
Hollywood Internships 2023
AAPI industry leaders Jason Lin (Producer, Story Arch Pictures), Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright (Executive Director, Hillman Grad Productions), and Laura Reddy (Manager, Range Media Partners). Read more
30 Jan, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Generative Art and Deep Learning AI
with Nettrice Gaskins
Digital artist, academic, and cultural critic
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Jacobs Institute for Design, and Media Studies 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
31 Oct, 2022
History & Theory
Digital Platforms and Ancient African Knowledge Systems: Triumphs and Vulnerabilities
with Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the American Indian Graduate Program, the Arts Research Center, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the School of Information, Media Studies, Native American Studies, and the Center for Race and Gender Read more
17 Oct, 2022
History & Theory
A Minor Cybernetic Hypothesis
Kelli Moore
Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University
Co-sponsored by Media Studies and the Department of Rhetoric Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Special Events
Author Meets Critics: “Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy”
with Darieck Scott
Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley
Moderated by Greg Niemeyer, Professor of Media Innovation, and Toban Fellow, Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix and the Department of African American Studies 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
12 Sep, 2022
Commons Conversations
Body Language: Sick and Disabled Crazy Femmes in Conversation
with Ra Malika Imhotep
Black feminist writer, performance artist, and scholar
and Caleb Luna
Artist and public scholar
Moderated by Miyuki Baker
with an introduction from BCNM's Director Gail De Kosnik
Co-presented with the Color of New Media Working Group and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Department of English, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Read more
14 Apr, 2022
Special Events
BAMPFA Indigenous Film Series Events: Films by New Red Order
Adam Khalil in Person
Presented by BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. Co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures
with Adam and Zack Khalil
Filmmakers
This event is the first in a two-part series, presented with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) as part of the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium and the Indigenous Technologies Initiative. Read more
18 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Data & Life in the Metaverse
Join media innovators to explore the potentials of the metaverse, both exciting and terrifying. With Emma Fraser, Don Hanson, Wade Wallerstein, and Richmond Wong.
Presented by Human Technology Futures Group and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley. Read more
15 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
with Dario Robleto
Artist, Houston; ARC's Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence
Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Latinx Research Center, and BCNM. Read more
14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
07 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Asian Americans in Hollywood: Breaking Through with Lasting Impact in the Industry
with Daniel Wu, Melvin Mar, Jason Lin, and Gail De Kosnik
Co-sponsored by Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. The first in a two part series on Asian Americans and AAPI in the media and entertainment industry. The event will be free of charge and open to the public, but will encourage attendees to make donations to the new Scholarship for AAPI and Media & Entertainment Creatives. Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Special Events
BAMPFA Indigenous Film Series Events: This Land Is Our Land!
Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero
Brazil, 2020
Presented by BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. Co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
14 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversations
with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Read more
10 Feb, 2022
Special Events
BAMPFA Indigenous Film Series Events: what was always yours and never lost
Curated by Sky Hopinka
This program features works by artists from different countries—Canada, the United States, and Mexico—and homelands. Each artist makes works that traverse topics dealing directly and indirectly with Indigeneity.
Presented by BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. Co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
09 Nov, 2021
Special Events
Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums
Featuring Margaret Rhee, Reginold Royston,and Ryan Shaw. Moderated by Clancy Wilmott.
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Grad Chats, a series focused on navigating the academic job market and career development with UC Berkeley grads. 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
25 Oct, 2021
History & Theory
Beyond Settler Sex and Family: Kim TallBear in Conversation
with Kim TallBear
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
In conversation with Marcelo Garzo Montalvo
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, San Marcos
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, American Cultures, Anthropology, The Program in Critical Theory, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
25 Oct, 2021
Commons Conversations
with Eric Rodenbeck
Founder, Stamen Design
Moderated by Eric Paulos
Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) Read more
29 Sep, 2021
Special Events
Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more
28 Sep, 2021
Special Events
The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more
30 Aug, 2021
Commons Conversations
Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora
with Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderated by BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
22 Apr, 2021
History & Theory
with Elizabeth LaPensée
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice.
Image credit: Elizabeth LaPensée Read more
15 Apr, 2021
Workshops
Grad Chat: Alt Ac Careers
BCNM hosts our Grad Chat on alt academic careers with UC Berkeley grads Jennifer Lowe, Dan Perkel, and Aylon Samouha. Read more
07 Apr, 2021
Special Events
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of Unjust Detention
Join Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s unjust imprisonment by the Chinese government. Read more
05 Apr, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Artist, Dubai
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Arts Research Center, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
18 Mar, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Panel
with Jennifer Holt, Brewster Kahle, Alexander Dent, and Keller Easterling Read more
01 Mar, 2021
History & Theory
A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies
with Margo Robbins
Co-founder and President of the Cultural Fire Management Council
and Valentin Lopez
Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Presented in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays.
Read more
03 Feb, 2021
History & Theory
Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action
with Marisa Duarte
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the School of Information, American Cultures, and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Special Events
Performing Cultural Exchange on Ohlone Homelands in Huichin
with Pauline Lampton, Director of Miriki Performing Arts
Corrina Gould, co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Erica Estrada, Northern Pomo Dancer
Presented with UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays. Read more
16 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations
Blockchain Chicken Farm and Grass Mud Horses
with Xiaowei Wang
Writer and artist; author of Blockchain Chicken Farm
& An Xiao Mina
Writer and artist; author of From Memes to Movements Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Clancy Wilmott: Green Parks, Red Dust: Maps, Visual Imperialism and the Cartographic imagination
Read more
07 Nov, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL
with Lawrence Lek
Artist, Filmmaker and Musician
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
05 Nov, 2020
History & Theory
World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures
with Skawennati
Artist & Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Image credit: Skawennati, "Renewal" 2016 Read more
03 Nov, 2020
Special Events
Visual Activism: Erin McElroy
With Erin McElroy
Postdoctoral Researcher, New York University
Presented by the Arts Research Center and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
25 Oct, 2020
Special Events
Crisis and Creativity: Virtual Artists in Residence at UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative
With Mithu Sen
Performs conceptual and interactive multi-format byproducts which include drawing, poetry, moving images, sculptures, installations, sound
And Brendan Fernandes
Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Commons Conversations
Cultural Heritage & Cultural Consumption
with Gu Jiang
National Center for Industry Research
Nanjing University Read more
21 Sep, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire??
with Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
10 Sep, 2020
History & Theory
A Conversation with the Sogorea Te' Land Trust
with Corrina Gould
Lisjan Ohlone leader and co-founder of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust
moderated by Marcelo Garzo Montalvo Read more
16 Apr, 2020
History & Theory
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Christiane Paul
Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Professor at The New School and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Response from Claudia Schmuckli
Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Co-sponsored by AutoLab, Arts + Design, the Arts Research Center, Art Practice, BAMPFA, and held in conjunction with the DH Faire. Read more
15 Apr, 2020
Special Events
13 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
ONLINE: Neural Abstractions
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Tom White
Artist and Researcher
Victoria University of Wellington School of Design
Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire.
Read more
06 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years
with William Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice 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
12 Mar, 2020
History & Theory
ONLINE: Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Francesca Coppa, co-founder Organization for Transformative Works
and Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson, co-founders Transformative Works & Cultures
Co-sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the School of Information, the D-Lab, UC Berkeley Libraries, and the Department of Film & Media Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Special Events
Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
With Horace Ballard
Curator, Williams College Museum of Art
Art History Lecturer, Clark Art Institute
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Read more
26 Feb, 2020
Special Events
The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives
with Jen Schradie
Assistant Professor, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) at Sciences Po
Co-Sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
with Margaret Rhee
Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Read more
30 Jan, 2020
Special Events
Digitality, Racial Capitalism, and the Informatics of Value
with Seb Franklin
Senior Lecturer, King's College London Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
with Amy LaViers
Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
18 Nov, 2019
Commons Conversations
Insurgent Aesthetics: Flight, Freedom, and Fantasy on the Frontiers of US Empire
with Ronak K. Kapadia
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Co-sponsored by the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, the Center for Race and Gender, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Gender and Women's Studies Department Read more
04 Nov, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Leonel Moura
Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. 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
30 Sep, 2019
Special Events
BCNM 2019 Seed Grant Talks
with Celeste Kidd
Psychology
and William White
Anthropology Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies
with Marisa Morán Jahn
Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation 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
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
23 Apr, 2019
Special Events
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
17 Apr, 2019
DH Fair: Building and Preserving Collections for Digital Humanities Research
This session will feature panelists building collections and tools for local digital humanities projects.
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
DH Fair: Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity
with Zeynep Tufekci
Professor, UNC
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Special Events
Sarah Winchester and the Origins of Silicon Valley
with Homay King
Bryn Mawr College
Presented by the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
03 Apr, 2019
History & Theory
The Human Computer in the Stone Age: Technology, Prehistory, and the Redefinition of the Human after World War II
with Stefanos Geroulanos
New York University Read more
01 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Rhonda Holberton
Artist, Oakland
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
20 Mar, 2019
History & Theory
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
with Safiya Umoja Noble
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the CITRIS Policy Lab 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
14 Mar, 2019
Special Events
Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment and Technology
with Zizi Papacharissi
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago
Presented by TDPS Graduate Students, co-sponsored by BCNM Read more
06 Mar, 2019
Special Events
with Gina Marchetti
University of Hong Kong
Hosted by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Department of Film Studies, and the Center for Chinese Studies. 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
05 Dec, 2018
Special Events
Critical Practices 2018 Showcase
See the great projects of Critical Practices at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Winter Showcase! 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
09 Nov, 2018
Commons Conversations
Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the 20th Century
with Lucia Allais
Associate Professor of Architecture, Princeton University 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
19 Oct, 2018
Special Events
Hacking Politics: Symposium
Join us to explore how our political system has been — and might be — “hacked” in ways its framers could never have imagined. Read more
15 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
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
04 Oct, 2018
History & Theory
Learning To Interact: Cybernetics and Play
with Timothy Stott
Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture
Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology Read more
14 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations
Love bytes and intimate machines
Analysing news media representations of human- robot interactions
with Belinda Middleweek
University of Technology Sydney Read more
12 Sep, 2018
History & Theory
Architectural Intelligence
with Molly Wright Steenson
Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
In partnership with the Department of Architecture Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Roxane Gay
Author, Indiana Read more
02 May, 2018
Special Events
Come to the free Critical Making Showcase at Jacobs Hall taking place Wednesday, May 2nd from 2-3:30pm as part of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Spring Read more
27 Apr, 2018
Special Events
Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Medium/Environment
Berkeley Film & Media’s 4th biennial conference seeks to bring together leading international media theorists working on questions of “environmental media” broadly conceived Read more
24 Apr, 2018
Special Events
with Trevor Paglen
Artist, CA
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art, UC Berkeley
hosted by the Arts Research Center
co-sponsored by BCNM, BAMPFA and the Department of Geography Read more
16 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Angela Davis
Activist and Professor, CA
interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media
A 2018 Regents Lecture
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09 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
new art, flag art, good art, portal art
with Ian Cheng
Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and as part of the Arts + Design Monday Nights at BAMPFA program. Read more
06 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Workshop
Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. Read more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
With rapid advances in modern documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, how must our study of the past and its material legacy adapt? Read more
04 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Exhibition
Deep Dive Or the Limits of Immersion was curated by Asma Kazmi. We preview the show as part of the Past is Present. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Yugoexport Is the Name of this Oral Corporation
With Irena Haiduk
Artist, Belgrade, Serbia
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
09 Mar, 2018
Special Events
Amateurism Across the Arts
Amateurism Across the Arts is an event hosted by the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, and co-sponsored in part by BCNM. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Special Events
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more
14 Feb, 2018
Commons Conversations
Commons Conversations: Adolf Loos After the Death of Adolf Loos
This talk revisits the life and work of Adolf Loos during the architect’s lifetime, but also beyond his death in 1933. Read more
05 Feb, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Connectivity as a Human Right
with Nick Negroponte
Architect, MIT, Massachussetts
Presented in partnership with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
29 Jan, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kris Paulsen
Associate Professor of History of Art and the Film Studies Program at The Ohio State University
An Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium lecture. Presented in partnership with the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series as part of Monday nights as BAMPFA. Read more
15 Nov, 2017
Special Events
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation: A Digital Storytelling Project
Witness the presentation of this fascinating ethical, and political archive on mass human displacement, this November Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Special Events
Combinatory Digital Poetics in Electronic Literature and Film
with Scott Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture, Norway.
Presented in partnership with Digital Humanities at Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Peder Sather Grant. Read more
06 Nov, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
We Must Conjure Our Gods Before We Obey Them
With Michael Rock
Designer, 2x4, NY.
Presenting in partnership with the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning Read more
23 Oct, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Socially Engaged Internet-Art: Aesthetics of Information Ethics
with Paolo Cirio
Artist, NY
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art Practice 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
12 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Datasense: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience
with Natasha Schull
Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU
Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society
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05 Oct, 2017
Commons Conversations
Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media
New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. Read more
25 Sep, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
with Frank Foer
National correspondent for The Atlantic and fellow at the New America Foundation.
Presented in partnership with the Graduate School of Journalism Read more
11 Sep, 2017
Special Events
Book Talk — Intelligent Infrastructure: Zipcars, Invisible Networks, And Urban Transformation
with TF Tierney
Founding Director of URL: Urban Research Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Studies Read more
14 Aug, 2017
Special Events
Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute
Don't miss out on this annual series of digital humanities discussions and workshops! Read more
08 May, 2017
Special Events
Leading experts will discuss ways in which organizations are addressing issues at large in our fast-changing social environment. Read more
03 May, 2017
Special Events
Spring Critical Making Showcase
Come celebrate the projects of Design Innovation students! Read more
28 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Listening Session and Launch Party Read more
25 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations
BCNM, in partnership with the School of Information and Graduate School of Journalism, turn to the particular role, and power, of digital tools to express and organize political dissent, and create greater institutional and political transparency! Read more
24 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Parenting for a Digital Future
with Alicia Blum-Ross
Research Officer in Media and Communications at the LSE Read more
19 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism
17 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Ashley Hunt
co-director of the California Institute of the Arts' Photography and Media Program 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
11 Apr, 2017
Special Events
New Technology and Archaeology Symposium
Sponsored by the History of Art Department, The Computer Science Undergraduate Association, the Organization of Graduate Students in the Digital Humanities, the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and Digital Humanities @ Berkeley. Read more
06 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Nicholas de Monchaux on Local Code: 3659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities
Join BCNM at the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive with an author talk with Nicholas de Monchaux. Read more
04 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe
with Jan De Vos
Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (BE) Read more
03 Apr, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Remapping History: The Unwanted Population - CANCELED
with Tiffany Chung, internationally noted cartographer Read more
20 Mar, 2017
Special Events
Color of New Media 2017 Open House!
Learn more about the diverse ecology of new media activities happening on campus! Read more
15 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Wild Robots: Bodies & Signs
with Ian Ingram, LA-based artist Read more
03 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Joris Maltha, CatalogTree co-founder Read more
01 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
with Adam Greenfield, information architect and designer Read more
13 Feb, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Geoff Manaugh, NYT best-selling author Read more
11 Feb, 2017
Special Events
Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA
Prof. Niemeyer on the latest exhibition Read more
09 Dec, 2016
Special Events
"Rogue Archives" Book Launch: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
"Rogue Archives" is authored by Prof. Gail De Kosnik Read more
07 Dec, 2016
Special Events
Jacobs 2016 Winter Design Showcase
Jacobs Institute opens its doors to showcase students' final projects! Read more
05 Dec, 2016
Special Events
Reading Robot Poetry! or, How Robots Fall Out of Love
Celebrating the publication of alum Margaret Rhee's Radio Heart; or How Robots Fall Out of Love Read more
26 Nov, 2016
Special Events
"Local Code" Book Launch: a Conversation & Reading
with Nicholas de Monchaux Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
The Peaks and Valleys of Kinetic Sculpture
with Reuben Margolin, American-born artist and sculptor Read more
13 Nov, 2016
History & Theory
Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes
with Virginia Kuhn,
Associate Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Special Events
Sex, Lies, and Data Mining
with Luke DuBois, co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data Read more
09 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials in Three Acts
Ronald Rael is an applied architectural researcher, author, design entrepreneur, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual.
Tom Sachs
Sculptor, NY
In partnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Art Practice Department Read more
14 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
A continuation of the Symposium, sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
13 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
Sponsored by the Townsend Center, the Dean of Humanities, the Berkeley Center for New Media, and the Department of Rhetoric. Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Special Events
Jane Jacobs and the Digital City
in partnership with SPUR San Francisco Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Workshops
Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital Cities
Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the School of Information's Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. Read more
03 Jul, 2016
Special Events
MFA Graduate Artist Talks at BAMPFA
Come check out these graduates' work! Read more
01 Jul, 2016
Special Events
46th Annual MFA Graduate Exhibition Reception at BAMPFA
Join these MFA graduates in celebration of their work on Friday and Saturday Read more
01 Jul, 2016
Special Events
Tsar Bell at 50th Anniversary of St. John
Both Friday and Saturday, The Sts. Cyril & Athanasius Institute will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the repose of St. John. Read more
06 May, 2016
Special Events
The Origins of Japanese Comics, 1905-28
A presentation on the political origins of Japanese comic satire Read more
04 May, 2016
Special Events
Experience this season's NWMEDIA203 Showcase at Jacobs Hall Read more
22 Apr, 2016
Special Events
Change and Stillness: Bodies and Gestures within Sensor Technology
Two sessions of open lab, talk, and live demonstration of multi-disciplinary art Read more
19 Apr, 2016
Special Events
telep0es1s: Experiments in Creative Literature
With Rui Torres
World-famous digital artist and professor Read more
16 Apr, 2016
Special Events
A public presentation of what the largest bell of all time might have sounded like Read more
17 Mar, 2016
History & Theory
Mary Flanagan will explore this rich history and point to the theoretical concerns that arise when playing critically. Read more
04 Mar, 2016
Special Events
Beyond Pixels: The Hidden Traits of Great Designers
with Steve Johnson, LinkedIn's Director of User Experience Design Read more
03 Mar, 2016
Special Events
A conversation with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason & Brewster Kahle Read more
02 Mar, 2016
Special Events
with Brewster Kahle
The Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive brings an insightful lecture to BCNM, as part of the Regents Lecture Series. Read more
01 Mar, 2016
Special Events
Locking the Web Open: A Call for a New, Distributed Web
with Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Read more
22 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
with Hito Steyerl, renowned German artist Read more
11 Feb, 2016
History & Theory
Machine Generated Culpability
with Ahmed Ghappour, law professor at UC Hastings Read more
01 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Four Thoughts about the Impact of Globalization on Artists
with Sarah Thornton, writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process
with Adrien Segal
Oakland-based sculptural data artist and designer Read more
16 Nov, 2015
History & Theory
Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing
with Benjamin Bratton, UCSD Professor and Design Theorist Read more
02 Nov, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies
with Julian Oliver, a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin Read more
02 Nov, 2015
Special Events
Tarek Atoui Returns with MATRIX 258
Join us for public programs and performances by composer Tarek Atoui Read more
15 Oct, 2015
Special Events
Precarious Aesthetics Conference
Join us as we interrogate the historical, theoretical, and philosophical implications of precarious aesthetics Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Special Events
Non-existent at 82° 30′ N 108° 22′ W: Mirages, Digital Maps, and the Historical Problem of Location
In this time of hyper-locatability via digital maps, what kinds of places and things might still remain lost? Read more
28 Sep, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air
with Vito Acconci, American designer, architect, performance and installation artist Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Special Events
Networked Boredom: On the Desire for Connection
with Scott Richmond, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Wayne State University Read more
17 Aug, 2015
Workshops
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Digital Humanities at Berkeley will be running a summer institute of intensive workshops led by DH experts Read more
01 Jul, 2015
Special Events
Manufacturing Transparency Call for Papers
The interdisciplinary conference is hosting a prize contest for best papers. Get writing! Read more
14 May, 2015
Special Events
We're co-hosting keynote addresses, lightning talks, and panel discussions on individual agency in an increasingly digital world Read more
01 May, 2015
Special Events
Precarious Aesthetics Conference Call for Papers Deadline
Deadline May 1, 2015 Read more
13 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat
with Jesse Drew, UC Davis Professor, and Glenda Drew, artist and designer Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
with Jose Carlos Martinat, artist, and Enrique Mayorga, researcher Read more
05 Apr, 2015
Workshops
Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal
A Masterclass with Jose Carlos Martinat. Open to artists, inventors, and engineers Read more
07 Mar, 2015
Workshops
Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon
A MoMA Edit-A-Thon satellite event here on campus Read more
23 Feb, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
17 Feb, 2015
Special Events
Welcome to Braggsville: Author Talk
T. Geronimo Johnson in Conversation With April Sinclair Read more
20 Jan, 2015
Special Events
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit 2015
We're sponsoring a semester-long competition for the best mobile apps that address civic needs! Read more
20 Nov, 2014
Workshops
Rights and Readerships: A Workshop
A partnership between Authors Alliance and BCNM Read more
17 Nov, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial
An ATC lecture by Rick Lowe Read more
13 Nov, 2014
Special Events
Art Installation Opening: Leslie Dreyer's “Reclaim Disrupt”
An SF-focused project on hyper gentrification Read more
29 Sep, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
This not-to-be-missed lecture by renowned American architect, Maya Lin Read more
15 Sep, 2014
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate Information Session
Learn how you can get involved this semester! Read more
26 Jun, 2014
Special Events
The release of Ritwik Banerji's (DE) project, Maxine Read more
28 Apr, 2014
Special Events
The Authors Alliance Visiting BCNM
In discussion of a vision for supporting authors in a digital age Read more
19 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum
A practicum of artist-led workshops that develop exercises, prompts, or actions that engage questions of art, labor, and economics. Don't miss out! Read more
10 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Student Research Presentations and New DE Welcome
Cutting edge research happening here at BCNM! Join us in celebration of these amazing grad students. Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Participate in a hackathon in honor of the Free Speech Movement's 50th anniversary! First prize: a MacBook Air Read more
29 Mar, 2014
Special Events
We're bringing wifi, food, API's, an amazing community... You bring ideas help this "economy of kindness" Read more
17 Mar, 2014
Special Events
Prospective Student Open House
With a keynote address by Francesco Spagnolo, UC Berkeley Music Lecturer, "Mapping Diasporas: Jews, Material Culture, and the Digital Humanities" Read more
10 Mar, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
How Complicated Could a Metronome Be?
Witness this lectre by an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers, a part of our ATC series Read more
06 Mar, 2014
Special Events
We invite you to this symposium of discussions on privacy protections, surveillance methods, and resistance in our digital world Read more
24 Feb, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
ULTRACONCENTRATED: Image, Media, Software
Casey Reas, LA-based artist and educator, talks about the possibilies of software in the visual arts Read more
22 Feb, 2014
Special Events
Urban Data Canvas Hackathon
We're hosting an app-only hack day to develop real-time data visualization pieces for displaying in downtown SF! Read more
15 Feb, 2014
Create Your Bot Hackathon
Learn how to build Chatbots with renowned artificial intelligence programmer and ChatScript language designer Bruce Wilcox as you compete to create the most human chatbot! Read more
06 Feb, 2014
History & Theory
A lecture by Lisa Nakamura, "Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture" Read more
05 Feb, 2014
Special Events
Computer Simulations and their Constructive Medium
Inge Hinterwaldner, a researcher at the University of Basel, talks about computer-based art and architecture Read more
02 Dec, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
From Timelapse to Timecollapse
Zhang Ga, media art curator and Professor at Tsinghua University, on "Rethinking New Media Art and Platform China" Read more
14 Nov, 2013
Special Events
From Data Visualization to Data Manifestation
with Kevin Walker, Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art Read more
28 Oct, 2013
History & Theory
A History and Theory of New Media lecture by Eyal Weizman, architect, University of London Professor Read more
23 Oct, 2013
Special Events
Creating Minds: An Academic Conference on Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
19 Sep, 2013
History & Theory
Mia Laboro: How To Do Generative Humanities
with Peter Lunenfeld, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Read more
16 Sep, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional
with Allan deSouza, UC Berkeley faculty and photographer Read more
26 Aug, 2013
Special Events
This event is open to students currently enrolled in a degree program at UC Berkeley Read more
14 Mar, 2013
Special Events
Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education
Participate in this 2-day symposium on critical issues in online higher education. Google, CMU, Coursera representatives are slotted to speak. Note: tickets for this event have been claimed but sign up for the wait-list here! Read more
14 Mar, 2013
Special Events
Disembodied: Literature and Transmission in a Digital Age
A day of presentations & panel discussions for Anthropology, Architecture, Area Studies, Comparative Literature, + Theology scholars. Don't miss it! Read more
31 Jan, 2013
History & Theory
An HTNM lecture by Stefan Andriopoulos, Germanic Languages Chair at Coumbia University Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Needy Robotics and Our Intimate Interrelationship with Technology
Listen to Alex Reben, engineer and artist, discuss the line that separates thought from data Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Needy Robotics and Our Intimate Interrelationship with Technology
Listen to Alex Reben, engineer and artist, discuss the line that separates thought from data Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Hawking, Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
A discussion in celebration of Hacia Mialet's book, Hawking, Incorporated. Featuring David Bates (Rhetoric) and Cori Hayden (Anthropology) Read more
10 Dec, 2012
Special Events
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest
A panel of leading video activists, filmmakers, + technology developers on the implications for human rights investigations, advocacy campaigns, and social justice Read more
03 Dec, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Luminous Currents: Tracing Modernism from Bauhaus to Beehive
An Arts + Technology Colloquium lecture by JoAnne Northrup, former chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art Read more
15 Nov, 2012
Special Events
"Marry Me to the End of Love," an Interactive Performance
In this interactive performance, Baradaran will marry anyone he can convince to enter a temporary marriage Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
FutARism: The Possiblities of Augmented Reality in Art Making
with Amir Baradaran, Media and Performance Artist, New York Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
14 Nov, 2012
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
06 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents
Leila Takayama, research scientist, on communicating with robots Read more
30 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Ephemeral Space: Networks of Social Media & Mobile Food Vending Practices
with Ginette Wessel, PhD Candidate of Architecture, on mobile food vendors and social media Read more
24 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids
with Saul Griffith, Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab Read more
24 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids
with Saul Griffith, Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab Read more
16 Oct, 2012
Workshops
New Media Working Group: Henry Witecki, Visual Artist, Oakland
Witecki, interdisciplinary artist and writer, will present his recent body of composite images, animations, and projections Read more
04 Oct, 2012
Special Events
The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy
with David Karpf, Assistant Prof. of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University Read more
01 Oct, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Visualization and the Joy of Revelation
with Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, artists and lead researchers of Google's Big Picture" visualization research group Read more
17 Sep, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
A Tale of Two Eyes, One Brain, One Hand, and One Pen
with Ryan and Trevor Oakes, visual artists whose work has been featured in Chicago's Millennium Park and Palazzo Strozzi Museum in Florence Italy -- to name a few Read more
06 Sep, 2012
History & Theory
with Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG and former senior editor of Dwell magazine Read more
02 May, 2012
Artist Talk at the BiD Lab with Walter Kim
Lunch and conversation with Walter Kim, artist and engineer based in San Francisco Read more
26 Apr, 2012
History & Theory
with Rita Raley, Associate Prof. of English, among other distinguished appointments Read more
26 Apr, 2012
Special Events
Swinging and Flowing: Inclusion and Diversity in the Age of Data
A symposium pondering the emerging hierarchies of an increasingly "data-driven" world," hosted right here at UC Berkeley Read more
23 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums
with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
16 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Media Bichos and other Displays for Engaging People to Watch Videos in the Museum
with Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art in New York 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
30 Mar, 2012
Special Events
The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
Hosted at SFMoMA, featuring Nicholas DeMonchaux and the work of Buckminster Fuller Read more
21 Feb, 2012
Special Events
with Wendy Ju, California College of Arts, Read more
09 Feb, 2012
History & Theory
A History and Theory of New Media lecture with Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) Read more
23 Jan, 2012
Special Events
Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy
with Howard Rheingold, independent scholar at Stanford's Department of Communication Read more
05 Dec, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Heaven Can Wait: The Revolving Restaurant as Hypercinema
Bull.Miletic: Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic, recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's "Video Maker Award" Read more
21 Nov, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape
with Marc Horowitz, interdisciplinary artist. A part of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
18 Nov, 2011
History & Theory
Lydia Liu, in conversation with Martin Jay and David Bates on her new book, "The Freudian Robot"
The author of "The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious" talking to Martin Jay (History) and David Bates (Rhetoric) Read more
31 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Present Continuous Past(s): The Centre Pompidou New Media Collection
with Christine Van Assche, Chief Curator and Curator of New Media at the Centre Georges Pompidou Read more
19 Oct, 2011
Special Events
with Regina Connell, Editor in Chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine that covers the craft of modern design Read more
10 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface
with Kal Spelletich, SF-based artist Read more
22 Sep, 2011
Special Events
with Uday Danvadate, co-founder and CEO of SonicRim, a global design research consulting practice Read more
21 Sep, 2011
Special Events
Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Video Voyages
An evening at the BCNM Commons Read more
06 Sep, 2011
History & Theory
Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies
with Sherry Turkle -- pioneering technologist; professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist Read more
04 May, 2011
Special Events
Regents Lecture: Green Technologies – Enabling the Radical Innovations to Come (Sooner!)
A special lecture by Bill Joy, renowned technologist and partner in leading venture capital firm KPBC's Greentech Practice Read more
03 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Finding Christopher Alexander’s Fifteen Fundamental Properties in the Berkeley Rose Garden
A unique field trip to the Berkeley Rose Garden, led by Maggie Alexander Read more
02 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth
with Christopher Alexander, Prof. of Architecture here at UC Berkeley Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Advancing the New Machine, Human Rights and Technology Conference
A symposium for anyone interested in uniting the tech-world and the human rights community Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Pure Engineering – Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and Consumerism
with Raffaello D’Andrea, an artist and Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Read more
30 Mar, 2011
Special Events
New Media Research Roundtable: On Common Ground, Paula Levine
Led by Paula Levine, artist and researcher whose experimental videos have shown in screenings in New York's Lincoln Centre Read more
28 Mar, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Sophie Calle, Artist Presentation with Q&A
Hosted at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Arrive early to claim your seat! 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
24 Feb, 2011
Special Events
World Craft, Business and Culture of Gaming in East Asia
07 Feb, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Surfaces of Constant Simultaneity
Jose Alvarez on his own personal journey of investigation into the realms of consciousness, mysticism, spirituality Read more
03 Feb, 2011
Special Events
Immersed in Mediated Spaces – Playful Immersion and the Quest for Immediacy in Video Games
A lecture by Carl Therrien (Stanford) Read more
24 Jan, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Rhinoceros Beetles, Kissable Frogs and other Close Encounters with Biodiverse and the Tasty Future
An Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture by Natalie Jeremijenko Read more
06 Dec, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
with Matthew Passmore, an artist and a principal at Rebar, an art and design studio based in San Francisco Read more
17 Nov, 2010
Special Events
New Media Research Roundtable: Futurefarmers Recent and Forthcoming Work — A Variation on the Powers of Ten
Futurefarmers is a group of artists, designers and architects who use various media to create work that responds to the time and place around them Read more
15 Nov, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
Architectural Communication in the Knowledge Economy
with Jeffrey Inaba, founder of INABA, an architecture firm based in Los Angeles Read more
11 Oct, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
Art and the Utopian Imaginary
with Mark Tribe, artist and occasional curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics Read more
20 Sep, 2010
Special Events
A lecture by Lisa Iwamoto, partner of IwamotoScott Read more
3 days ago
Rashad Arman Timmons Awarded UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields. Read more
5 days ago
STITCH: Augmented Dexterity for Suture Throws Including Thread Coordination and Handoffs
A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team! Read more
6 days ago
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Faculty Seed Grants
Congratulations Greg Niemeyer, Clancy Wilmott, and Emma Fraser! Read more
1 week ago
Ken Goldberg and Catie Cuan's Breathless Reviewed in Forbes
Teaching Machines To Be Human, And Humans To Live With Machines, an article by Benjamin Wolff. Read more
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media. Read more
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing the Summer 2024 BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellows
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 semester's Fellows. Read more
05 Apr, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Talks to the Author of “The Riddles of the Sphinx”
Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords Read more
04 Apr, 2024
BCNM Around the Web Spring 24
Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more
04 Apr, 2024
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías' Art is on the Moon
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01 Apr, 2024
Zekarias Musele Thompson and Lee Crandall at the Living Room Light Exchange
Two of our grad students are featured at tonight's Living Room Light Exchange! Read more
31 Mar, 2024
Announcing Our Spring 2024 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Yangyang Yang. Read more
30 Mar, 2024
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2024
Check out the work Ken Goldberg is presenting at ICRA 2024! Read more
22 Mar, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Interviews Alice Notley
Alice Notley, The Art of Poetry No. 116 Interviewed by Hannah Zeavin Read more
21 Mar, 2024
Video now online! Paloma Duong's Mediascapes of Postsocialism: Cuban New Media Cultures After the End of History
Missed the talk with Paloma Duong? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. 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 Mar, 2024
Big Give is coming on March 14 - Join me!
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06 Mar, 2024
Trevor Paglen on A History of the World in Spy Objects
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24 Feb, 2024
Ken Goldberg and Jacobi Solving Singularities
Jacobi Robotics was founded by a quartet of UC Berkeley robotics students, along with professor Ken Goldberg. Read more
23 Feb, 2024
Alum Trevor Paglen Featured in El País
From secret CIA prisons to the images that train AI, this article shares how Trevor Paglen looks where we cannot see. Read more
15 Feb, 2024
Announcing the 2024 Lyman Recipient
Congratulations Vincente Perez! Read more
07 Feb, 2024
Hannah Zeavin Interviews Adam Shatz
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29 Jan, 2024
danah boyd on Data Impact
What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more
29 Jan, 2024
Techno-legal Solutionism: Regulating Children’s Online Safety in the United States
In this paper, alum danah boyd and Maria P. Agnel unpack the theory of change at the center of the “duty of care." Read more
25 Jan, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows
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 semester's Fellows. Read more
25 Jan, 2024
Group Anything with Radiance Fields Read more
22 Jan, 2024
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WISH. Read more
17 Jan, 2024
Summer Research Reports: Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter
We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more
17 Jan, 2024
Conference Grant Reports: Elnaz Bailey at the Generative AI Conference
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15 Jan, 2024
Why we don't have robot butlers yet
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28 Dec, 2023
Robotics Q&A with Ken Goldberg in TechCrunch
Ken Goldberg talks the future of robots with Brian Heater. Read more
22 Dec, 2023
Optimal Arrangement and Rearrangement of Objects on Shelves to Minimize Robot Retrieval Cost
Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions! Read more
21 Dec, 2023
A Robot that Can Pick Your Clothes from the Floor?
Ken Goldberg has addressed "the teenage problem" with a cleaning machine robot! Read more
21 Dec, 2023
Asma Kazmi Awarded 2023 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Microgrant
The award is offered by the New Media Caucus. Read more
20 Dec, 2023
Seed Grant Report — Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development
Celeste Kidd's lab received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development." Read more about the results of the project! Read more
07 Dec, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Fall 2023
Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Fall 2023! Read more
05 Dec, 2023
Apply to TA in Summer 2024
TA for Transforming Tech or Digital Infrastructures this summer! Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Haya Constellation Altar, 2019, Arianna Khmelniuk Read more
29 Nov, 2023
Apply for the 2024 AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more
27 Nov, 2023
Video now online! Jen Liu's The ghost in the machine is me.
Missed the talk with Jen Liu about her multifaceted GHOST_WORLD project, which proposes an intrinsically paradoxical task: to represent electronics workers through the digital imaging technologies that are designed to erase them, bridging the distance between labor and consumer through location-based AR? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
27 Nov, 2023
Video now online! Jesse Colin Jackson Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later)
Missed the discussion with Jesse Colin Jackson exploring the architectures we construct—from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds—through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
05 Nov, 2023
The Digital is a Ruin: Digital Space, Geography and the End of the World
Emma Fraser speaks on November 8th at the Geography colloquium. Read more
04 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2023 Faculty Seed Grants
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
03 Nov, 2023
Conference Grant Reports: Xinwei Zhuang at ACADIA
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented their paper on ""Encoding Urban Ecologies: Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling" at ACADIA.
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01 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 23 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more
30 Oct, 2023
Summer Research Reports: Alexis Wood on Digital Landscapes in Northern California
We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Alexis Wood on Digital Landscapes in Northern California. Read more
26 Oct, 2023
Wish Wang on Community Design
Wish Wang received an undergraduate research fellowship and was mentored by Xinwei Zhuang. Read more
26 Oct, 2023
Alexis Wood on Erosion as Method(ology) at NACIS 23
Alexis Wood (Department of Geography & BCNM DE) presented her paper, “Erosion As Method(ology): Theorizing and Mapping Structures of Feeling” at the at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Conference. Read more
26 Oct, 2023
Conference Grant Reports: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Showcasing Research, Art, And Intersections To Encourage Member Collaboration
Haripriya Sathyanarayanan traveled to La Jolla to present at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) Conference. Read more
25 Oct, 2023
What Should We Make of the Return of Sigmund Freud
A new article from Hannah Zeavin in The Chronicle of Higher Education Read more
24 Oct, 2023
Alum Trevor Paglen at the Shanghai Biennale
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18 Oct, 2023
Emma Fraser's 'Video Games and Playful Media' Class Explores the Past and Future of Gaming.
Image Jami Smith/UC Berkeley Library. Read more
15 Oct, 2023
Julia Irwin on a History of Artificial Perception
Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more
14 Oct, 2023
Weiying Li on “Designing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) curriculum”.
Weiying Li received a BCNM 2023 summer research award. Read more
05 Oct, 2023
World Building for Immersive Storytelling
Interview with Alex McDowell RDI Read more
28 Sep, 2023
Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more
18 Sep, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 Class Grants
We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses. Read more
15 Sep, 2023
A Memoir of Contested Illness That Takes On the Legacy of Hysteria
Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention. Read more
13 Sep, 2023
Gloria Emeagwali Video & Transcript Now Online
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04 Sep, 2023
Lyman Report: Rashad Timmons on Racialized Geography in Ferguson
With the support of the Lyman Fellowship, Rashad Timmons traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to engage in fieldwork and archival research for my dissertation. Read more
28 Aug, 2023
How the Art World is Embracing AI
Alum Trevor Paglen features in new video published by cheddar news. Read more
16 Aug, 2023
Vincente Perez and Hip-Hop Poetics
Read about Vincente Perez's research into Hip-Hop poetics Read more
16 Aug, 2023
Jacob Gaboury Reviews Uncomputable
Jacob Gaboury has published a review of Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway Read more
15 Aug, 2023
Valencia James & Landship Valiant Star
Read about Valencia James and Landship Valiant Star; a multimodal research project in which I am exploring the living history of the Barbados Landship. Read more
11 Aug, 2023
Dongho Shin on Digital Systems Generating Mnemonics
Read about Dongho Shin's project to develop digital systems capable of generating mnemonics—strategies that enhance memory retention, such as creating wordplay, narratives, and visuals. Read more
10 Aug, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
27 Jul, 2023
Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers this fall! Featuring multi-disciplinary visual artist Jen Liu, UC Irvine Professor of Electronic Art & Design Jesse Colin Jackson, Indigenous Technologies lectures by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon and Dartmouth Professor Martina Broner, an “AI & The Humanities” roundtable discussion with Black in AI co-founder Timnit Gebru, plus so much more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Jen Liu, Jesse Colin Jackson, Valeria Luiselli, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Paloma Duong, Erik Davis, Lauren Klein, and more! Read more
19 Jul, 2023
Alum Bo Ruberg Promoted to Full Professor
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17 Jul, 2023
Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. Read more
16 Jul, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Meets Medical Robotics
Ken Goldberg co-authors a perspective essay on artificial intelligence and medical robotics for Science AI. 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
03 Jul, 2023
Bjoern Hartmann at DIS 2023
Herding AI Cats: Lessons from Designing a Chatbot by Prompting GPT-3 Read more
29 Jun, 2023
Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman on Art, Surveillance, and Investigation
Trevor and Eyal discuss how art and architecture can be harnessed to challenge structures of power and state control. Read more
28 Jun, 2023
Edgar Fabián Frías on the Salesforce Tower
For the entire month of June, alum Edgar Fabián Frías' art, "Hechizo Tuutú," was featured on the Salesforce tower! Read more
27 Jun, 2023
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
26 Jun, 2023
Ken Goldberg on Generative AI
Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications Read more
20 Jun, 2023
In the Studio with Trevor Paglen
15 Jun, 2023
Announcing BCNM's New Director Tom McEnaney
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13 Jun, 2023
Michelle Carney Featured on People of AI
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13 Jun, 2023
Undergraduate Research Report: Isabel Li on Insight XR
Isabel Li worked with Elnaz Tafrihi on InsightXR, a project which aims to provide accessible, remote co-design in architectural contexts through mobile AR experiences. Read more
13 Jun, 2023
Conference Grant Reports: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan at Elevate
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more
08 Jun, 2023
Silayan Camson and the {m}aganda Digital Archive
Check out the awesome work our undergraduate certificate students are doing around Cal! Read more
01 Jun, 2023
Check out this new article from Ken Goldberg! Read more
01 Jun, 2023
Jacob Gaboury 2023 HCI History Award Winner
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01 Jun, 2023
Shannon Jackson on the Relevance of Place
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30 May, 2023
Undergraduate Research Reports: Riya Manimaran on Hybrid Learning
Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more
30 May, 2023
Conference Reports: Weiying Li at AERA 2023
Weiying Li shares her experience at the AERA 2023 Conference on “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth.” Read more
26 May, 2023
Kimiko Ryokai & Team Awarded 1.29M
Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces 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
26 May, 2023
Faculty Seed Grants: Asma Kazmi & After Jahangir
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25 May, 2023
Jacob Gaboury Co-Edits Critical Inquiry
Weihong Bao, Daniel Morgan, and our own Jacob Gaboury co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on Medium/Environment. Read more
25 May, 2023
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2023
Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more
24 May, 2023
Clancy Wilmott Receives Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentorship Award
The UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award honors members of the Berkeley faculty and teaching staff who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students. Read more
19 May, 2023
Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Graduates
Art by Tiare Ribeaux. Read more
18 May, 2023
Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more
11 May, 2023
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman Video & Transcript Now Online!
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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
02 May, 2023
Celeste Kidd on Why Aren't Babies Little Adults
Why are babies small and grownups big? Why are babies so helpless, instead of little versions of adults? Do babies know they're babies? How do babies grow? How do babies learn to talk? Read more
24 Apr, 2023
Celeste Kidd Publishes on Why We Disagree So Often
Is a dog more similar to a chicken or an eagle? Is a penguin noisy? Is a whale friendly?
Celeste Kidd and team say these absurd-sounding questions might help us better understand what’s at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments. Read more
22 Apr, 2023
Alum Tiffany Ng Featured Artist on MUSFORUM
MUSFORUM is the online network for women organists. Read more
21 Apr, 2023
Hannah Zeavin on Ordinary Unhappiness
Hannah Zeavin and collaborator Alex Colston talk Freud on the podcast Ordinary Unhappiness! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more
14 Apr, 2023
Morgan Ames Publishes Algorithmic Modernity
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13 Apr, 2023
Conference Grants: Meg Everett at the Society for Research in Child Development
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13 Apr, 2023
Visiting Scholar at BCNM: Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang was a visiting scholar at BCNM during 2022. Read more
13 Apr, 2023
Minh Anh Van Directs To the Water and Back
BCNM AAPI Fellow directs To the Water and Back! Read more
12 Apr, 2023
Osman Khan Video & Transcript Now Online!
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06 Apr, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more
06 Apr, 2023
Now Hiring: Lecturer in New Media
Next review date: Thursday, Apr 20, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Read more
05 Apr, 2023
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the Indigenous Imaginarium
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05 Apr, 2023
CoRL Papers Published in Proceedings of Machine Learning
Ken Goldberg has been included in the Conference on Robotic Learning proceedings. Read more
03 Apr, 2023
BCNM Around the Web April 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this April! Read more
31 Mar, 2023
BCNM Around the Web March 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this March! Read more
29 Mar, 2023
Kris Paulsen Co-Edits Media N
With Brian Michael Murphy, alum Kris Paulsen co-edits a special issue of Media N on Afterlives of Data. Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies! Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Abigail De Kosnik Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
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
20 Mar, 2023
Valencia James Co-Curates The Parables Experience
The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more
17 Mar, 2023
Bo Ruberg Receives the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award
SCMS recently announced the winners, including our own alum Bo Ruberg! Read more
16 Mar, 2023
Nettrice Gaskins Video & Transcript Now Online
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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
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
27 Feb, 2023
Hannah Zeavin on the Triumph of the Therapeutic
Hannah Zeavin talks with Alex Colston about navigating Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis. . Read more
23 Feb, 2023
Announcing the 2023 Lyman Recipient
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31 Jan, 2023
Xiaowei Wang Receives Science & Literature National Book Award
Blockchain Chicken Farm has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2023 $10,000 science and literature awards! Read more
25 Jan, 2023
Eric Paulos Receives CITRIS Seed Grant for Bright Blue
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18 Jan, 2023
Jill Miller Presents Future Perfect
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18 Jan, 2023
Vincente Perez Receives Sundress Microgrant
The recipient of the Light Bill Incubator Microgrant is Vincente Perez. They will receive $500, a slot in Sundress’s reading series, and a residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN. Read more
09 Jan, 2023
Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Andrea Horbinski at CasaCon22
Andrea Horbinski presented at CasaCon22 this past December. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Kidd Lab at Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023
Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more
30 Dec, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
29 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at SHOT 2022
Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022
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23 Dec, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on Bernadette Mayer
For Hannah Zeavin, Bernadette Mayer was the greatest minor American poet of the 20th century, and the 21st too, in which she has become less minor. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Bo Ruberg on Computer Dating and the Classifieds
Computer Dating in the Classifieds: Complicating the Cultural History of Matchmaking by Machine Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg and AutoLab Featured in IEOR Magazine
The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more
19 Dec, 2022
Kelli Moore Transcript and Video Now Online
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16 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the National Humanities Conference
Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more
09 Dec, 2022
Grace Gipson Helps Launch Black Girls Magic in Media
This new curated Instagram account focuses on depictions of Black girls and women in the media. Read more
06 Dec, 2022
We're Hiring an Events Coordinator & Office Manager in 2023
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
06 Dec, 2022
Sophia Hussain to Join AK Press
We're so sad to bid farewell to Sophia Hussain but excited for her future endeavors at AK Press! Read more
05 Dec, 2022
Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
01 Dec, 2022
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more
29 Nov, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on the Composite Case
Hannah writes about the fate of the children of psychoanalysis for Parapraxis. Read more
28 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our 2022 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
27 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Valencia James: AI_am Read more
18 Nov, 2022
BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
18 Nov, 2022
Sim2Real & Optimist with Ken Goldberg
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18 Nov, 2022
Web3 & Digital Democracy with Jen Schradie
McCourt Institute's “Web3 &” series continues, taking a specific look at digital democracy. The second event in the series will address the state of digital democracy in our current and future web paradigms, featuring alum Jen Schradie. Read more
17 Nov, 2022
Announcing the 2023 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Victor Tze and Winnona Li! Read more
17 Nov, 2022
Eric Rawn, Morgan Ames, and Jacob Gaboury were featured in SIGCIS 2022:UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Read more
17 Nov, 2022
Jacob Gaboury Awarded 2022 Computer History Museum Prize
Congratulations to Jacob Gaboury for receiving the 2022 Computer History Museum Prize! Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Launches Parapraxis
A print magazine devoted to psychoanalysis called Parapraxis. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. 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
16 Nov, 2022
BCNM at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium
The 2022 Bay Area Robotics Symposium brings together roboticists from the Bay Area in an immersive program featuring BCNM professors. Read more
15 Nov, 2022
BCNM Around the Web November
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
09 Nov, 2022
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) encourages the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Clancy Wilmott at NACIS 2022
Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood spoke about Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures at NACIS 2022. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2022
Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
BCNM at American Studies Association 2022
Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022. Read more
31 Oct, 2022
Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Ken Ueno
Check out the video and transcript from this incredible conversation. Read more
26 Oct, 2022
Now Accepting Applications for 2023 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more
26 Oct, 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
25 Oct, 2022
Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more
24 Oct, 2022
BCNM Around the Web October
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this October! Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Christine Dierk at UIST 2022
Our alum Christine presents Project Primrose: Reflective Light-Diffuser Modules for Non-Emissive Flexible Display Systems. Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Melancholic Media by Hannah Zeavin
Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Playing with "Real Women"
Our alum Bo Ruberg offers "A Sexual Prehistory of Realism in Video Games" on ROMchip, a journal of game histories. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Conference Grants: William Morgan at SLSA 2022
William Morgan, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant recipient, presented “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
A Century of Women & the Carillon
Alum Tiffany Ng is the PI on this beautiful new digital humanities project. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Hear about Bo's Sex Dolls at Sea
Alum Bo Ruberg talks to the Sex Industry Book Club about their new book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies! Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Lashon Daley Starts a Book Vlog
BCNM alumni Lashon Daley's first vlog is up! Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Image caption: Video still of Bruno Latour lecturing at UC Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2005 Read more
11 Oct, 2022
Announcing the Fall 2022 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Art by Clancy Wilmott. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Announcing the Fall 2022 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Apply for the AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
We are thrilled to launch the inaugural UC Berkeley Center for New Media AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship. Applications are due March 1, 2023. Read more
05 Oct, 2022
Alum Katherine Chandler writes on infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker. Read more
29 Sep, 2022
Asma Kazmi Promoted to Associate Professor
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27 Sep, 2022
BCNM Statement in Solidarity with Iranian Protestors
As educators and researchers at UC Berkeley Center for New Media we stand in solidarity with Iranian women who are demanding their basic human rights. Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Hot and Cool Mother Receives Disability History Association Outstanding Article Award
Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin, winner of the 2022 DHA Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award for “Hot and Cool Mothers”! Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Inserting Intersectionality and Blackness in Comics
Alum Grace Gipson is featured in "Teaching with Comics". Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Why ‘environments’ in games are always historical: a provocation
Emma Fraser is featured in Historical Games Network. Read more
11 Sep, 2022
Summer Research Report: Amanda Barnett
Read about Amanda's preparation for a Spring 2023 exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle’s Asian Pacific American history museum. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Celeste Kidd's "Learning with certainty in childhood"
Celeste Kidd and Carolyn Baer published "Learning with certainty in childhood" in Science Direct. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Summer Research Report: Irma Barbosa
Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more
25 Aug, 2022
Undergraduate Research: Jesse Clements
Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more
25 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Reports: Kevin CK Lo
Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more
23 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Report: Lani Alden
Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more
23 Aug, 2022
Michelle Carney Featured in Women in AI Ethics
This interview with alum Michelle Carney is part of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE)’s “I am the future of AI.” Read more
18 Aug, 2022
Lyman Report: Julia Irwin
Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more
17 Aug, 2022
Justin Berner Appointed Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Justin Berner joins NYU Shanghai as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. 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
16 Aug, 2022
Ritwik Banerji Appointed Assistant Professor at Iowa State University
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16 Aug, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 Class Grants
We're pleased to support Tom McEnaney's course on Sounding American. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
Summer 2022 Research with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan
Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more
11 Aug, 2022
Queer Affects at the Origins of Computation
Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
10 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CASE 2022
The 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) took place in in Chengdu, China and Mexico City, Mexico. Read more
07 Aug, 2022
Kate Mattingly Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University
06 Aug, 2022
I'm Baby: Digital Reproduction in the Metavese
Hannah Zeavin has a new article out in The Baffler. Read more
02 Aug, 2022
Why Are Pictures of Space So Powerful?
Trevor Paglen is interviewed for VICE Magazine.
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01 Aug, 2022
This is Womenspace: USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom
Hannah Zeavin's latest publication appears in Technology and Culture. Read more
22 Jul, 2022
Tiffany Ng Named Chair of Organ Department
Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more
21 Jul, 2022
Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance
The latest paper from alum Reginold Royston in Social Media + Society. Read more
20 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for our ATC Lecture Series! Featuring Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman, and artsits Nettrice Gaskins and Osman Khan. Read more
18 Jul, 2022
Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary
Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. Read more
15 Jul, 2022
Tory Jeffay Named Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth
Tory's dissertation was titled “The Forensic Imaginary: Visual Media and Evidentiary Culture.” Read more
12 Jul, 2022
Hannah Zeavin on the Victim Cloud
Hannah writes for Harpers about gullibility in the golden age of scams. Read more
08 Jul, 2022
Abigail Lomibao on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more
07 Jul, 2022
Ra Malika Imotep Awarded President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
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01 Jul, 2022
Jane McGonigal on Whether Games Can Prepare Us for Catastrophes
Alum Jane McGonigal features on Steve Levitt's popular podcast. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
BCNM Around the Web June 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
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
23 Jun, 2022
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 BCNM Events in Review
Check out our roundup of the last year of BCNM events, featuring event details, video recordings, and transcripts! Read more
20 Jun, 2022
Christo Sims on Green Magic
Alum Christo Sims discusses Technologies of Enchantment at Apple's Corporate Headquarters on Public Culture. Read more
20 Jun, 2022
Morgan Ames on the Received Wisdom Podcast
Where did the One Laptop Per Child project go wrong? Morgan Ames gives some answers. Read more
20 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on Reimagining the History of Media Studies
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley is in the amazing lineup for the recently published Uncanny Histories in Film and Media! Read more
16 Jun, 2022
Conference Report: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan at EDRA53 Health in Design
Haripriya shared her research at the Environmental Design Research Association Health in Design conference. Read more
15 Jun, 2022
Michelle Carney on Bringing ML and UX Together
Alum Michelle Carney speaks to the Experiencing Data podcast about her mission to bring machine learning and user interface design together. Read more
13 Jun, 2022
Conference Reports: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Patient-Centered Care
Haripriya presented her research at the The Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
09 Jun, 2022
Clancy Wilmott Awarded 2022 PBK Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to Clancy Wilmott on being a warded a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award for the branch of Northern California! 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
03 Jun, 2022
Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Wendy Chun
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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
24 May, 2022
Morgan Ames on The Legacy of OLPC
Morgan Ames features on The Real Python podcast discussing charismatic pitfalls in teaching programming! Read more
21 May, 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
17 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Graduates
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías Read more
16 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
Project by Jessie Mindel with Selin Longmire, Angelica Song, Bradley Russo. Read more
11 May, 2022
Sonia Katyal on LGBTQ+ Rights
As every day we hear new reports of laws limiting LGBTQ+ rights, UC Berkeley professors weigh in on the current experience of our LGBTQ+ community. Read more
10 May, 2022
Conference Reports: Vincente Perez at Silly Media
Vincente presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation" at the Silly Media conference at the University of Chicago. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Conference Grant Reports: Elisa Giardina Papa at the Venice Biennale
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28 Apr, 2022
The Queer Posthumanism of Video Games that cannot be Played
Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world. Read more
20 Apr, 2022
The Distance Cure Reviewed in The Jacobin
Hannah Zeavin's new book focusing on psychoanalysis and mediation is featured in the Jacobin. Read more
19 Apr, 2022
BCNM at Data and the Metaverse
BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse." Read more
19 Apr, 2022
Algorithms Adore Extreme Right Content
Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Haripriya Sathyanarayanan Awarded the Helen Wallace Dissertation Award
The Helen Wallace Dissertation Award aims to advance and elevate graduate-level research at the intersection of MCAH, innovation, and technology. Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Haripriya Sathyanarayanan Awarded the GMZ Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Haripriya for receiving an award in Health Facility Planning & Design! Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Behind French election tweets, the far right is hidden in plain sight
Jen Schradie explains how digital democracy is functioning in France this election cycle for the Conversation. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!
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13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Andrea Gagliano on Data Science and Design
Andrea Gagliano is featured in the first MLUX Seattle meetup. Read more
05 Apr, 2022
Liza Gak Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship & Tonya Nguyen Receives Honorable Mention
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more
05 Apr, 2022
Who's Listening When You Call a Crisis Hotline
Hannah Zeavin and Yana Calou published the article in State of Mind. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Therapy With a Human Face by Hannah Zeavin
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Michelle Carney on Building More Human, Helpful, and Ethical Systems
Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Image Objects Reviewed in Artforum
Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects is reviewed by Michael Eby in Artforum, discussing how digital graphics remade the material world. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
Michelle Carney Celebrated as a Trailblazer
Google Developer Studio celebrated global women in tech and trailblazers in honor of women's history month, featuring our own alum Michelle Carney! Read more
31 Mar, 2022
Jen Schradie on the 2022 Elections
Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more
30 Mar, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Awarded Inaugural Timothy Shary Prize
The Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media is awarded by The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
30 Mar, 2022
Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
28 Mar, 2022
Ukrainians are rallying global support via social media. But don’t call it a TikTok war, writes alum Jen Schradie for the Washington Post. Read more
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing the Spring 2022 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Art by Greg Niemeyer. 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
10 Mar, 2022
This Thursday - 24-hour Matching Gift Opportunity for AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
Help BCNM unlock $5,000 by making a gift of any size during Big Give Read more
07 Mar, 2022
Sophia Hussain in The Poetry Project
Sophia Hussain is featured in the remembrances of Etel Adnan!
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04 Mar, 2022
Jen Schradie in A Section of Now
Jen Schradie's work is featured in A Section of Now: Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. Read more
02 Mar, 2022
BCNM Around the Web March 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this March! Read more
28 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg in the International Journal of Robotics Research
Ken Goldberg's work was recently featured in the International Journal of Robotics Research. Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversation Video Now Online: Wendy Chun
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24 Feb, 2022
Announcing the 2022 Lyman Recipient
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24 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Accelerating quadratic optimization with reinforcement learning
Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more
16 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 Class Fund Recipients
This semester, we were thrilled to support our students in digital storytelling. Read more
15 Feb, 2022
Vincente Perez in River & South
Vincente Perez's "Neighborhood Séance" was featured in River & South's 2021 year review! 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
10 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2021
Ken Goldberg and team present "Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects" at the Conference on Robotic Learning. Read more
05 Feb, 2022
Bo Ruberg Publishes Trans Games Studies
Bo Ruberg's Trans Games Studies has been published in University of Michigan's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
02 Feb, 2022
Clement Hil Goldberg Receives Creative Capital Award
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
31 Jan, 2022
Welcoming Xuan Wang: Visiting Scholar from China
Wang Xuan is the director of the technical department of the Library at Communication University of China and the former associate director of the technical department of the Media Museum. Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Welcoming Liu Ruoxin： Visiting Scholar from China
Ruoxin Liu is an associate professor at the New Media Research Institute of Communication University of China. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Hot and Cool Mothers by Hannah Zeavin
Hannah's latest article appears in Differences, a journal of feminist cultural studies. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Reginold Royston on Podcasting Africa: Pedagogy, Research and Praxis
Reginold Royston discusses pedagogy, research, and praxis in a roundtable discussion with the African Studies Association. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Xiaowei Wang on Blockchain Chicken Farm at the Minderoo Center
Xiaowei explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China in this event with the Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy. Read more
23 Jan, 2022
An Ode to Handwriting by Greg Niemeyer
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22 Jan, 2022
BCNM Around the Web January 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
16 Jan, 2022
Abigail De Kosnik on Race & Fandom
Abigail De Kosnik joins "How Do You Like It So Far?" to discuss race in fandoms and fan studies. Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Dark Matters Reviewed in The Whole Note
The Whole Note reviews BCNM alumn Tiffany Ng's Dark Matters. Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more
04 Jan, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Reviews Diminished Faculties
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02 Jan, 2022
Jacob Gaboury Book Chat at the Townsend Center
Jacob discusses his new book Image Objects (MIT, 2021). Read more
28 Dec, 2021
Tiffany Ng on Diversifying Carillon Repertoire
Modern-day carillonists are now facing the challenge of reclaiming the instrument to better represent and speak to our diverse community. Read more
27 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web December 2021
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more
16 Dec, 2021
Congratulating Our Fall 2021 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Xincun Du. Read more
10 Dec, 2021
Is the Future of Mental Health Care Digital? With Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin talks about her book The Distance Cure on Al Jazeera's The Stream. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Whiteness as Improvisation, Non-Whiteness as Machine by Ritwik Banerji
Published in Jazz & Culture. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! Read more
08 Dec, 2021
Introducing Lashon Daley's Critical Conversations in Children's Literature
Developed by alum Lashon Daley, this web series bring together children’s literature authors and scholars to discuss critical topics brewing within the field. Read more
08 Dec, 2021
Bo Ruberg's Queer Games Avant-Garde Reviewed
Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and Culture Read more
08 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web November 2021
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
07 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo
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07 Dec, 2021
Morgan Ames Wins the 2020 Sally Hacker Prize
The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience. Read more
06 Dec, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Wins the 2021 Brooke Hindle Award
The Society for the History of Technology awards $10,000 for the Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology. Read more
05 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Eric Rodenbeck
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04 Dec, 2021
Laptops Alone Can't Bridge the Digital Divide by Morgan Ames
The failures of One Laptop per Child have much to teach us about fixing educational inequities, Morgan Ames writes for Technology Review. Read more
26 Nov, 2021
Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects! Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Bo Ruberg Promoted to Associate Professor
BCNM alum Bo Ruberg has been promoted to Associate Professor at UC Irvine! Read more
21 Nov, 2021
Wendy Lotterman Reviews the Distance Cure in Critical Inquiry
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy was reviewed by Wendy Lotterman in Critical Inquiry. Read more
21 Nov, 2021
Morgan Ames Wins Computer History Museum Prize
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21 Nov, 2021
Asma Kazmi in Suspended Matter
Art by Asma Kazmi Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Noura Howell Joins Georgia Tech
BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more
14 Nov, 2021
Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2022. Read more
14 Nov, 2021
Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
11 Nov, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Individualized Stress Detection Using an Unmodified Steering Wheel
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on detecting stress levels through steering wheel angle data. Read more
09 Nov, 2021
Morgan Ames Joins BCNM Executive Committee
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27 Oct, 2021
BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more
25 Oct, 2021
SDSU Interviews Lashon Daley on Children's Literature
Lashon describes her journey into writing Children's Literature, and publishing of "Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables" in 2016. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
The Immune Sequence by Hannah Zeavin
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20 Oct, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías at Wxtch Craft
Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the opening lecture of the Fall Cycle of Wxtch Craft - Studium Generale lecture series 2021-22. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jahara Cayabyab on Designing Hospital Spaces
Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Rogue Archives Reviewed in S-USIH
BCNM director Abigail De Kosnik's 2016 book Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom was reviewed by Michael J. Kramer of The Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
BCNM Around the Web October 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
08 Oct, 2021
Reginold Royston on New Orality in the African Mediascape
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02 Oct, 2021
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin discusses empathy as a computational model in a guest post for AI Now Institute. Read more
25 Sep, 2021
BCNM Around the Web September 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
23 Sep, 2021
Jacob Gaboury and Hannah Zeavin presented at the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society 2021 conference! Read more
19 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Rashad Timmons on Slave Labor in Railway Construction
Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Julia Irwin & the Gilbreth Archives
Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Erica Deeman, Fast Fashion, & Jamaica
Erica Deeman received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work exploring the cultural heritage of her ancestors and expressing her findings through a video performance. Read more
04 Sep, 2021
Lyman Report: Lashon Daley
Lashon Daley shares how the support of the Peter Lyman felowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more
02 Sep, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Couple's Therapy in the LA Review of Books
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01 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Rachel Chen on Embodied Platforms for Children on the Autism Spectrum
Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more
28 Aug, 2021
Pablo Paredes will join The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Read more
26 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg at ICML 2021
Check out the amazing work from Ken Goldberg and team at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2021! Read more
21 Aug, 2021
BCNM Around the Web August 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more
21 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on The Distance Cure with Adam Savage
Hannah Zeavin features on KQED Broadcast to speak with Adam Savage about The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Disruptive Fixations Reviewed in Anthro Book Forum
Disruptive Fixations, a book on techno-idealism by alum Chrsito Sims, was given a glowing review in the Anthropology Book Forum. Read more
20 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Tonya Nguyen on Mutual Aid Organizations' Use of Technology
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
19 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Autolab at CASE
Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented a slew of new papers at the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Class Fund Recipients
This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Grace Gipson's Favorite Comic Book Characters
Grace Gipson chatted with the Chicago Humanities Festival on comics, characters, and authors! Check it out! Read more
17 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Edgar Fabián Frías and the Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project
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
16 Aug, 2021
Tiffany Ng Receives Henry Russell Award
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14 Aug, 2021
Alenda Chang's Argument for the Environmental Digital Humanities
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07 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Teletherapy at the Psychotherapy Action Network
Hannah Zeavin recently joined two other panelists to discuss the promise and peril of teletherapy in PsiAN Forum Live: "Teletherapy -- Where do we go from here?". Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
28 Jul, 2021
De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche by Jacob Gaboury
Jacob published De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche in LA HAUTE ET LA BASSE DÉFINITION DES IMAGES: Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Read more
27 Jul, 2021
It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021. Read more
26 Jul, 2021
Lashon Daley on Black Ballerinas in Picture Books
Lashon Daley writes about rupturing the color line in American children’s literature. Read more
25 Jul, 2021
Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more
23 Jul, 2021
BCNM Around the Web July 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
22 Jul, 2021
Jacob Gaboury Publishes Image Objects
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22 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg Co-Author on Optimization for Imitation Learning
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
22 Jul, 2021
Gail De Kosnik Awarded American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award
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20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg's AmbiRobotics Receives Robotic Business Review Innovation Award
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20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Insights Robotics
Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more
10 Jul, 2021
KC Forcier Reviews Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more
05 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Grasping and Picking Winners
Ken Goldberg describes the complicated technology that goes into robotic grasping mechanics in COSMOS' new article. Read more
30 Jun, 2021
Fandom + Piracy: Event Videos and Transcripts Available
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26 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg & the CDL Reading Group on Klara and the Sun
Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more
26 Jun, 2021
Lashon Daley Appointed Assistant Professor
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25 Jun, 2021
Lashon Daley's Coming of (R)Age
Lashon Daley's article on Black girl rage in film and literature has been published in the UChicago Journal of Women and Culture in Society. Read more
25 Jun, 2021
Neyran Turan's Venice Biennale Exhibition Featured in the News
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25 Jun, 2021
Tiffany Ng Promoted to Associate Professor
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22 Jun, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more
19 Jun, 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
18 Jun, 2021
Noura Howell on Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring
Artwork by Noura Howell Read more
15 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg and Team on Orienting Novel 3D Objects
Ken Goldberg and team recently published a paper titled "Orienting Novel 3D Objects Using Self-Supervised Learning of Rotation Transforms." Check it out! Read more
12 Jun, 2021
TF Tierney Receives Graham Foundation Grant
BCNM Alum and architecture professor emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign T.F. Tierney was awarded a research and development grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Autolab at ICRA 2021
Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2021! Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Grace Gipson on The Past and Future of Comics
Grace Gipson recently discussed Black women's impact on the history and future of comic books during the Chicago Humanities Festival. Read more
08 Jun, 2021
Choyang Ponsar on The Forensic Imaginary
Choyang Ponsar received a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on A Forensic Imaginary under the mentorship of Tory Jeffay. Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Work by Maija Hynninen & Olivia Ting at SF Contemporary Music Until June 23
BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! Read more
27 May, 2021
Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter in Clinical Trials
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27 May, 2021
Trevor Paglen on The Quarantine Tapes
BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen features on the 186th episode of The Quarantine Tapes. Read more
26 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Christiane Paul
Check out the updated transcript for Christiane Paul's HTNM lecture, "Online: Art & AI"! Read more
25 May, 2021
BCNM Around the Web May 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more
21 May, 2021
Congratulating our 2021 Graduates
These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields.
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21 May, 2021
Congratulating Our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
Congratulations to our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate graduates! We are proud of their accomplishments and high level of scholarship here at Cal, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors. Read more
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Emerges from Stealth
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08 May, 2021
Celeste Kidd on the Ethics of AI
Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies. Read more
08 May, 2021
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
04 May, 2021
Alenda Chang in Celebration of Media + Environment
BCNM alum Alenda Chang was featured in a rountable discussion in celebration of the online journal Media + Environment. Read more
03 May, 2021
Abigail De Kosnik on Humanities and Pandemic Culture
Professor Abigail De Kosnik discusses the connection between media/ film studies and the current moment in the Townsend Center for the Humanities lecture series, (Re)making Sense: The Humanities and Pandemic Culture. Read more
26 Apr, 2021
Cool Tools with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss cool gadgets he has around his house. Check it out! Read more
25 Apr, 2021
David Bamman on Characterizing English Variation on Social Media
BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more
24 Apr, 2021
David Bamman Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations, David Bamman, on being promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Information. Read more
24 Apr, 2021
10 Games to Play on Earth Day
Alenda Chang has collaborated on a list of 10 nature-related games to play in honor of Earth Day. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
Jacob Gaboury Promoted to Associate Professor
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21 Apr, 2021
BCNM Mourns the Passing of Beth Bird
Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. Read more
17 Apr, 2021
BCNM Around the Web April 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more
17 Apr, 2021
Björn Hartmann on Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off
Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more
15 Apr, 2021
Fandom & Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Video Now Online
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14 Apr, 2021
Clement Goldberg Semi-Finalist in Stowe Story Labs Diverse Voices
Clement Goldberg was recently announced as a Semi-Finalist for the Stowe Story Labs Diverse Voices 2021 Fellowship! Read more
11 Apr, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Summer Research Fellows
Image by Edgar Fabián Frias. Read more
10 Apr, 2021
Dark Matters by Tiffany Ng Released
Tiffany Ng's new album of carillon music by Stephen Rush dropped! Read more
08 Apr, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 Faculty Seed Grants
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04 Apr, 2021
Announcing the 2020 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more
03 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg in Conversation with Cade Metz of the NYT
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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
02 Apr, 2021
Celeste Kidd in Under the Cortex
UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Psychology Celeste Kidd was featured on the Under the Cortex podcast to discuss her research as a winner of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. Read more
31 Mar, 2021
Call for Entries: Refamiliarization
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29 Mar, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
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19 Mar, 2021
Neyran Turan at the Venezia Biennale
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16 Mar, 2021
86 Things Exhibition from Neyran Turan's Nemestudio
Neyran Turan's architectural practice, NEMESTUDIO, will be displaying its "86 Things" exhibition at the University of Arkansas! Read more
16 Mar, 2021
Interview with Trevor Paglen in Archives of American Art
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Archives of American Art! Read more
09 Mar, 2021
Rita Lucarelli on Crocodile Mummies in Ancient Egypt
Rita Lucarelli, a UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Egyptology, spoke about crocodile mummies in the Fiat Vox podcast.
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05 Mar, 2021
Make a Big Impact on the Future with the Big Give
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
03 Mar, 2021
Abigail De Kosnik on Border Technologies and Racism
Abigail De Kosnik recently wrote a reflection for United Nations Special Rapporteur E. Tendayi Achiume on border technologies and racism. Check it out! Read more
02 Mar, 2021
Xiaowei Wang Publishes on Workers, Immigrants and the Settler Colonial State
Xiaowei Wang published a beautiful essay on their mother for Tank Magazine titled "The other mother: workers, immigrants and the settler colonial state." Check it out! Read more
19 Feb, 2021
Reginold Royston on Podcasts and the Study of Africa
BCNM alum Dr. Reginold Royston was a featured panelist discussing the impact of the digital technology on research, teaching, and public engagement. Read more
18 Feb, 2021
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
16 Feb, 2021
Kate Mattingly on BalletX in the Classical Review
Kate Mattingly recently wrote about ballet company BalletX in the Classical Review. Read more
14 Feb, 2021
Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina on The Great Shopping Mall
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14 Feb, 2021
Black Future Feminist Launched by Grace Gipson
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14 Feb, 2021
Alum Kris Fallon Now Associate Professor
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13 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg Wins Stonewall Book Award
Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more
09 Feb, 2021
Eric Paulos on the 67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know
Eric Paulos published a Medium piece titled "67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know." Check it out! Read more
09 Feb, 2021
Jane McGonigal on The Knowledge Project
Jane McGonigal was recently interviewed by The Knowledge Project on her work and beliefs on video games. Read more
08 Feb, 2021
BCNM Around the Web February 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
07 Feb, 2021
BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more
02 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie on The Current
Jen Schradie went on The Current podcast to discuss the recent insurrection in the US Capitol. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Celeste Kidd at AI Debate 2
Celeste Kidd speaks at AI Debate 2 "Moving AI Forward: An Interdisciplinary Approach". Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Six Books About Robots & AI from Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie Publishes on COVID in France
Jen Schradie recently published a paper on COVID-19 in France, titled "L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement." Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
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
30 Jan, 2021
Alenda Chang on Gamers with Glasses
Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
29 Jan, 2021
BCNM Around the Web January 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
24 Jan, 2021
Clancy Wilmott PI on Presidential Chairs Fellowship
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17 Jan, 2021
Launching Fandomandpiracy.online
We’re excited to share Fandomandpiracy.online, the web portal for our Fandom + Piracy mini-series, starting February 25. Check out the site for a full list of speakers and talks! Read more
22 Dec, 2020
Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot
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21 Dec, 2020
BCNM Fall 2020: Events In Review
We’re so thankful to everyone who tuned in for our events this past semester. Keep reading for a round-up of our events and speakers! Read more
15 Dec, 2020
Review of Xiaowei Wang's Blockchain Chicken Farm in The Nation
Xiaowei Wang's book Blockchain Chicken Farm was recently reviewed by The Nation. Read more
10 Dec, 2020
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Semantic and Geometric Modeling
Ken Goldberg recently published a paper titled "Semantic and Geometric Modeling with Neural Message Passing in 3D Scene Graphs for Hierarchical Mechanical Search."
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09 Dec, 2020
Announcing Our Spring 2021 Spring Class Fund Recipients
This year, we’re thrilled to be able to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more
08 Dec, 2020
Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology
Jen Shradie's book was reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology! Read more
01 Dec, 2020
Xiaowei Wang interviewed by Severance author Ling Ma in Wired
Xiaowei Wang recently spoke with Ling Ma on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm for Wired. Read more
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
28 Nov, 2020
Announcing Fandom + Piracy
We're launching Fandom + Piracy, a four-week mini-series, all online conference for Spring 2021! Read more
28 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang Interviewed in Letters from Ximena
Xiaowei Wang speaks on technology, China, writing through your emotions, and the power of community. Read more
25 Nov, 2020
HTNM Indigenous Technologies Event Transcript Now Online: Corrina Gould
We're pleased to share the transcript of our first Indigenous Technologies event with Sogorea Te' Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould. Read more
25 Nov, 2020
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations Video and Transcript Now Online: Blockchain Chicken Farm
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19 Nov, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm Featured in Rest of World
Xiaowei Wang was recently interviewed by Rest of World on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Trevor Paglen Teaching at the Alternative Art School
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen has joined the Alternative Art School with Mel Chin, and Janine Antoni. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries
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17 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more
14 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang featured in KQED
Thank you KQED for a shoutout to Xiaowei Wang's new book, Blockchain Chicken Farm! Read more
13 Nov, 2020
Jill Miller's Holding it Together
Jill Miller features in Palo Alto Art Center's exhibition "Holding it Together" Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Announcing our 2020 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2020 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!
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12 Nov, 2020
Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory Highlighted at UCLA
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project was recently featured by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Read more
12 Nov, 2020
The Future of Memory Now Online
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project is now online! Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Gail De Kosnik Joins C2I2 Scholars Council
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11 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations: Gu Jiang Video Now Online
Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Professor Gu Jiang on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Consumption. Read more
09 Nov, 2020
Renée Pastel Appointed Assistant Professor at Boston College
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09 Nov, 2020
Miyoko Conley Awarded Tailspinners Fellowship
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08 Nov, 2020
Ra Malika Imhotep on Crafting Freedom
Ra Malika Imhotep writes on 19th Century slavery abolitionists and modern day activists, and the suprising (literal) link of thread that connects them. Read more
06 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web November 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more
04 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual at Formación Artistica
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03 Nov, 2020
Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2021
Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020. Read more
01 Nov, 2020
Celeste Kidd on Let's Learn About
Celeste Kidd features on Let's Learn About: How Humans Form Knowledge Read more
31 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Receives BCNM Faculty Seed Grant
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23 Oct, 2020
Xiaowei Wang on Science Friday
Silicon Valley move aside! Xiaowei Wang discusses how the Chinese countryside has become a new tech frontier. Read more
20 Oct, 2020
Xiaowei Wang's Blockchain Chicken Farm in Guardian
As Chinese demand for pork grows and grows, traditional small-scale farms are being replaced by vast, AI-assisted operations that feel more like smartphone factories than bucolic countryside havens. Read more
19 Oct, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Reviewed in the NYT
Clive Thompson from NYT reviewed Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang. Read more
15 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more
14 Oct, 2020
Now Accepting Applications for 2021 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2021. Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Architecture as Measure Reviewed in Architect
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11 Oct, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Published
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09 Oct, 2020
Bo Ruberg on Archiving the History of Bulletin Board Systems and the AIDS Crisis
BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg features in First Monday with their article "SURVIVORS: Archiving the history of bulletin board systems and the AIDS crisis" Read more
09 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Spearheads Remote Making at Berkeley
"We want to be able to support (students), their projects, their ideas, and their innovations." Read more
07 Oct, 2020
Alenda Chang and Playing Nature Featured in ASLE
Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Janaki Vivrekar's QuarantineAI
Janaki Vivrekar was recently interviewed by the Life in Quarantine Project on her Quarantined AI work. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Jenni Higgs on Digital Discourse in Classrooms
Jenni Higgs recently published an academic article titled "Digital Discourse in Classrooms: Language Arts Teachers’ Reported Perceptions and Implementation." Read more
30 Sep, 2020
John Scott on Coming Together when Learning at a Distance
John Scott wrote an article titled "Coming Together When Learning at a Distance" on the Blackboard Blog. Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
29 Sep, 2020
Revisited: "Pope L's Notes on the roll of the artist when the world has always been on fire?"
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24 Sep, 2020
Seed Grant: William White and the Archaeological Heritage of People's Park
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24 Sep, 2020
Xiaowei Wang & An Xiao Mina on WeChat
Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more
23 Sep, 2020
Seed Grants Recipient: Celeste Kidd and The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition during Belief Formation in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more
18 Sep, 2020
Neyran Turan Promoted to Associate Professor
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18 Sep, 2020
Announcing the BCNM Land Acknowledgement
We are grateful to Marcelo Garzo Montalvo and the Sogorea Te' Land Trust for helping us to shape this acknowledgement of our place on Lisjan land. Read more
15 Sep, 2020
Trevor Paglen's PACE show profiled in The Guardian
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10 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web September 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
10 Sep, 2020
Lyman Dispatch: Anushah Hossain
Anushah Hossain shares how the support of the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Remote Instruction
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado recently published an article on Medium titled "A Low-Tech State of Mind: Applying the Principles of Minimal Computing to Remote Instruction." Read more
02 Sep, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik Named the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media
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01 Sep, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Chris Chan & International Art Collaborations
COVID-19 curtailed travel, but Chris Chan continued to develop relationships with artists in China and Taiwan. Read more
30 Aug, 2020
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2020 Class Fund Recipients
We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more
19 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Tina Piracci on 3D Printing with Germinated Spores
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18 Aug, 2020
BCNM Around the Web August 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
15 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment
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
12 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Emily Gui & Zoom Glitches
Artist Emily Gui created a new work using Zoom to document these unprecedented times. Read more
11 Aug, 2020
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers!
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10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 History and Theory of New Media Season
This year, we are thrilled to share that our theme for the 2020-2021 series is Indigenous Technologies. Read more
10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
Image provided by Lawrence Lek. Read more
06 Aug, 2020
Review of Playing Nature in Digital Culture and Education
Alum Alenda Chang's book is reviewed in Digital Culture and Education Read more
06 Aug, 2020
Alum John Scott on Inclusion in the Transition to Remote Teaching
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06 Aug, 2020
Noura Howell Joins NC State University
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29 Jul, 2020
Fall 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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28 Jul, 2020
Jen Schradie on Wellbeing During COVID-19
"The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France" was published by a team of authors in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Read more
21 Jul, 2020
BCNM Faculty Receive Berkeley Changemaker Grants
[Image credit: Original image from: King st. Development in Toronto by Frank Gehry, edited by Elnaz Tafrihi Bailey.] Read more
17 Jul, 2020
Sonia Katyal on The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy
Cornell Law Review published Sonia Katyal's article, "The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy." Read more
17 Jul, 2020
Leah Rosenbaum on Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education
BCNM Designated Emphasis (D.E) program, Leah Rosenbaum published "Shaping Perception: Designing for Participatory Facilitation of Collaborative Geometry” Read more
08 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Robot Grasping on Marketplace
The pandemic has increased demand to automate warehouses, but the technology isn’t quite there yet to improve conditions for, much less replace, human workers. Read more
07 Jul, 2020
BCNM Students Receive Architecture Awards
Congratulations to the amazing BCNM students receiving prized awards from the Architecture Department. Read more
06 Jul, 2020
Neyran Turan Publishes Architecture as Measure
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03 Jul, 2020
Will Payne Appointed Assistant Professor at Rutgers University
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29 Jun, 2020
Rebecca Abraham on Rachel Chen's Magical Musical Mat
Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? Read more
21 Jun, 2020
Highlights from Jane McGonigal's IBM Talk at CodeMotion
Jane asks: Can the innovation of games prepare us for the future? Read more
20 Jun, 2020
Seldom Recorded from Keith Feldman's Ethnic Studies Students
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19 Jun, 2020
Gabrielle Clement on New Media Technology in the Courtroom
"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Students Finalists for Fast Company's Student World Changing Ideas
Collective Obscura, a project created by BCNM students, was one of the finalists for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2020. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
Farewelling Our Assistant Team
A huge congratulations to our incredible team of assistants who are graduating this year! They have been essential to BCNM life and we'll miss them greatly! Read more
10 Jun, 2020
Critical Making Projects in Spring 2020 Made @ Berkeley
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30 May, 2020
Electronic Literature Final Projects
Check out the awesome final projects for Alex Saum-Pascual's Electronic Literature class! Image credit: Sergio Cabada Ortiz, Las abajeñas
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19 May, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik on ABC’s The Story of Soaps
BCNM's own expert, BCNM Director Gail De Kosnik, weighed in on the history of the soap opera for ABC! Read more
14 May, 2020
Clancy Wilmott's Mobile Mapping Now Available Open Access
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14 May, 2020
BCNM Around the Web May 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more
30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: William Morgan on Machine Learning and the Digital Realization of Deleuze
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30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: Bélgica del Rio on The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body
Bélgica del Rio, a Spring 2020 Conference Grant recipient, presented "The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body” at the American Indian and Indigenous Collective’s 6th Annual Symposium. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating Our 2020 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!
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29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating our 2020 Graduates
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27 Apr, 2020
The Berkeley Center for New Media to Join the College of Engineering
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020. Read more
26 Apr, 2020
Revisited: Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more
25 Apr, 2020
Alum Jane McGonigal on Punching through the Pandemic with Psychological Science
Jane McGonigal recently spoke to Oregon State University Professor Regan Gurung about her smartphone application SuperBetter and coping with the COVID-19 pandemic through games and other indoor activities. Read more
23 Apr, 2020
C19 Shield - Support their Efforts!
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23 Apr, 2020
Harry Burson Named Lemelson Center Fellow
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
23 Apr, 2020
Eric Paulos' Research on Familiar Stranger Helping to Combat COVID-19
BCNM Professor Eric Paulos' past research on Familiar Stranger from 2003 has been revived by MIT researchers in a plan to combat COVID-19. Read more
21 Apr, 2020
Alenda Chang Mentor for Indiecade Climate Jam
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21 Apr, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Summer Research Fellows
We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more
20 Apr, 2020
Learning to Smooth and Fold Real Fabric Using Dense Object Descriptors Trained on Synthetic Color Images
Aditya Ganapathi et al., including our own Ken Golberg, on robotic fabric manipulation. 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
14 Apr, 2020
Alum Katherine Chandler Publishes Unmanning
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13 Apr, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik Quoted on Fauci-Fandom
BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik is featured in an article in The Verge on the fandom around Dr. Anthony Fauci . Read more
12 Apr, 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
12 Apr, 2020
Camille Crittenden Featured on UC IT Blog
Camille Crittenden was featured on the UC IT Blog, participating in a Q&A interview about her work at CITRIS and her experience as a woman in tech. Read more
11 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg and the Automated Polyculture Garden
Ken Goldberg was recently featured in VentureBeat for his work with UC Berkeley's AUTOLAB in developing a polyculture garden. Read more
07 Apr, 2020
Jane McGonigal on Stretching the Imagination in a Pandemic
As the Coronavirus becomes more widespread she argues that we need to learn how to adapt quickly to global changes that will continue to disrupt our daily lives. Read more
05 Apr, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Margaret Rhee
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03 Apr, 2020
Hybrid Ecologies Lab Turn By Wire Featured in Hackaday
Enter Turn by Wire, a unique set of force feedback and machine control concepts applied to a lathe brought to you by researchers Rundong Tian, Vedant Saran, Mareike Kritzler，Florian Michahelles, and Eric Paulos at Berkeley. 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 Apr, 2020
HTNM Revisited: Feminist Open Access & Internet Publishing
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03 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Third Wave of Machine Learning
Listen to Ken Goldberg talk about robotic learning with Sam Charrington on the TWIML AI Podcast! Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Alum Tiffany Ng Plays Shiva Ratri
Listen to alum Tiffany Ng perform Shiva Ratri on SoundCloud! Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Rogue Archives in Digital Humanities Quarterly
A live-tweeted review of Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was published in DHQ. Read more
30 Mar, 2020
Announcing Our Spring 2020 Graduate Cohort
Image: Jingran Chu. Read more
13 Mar, 2020
Ken Goldberg on How AI Amplifies Human Competencies
Ken Goldberg was interviewed on AI and machine learning for the Rotman School of Management's Winter 2020 magazine issue. Read more
10 Mar, 2020
BCNM Around the Web March 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more
09 Mar, 2020
BCNM Students Named 2020 Jacobs Innovation Catalyst Grant Recipients
Congratulations to our impressive students who were awarded grants for their original project ideas! 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
04 Mar, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Machine Landscapes
Trevor Paglen contributed to the February 2019 issue of Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene. Read more
02 Mar, 2020
Women's History Month: Alum Andrea Gagliano Reimagines US Presidents as Female
In honor of Women's History Month, Andrea Gagliano visually reimagines U.S. history with female presidents. Read more
27 Feb, 2020
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: BCNM at the Shenzhen Biennale
Eleni Oikonomaki, Lian Song, Rashad Timmons, and Bryan Truitt were Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipients and attended the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Francis McKay Receives Research Position at Oxford
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26 Feb, 2020
Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley." Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg in The Question of Intelligence
Ken Goldberg's robotic art project, "AlphaGarden Collective," is currently featured in The Question of Intelligence exhbition. Read more
20 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang's Media+Environment Featured at UCSB
Alenda Chang and her colleagues established an online journal Media+Environment. Check out the UCSB in depth discussion here! Read more
20 Feb, 2020
Malika Imhotep Wins Award for Critical Writing
Gulf Coast announced the winner of the 2019 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, Ra Malika Imhotep, for her essay "On Retrieval." Read more
20 Feb, 2020
Announcing the 2020 Lyman Fellowship Recipient
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20 Feb, 2020
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Shannon Jackson at After Tomorrow
The After Tomorrow: Oakland and Saint-Denis cooperation project officially launched at Cal's Global Urban Humanities Department. Read more
19 Feb, 2020
Irene Chien Joins Board of the Journal of Visual Culture
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19 Feb, 2020
Celeste Kidd Receives John Templeton Grant
Celeste Kidd receives John Templeton Grant which is awarded to the development of curiosity in childhood. Read more
14 Feb, 2020
Nicholas de Monchaux to Lead MIT's Department of Architecture
Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and former BCNM Director, on this phenomenal new role! Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Greg Niemeyer Receives CLTC Grant
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity awarded Greg Niemeyer one of its inaugural grants for his music video project, "SweetWire." Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Rama Gottfried & Ritwik Banerji in Array
Rama Gottfried and Ritwik Banerji contributed pieces to the 2019 issue of Array. Read more
11 Feb, 2020
Keith Feldman on Anti Muslim Racism Beyond Islamophobia
Keith Feldman wrote on anti-Muslim racism for American Quarterly's December 2019 issue. Read more
06 Feb, 2020
DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI in Pew Research
Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Pop Matters Features Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't
Schradie argues that the right conservative wing has more open access to the internet given the current regulations of digital platforms. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg Keynotes Healthcare Robotics Forum
Ken Goldberg was a keynote speaker at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum 2019 in Santa Clara. Read more
04 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: Xiaowei Wang on Pearl Parties at SLSA
Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. 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
03 Feb, 2020
Camille Crittenden in Issues in Science and Technology
Crittenden explores the relationship between broadband access and the growth of adolescent youth. Read more
31 Jan, 2020
Review of The Revolution That Wasn't in Inside Higher Ed
Alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Barbara Fister. Read more
28 Jan, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellows
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
27 Jan, 2020
Ken Goldberg at California Future of Work Commission
Ken Goldberg attended the California Future of Work Commission's October 2019 meeting. Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Tara Shi Co-Editor for Room One Thousand
Tara Shi is a co-editor for architecture journal Room One Thousand's eighth issue, Magic. Read more
15 Jan, 2020
Neyran Turan in the Seoul Biennale
Neyran Turan's studio Nemestudio was featured in the 2019 Biennale on the Collective City. Read more
13 Jan, 2020
BCNM Around the Web January 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more
11 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Being Human
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more
10 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Madeline Gannon
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09 Jan, 2020
Welcoming Sophia Hussain to BCNM!
Sophia Hussain will serve as the Center's Events Coordinator and Office Manager! Read more
08 Jan, 2020
Björn Hartmann and Eric Paulos at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium. Read more
04 Jan, 2020
cNet names danah boyd One of 30 Personalities Who Defined the 2010s
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
01 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen & Kate Crawford On Excavating AI
Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets Read more
31 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Fabric Smoothing Policies
Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more
30 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen Interview in the Quietus
Alum Trevor Paglen discusses art and AI, machine vision, and shutting down the internet with Robert Barry. Read more
26 Dec, 2019
Revisited: Critical Practices Showcase
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20 Dec, 2019
BCNM Around the Web December 2019
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
17 Dec, 2019
Tiffany Ng in University of Michigan Podcast on Diversifying the Carillon
Alum Tiffany Ng gives a gracious shout out to BCNM in the University of Michigan's podcast! Read more
16 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Deep Learning Transfer
Hate making your bed? This new bed finds a fun new robotic solution! Read more
12 Dec, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Ronak K. Kapadia
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08 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen at Nam June Paik Art Center
Trevor Paglen's first solo exhibition in Korea is held at the Nam June Paik Art Center until February 2, 2020. Read more
04 Dec, 2019
Alum Kirsten Chen Co-Curates Momentum for Franchise
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27 Nov, 2019
Spring 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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20 Nov, 2019
Conference Grants: Miyoko Conley on the Nebulous Transnational Fandom Archive
Miyoko Conley, a recipients of our Fall 2019 Conference grant, presented her research on transnational fandoms at the annual Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA) conference. Read more
19 Nov, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more
17 Nov, 2019
Announcing our Fall 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Shuang Yan. Read more
16 Nov, 2019
BCNM 2018-2019 Publications
Check out this year's round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni, and faculty! Read more
13 Nov, 2019
Now Accepting Applications for the 2020 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2020. Read more
06 Nov, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik and Piracy as the Future of Culture
BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik published 'Piracy and the Future of Culture' in the journal Third Text. Read more
05 Nov, 2019
We're Hiring an Events Coordinator!
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
02 Nov, 2019
BCNM Around the Web November 2019
More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more
23 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Morehshin Allahyari
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22 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
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17 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Rhonda Holberton
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16 Oct, 2019
BCNM around the Web October 2019
More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal. Read more
16 Oct, 2019
BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more
16 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Chico MacMurtrie
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15 Oct, 2019
Xiaowei Wang Receives Mozilla Creative Media Award
The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. Read more
15 Oct, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg on GamerGate Culture in The Verge
The article covers a critical issue facing those teaching videogames today. Read more
07 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019 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 premier conferences in their field. Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Open House Fall 2019 Revisited
This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more
17 Sep, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg Leads Inclusive Streaming Initiative at UCI
We're thrilled to see our alum Bo Ruberg leading the fantastic new Inclusive Streaming Initiative! Read more
12 Sep, 2019
Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory Exhibited by Schloss & ZKM
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10 Sep, 2019
Trevor Paglen as the Fall 2019 Lamar Dodd Chair at UGA
The University of Georgia awards Trevor Paglen with the Lama Dodd Professional Chair as he joins them this year to teach an interdisciplinary seminar. Read more
05 Sep, 2019
Asma Kazmi Receives 2019 Hellman Fellowship
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04 Sep, 2019
BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico. Read more
02 Sep, 2019
Nicholas de Monchaux Named the 2019-2024 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media
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01 Sep, 2019
BCNM around the Web September 2019
More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie. Read more
29 Aug, 2019
Orbital Reflector in College Art Association Reviews
Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector was reviewed in College Art Association Reviews Read more
22 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: Tory Jeffay on Photographic Evidence & Police Body Cameras
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20 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more
17 Aug, 2019
Ken Goldberg Chief Scientist of Ambidextrous Robotics
Ambidextrous Robotics builds on DexNet, the patent-pending Dexterity Network developed by Goldberg and Mahler. Read more
16 Aug, 2019
Rebecca Levitan Summer Dispatch: Polychromy in Athens
This summer, Rebecca traveled to Athens to study architectural sculpture and figural graffiti using cutting edge imaging. Read more
12 Aug, 2019
BCNM Faculty, Students, Staff Advise on and Support Proposed Legislation on Digital Media Literacy
Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.
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11 Aug, 2019
Interview with Koci Hernandez in ASMP
The American Society of Media Photographers featured Koci Hernandez in "Questions with an Educator." 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
08 Aug, 2019
Alumni Amy Koehler-Catterson and Jenni Higgs Publish on The Multiple Meanings of Scale
The article, co-authored with Richard Paquin Morel and Cynthia Coburn, was published in Educational Researcher. Read more
18 Jul, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Screenshots for Fotomuseum
Jacob writes for the blog Still Searching on a history and theory of the computer screenshot. Read more
16 Jul, 2019
Bayal Kaymanen (Dancing Smoke) at Berkeley August 2nd!
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14 Jul, 2019
Trevor Paglen at the Vienna Biennale
Alum Trevor Paglen The Vienna Biennale for Change takes place from May 29 to October 6, 2019 with the theme BRAVE NEW VIRTUES. Shaping Our Digital World. Read more
13 Jul, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Reviews The Noisy Renaissance
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more
12 Jul, 2019
William Morgan on Calculative Reason and its Reproduction
William presented "Calculative Reason and its Reproduction" at the 2019 Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) Conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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11 Jul, 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more
10 Jul, 2019
Berkeley Talks: #SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality
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09 Jul, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie Interviewed in Vox
Vox talks to Jen about "Why conservatives are winning the internet." The Revolution That Wasn't explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals. Read more
09 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more
08 Jul, 2019
Fall 2019 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
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06 Jul, 2019
Black Feminist Theory Study Atlas Co-created by Malika Imhotep Now Available
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04 Jul, 2019
Trevor Paglen & Kronos Quartet's Sight Machine at the Barbican
Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more
03 Jul, 2019
New Papers from Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2019
Ken Goldberg co-authored several papers presented at ICRA 2019. Read more
01 Jul, 2019
Announcing the New Berkeley Center for New Media Director
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25 Jun, 2019
Malika Imhotep at Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo
Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo, a screening program curated by Erin Christovale, followed by a conversation between the curator and Ra Malika Imhotep. Read more
24 Jun, 2019
BCNM around the Web July 2019
Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more
24 Jun, 2019
Stephanie Tang on the Heart Sounds Bench
Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. 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
22 Jun, 2019
Welcoming Keith Feldman to BCNM's Executive Committee
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21 Jun, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Interviewed in Sounds from the Spires
Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more
20 Jun, 2019
Damon Young Promoted to Associate Professor!
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19 Jun, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Co-Editor of Media + Environment
Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more
17 Jun, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik & Keith Feldman Interviewed by the New Books Network
Co-editors Gail & Keith discuss #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation on Lily Goren's podcast. Read more
16 Jun, 2019
Arianna Ninh on Alterwear
Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more
13 Jun, 2019
Videos from 2019 DataEdge Now Available
BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
11 Jun, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Regimes of Identification
Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more
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
08 Jun, 2019
Camryn Bell on Algorithmic Gentrification with Will Payne
Camryn received an BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on Algorithmic Gentrification under the mentorship of Will Payne. 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
06 Jun, 2019
William White on the Digital Heritage of People's Park
William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more
03 Jun, 2019
Alum Christo Sims at the Business & Society Research Seminar
If you're in Paris, join Christo Sims on June 13th for his talk on Disruptive Fixation! Read more
30 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Part of Team Introducing Robotics to Water Conservation in Farming
The UC Merced led team Read more
30 May, 2019
Asma Kazmi Exhibiting at the University of Sevilla
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29 May, 2019
Celeste Kidd and the Role of Reasoning and Metacognition in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." 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
27 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Co-Chairing AI & Inclusivity Signature Initiative
The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more
27 May, 2019
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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21 May, 2019
New Trevor Paglen Monograph: From the Archives of Peter Merlin
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21 May, 2019
Noura Howell on Sensors in Public Urban Environments at CHI 2019
Noura presented "The Heart Sounds Bench" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference of 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
19 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Graduates
Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more
18 May, 2019
Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more
18 May, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in Entangled Realities at HEK
The exhibition Entangled Realities runs from May 9th to August 11th and is dedicated to the current topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on human life and society. Read more
18 May, 2019
Nicholaus Gutierrez on Alternative Programming Paradigms at What is Technology
Nicholaus presented “Model Machines: Alternative Programming Paradigms and the Question of Technological Subjectivity.” Read more
12 May, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
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12 May, 2019
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Revisited
This year, participants edited 17 articles, adding 2,700 words, with over 70 thousand article views so far, and counting! Read more
09 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
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
03 May, 2019
"Within These Walls" & its sequel "Dreams of Flight"
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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
30 Apr, 2019
#Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation Published
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28 Apr, 2019
HTNM Revisited: Stefanos Geroulanos
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23 Apr, 2019
Alum Andrea Horbinski on the Untold History of Japanese Comics at Baruch College
BCNM alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the Manga Symposium #5 Untold History of Japanese Comics: Prewar & LGBTQ+ Manga. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Machine Learning in Robotics Highlighted in NYT with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg shares his insights into machine learning in the New York Times. Read more
21 Apr, 2019
Jacob Gaboury at Jacobs Design Field Notes
Jacob discussed the queer history of computing in the Jacob Institute's For Whom? By Whom? program. Read more
19 Apr, 2019
Grace Gipson at MSU Comics Forum
Talking Comics and (Dis)ability in the Midwest at the 2019 Michigan State University Comics Forum. Read more
16 Apr, 2019
Miyoko Conley on K-Pop at SCMS
Miyoko Conley presented "Designing a K-pop Audience: Asian American Performance in KPOP the Musical" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
Tory Jeffay on Surveillance at SCMS
Tory presented "Body/Camera: Viewing Raw Images of Policing through the Lens of Early Film" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more
14 Apr, 2019
ATC Revisited: Rhonda Holberton
Photo by Malachi Tran. Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
10 Apr, 2019
Kirsten Chen Curates Play Me Love You
BCNM undergrad Kirsten Chen curates a virtual reality art show at Swim Gallery! Read more
08 Apr, 2019
ATC Revisited: Morehshin Allahyari
Photo by Malachi Tran. Read more
08 Apr, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal Teaching How to be a Futurist at Stanford
McGonigal will teach a course titled, "How to Think Like a Futurist: Improve Your Powers of Imagination, Invention, and Capacity for Change." Read more
08 Apr, 2019
Malika Imhotep Featured in Berkeley News
Imhotep discusses her study and research on black feminism. Read more
02 Apr, 2019
Trevor Paglen at University of Michigan Ann Arbor Art Museum
Alum Trevor Paglen will be featured in "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene." Read more
23 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kim Stanley Robinson
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21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Christo Sims at Media Design Practices
BCNM alum Christo Sims presented at Media Design Practices' New…… Now! Thesis Symposium. Read more
19 Mar, 2019
Nicholas de Monchaux a Geddes Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
As a 2019 Geddes Fellow, Nicholas will offer a lecture on March 27th on Fashioning the idle gaze. Read more
19 Mar, 2019
Berkeley Welcomes BCNM's Jill Miller
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19 Mar, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen on the Modern Arts Notes Podcast
Episode No. 381 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Trevor Paglen. Read more
19 Mar, 2019
Trevor Paglen on KPBS and in San Diego
Artist Trevor Paglen’s work featured on KPBS 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
14 Mar, 2019
Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
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
14 Mar, 2019
Alum Margaret Rhee Receives Best Book Award from AAAS
The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. Read more
12 Mar, 2019
Greg Niemeyer's Night Vision at Jewish Quarter Museum
In the spring of 2019, the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will be presenting Greg Niemeyer's work. Read more
28 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net 4.0 in Forbes
Goldberg's work is featured in the Forbe's article, "Getting a Better Grip on Reality, Robots Poised for Wider Role on Assembly Lines" Read more
28 Feb, 2019
Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more
26 Feb, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie Publishes "The Revolution That Wasn't"
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26 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on AI & the Future of Work
Goldberg is featured on the NewRetirement podcast in a brand new episode title, "AI, Automation and the Future of Work" Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg to attend Amazon's re:MARS Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Music & Architecture: Selected Bibliography Compiled by Alum Tiffany Ng
Alum Tiffany Ng's Music & Architecture: Selected Bibliography is available on Humanities Commons Read more
24 Feb, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in HKW Video Stop Making Sense
Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more
21 Feb, 2019
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
19 Feb, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at MLA Commons
Alex Saum-Pascual attended the 2019 Chicago Modern Language Association Convention, presenting her research on the intersection of digital humanities and Hispanic studies. Read more
18 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Robots in Nature Machine Intelligence
Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more
17 Feb, 2019
Alum Ritwik Banerji at the MMaP Research Center
Check out this video of Ritwik discussing "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation" Read more
16 Feb, 2019
Stuart Geiger at University of Washington eScience Institute
Alum Stuart Geiger, ethnographer of computation and computational ethnographer; research staff at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, gave a talk on the human aspects of data science research. Read more
15 Feb, 2019
On June 10-14, alum Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching a course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Read more
14 Feb, 2019
Announcing the 2019 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Fionce Siow. Read more
14 Feb, 2019
BCNM Alumni Help Launch Digital Studies Institute at Michigan
This new institute explores the impact of technology on identity, inequality, and ethics.
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12 Feb, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Receives Shirley Verrett Award
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12 Feb, 2019
Commons Conversations Revisited: Lucia Allais
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11 Feb, 2019
Malika Imhotep at the National African American Digital Humanities Conference
Malika Imhotep received a conference grant from the BCNM to help defray costs associated with attending African American Digital Humanities initiative conference. Read more
09 Feb, 2019
BCNM in Vision & Light: Processing Perception
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07 Feb, 2019
BCNM 2017-2018 Publications
Check out this year's round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more
04 Feb, 2019
Now Accepting Applications for our 2019-2020 Faculty Seed Grants
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04 Feb, 2019
Neyran Turan's Nemestudio at the Pratt Institute
Work from BCNM professor Neyran Turan's architectural office is exhibited at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery Read more
04 Feb, 2019
Molly Nicholas Receives SNAP Fellowship
BCNM DE student Molly Nicholas recieved the 2019 Snap Fellowship! Read more
30 Jan, 2019
BCNM at San Francisco's Night of Ideas
BCNM faculty Nicholas de Monchaux, Shannon Jackson and Ken Goldberg, along with DE student Malika Imhotep participated in San Francisco's Night of Ideas. Read more
29 Jan, 2019
Spring 2019 Applications for the Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. 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
15 Jan, 2019
BCNM at Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association 2018
Shannon Jackson and alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Caitlin Marshall participated in States of Emergence from November 8-11, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. Read more
14 Jan, 2019
Greg Niemeyer's Quantopia Highlighted in San Francisco Classical Voice
The project is a collaboration between Greg Niemeyer and DJ Spooky and celebrates the internet's evolution. Read more
11 Jan, 2019
Andrew Atwood's Not Interesting Reviewed
BCNM's Andrew Atwood published Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture in September. Read more
11 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg at the Blum Center
Ken Goldberg visited the Blum Center to speak on the future of work and on human and AI interaction. Read more
07 Jan, 2019
Trevor Paglen on NPR's Morning Edition
Alum Trevor Paglen discusses his art's focus on hidden structures of data collection and mass surveillance. Read more
03 Jan, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie in Libération on the Digital Divide
The authors challenge the assumption that youth have an intuitive understanding of technology, pointing to the impact of class on digital accessibility. Read more
03 Jan, 2019
The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
30 Dec, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Published in A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
"Queerness and Video Games: Queer Game Studies and New Perspectives through Play" was published in Volume 24, issue 4. Read more
26 Dec, 2018
Announcing Our Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more
21 Dec, 2018
Neyran Turan Publishes on New Cadavre Exquis in Perspecta
Yale University School of Architecture's Perspecta featured Neyran Turan's project in their last publication. Read more
21 Dec, 2018
Neyran Turan's Nemestudio Featured on Archinect
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19 Dec, 2018
Trevor Paglen at the Maxii Gallery in Rome
Frieze included a review on the latest gallery that Trevor Gallery contributed to at the MAXXI Gallery, Rome. Read more
19 Dec, 2018
William Morgan at UNSW Law
WIlliam Morgan's article "Big Data’s Accursed Share: Locating
Waste in the Infosphere"and art installation brought together new media and environment. Read more
19 Dec, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Robotics at Stanford Seminar
Ken Goldberg was one of the guest speakers at a weekly robotics seminar held at Stanford. Read more
18 Dec, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik in Wired on Unofficial Recordings
Abigail De Kosnik was mentioned in Wired's article about how unofficial recordings have flowered in the 21st century. Read more
04 Dec, 2018
Announcing our Summer 2019 Courses
This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Conference Grants: Rebecca Levitan at the Marco Besso Foundation
Rebecca Levitan presented "Out of Etruria: Collecting and Context in California" at a conference at Marco Besso Foundation with help from a BCNM Conference Grant. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Teams Up with Kronos Quartet for Sight Machine
Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
HTNM Molly Steenson Video Now Online
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26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
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26 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg in Forbes on The Workforce
Forbes magazine featured Ken Goldberg and his work and study regarding the dependence of AI on human workers, and vice versa. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg on the Uncanny Valley in Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
Ken Goldberg comments on the realistic features in Warner Bros.' new live-action Pokemon movie in The Huffington Post. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Conference Grants: Grace Gipson and Malika Imhotep at ‘Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black’
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21 Nov, 2018
Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
11 Nov, 2018
Now Accepting Applications for the 2019 Lyman Fellowship
Applications are due February 1, 2019. Read more
07 Nov, 2018
Tom McEnaney Finalist for MSA First Book Prize
Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2017) by Tom McEnaney made it onto the short list for the First Book Prize. Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Andrew Atwood in Project Journal
Andrew Atwood was featured in Issue 7 of Project Journal at Archinect Outpost. Read more
31 Oct, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Peter Humphrey and Electroacoustic Science
This summer, Peter Humphrey explored the evolution of electroacoustic science and the history of sound recording. Read more
31 Oct, 2018
Alum Tiffany Ng Weighs in on St. Martin's Carillon in NYT
BCNM alum Tiffany Ng offered her thoughts on the dispute over St. Martin's decaying church carillons. Read more
31 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg in 5 Takeaways from TechCrunch Disrupt
Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.
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29 Oct, 2018
UPDATED: Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector in the News
The Orbital Reflector, a project of BCNM alum Trevor Paglen, has been covered in the news Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Conference Grant Recipients
We’re thrilled to be supporting our graduates as they travel across the globe to share their scholarship. Read more
24 Oct, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen's Art Acquired by Stanford's Denning House
Alum Trevor Paglen's two dye sublimation prints were recently acquired by Stanford University. Read more
22 Oct, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual at Creatividad Computacional
Alex Saum participated in the 13th International Colloquium in Computational Creativity organized by the friends of UAM Cuajimalpa in Mexico City, under the direction of Rafael Pérez. Read more
04 Oct, 2018
Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Geospatial Representation, Design, and Critical Cartography
Recruitment opens September 24th, 2018 and runs through November 5th, 2018. Read more
03 Oct, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen in MCA's 'I was Raised by the Internet'
Alum Trevor Paglen's art exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's 'I was Raised by the Internet' Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Caribbean Literary Portrayals of New Media
This summer, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado explored how Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content use new media to reconfigure power relations. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Ryan Ikeda & Electronic Literature
This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press
Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
26 Sep, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan in 7x7
Nicholas de Monchaux's Modem and Neyran Turan's Nemestudio were featured in 7x7's roundup of the amazing Bay Area Now exhibition! Read more
26 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations Revisited: Belinda Middleweek
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24 Sep, 2018
BCNM Students & Faculty Named GloUH Townsend Fellows
Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at the New York Met's Breuer Museum
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen's work in "Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy" is on exhibit at the New York Met's Breuer Museum. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Lyman Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez on the History of VR
Nicholaus Gutierrez received the 2018 Lyman Fellowship, which provides a stipend to a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support the writing of his Ph.D. dissertation on a topic related to new media. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez and New Media Reading and Composition
Nicholaus Gutierrez taught New Media R1B: "Is Technology Evil" this summer. Read more
12 Sep, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on #PostWeb at IberoAmericana
Join Alex in Madrid for a book talk on her amazing new work #PostWeb! Read more
12 Sep, 2018
Andrew Atwood at University of Wisconsin
BCNM faculty Andrew Atwood will be speaking at the University of Wisconsin on Oct 5. Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Lyman Dispatch: Grace Gipson on Unleashing Your Inner Superhero
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04 Sep, 2018
Asma Kazmi Exhibits at the University of Hawai'i
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: JOSE FERREIRA + ASMA KAZMI runs from September 10 – 28, 2018. Read more
30 Aug, 2018
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Justin Berner and New Media Reading and Composition
Justin Berner taught New Media R1B: "What is an @uthor?" this summer. Read more
23 Aug, 2018
Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
From architectural intelligence to cybernetics and play, algorithms of oppression to the human computer in the stone age, we have a fantastic line up for this year's program! Read more
22 Aug, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Learning to Optimize Join Queries with Deep Reinforcement Learning
A great paper featured on Assert on Arxiv! Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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21 Aug, 2018
Tom McEnaney Launches GloUH Colloquium
Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more
20 Aug, 2018
The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more
17 Aug, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Machine Learning & UX Panel at IDEO
The IDEO MLUX Industry Panel focused on Designing and using Data Science Ethically. Read more
09 Aug, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Yang Liu on VR
This summer, Yang Liu developed UNREAL, a Virtual Reality project for architectural design. Read more
07 Aug, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net in Video on New York Times
The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more
05 Aug, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik to Keynote Fan Studies North America 2018 Conference
Gail will launch the North American conference with a keynote on October 26th, 2018. Read more
31 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Autodesk's Lego-Building Robot
Ken Goldberg weighs in on Autodesk's new Lego-building robot on Fast Company! Read more
26 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg on ABC News on Robots as the Future of AI
"Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. Read more
23 Jul, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski Teaching at Sirens 2018
Join alum Andrea Horbinski to discuss transitioning out of academia at Sirens 2018! Read more
20 Jul, 2018
Asma Kazmi on the Outcomes of Cranes & Cube
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19 Jul, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at DIGRA 2018
The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more
18 Jul, 2018
Ritwik Banerji Published on Interactions with Artificial Social Agents
The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more
13 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg at RSS Workshop
The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." Read more
09 Jul, 2018
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the LASA 2018 Conference
Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more
04 Jul, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Featured on Artnet News
Trevor discussed his long-standing interests in AI, invisible networks, and government surveillance with Artnet News. Read more
02 Jul, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Career Paths in Academic Data Science
A new report in SocArXiv investigates career prospects in academic Data Science. Read more
28 Jun, 2018
Fall 2018 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more
28 Jun, 2018
Ken Goldberg at CODAME 2018
This year's Art+Tech festival was themed #ARTOBOTS and featured Ken Goldberg as a speaker! Read more
27 Jun, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibited at SAAM
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26 Jun, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at the ICC Sophia University
Andrea traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to present at Sophia University's Institute of Comparative Culture. Read more
26 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual at the DH Summer Lecture Series
This year, DH at Berkeley hosts a weekly DH Summer Lecture series, highlighting the distinguished work of faculty and scholars engaged in the digital humanities at UC Berkeley. Read more
25 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes #Postweb!
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21 Jun, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux & Kathryn Moll at the Mills College Art Museum
modem, the architecture firm of Nicholas de Monchaux and Kathryn Moll, is featured in Archaeology in Reverse at the MCAM. Read more
19 Jun, 2018
Greg Niemeyer at Digital Art History Summer School in Málaga
Head to Spain this September to learn about Data & the Arts from Greg Niemeyer! Read more
18 Jun, 2018
Conference Grants: Malika Imhotep at AAG Annual Meeting
Malika Imhotep presented "Tracing Black Queer Spatialities" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting with help from a BCNM Conference Grant. Read more
14 Jun, 2018
Neyran Turan on the Outcomes of New Cadavre Exquis
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10 Jun, 2018
Summer 2019 Course Proposals Now Open!
We are now accepting applications to teach a NWMEDIA Summer 2019 course. Read more
07 Jun, 2018
Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more
04 Jun, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Mechademia 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski presented "A Children's Empire: The Prewar 'Media Mix' of the Kodansha Club Magazines" at the Mechademic Kyoto conference. Read more
30 May, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux on Dimensions of Citizenship - and Surveillance - in E-Flux
Nicholas de Monchaux meditates for E-Flux on the scale of citizenship and our national apparatuses for surveillance when placed in the context of our vast planetary systems. Read more
30 May, 2018
We're Hiring! - Office Manager & Events Coordinator Wanted!
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
30 May, 2018
Soravis Prakkamakul on Facial Perception
Soravis Prakkamakul received a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant to present his paper "Reflexive Visual Inspection of Cleft Lip Faces — Analysis of Lookzone Focus Over Time" at the 63rd Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more
29 May, 2018
Asma Kazmi at the Wattis Institute
Check out Asma Kazmi's latest art at the Wattis Institute's exhibition, Deep-Time Construction, on vie until July 28, 2018. Read more
28 May, 2018
2018 Seed Grants: Rita Lucarelli & the New Media of the Book of the Dead
The BCNM Faculty Seed Grant Program awarded $5000 to Rita Lucarelli (Near Eastern Studies) to digitally transposition Egyptian coffins into 3D models. Read more
28 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2018
Ken Goldberg was a speaker at ICRA 2018's workshop on advances in robotic warehouse automation. Read more
27 May, 2018
Revisited: Trevor Paglen on Mapping as Research
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27 May, 2018
After the Private Self with Damon Young
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27 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg Published in The Wall Street Journal on The Robot-Human Alliance
Ken Goldberg contributed a commentary piece on human-machine collaboration to The Wall Street Journal. Read more
27 May, 2018
Robotics TechCrunch Videos Now Available
For TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg discussed the “New Wave” in robot grasping for e-commerce warehouse order fulfillment. Read more
27 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg & Robots Featured in NBC Bay Area News
Ken Goldberg and his lab were interviewed by NBC Bay Area about the progress being made in robotics development at UC Berkeley. Read more
26 May, 2018
2018 BCNM Seed Grants: Jacob Gaboury and Queer Computing
Jacob Gaboury (Film & Media) received $5000 to examine the relationship between digital technologies and queer identity as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more
23 May, 2018
Welcome Claudia Von Vacano
We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more
23 May, 2018
BCNM Students Named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts
Several BCNM designers were named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts, garnering grants from a new program seeking to support and provided resources for Berkeley's design commuity. 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
18 May, 2018
Undergraduate Research Dispatches: Claudia Ruslim on Gourmet Gentrification
Claudia Ruslim, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to act as a research assistant to Will Payne. Read more
17 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net Research Spotlighted in Nature
Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more
17 May, 2018
ATC Video Now Online: Nicholas Negroponte
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08 May, 2018
Greg Niemeyer at the Riddoch Gallery
Greg Niemeyer's art installation with Olya Dubatova was exhibited at the Riddoch Gallery in South Australia. Read more
07 May, 2018
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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07 May, 2018
Alum Chris Goetz Reviews MetaGaming in Critical Inquiry
BCNM alum Chris Goetz draws on his video game expertise to critique a recently published book, MetaGaming. Read more
07 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at the Executive Leadership Conference on Robots in Consumer Packaged Goods
Ken Goldberg attended the annual Executive Leadership Conference to discuss Can Robots Really Handle Consumer Packaged Goods?. Read more
07 May, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on #PostWeb at Bergen
As a part of Saum-Pascual's visit to the University of Bergen, she gave an overview of her forthcoming book release. Read more
03 May, 2018
Jacob Gaboury at Harvard VES Conference
The 2018 Graduate Student Conference at Harvard starred BCNM Assisant Professor's Jacob Gaboury as a keynote speaker. Read more
03 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Michigan School of Information
Ken Goldberg was recently invited by the University of Michigan to give a talk on the campus about his previous work and research. Read more
02 May, 2018
Will Payne at the American Association of Geographers 2018 Meeting
Will Payne was able to attend and present his paper at the American Association of Geographers Conference as one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant. 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
27 Apr, 2018
Jacob Gaboury Published in Grey Room
BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury's research on the computer screen has been published in Grey Room, a peer-reviewed academic journal that includes articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics. Read more
25 Apr, 2018
Research Insights: Algorithmic Ethnography with Ritwik Banerji
Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more
25 Apr, 2018
New Selfie Poetry about Maternity & Software from Alex Saum-Pascual
Alex Saum-Pascual recently released a new electronic literature selfie poem about maternity and software. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Alum Tiffany Ng on Building Digital Research and Making at UM
Tiffany Ng was one of many lightning talk presenters at the University of Michigan's one-day conference for digital studies. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Greg Niemeyer Exhibiting in Joy Forum
BCNM faculty Greg Niemeyer will be participating in the "Hyperobjects" exhbition taking place in the Joy Forum & Rom 61 from April 26-30. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Grace Gipson on Black Comics Chat
Grace Gipson, along with her BlackComicsChat co-hosts, interviewed comic artist Whit Taylor about her life and work. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Rita Lucarelli Receives CITRIS Seed Grant
Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Workshop
Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Symposium
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18 Apr, 2018
Announcing 2018 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! We are excited to support the amazing work these students will be completing over the summer. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux & Neyran Turan Receive Graham Foundation Award
Selected from more than 600 proposals, Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan were two of 74 recipients of a Graham Foundation grant. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio One Course on Radical Futures in Landscape Architecture Magazine
Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio ONE master's program, which begins next school year, was featured in the Landscape Architecture Magazine. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
BCNM is attending the 113th ASA Annual Meeting that will take place August 11-14, 2018 in Philadelphia. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
New Ken Goldberg Dex-Net Video Online
A video of Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 is now online, featured in publications such as the MIT Technology Review and Mashable. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
As one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Confrence Grant, KC Forcier received funding to attend and present her research findings at the Society for Film and Media Studies Annual Conference. Read more
11 Apr, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Em Tech Digital 2018
Ken Goldberg delivered a presentation at this year's EmTech Digital at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Designated Emphasis & Certificate Cohort
We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. 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
20 Mar, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Builds Cryptographic Puzzle in Flag for Creative Time
Check out Alum Trevor Paglen's "Weeping Angel" on display for Creative Time's Pledges of Allegiance and see if you can solve the cryptographic puzzle! Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Announcing the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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19 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg at CITRIS Silicon Valley
Ken Goldberg will be attending the CITRIS Silicon Valley Forum, a new monthly series from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, on April 5. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Computational Ethnography at University of Copenhagen
Stuart Geiger gave a public talk at the IT University of Copenhagen about the ethnography of computation. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Juliana Friend at the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Juliana Friend, BCNM graduate student, attended the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Revisited: Amateurism Across the Arts
Amateurism Across the Arts, a symposium co-sponsored by BCNM, drew a crowd of 70 community members who explore DIY artistic production. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Announcing BCNM's 2018 Outstanding GSI
A Berkeley Center for New Media GSI has received an the "Outstanding GSI Award" from the GSI Teaching and Resource Center. 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
16 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Open Source Stewart Platform
We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more
13 Mar, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibited in Frankfurter Kunstverein
Trevor Paglen's work featured at exhibit at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Read more
13 Mar, 2018
Goldberg at Industry of Things World USA 2018
Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Goldberg and da Vinci Robot in Wired
Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci robot's surgical potential was featured in Wired. Read more
02 Mar, 2018
Jacob Gaboury at A+D Wednesdays
The BAMPFA will be hosting a talk with Jacob Gaboury, as part of their Berkeley Art + Design programming. Read more
26 Feb, 2018
Eric Paulos Smashing Computer in Critical Making goes Viral on the Daily Mail and Boing Boing
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23 Feb, 2018
David Bates Presents Annual Straker Lecture at UBC
Prof. David Bates is presenting "Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence” for the STS Program’s Annual Straker lecture. The lecture will occur on Tuesday, March 6th at 5 PM in Swing 122. Read more
21 Feb, 2018
Common Conversations Revisited: Ines Weizman
Architecture professor Ines Weizman spoke at length about the life and legacy of Adolf Loos, delving into the work he left behind and how debates over ownership persist to this day. Read more
20 Feb, 2018
Announcing the Lyman 2018 Fellowship Recipients
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12 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at Webstock
Trevor Paglen will be speaking at this year's Webstock conference in New Zealand. Read more
12 Feb, 2018
Grace Gipson Quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle
Grace Gipson was quoted in "Momentum builds for 'Black Panther'" in The San Francisco Chronicle. Read more
09 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Profiled in The Economist
Alum Trevor Paglen and his art has been featured in The Economist Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net in Technology Review
Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Keynote at Ways of Knowing Conference
Alum Trevor Paglen and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun were Keynote Speakers at Ways of Knowing Cities Conference by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia.
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06 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at ARCOMadrid 2018
Paglen is one of the featured artists at ARCOmadrid 2018, a contemporary art gallery series. Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity in RIA Robotics Online
Ken Goldberg featured on article on the multiplicity in Robotics Industries Association: Robotics Online. Read more
05 Feb, 2018
Spaces of Free Speech Panel Video from Reply All Now Online
Watch the Reply All conference speakers discuss how various spaces, physical and digital, demand different responses and protections for free speech. The video is now available for public viewing on Youtube. Read more
04 Feb, 2018
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation Video Now Online
If you couldn't make it out to the Humanizing Deportation conference back in December, there is now a video of the talk available on Youtube for public consumption. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
Malika Imhotep at NWSA 2017
As one of the recipients of the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant, Malika Imhotep received funding to attend and present her research findings at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Conference. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at mono.klub
Alum Trevor Paglen spoke KW Institute for Contemporary Art, in conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen, for mono.klub, the analog to mono.kultur magazine. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
2017 Conference on Robotic Learning CoChaired by Ken Goldberg Now Online
Video from the conference, co-organized by Ken Goldberg, are now online Read more
02 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Multiplicity in Wired
Goldberg was featured in "Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk about the Multiplicity" in Wired, on the rise of robot-human multiplicity. Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger at All Things in Moderation Conference
Stuart Geiger presented on Wikipedia algorithms at UCLA's All Things in Moderation Conference Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen on Artsy
Paglen's work was featured in "The Future of Art," a short film series on Artsy. Read more
25 Jan, 2018
Announcing the 2018 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more
25 Jan, 2018
BCNM Now Accepting Applications for 2018-2019 Faculty Seed Grants
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25 Jan, 2018
Introducing our Spring 2018 Research Assistants
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
25 Jan, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik & Alpha 60 in the California Magazine
Abigail De Kosnik discusses Game of Thrones and shares her pro-piracy argument with the data she has collected through her project titled "alpha60". Read more
24 Jan, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Symposium — The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
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23 Jan, 2018
ATC Video Now Online: Michael Rock
23 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at WEF meeting
BCNM Alumnus Trevor Paglen was selected to attend the 48th Annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Read more
23 Jan, 2018
Alum Ng Bringing Diversity to the Carillon at Michigan
Alum Tiffany Ng featured in "The invisible musician: carillonists at Michigan," by Sam Lu in The Michigan Daily. Read more
17 Jan, 2018
Kris Paulsen Receives Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship
Alum Kris Paulsen has received the prestigious Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Read more
11 Jan, 2018
Ken Goldberg at IF GeekPark
Ken Goldberg will be asking "Are Collaborative Cloud Robotics a Threat...or an Opportunity?" at IF GeekPark in Beijing on January 20, 2018. Read more
11 Jan, 2018
SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News
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06 Dec, 2017
NWMEDIA 190/290 Critical Practices Showcase
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05 Dec, 2017
Rogue Archives Reviewed in Leonardo Reviews
BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed by Leondardo Reviews. Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted on Kuri and Home Robotics in Wired
BCNM's Ken Goldberg was quoted in Wired on robotic help in the home. Read more
04 Dec, 2017
Revisited: NWMEDIA 201 Performance Night
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03 Dec, 2017
BCNM Seed Grant Funded New Cadavre Exquis by Neyran Turan Receives Award
Neyran Turan, recipient of a BCNM seed grant, received an honorable mention from the 2017 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Awards. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
ATC Video Now Online: Frank Foer
Couldn't make it out to the Arts Technology Culture colloquium with Frank Foer and Nicholas Thompson back in September? The video of their dialogue about big tech is now online! Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Robert Reich Video from Reply All Now Online
Watch former US Secretary of Labor and UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich give the keynote address for the Reply All symposium. The video is now available to the public via YouTube. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Trevor Paglen's Reaper Drone at the Wichita Art Museum
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen's art piece, "Reaper Drone," was featured at the Wichita Art Museum's exhbition about surveillance and photography. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg in A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI
Ken Goldberg collaborated with 16 other Berkeley researchers in composing a paper on their perspectives of systems challenges for AI. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort
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
20 Nov, 2017
Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort
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17 Nov, 2017
Architectural Digest Profiles Alum Trevor Paglen
After winning the 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant, BCNM alum Trevor Paglen sits down to speak with the Architectural Digest. Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Niemeyer Receives Hewlett 50 Arts Commission Grant
Greg Niemeyer and collaborators DJ Spooky and the Internet Archive receive prestigious Hewlett 50 Arts Commission grant for data sonified hip-hop opera! Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Tiffany Ng Appointed Affiliate Faculty in Digital Studies at University of Michigan
BCNM alum Tiffany Ng has added affiliate faculty in Digital Studies to her profile. Read more
13 Nov, 2017
Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political
Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
13 Nov, 2017
ATC Revisited: Michael Rock
We revisit Michael Rock's talk as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture speaker series. Read more
11 Nov, 2017
Abigail De Kosnik and alum Reginold Royston presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2017. Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg on CBS Local on AI and the Workforce
Ken Goldberg is quoted by CBS Local in discussing the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Ed Campion on the University Carillon
Ed Campion, Department of Music chair, comments on the university Carillon and the Music Department's support. Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg on RoBhat Labs in Daily Cal
Ken Goldberg is quoted in a Daily Cal article about RoBhat Labs and their latest Google Chrome extension release, Botcheck.me. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Berkeley's DeepDrive Releases 36,000 Nexar Research Videos
Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Bonnie Ruberg Published in Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Alum Bonnie Ruberg has been published in the June 2017 issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Alum Trevor Paglen Visiting Faculty at The New Normal
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen is named visiting faculty at The New Normal, a post-graduate program in Moscow, Russia. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Conference Grants: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado in Davis
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado reflects on her experience at the Imagining America conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Conference Grants: Will Payne at the Future of Food in St. Louis
Will Payne reflects on his experience at the Future of Food Studies conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more
02 Nov, 2017
Michelle Carney and other MIMS Students Win AR Hackathon!
Michelle Carney, Michelle Chen, Connor Hunihan, Daphne Jong and Ching-yi Lin won CitizenAR hackathon with an application for the Tenderloin community to interact and connect through an AR game design. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Eric Paulos & Ken Goldberg Exhibiting at The Luggage Store
Paulos and Goldberg are two of the many participating artists that will be featured at the "Illegal" exhibition special event at the Luggage Store Gallery. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Sonia Katyal Published in the California Law Review on Technoheritage
BCNM ExComm member Sonia Katyal discusses the dynamic between technology and culture in her article, "Technoheritage," which was published in the California Law Review. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Experts on Building Faster, More Secure AI Systems
Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Abigail De Kosnik's Rogue Archives Reviewed on A&M
BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed in Archives & Manuscripts! Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Gaming Representation Symposium at Smith College
Bonnie Ruberg, BCNM alum, was a panelist at the Gaming Representation Symposium at Smith College to talk about her contributions to a new book. Read more
30 Oct, 2017
Lyman Fellowship Applications Now Open
We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more
27 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum-Pascual on Teaching Electronic Literature
Alex Saum-Pascual writes about her Digital Humanities course on e-literature, which she developed as a DH Fellow. Read more
27 Oct, 2017
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
27 Oct, 2017
Alum Kate Mattingly Reviews Radical Bodies in The Dancer's Group
Alum Kate Mattingly reviews Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955 to 1972. Read more
24 Oct, 2017
Announcing the Fall 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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24 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg at Collaborative Robots and Advance Vision Conference
Ken Goldberg speaks on the new wave in robot grasping at the Collaborative Robots and Advanced Vision Conference November 16th, 2017. Read more
24 Oct, 2017
Lashon Daley at Litquake 2017
Lashon Daley is a PhD scholar in performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley and spoke at Litquake 2017 in San Francisco. Read more
24 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum and Scott Rettberg Awarded Peder Sather Grant
Alex Saum-Pascual from UC Berkeley and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen received a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study grant. Read more
23 Oct, 2017
Recommended Spring 2018 New Media Courses Now Online
Check out our recommended Cal New Media courses being offered Spring 2018! Read more
23 Oct, 2017
From Berkeley to Spain: A Summer of Digital Art History
Greg Niemeyer, Berkeley Center of New Media Director, and Justin Underhill speak about their experiences at the Digital Art History Summer School 2017 in Malaga, Spain. Read more
22 Oct, 2017
Revisited: Frank Foer, "World Without Mind"
Revisiting Frank Foer's ATC speaker event about his new book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
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
17 Oct, 2017
Greg Niemeyer in Open Codes Exhibition at ZKM
Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
Ron Rael at Berkeley's Uncharted Festival
Ron Rael will be presenting "Borderwall as architecture" at Uncharted at 11:30 on the 27th! Read more
17 Oct, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux Quoted in The Guardian on the Hyperloop
Nicholas de Monchaux, an associate professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley, commented on Elon Musk's dream for an underground highway in Los Angeles. Read more
16 Oct, 2017
HTNM Revisited: Natasha Schüll
From the NYU professor's talk, "Datasense," in which she discussed from her forthcoming book, "Keeping Track: Sensor Tehnology, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life." Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society. Read more
12 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger at the Society for Social Studies of Science in Boston
Stuart Geiger gave a presentation in regarding autoethnographic methods for studying data-driven knowledge production in Boston, Massachusetts. Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger at the Bay Area Science Festival
BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November. Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Robot Multiplicity
BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg was a special guest on the podcast, "Expanding Minds," where he talked about robot multiplicity and various other topics. Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger at JupyterCon
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
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
03 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Warehouse Robots
UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg is featured in a NYT article regarding his lab's phenomenal robotic work. 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
19 Sep, 2017
Summer Research Dispatch: Molly Nicholas & Wearable Tech in Hospitals
Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more
18 Sep, 2017
UC Berkeley Team Selected To Design Adaptive Responses To Bay Area Climate Change
A diverse group of locally-based and globally-experienced professionals, academics, students, and policy makers from the University of California, Berkeley has been chosen to participate in the Resilient By Design (RBD) Bay Area Challenge. Read more
18 Sep, 2017
Upcoming ATC speaker and Cal alumnus Ian Chang talks to CALIFORNIA Magazine about his MoMA-exhibited art, his experience at UC Berkeley, and his professional and personal journey after graduation. Read more
14 Sep, 2017
UC Berkeley at Conference on Robotic Learning
BCNM co-founder Ken Goldberg co-authored 3 research papers that will be presented at the first annual Conference of Robotic Learning. Read more
11 Sep, 2017
Revisited: TF Tierney, Intelligent Infrastructure
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07 Sep, 2017
Live Fieldwork with Bob & Maxine's Virtual Free Improvisation Orchestra
Human improviser meets machine improviser. Ritwik Banerji's Maxine improvises with Ken Ueno. Read more
01 Sep, 2017
Camille Crittenden on Women in Tech on Medium
The CITRIS Deputy Director addresses the growing prominence of the gender gap in tech Read more
31 Aug, 2017
Revisited: Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute
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29 Aug, 2017
Greg Niemeyer & Ron Rael at Focus on the Visual Conference
This year's UC Berkeley Librarian Association conference turns its eyes to the digital humanities field Read more
23 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! Read more
22 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Juliana Friend and Many-to-Many
Read about Friend's ethnographic research for her Many-to-Many project, funded by BCNM Read more
17 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Malika Imhotep at the International School for Decolonial Black Feminism
Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more
16 Aug, 2017
Ron Rael Speaking on the Divided States of America at SPUR Oakland
Next Thursday evening, Rael will speak on a panel among academics, authors, and artists to discuss art and activism Read more
15 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Humanizing Deportation
Read Yairamaren Roman Maldonado's account of collaborating with the UC Digital Storytelling project, funded by BCNM Read more
15 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Miyoko Conley on Holograms in K-Pop
Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more
12 Aug, 2017
CS160 Final Project Showcase
Check out photos from an incredible semester with Cesar Torres' CS160 summer class! Read more
02 Aug, 2017
Ken Goldberg at Autodesk Design Night
Goldberg's research project on cloud-connected robots discussed at the Autodesk Gallery in downtown SF! Read more
02 Aug, 2017
Alpha60 White Paper Published and in the News!
Prof. Abigail de Kosnik's seed grant funded digital humanities tool has been garnering major attention in the news! Read more
01 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more
01 Aug, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Preparing Preschoolers for an Automated Economy
Prof. Goldberg commented on the growing trend of emphasizing coding skills in young children's classrooms. Read more
28 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the Applied Innovation Exchange
Ken Goldberg led a conversation on a benign robot future in which robots work together with humans at "What's Now: San Francisco" at the Applied Innovation Exchange. Read more
25 Jul, 2017
Transformative Works and Cultures, a journal of fan scholarship, wants your submissions on fan communities of color! Read more
19 Jul, 2017
Camille Crittenden part of New NHERI SimCenter
The Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute joins the SimCenter, an organization for research on natural hazards. Read more
18 Jul, 2017
Koci Hernandez Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Richard Koci Hernandez adds yet another distinguished title to his name: Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Journalism, with tenure! Read more
18 Jul, 2017
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jenny Jiang
This year, BCNM initiated its undergraduate research fellowships, which offer undergraduates the chance to engage in direct research experience with BCNM graduates. Read more
18 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg's WSJ Article Quoted in Forbes
Forbes draws from an article Professor Goldberg published earlier last month. Read more
05 Jul, 2017
David Bates in Project Epistémè
David Bates headed to Paris to participate in a two-day seminar project on AI and "black boxes". Read more
27 Jun, 2017
Ron Rael & Arch100D Take 3D Printed Homes to Kenya
If only all university field trips were like this innovative, immersive excursion. Read more
20 Jun, 2017
Berkeley Arts + Design End of Year Reflection
Arts + Design Associate Vice Chancellor Shannon Jackson discusses the program's track record this past academic year. Read more
20 Jun, 2017
Alum Thérèse Tierney Publishes on Intelligent Infrastructure
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15 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg in the Wall Street Journal
Goldberg recently published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on growing human-robotic partnerships. Read more
15 Jun, 2017
Video Now Online: "Conveying Climate Change"
08 Jun, 2017
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Seth Lu
Seth Lu reflects on his work with Juliana Friend through BCNM's undergraduate fellowship program. Read more
01 Jun, 2017
Abigail De Kosnik's Alpha 60 Featured in Daily Cal's Innovation Round Up
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01 Jun, 2017
Shannon Jackson on Arts & Public Service at SFMOMA
Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more
01 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg & Camille Crittenden at CITRIS Inclusive AI Symposium
Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. Read more
01 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg at SAIL-Toyota Seminar Series at Stanford
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01 Jun, 2017
Molly Nicholas at CHI 2017
Molly Nicholas reflects on her experience at CHI 2017 in Denver. Read more
31 May, 2017
Call for Students: Cranes and Cube: Architecture, Built and Unbuilt
An opportunity to accompany Professor Asma Kazmi on a paid two-week research and production trip to Jeddah, Medina, and Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia in August 2017. Read more
26 May, 2017
Shannon Jackson at Oakland Book Festival
Shannon Jackson, professor at BCNM, moderated "Envisioning Equity in the Arts" a discussion at the Oakland Book Festival. Read more
25 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg Featured in Robotics Business Review
Ken Goldberg featured in "Cloud Robotics Promises to Simplify Machine Tending" in Robotics Business Review Read more
24 May, 2017
Christo Sims Publishes Disruptive Fixation
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24 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg and T-ASE Add Note to Practitioners
Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS. Read more
17 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Undergraduate Certificate Grads
These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
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16 May, 2017
Andrew Atwood Receives Seed Grant for New Apps for New Audiences
Andrew Atwood received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to create interactive app designs as a way to engage and attract new audiences to architecture Read more
15 May, 2017
Asma Kazmi Receives Seed Grant for Cranes and Cube
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15 May, 2017
Alum Tiffany Ng Featured in Diverse Issues of Higher Education
Alum Tiffany Ng is fundraising for minority students to have the opportunity to learn the carillon Read more
13 May, 2017
Neyran Turan Receives Seed Grant for Cadavre Exquis
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12 May, 2017
Damon Young Receives Seed Grant for After the Private Self
Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more
08 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Our Automated Future on NPR
Ken Goldberg was featured on NPR discussing robots and our automated future Read more
05 May, 2017
BCNM was well represented at CHI 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Read more
02 May, 2017
Salaam Sculpture: Noura Howell
Noura Howell's Salaam Sculpture was shown on the UC Berkeley campus! Read more
02 May, 2017
//supraliminal - Greg Niemeyer at ZKM
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01 May, 2017
Revisited: "Many to Many"
Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more
27 Apr, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux Named Bakar Faculty Fellow & Recipient of Spark Fund Award
Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux on being named a Bakar Faculty Fellow and recipient of the Spark Fund Award for 2017-2018! Read more
24 Apr, 2017
Revisited: "Parenting for a Digital Future"
with Alicia Blum-Ross Read more
24 Apr, 2017
ATC Video Now Online: “Designing Spaces for New Media Art”
If you missed our recent Arts, Technology and Culture colloquium with Andy and Deborah Rappaport - the video is now live Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Will Payne at the American Association of Geographers
Will Payne presented his research at the American Association of Geographers this April in Boston, MA. Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Degrees of Visibility
Ashley Hunt discussed the visibility of prisons as part of our Commons Conversations series Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Technology and Forensic Evidence in Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina, Prof. of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Read more
13 Apr, 2017
Announcing our 2017-2018 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
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11 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations: Color of New Media Working Group Transcription
The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more
11 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Local Code at BAMPFA with Nicholas de Monchaux
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07 Apr, 2017
BCNM Seed Grants 2017: Ed Campion and the Sound Habitat
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
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award Recipients
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06 Apr, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux Lecture at Eikones
Nicholas de Monchaux presented a lecture at the Eikones National Center of Competence in Research as part of the “Planning, Contingency and the Image of the Modern City” series. Read more
05 Apr, 2017
Ken Goldberg in MIT Technology Review
Goldberg was featured in an article by MIT's Technology Review on robot learning and human tele-operation of machines. Read more
04 Apr, 2017
BCNM at Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference 2017
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies held its 2017 Conference at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Read more
04 Apr, 2017
Ken Goldberg Lecture at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology's (BCLT) 6th annual Privacy Law Forum featured BCNM's Ken Goldberg as a Keynote speaker. Read more
22 Mar, 2017
Interview with Asma Kazmi!
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
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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20 Mar, 2017
Announcing our Spring 2017 DE & Certificate Incoming Cohort
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20 Mar, 2017
A Statement Regarding UCPD Crowdsourcing Request for Identification
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16 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: "Radical Technologies" with Adam Greenfield
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16 Mar, 2017
Video Now Online: Designing for Truth
with Joris Maltha Read more
13 Mar, 2017
DH Fellows Talk with Juliana Friend
Juliana Friend and Laura K Nelson will lead the talk Digital Technologies and the Future of Qualitative and Interpretive Analysis. Read more
07 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Ripped Off? Pirate Technologies, Jugaad Politics, and Postcolonial Modernities"
An amazing talk by Kavita Philip Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Greg Niemeyer’s Teaching Philosophy Featured in Le Monde
The BCNM faculty and Art Practice professor gave an interview in the renowned newspaper. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Bonnie Ruberg Speaks at Game Developers Conference
BCNM alum Ruberg presented her talk, "Teaching Students How to Make Games under Fascism" at this game industry event. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Video Now Online: "Our Landscape Futures"
Watch this event by Geoff Manaugh, New York Times-bestselling author on technology and utopias. Read more
28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the 2017 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Media Innovation Scholarship was awarded to this forward-thinking student. Read more
28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the Lyman 2017 Fellowship Recipients
This year's Lyman fellow and runner-up goes to... Read more
27 Feb, 2017
Ken Goldberg Receives Google Research Grant
The 2016 Google Research Machine Learning and Data Mining Award goes to a BCNM faculty! Read more
22 Feb, 2017
Abigail de Kosnik’s Rogue Archives Reviewed in Pop Matters
The culture of fanfiction and digital cultures, brought to you by one of BCNM's own. Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Hybrid Ecologies Lab Wins a Best Paper at CHI 2017
Light as a physical material? This paper won a major award for it. Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Introducing Our Undergraduate Research Fellows
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17 Feb, 2017
BCNM Now Accepting Applications for Faculty Seed Grants!
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17 Feb, 2017
Jenni Higgs at Writing Research Across Borders IV in Colombia
17 Feb, 2017
ATC Video Now Online: "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual."
With Tom Sachs
Missed this event? Have no fear! Watch it here! Read more
16 Feb, 2017
Revisited: "Our Landscape Futures"
Revisiting our lovely event with Geoff Manaugh who offered students and the public an insight into the design of cities and their unintentional impacts through the lense of "burglary." Read more
16 Feb, 2017
Camille Crittenden on International Women's Day
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09 Feb, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux Exhibition and Lecture at Univ. of Tennessee
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25 Jan, 2017
Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA
23 Jan, 2017
Conference Grants: Ritwik Banerji in Utrecht
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
23 Jan, 2017
Walter Hood interviewed by Shannon Jackson in Boom California
Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more
23 Jan, 2017
Ron Rael in the Museum of Modern Art
In a New York exhibition, "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter" Read more
19 Jan, 2017
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen in New York Times
Trevor Paglen was featured in the New York Times article "A String Quartet Concert, With an A.I. Assist" Read more
19 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg featured in Fast Company
The BCNM professor and his research in Dex-Net was recently featured in the article "Why It's so Hard for Robots to Get a Grip" Read more
18 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the 12th Annual Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
UC Berkeley students and faculty attended the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) Read more
13 Jan, 2017
Urban Data Operations with Nicholas de Monchaux Jan 18
Don't miss out on this great discussion between Geoff Manaugh and Nicholas de Monchaux on Urban Data Operations at the Storefront for Art & Architecture this January 18 from 7-9pm! Read more
16 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Rogue Archives" Book Launch
The discussion of Prof. De Kosnik's new book was held at University Press. Read more
12 Dec, 2016
Take Note: New Robot Conference Chaired by Ken Goldberg
We're excited to see this new conference on Robotic Learning co-chaired by Ken Goldberg! Read more
12 Dec, 2016
Ken Goldberg at the 17th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Patent Law Conference
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12 Dec, 2016
Rogue Archives Reviewed in Digicult
BCNM Professor Abigail De Kosnik's new book was reviewed by Sylvia Bertolotti in Digicult Read more
07 Dec, 2016
ATC Video Now Online: "Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination"
Missed our ATC Lecture with Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor? The video recording of the lecture is now online at Archive.org! Read more
07 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination"
A recap of "Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination" with Mike Tyka and Gray Area founder Josette Melchor. Read more
22 Nov, 2016
Peter Lyman Fellowship Application Now Open
We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media! Read more
22 Nov, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort
These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes”
Miyoko Conley, BCNM DE candidate, recaps Virginia Kuhn's HTNM lecture, "Video Analytics From Keywords to Keyframes." Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Announcing the Fall 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are very excited to welcome our newest cohort of Ph.D Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate students Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Ken Goldberg Named Chair of IEOR
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more
14 Nov, 2016
Revisited: Technology, Space and Reason
Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more
14 Nov, 2016
Grace Gipson as "Doctor of Comic Books"
Lashon Daley featured Grace Gipson, also a BCNM Designated Emphasis student, on her podcast Stories&Slams! Read more
14 Nov, 2016
We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more
08 Nov, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux at Drawing Futures
Drawing Futures 2016 is a conference on "Speculations on Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture" taking place at the Bartlett School of Architecture Read more
06 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Books in Browsers VII - Telling Small Stories"
We revisit the incredible conference held in San Francisco Read more
03 Nov, 2016
Greg Niemeyer Collaboration with DJ Spooky for Internet Archive 20th Anniversary
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03 Nov, 2016
This event was hosted at BAMPFA Read more
31 Oct, 2016
Getting a Game Studies PhD: A Guide for Aspiring Video Game Scholars
A guide written by Bonnie Ruberg, a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at USC Read more
26 Oct, 2016
Andrea Horbinski Presents at the 2016 EU-Japan Agora Forum in Brussels
Held on October 24th and 25th in the Palais d'Egmont of Brussels, Belgium Read more
24 Oct, 2016
The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! Read more
24 Oct, 2016
GloUH: Gaming Virtual Bodies: Video Games in South Asian Cities
The series hosts Irene Chien, BCNM alumna, to speak on moving through South Asian cities both within video games Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Eric Paulos at Living Light in East Bay Express
In the East Bay Express's monthly discussion, artists gather in Bay Area living rooms to discuss new media. Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux at Dust and Data
BCNM's de Monchaux will attend the 13th International Bauhaus Colloquium, which will be held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany Read more
20 Oct, 2016
Henry Jenkins Interviews Gail de Kosnik on Rogue Archives
The third and final installment of Henry Jenkins' interview series with BCNM professor Gail de Kosnik has now been published Read more
19 Oct, 2016
Revisited: "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual."
Some thoughts on Tom Sachs's engaging lecture, "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual." earlier this fall. Read more
18 Oct, 2016
Shannon Jackson at SFMOMA on Art & Performance
As a part of "Cosmic Ray: Bay Area Art and Experiment, 1950s to Now", a conversation series hosted on Tuesdays from October 11 to November 15th Read more
18 Oct, 2016
Together, we can think bigger and shape the future of new media Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Announcing the BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more
11 Oct, 2016
Local Code by Nicholas de Monchaux Out Now at University of Princeton Architectural Press
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
04 Oct, 2016
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Lark Buckingham and Advanced Digital Animation
Here, Buckingham describes teaching Advanced Digital Animation” as a NWMEDIA 90 this past summer Read more
04 Oct, 2016
Rogue Archives Published!
An examination of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, looking in particular at Internet fan fiction archives. Congrats, Prof. De Kosnik! Read more
30 Sep, 2016
Revisited: Jane Jacobs and the Digital City
At the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association's Urban Center in San Francisco Read more
30 Sep, 2016
NetProv as Performance Art
(Netprov is internet improv.) Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux's "Local Code" at Canadian Centre for Architecture
A part of the "Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention" exhibit Read more
26 Sep, 2016
Jingyi Li creates AO3 Scraper
BCNM undergrad Jingyi Li and a friend built a data scraper for the fan-content archive, Archive of Our Own Read more
26 Sep, 2016
Alumna Margaret Rhee featured in S&F Online!
S&F Online is a triannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal of feminist theories and women’s movements Read more
22 Sep, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux at 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale
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20 Sep, 2016
A trove of visual culture preserved by the archive, with live accompaniment by Pixies guitarist Paz Lenchantin. Read more
19 Sep, 2016
Buchla graduated from UC Berkeley as a physics major in 1959 and went on to create the first modular synthesizers Read more
15 Sep, 2016
Alumna Tiffany Ng Spotlighted on University of Michigan News
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12 Sep, 2016
Upcoming Women in Technology Symposium
Gender diversity among leadership teams and the broader workforce offers demonstrated advantages for innovative thinking, job satisfaction, and corporate bottom lines Read more
12 Sep, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium
This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more
09 Sep, 2016
Greg Niemeyer at Malaga Digital Art History Summer School
Niemeyer taught at the Digital Art History Summer School in Malaga, Spain from September 4th to 9th Read more
08 Sep, 2016
Revisited: Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital City
We recap a masterclass around how technology functions in relation to Jane Jacobs' notion of community in cities Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Announcing Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium
This event is a partnership between BCNM and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open!
All applications for Spring 2017 admittance are due November 1, 2016 Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Ken Goldberg at International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
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
30 Aug, 2016
Jenni Higgs & Kyle Booten Receive National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships
These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 Read more
30 Aug, 2016
Ken Goldberg on Steve Johnson's "Wonderland" Podcast
The podcast "Wonderland with Steve Johnson", recently featured BCNM's Ken Goldberg and Kate Darling to look at the "uncanny world of emotional robotics" Read more
30 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Andrea Horbinski and Japanese Manga
Horbinski researched at the Harvard Yenching Library on Japanese Manga Read more
29 Aug, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux at Ohio State University
de Monchaux will speak as a part of the Architecture school's "Get Lectured" series 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
26 Aug, 2016
Andrea Gagliano and Kyle Booten Featured on Berkeley ISchool News
A feature in the Berkeley School of Information news article "Teaching a Computer to Write Poetry" Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez and Software Aesthetics
Nicholaus Gutierrez was selected to teach "Software and Aesthetics" as a NWMEDIA R1B this past summer. Here, he describes the experience Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Grace Gipson and the Popular Culture Summer Workshop
Gipson received a summer research award from the BCNM to support her dissertation research by attending the Popular Culture Summer Research Workshop Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Will Payne on Location-Based Services
Will Payne received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on location based services Read more
11 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Reports: Ryan Ikeda on Technology as Learning
Ryan Ikeda received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on how technology in the classroom impacts modes of learning Read more
01 Aug, 2016
Many-to-Many Receives Digital Humanities Grant
Juliana Friend (Anthropology) received a Collaborative Research Grant from Digital Humanities at Berkeley for her project, Many to Many Read more
01 Aug, 2016
Bonnie Ruberg and 'Doing it for free'
Alumna Bonnie Ruberg had her article 'Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography' published in a special issue Read more
27 Jul, 2016
New #SELFIE Poetry from Alex Saum-Pascual
Readers may remember her from the No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica exhibition currently on display in the Doe Library Read more
27 Jul, 2016
Valencia: Now Available to Rent on Vimeo
Clement Hil Goldberg, recent Art Practice and BCNM DE graduate, produced the experimental feature length film with Michelle Tea Read more
25 Jul, 2016
Gail De Kosnik and the Challenges of Participatory Culture
Prof. De Kosnik traveled to Moscow, Russia to present at "Challenges of Participatory Culture: Methodologies and Perspectives of Research" Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity at Tata Communication Summit
18 Jul, 2016
Ed Campion and the Sound Habitat
This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Shannon Jackson Published in the Journal of Visual Culture
The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more
12 Jul, 2016
Now Accepting Summer 2017 Course Proposals
Not only does summer teaching provide a valuable funding opportunity, it's also a rewarding and fun learning experience! Read more
11 Jul, 2016
Greg Niemeyer and the Internet from the Inside Out.
Greg Niemeyer will create radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more
11 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the relationship between Man and Robot
11 Jul, 2016
Greetings from the New Director
We are delighted to welcome Nicholas de Monchaux to his new role as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media 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
07 Jul, 2016
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: Jennifer Hartman, Lark Buckingham, and Everything After
Jennifer Hartman was selected to work with Lark Buckingham (Art Practice) on her artistic exploration of the culture surrounding sexual violence Read more
05 Jul, 2016
Cultural Committee of the Danish Parliament Visits BCNM
The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more
05 Jul, 2016
Eric Paulos Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Eric has been a driving force in advancing research at the intersection of design, art, innovation, and development, and on campus 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
30 Jun, 2016
Laura Devendorf to Join ATLAS at CU Boulder
Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more
28 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg's accepted papers at CASE 2016
Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more
24 Jun, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual Selfie Poetry to be Exhibited
Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more
24 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci Robot Take on Suturing
Eliza Strickland featured the work of BCNM’s Ken Goldberg in developing the da Vinci robotic system's applications in the operating room Read more
21 Jun, 2016
BCNM Seed Grants 2017: Abigail De Kosnik's TorrentMap
Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Abigail De Kosnik to build her innovative tool TorrentMap Read more
18 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg and robotic system changing laparoscopic surgery
The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more
31 May, 2016
Abigail de Kosnik receives Berkeley Collegium Grant
Prof. De Kosnik received the Collegium's grant, Narrowing the Gap Between Teaching and Research Read more
26 May, 2016
The Jacobs' Institute published a Medium article on ongoing innovative projects by students, featuring BCNM's course, Critical Making! Read more
26 May, 2016
Through Practice: Ashley Ferro-Murray and Mark Lam
“Through Practice” by Ashley Ferro-Murray is a somatic exploration of the contemporary relationship between biomedicine and new media, or genetics (DNA code) Read more
26 May, 2016
Meet Lark Buckingham: Critical Design
Animator, filmmaker, performance artist, designer, tinkerer, activist, and data scientist, Lark Buckingham is a versatile and multidisciplinary provocateur. Read more
24 May, 2016
E-Literature Success in the Classroom
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23 May, 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
19 May, 2016
BCNM's Jill Miller Exhibiting at New Maternalisms
New Maternalisms: Redux, an exhibition, features BCNM's very own Jill Miller, showing "24 Hour Family Portraits" Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Graduates
Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
18 May, 2016
BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual & Kyle Booten at ELO 2016
BCNM was thrilled to be represented by Alex Saum-Pascual and Kyle Booten at the Electronic Literature Organization 2016 conference Read more
18 May, 2016
Summer Research Opportunities: Hybrid Ecologies Lab
The Hybrid Ecologies Lab, headed by Eric Paulos, is looking for skilled and passionate undergraduate and graduate students to join us this summer Read more
17 May, 2016
Congratulations to the incredible faculty and students who represented BCNM at CHI 2016, the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. Read more
17 May, 2016
Motherhood and Raspberry Pi: Challenges for Mothers in Technology
The lack of gender diversity in technology fields has become a hot topic of late, for good reason Read more
17 May, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual's #SelfiePoetry Exhibited at code/switch Chicago
If you're in Chicago this summer, don't miss out on code/switch at the Women Made Gallery Read more
17 May, 2016
Ken Goldberg Quoted in MIT Technology Review
Author Will Knight turned to BCNM's Ken Goldberg to understand the importance of the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) Read more
16 May, 2016
Ashley Ferro Murray named Curator of Theater and Dance at EMPAC
EMPAC is described as where the arts, sciences, and technology use the same facilities and technologies Read more
12 May, 2016
Akhila Raju Receives Eugene Lawler Sudent Award and Discusses Dealing with Disability in Tech
BCNM undergraduate Akhila Raju recently wrote about her journey through the computer science major at Cal while dealing with chronic depressive disorder Read more
12 May, 2016
Sivan Eldar Receives Postdoc at IRCAM
BCNM's Sivan Eldar will be heading off to Paris for an 8 month postdoc at the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (IRCAM Read more
12 May, 2016
Revisited: Critical Making Exhibition
Critical Making students operationalize and critique the practice of making through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
12 May, 2016
Eric Paulos' CS 160 Interface Design Showcase
Teams were challenged to design novel smartphone and smartwatch applications focused on health and medical themes Read more
04 May, 2016
BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more
28 Apr, 2016
Gail De Kosnik Receives Berkeley Collegium Grant
BCNM's De Kosnik has received a Berkeley Collegium grant for her joint graduate/undergraduate class, "Making Sense of Cultural Data" Read more
26 Apr, 2016
Revisited: Recasting the Tsar Bell
We recap our unveiling of an electronic replication concert of the largest bell of all time Read more
26 Apr, 2016
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: MacKenzie Alessi, John Scott, and Data Visualization
What if we could map learning in the social realm? How would classroom engagement appear and shift over time? And how could we use this data to improve teaching? Read more
19 Apr, 2016
Ashley Jerbic at the Stanford Learning Summit
Ashley has been extensively engaged in areas of research that touch upon 3D imaging, art history, art practice, and archaeology Read more
14 Apr, 2016
Recasting the Tsar Bell with John Granzow
Tthe Berkeley Center for New Media presents a interview with John Graznow, one of the many collaborators on the construction of the bell's sound Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Video Now Online: "Right to Remember"
As a part of The Regents Lectures, Brewster Kahle discussed digital archives. Watch it here. Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Revisited: "A Right to Remember"
with Brewster Kahle, invited by the UC Berkeley Regents Lecture Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Announcing 2016 Summer Research Awards
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are all completing Read more
06 Apr, 2016
Alumna Bonnie Ruberg to Join Informatics at UC Irvine
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05 Apr, 2016
Before It's Too Late - Archiving What We (Don't) Care About
An astute lesson from Brewster Kahle, archive.org founder, shared with our director Read more
05 Apr, 2016
Ken Goldberg in MIT Technology Review
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29 Mar, 2016
Revisited: Insurgent Aesthetics
Ronak Kapadia, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, gave a talk on March 18th. Read the recap here. Read more
28 Mar, 2016
Art + Design Initiative Featured in Berkeley News
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21 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Critical Play"
A recap of Mary Flanagan's lecture, recapped by Kate Mattingly. Read more
17 Mar, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual's E-Poetry Featured in Best of New Hive
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17 Mar, 2016
Announcing the Spring 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
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08 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Beyond Pixels: The Hidden Traits of Great Designers"
We revisit Steve Johnson's talk at Jacobs Center Read more
07 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Library of the Future"
We revisit this engaging discussion with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason & Brewster Kahle Read more
02 Mar, 2016
At "The Art of Humanizing Robotics" with Ken Goldberg
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02 Mar, 2016
Revisited: Regents 2016 Tour with Brewster Kahle
We explored our obsession over the tangible in a tour with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, an online library of visual artifacts Read more
25 Feb, 2016
Margaret Rhee's "Kimchi Poetry Machine"
With kimchi as a metaphor for the poetic process, Rhee creates an interactive model for presenting poetry Read more
23 Feb, 2016
Revisited: "Proxies and Placeholders"
A recap of Hito Steyerl's incredible lecture! Read more
19 Feb, 2016
Ken Goldberg and a Wake-Up Call for California
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16 Feb, 2016
Revisited: "Machine Generated Culpability"
Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more
11 Feb, 2016
BCNM Faculty Teaching New Data Arts Class
BCNM's Greg Niemeyer will be teaching Data Arts, a new online course in Arts Practice this fall Read more
10 Feb, 2016
Final Report on Women of Wikipedia Pilot Program
The WOW! Editing Group created a pilot program with the goal of creating a nurturing, safe, and fun environment for new Wikipedia women editors Read more
02 Feb, 2016
BCNM Faculty at the Forefront of Discussion on Coordinated Monitoring
BCNM faculty were featured in a recent New York Times piece on monitoring and data security in the UC system Read more
21 Jan, 2016
Papers from Precarious Aesthetics
Last October BCNM invited scholars from around the world to come together and explore the complexity of the image and representation in the digital age Read more
19 Jan, 2016
Why Alex Saum Pascual Writes #SELFIEPOETRY
"Fake Art Histories & the Inscription of the Digital Self" is an ongoing series of e-poems via the online platform NewHive Read more
07 Jan, 2016
Nicholas De Monchaux on Apple, Star Wars, and the Way the World Looks
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10 Dec, 2015
Video Now Online: "Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process"
Watch this ATC lecture by Adrien Segal online here Read more
04 Dec, 2015
Meet BCNM Undergrad Andrew Frankel
A part of sound artist Tarek Atoui's BAM/PFA Matrix program at UC Berkeley. Read more
02 Dec, 2015
Revisited: "Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process"
A summary of Adrien Segal's talk earlier this week, accompanied by photos and a social media round-up! Read more
01 Dec, 2015
New Undergraduates Announcement!
Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Shannon Jackson in 809 | Artists as Activists
A discussion panel of Chicago-based artists who use their art to create social impact Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Kate Mattingly on the Forty Part Motet
BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at De Young Museum
On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more
23 Nov, 2015
Announcing our Newest Cohort of Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate Students
We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more
19 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Precarious Aesthetics Conference"]
Keynote speakers included: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago; Christine Ross, McGill University; Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley; Jeffrey Skoller, UC Berkeley; Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook University; W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago Read more
17 Nov, 2015
From a young age, Andrea was drawn to fantasy and science fiction Read more
17 Nov, 2015
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
17 Nov, 2015
Raised in an Anglo-Spanish household in Madrid, Alex has always been fascinated by language Read more
16 Nov, 2015
Revisited: "Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing"
with Benjamin Bratton
a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) Read more
09 Nov, 2015
First Set of Precarious Aesthetics Papers Online
You can read excerpts from the paper below and also click the paper titles to read the full text of the documents Read more
05 Nov, 2015
Video Now Online: "Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies"
Watch the video of Julian Oliver's lecture here Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
03 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Tarek Atoui's MATRIX 258
Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more
02 Nov, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual Teaching Spanish E-Lit this Spring
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28 Oct, 2015
HTNM 5th Anniversary and Revisited: "Technologies of Simulation"
with Claus Pias
Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more
26 Oct, 2015
Shannon Jackson's New Retrospective of "The Builders Association"
Founded in 1994, the company has forged a reputation for work that blurs medium, genre, and temporality through masterful video, architecture, sound, and text interrogation Read more
21 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg's book review in Nature
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20 Oct, 2015
Video Now Online: Panel Ten from Precarious Aesthetics Conference
Featuring Kristen Whissel (UC Berkeley), Andrew Utterson (Ithaca College), Jordan Schonig (University of Chicago) Read more
20 Oct, 2015
Kate Mattingly on Dancer's Group
12 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2015 Conference
Ken was a co-author on "Transition State Clustering: Unsupervised Surgical Trajectory Segmentation For Robot Learning " Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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08 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Recommended Spring 16 Courses Now Out!
Check out the highlights of new media courses on offer this Spring 2016! And here are a few we're proud to be offering. Read more
06 Oct, 2015
New Spring 2016 Undergrad E-Lit Course!
This upper-division undergraduate course epitomizes digital humanities - literary analysis alongside basic programming skills and DH tools and methods! Read more
01 Oct, 2015
Video Now Online: Vito Acconci
Didn't snag a seat at Vito Acconci's ATC lecture? We saved one for you here. Read more
01 Oct, 2015
Field Notes: Kyle Booten and a Digital Verse Lab
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29 Sep, 2015
On the American artist and architect's lecture, "Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air" Read more
28 Sep, 2015
Interactive seating – A course on design innovation
The CITRIS Invention Lab is practically the home of contemporary innovation at Berkeley Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Announcing the 2015-2016 ATC Series!
The theme of this year’s program is “Global Circulations.” Lectures will be held in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall from 7:30-9:00pm on Monday evenings Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Earthquakes on your mind? Check out Ken Goldberg’s artwork, Bloom.
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24 Sep, 2015
Announcing the 2015-2016 HTNM Series!
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23 Sep, 2015
Ken Goldberg's "Body in White" on Exhibition October 8
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21 Sep, 2015
T. Geronimo Johnson's “Welcome to Braggsville” Longlisted for National Book Award
"Welcome to Braggsville" relates the humorous story of four UC Berkeley students who plot a protest against a Civil War re-enactment in a segregated Southern town Read more
01 Sep, 2015
Summer Dispatches 2015: Andrea Horbinski
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01 Sep, 2015
Calling Artists, Coders, E-Lit Lovers: GSR Opportunity
Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual! Read more
20 Aug, 2015
Valkyrie Savage's CS 160 Showcase
This summer BCNM DE Valkyrie Savage (Computer Science) taught the popular course Computer Science 160: User Interface Design and Development Read more
17 Aug, 2015
Ada Initiative Shutting Down
The Ada Initiative helps women get involved and stay involved in open source, open data, open education, and other areas of free and open technology and culture Read more
13 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual: Exhibitions, Research, and Writing
06 Aug, 2015
Field Notes: Teaching Nostalgia & the Future in New Media
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05 Aug, 2015
Alex Saum-Pascual E-Literature Class Funded by Digital Humanities
We're thrilled to see that Alex Saum-Pascual's (Spanish) new electronic literature course has been funded by Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley! Read more
04 Aug, 2015
ArtReach Studio Residencies Applications Open
ArtReach is a non-profit mobile arts organization that is reframing the artist residency Read more
03 Aug, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: Kiera Chase
Kiera Chase's dissertation refines cognitive-science theoretical models that illuminate opportunities in children’s development of mathematical concepts Read more
30 Jul, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: KC Forcier
Here's what KC Forcier gained from the experience Read more
29 Jul, 2015
Smart Chairs in California Magazine
22 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Lark Buckingham
20 Jul, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Tarek Atoui
From the electroacoustic composer's lecture, "DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments" Read more
20 Jul, 2015
"The Builders Association" by Shannon Jackson Now Available
A new book by Shannon Jackson is now out! Read more
06 Jul, 2015
Björn Hartmann Receives Teaching Award
02 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Bonnie Ruberg
02 Jul, 2015
Propose a Summer 2015 Course
We are now accepting proposals for New Media courses that can be taught in the summer session of 2016 from our graduate students and faculty! Read more
30 Jun, 2015
Björn Hartmann Awarded Tenure
26 Jun, 2015
Gail De Kosnik Awarded Tenure
Congratulations, Gail De Kosnik for being awarded tenure in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and New Media! Read more
25 Jun, 2015
Greg Niemeyer on Data Privacy at NOST
24 Jun, 2015
Two Additional New Media Studio Courses Now Offered Fall 2015
Both courses will offer hands-on practice and satisfy the new media Designated Emphasis technology-focused requirement Read more
23 Jun, 2015
The Berkeley Center for New Media was well represented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2015 in Victoria, Canada this year! Read more
22 Jun, 2015
Berkeley Public Schools at CITRIS Invention Lab
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17 Jun, 2015
Fall 2015 Events Sneak Preview
Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more
15 Jun, 2015
Margaret Rhee Robot Poetry Collection
Radio Heart is an excerpt from her larger full-length collection Love, Robot currently under review Read more
10 Jun, 2015
Ken Goldberg Finalist at ICRA 2015
12 May, 2015
Revisited: Aesthetic Interfaces 2015 Exhibition
Projects approached UI design from many angles and different purposes Read more
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
28 Apr, 2015
Kate Mattingly Writes on Joe Goode Performance Group
She discusses how the Joe Goode Performance Group is developing the piece "Poetics of Space", which is slated to open this September Read more
21 Apr, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Rirkrit Tiravanija
A March lecture on his art exhibition, now at YBCA Read more
21 Apr, 2015
Shannon Jackson to be Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts and Design
faculty member in rhetoric as well as theater, dance and performance studies (TDPS), Shannon Jackson currently directs the campus’s Arts Research Center Read more
15 Apr, 2015
Revisited: Jesse and Glenda Drew
From their probing talk, "A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat," a part of the ATC series here at BCNM Read more
08 Apr, 2015
Revisiting the Collaboration Gala
BCNM turned ten! Read more
07 Apr, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Reality Environments
View the recording of this ATC lecture, "Reality Environments" Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Summer 2015 Research Awards
BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more
31 Mar, 2015
Bonnie Ruberg to Join USC
Bonnie will be teaching and conducting research under the guidance of game industry veterans Read more
24 Mar, 2015
Precarious Aesthetics Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more
18 Mar, 2015
BCNM Welcomes Spring 2015 DE & Certificate Students
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
17 Mar, 2015
Abigail De Kosnik wins Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award
Prof. De Kosnik has shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting graduate students Read more
17 Mar, 2015
Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon in the press
Over the course of the day, participants created new articles and enhanced existing entries relating to women and art Read more
11 Mar, 2015
Tiffany Ng to be University of Michigan Carilloneur
She is Visiting Instructor of Music History at St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley Read more
10 Mar, 2015
ATC Revisited: Tarek Atoui
We review the electroacoustic artist's riveting talk on instumentation for those hard of hearing Read more
10 Mar, 2015
from the UCSB professor's talk, "Against the Cultural Singularity" Read more
03 Mar, 2015
Announcing the 2015 Peter Lyman Fellow
he Fellowship seeks to support a Ph.D. candidate in the writing of his or her dissertation on a topic related to new media through a summer stipend Read more
17 Feb, 2015
The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more
11 Feb, 2015
Kimiko's research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of beyond-desktop computational media Read more
11 Feb, 2015
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Being the Machine is a project that explores the relationship between humans-that-make and machines-that-make Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Gail is currently focused on the following projects Read more
09 Feb, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Caroline Woolard
Part of the ATC Lecture series Read more
09 Feb, 2015
T. Geronimo Johnson Releases New Novel
His first novel, Hold It ’Til It Hurts, was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Read more
04 Feb, 2015
Natural Frequencies Feature by KQED
03 Feb, 2015
Revisited: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance
A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for Innovation in New Media
Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more
21 Jan, 2015
Hack the Bells Dispatch from Sarah Stierch
Sarah Stierch spearheaded Hack the Bells, the world's first carillon remix competition Read more
20 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Rick Lowe
A recording of the community organizer's lecture, "Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial" Read more
15 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Cheryl Haines
From her lecture, "Creative Interventions and Social Activation" Read more
14 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Maya Lin
The recording of this highly anticipated lecture by the great architect Maya Lin Read more
13 Jan, 2015
Margaret Rhee Co-Edits Issue 6 of Ada
The special issue, entitled "Hacking the Black/White Binary," features a unique section called "Feminist Hacks" Read more
12 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Brett Cook
A wonderful lecture on community and dialogue, available right here. Read more
15 Dec, 2014
Revisited: "Count Me In - Walking & the City"
On Thursday, December 11th, the Berkeley Center for New Media, in partnership with.. Read more
15 Dec, 2014
Revisited: Smartwatch Presentation
Eric Paulos' CS160: User Interface Design Course was presented the challenge and opportunity of creating app which incorporate both smartphones and the Toq Smartwatc Read more
10 Dec, 2014
Tangible User Interfaces Student Project Exhibition
Kimiko Ryokai's NWMEDIA/INFO C262: Tangible User Interfaces created new products aimed at shifting the way we interact with technology Read more
09 Dec, 2014
Questioning New Media Final Presentations
Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement Read more
18 Nov, 2014
HTNM Revisited: Fred Turner
Megan Hoetger (TDPS) revisits Fred Turner’s recent History and Theory of New Media Lecture Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Welcoming New DE and Certificate Students
05 Nov, 2014
Interactive Seating Design Competition
The Jacob's Institute for Design Innovation is offering this great class for undergraduate students! Information here. Read more
04 Nov, 2014
ATC Revisited: Cheryl Haines
At “Creative Interventions and Social Activation” on November 3rd, Cheryl Haines discussed her collaboration with the artist and activist Ai Weiwei Read more
14 Oct, 2014
Image as Location – Xavier Lucchesi "Glance Inside the Body"
Xavier Lucchesi’s art takes the traditions of the nude, the portrait, and the still life into the digital age Read more
30 Sep, 2014
We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more
30 Sep, 2014
ATC Video Now Online: John Perry Barlow
Thoughts on life's purpose, monotheism, and working with the Grateful Dead -- all in one video, here Read more
03 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence Read more
02 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more
27 Aug, 2014
Revisited: BCNM Open House
To welcome students and faculty to campus, the Center for New Media hosted an exciting open house Read more
13 Aug, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Laura Devendorf
Laura Devendorf (Information) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award Read more
01 Aug, 2014
This month, hear how BCNM Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch supports open source information through diversifying Wikipedia and digitizing small museums’ archives
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22 Jul, 2014
Why We Love Robots Wins Botsker
The Robot Film Festival is "an annual celebration of robots on screen and in performance" Read more
21 Jul, 2014
The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more
01 Jul, 2014
Ashley Ferro-Murray Publications
Fellow BCNM DE Margaret Rhee interviewed Ashley for her HASTAC blog, and you can read their wonderful and illuminating conversation here Read more
01 Jul, 2014
Meet Kimiko Ryokai and Laura Devendorf
We’re sharing ten stories of BCNM’s life so far Read more
10 Jun, 2014
Joseph Akel in the Paris Review
Joseph is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric Read more
04 Jun, 2014
Shot and Captured by Naomi Bragin in The Drama Review
This piece grows from Naomi's past teaching at Youth Uprising community center in East Oakland Read more
02 Jun, 2014
We're celebrating our 10th year! Hear how BCNM professor Eric Paulos designs devices that transform how we understand our world Read more
29 May, 2014
Margaret Rhee — A Feminist History of Kimchi
This Friday, she will facilitating a kimchi poetry activity along with performance artist Erin O'Brien Read more
19 May, 2014
Cyberphysical Democracy: Online Platforms and Offline Action
Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more
07 May, 2014
FILM 151 with Renée Pastel
“I think everyone enjoys a nice murder, provided he is not the victim.” ~Alfred Hitchcock Read more
05 May, 2014
In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more
01 May, 2014
Jen Schradie has never been afraid to confront the societal inequality she witnesses Read more
24 Apr, 2014
Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class
We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more
22 Apr, 2014
How Computers Shape Our Minds
BCNM former Director and Executive Committee member David Bates details how computers shape our minds in this article in Le Monde! Read more
18 Apr, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more
16 Apr, 2014
On Saturday, March 29th the Berkeley Center for New Media collaborated with Impossible.com to bring to the Bay Area the Impossible Hackathon Read more
15 Apr, 2014
Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept
A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more
15 Apr, 2014
ATC Revisited: Stephanie Syjuco
The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” Read more
10 Apr, 2014
Announcing BCNM's 2014 Summer Research Awards
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
07 Apr, 2014
Playing Race with Bonnie Ruberg
This summer, BCNM DE Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching New Media 150 AC – “Playing Race: Investigating American Racial Identities through Video Games,” which will fulfill the American Cultures requirement Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Meet BCNM's Gail De Kosnik and the Fan Data & Net Differences Team
These UC Berkeley professors have pioneered new methods of exploring internet cultures Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Technology Services and Training Fellowship
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
27 Mar, 2014
The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends – The Atlantic
Carla Diana, panelist in BCNM's upcoming Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, published "The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends" in the Atlantic Read more
26 Mar, 2014
Presenting the Robots and New Media Symposium
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
24 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Don Buchla
Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
19 Mar, 2014
Books in Browsers Conference Proceedings
We're thrilled to see Futures of the Book partner, the Books in Browsers conference, share their conference proceedings Read more
18 Mar, 2014
Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting a WikiWomen's edit-a-thon to encourage The more women to edit Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia’s coverage of women's history Read more
18 Mar, 2014
HTNM Revisited: The Black Box, the Light Box and Photo-Receptivity
A contribution by Katherine Chandler on Alexander Galloway's recent HTNM talk Read more
06 Mar, 2014
Announcing the 2014 Peter Lyman Fellow
The Fellowship seeks to support a Ph.D. candidate in the writing of his or her dissertation on a topic related to new media through a summer stipend Read more
04 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Casey Reas
The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more
03 Mar, 2014
This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Ng explores urban spaces through the architecture of music. Read more
24 Feb, 2014
TTT Revisted: Create Your Bot Hackathon
This past Saturday, the Turing Test Tournament Team at the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the Create Your Chatbot Hackathon Read more
11 Feb, 2014
HTNM Revisited: Lisa Nakamura, "Indigenous Circuits"
Professor Nakamura took a closer look at archival documents left from the largely invisbilized history of a corporation that employed thousands of Navajo women from the '60s to '70s Read more
03 Feb, 2014
Connect with BCNM's Ashley Bellouin and Rare Instruments
Bellouin's music is otherworldly, haunting, and as unique as the instrument that created it Read more
28 Jan, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more
21 Jan, 2014
Connect with BCNM's Naomi Bragin and Street Dance
This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Naomi Bragin explores power structures through street dance. Read more
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
12 Dec, 2013
Tangible User Interfaces Exhibit
A course taught by Kimiko Ryokai Read more
04 Dec, 2013
Zhang Ga concluded this semester’s Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium with “From Timelapse to Timecollapse: Rethinking New Media Art and Platform China” Read more
20 Nov, 2013
Now Accepting Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship Applications
Applications Due: February 1, 2014 Read more
19 Nov, 2013
Announcing October 2013 Turing Test Tournament Winner
Every month, BCNM and OTSP recognize a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score Read more
19 Nov, 2013
ATC Revisited: Laetitia Sonami
On her talk, "Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism” Read more
06 Nov, 2013
A Response to Eyal Weizman’s “Forensic Architecture” by Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric and Designated Emphasis in New Media) Read more
29 Oct, 2013
Revisited: Creating Minds
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
15 Oct, 2013
First Winner of the Turing Test Tournament
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
24 Sep, 2013
HTNM Revisited: Peter Lunenfeld
24 Sep, 2013
HTNM Blog - Peter Lunenfeld
Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric) responds to the most recent History & Theory of New Media Lecture Read more
17 Sep, 2013
BCNM Accepting Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate Applications!
05 Sep, 2013
Announcing the Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series
Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more
04 Sep, 2013
BCNM Faculty Camille Crittenden Featured on the PBS Idea Lab
Crittenden recently published a blog post entitled "Public Open Data: the Good, the Bad, the Future" Read more
28 Aug, 2013
The Color of New Media Working Group
Supported by UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. Organized by Professor Abigail De Kosnik (BCNM, TDPS) Read more
14 Aug, 2013
Announcing the 2013-2014 History and Theory in New Media Lecture Series
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
22 Jul, 2013
We are excited to announce the launch of a new online chat game for UC Berkeley's incoming class of 2013, the Turing Test Tournament. 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
08 May, 2013
BCNM to create Turing Test game for "On the Same Page" program
The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answer Read more
07 May, 2013
BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media
Congratulations to all! Read more
23 Apr, 2013
BCNM New Media Students showcase Research at Spring Semester Presentation
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
10 Apr, 2013
BCNM Welcomes New Students to the DE & Graduate Certificate in New Media
We are delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs! Read more
03 Apr, 2013
Summer 2013 Course Offerings in New Media - Digital Activism, NWMEDIA 150AC
Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 Read more
03 Apr, 2013
Learning Mode Conference Recap & Highlight Video
Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more
02 Apr, 2013
ATC Lecture: Alexander Long, "Land Art for the Next 10,000 Years"
How do you build an monument scale sculptural machine that will last as long as civilization? Read more
26 Mar, 2013
Report from the Audience: Ken Goldberg Speaks on Film "Robot and Frank"
An account of a screening of the film "Robot and Frank," by Charlotte Capaldo Read more
19 Mar, 2013
Announcing the 2013 Peter Lyman Fellow, T. Geronimo Johnson
For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” Read more
19 Mar, 2013
ATC Lecture: "Art of the Exoskeleton: 3D Printing for the Human Condition"
By Scott Summit, designer and founder of Bespoke Innovations Read more
27 Feb, 2013
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium, February 14, 2013
Exciting and innovative new UC Berkeley research projects weree presented at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). Read some of our students' research here! Read more
27 Feb, 2013
BCNM faculty, Kimiko Ryokai, wins Google Faculty Research Award
20 Feb, 2013
Björn Hartmann awarded 2013 Sloan Foundation Fellowship
06 Feb, 2013
Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education
*Update: online registration is now full, however please feel free to register for the wait list Read more
15 Jan, 2013
Call for Applications: Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media
Summer Stipend of $5,000
Applications Due: February 11, 2013
Read more
21 Dec, 2012
Body Conscious Design, Hsin-Hsien Chiu, Featured in Taiwanese Design Magazine La Vie
Hsin-Hsien Chiu, Ph.D. candidate in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
10 Dec, 2012
BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research
Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more
04 Dec, 2012
BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media
We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more
26 Nov, 2012
T. Geronimo Johnson receives advance praise for his new book "Hold it 'Til it Hurts"
An exploration of the bond between two brothers awash with questions of race, disaster and war Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Tablets, Africa's Next Leap-Frog Technology
by Reginold Royston, Ph.D. candidate in the African Diaspora Program with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
07 Nov, 2012
Interface Design for Intelligent Elderly Home Care Environments
Hsin-Hsien visited Living 3.0, a national research institution based in Taiwan, to learn more about the latest technologies that are being used to create smart space Read more
29 Oct, 2012
Cyberculture and Access in Ghana
Reginold Royston has been in Accra, Ghana since 2012, doing dissertation research on Internet access and local cyberculture Read more
24 Oct, 2012
Printable Loudspeaker Arrays for Flexible Substrates and Interactive Surfaces
Jess Rowland, M.F.A. Art Practice, Certificate in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
15 Oct, 2012
BCNM Welcomes 2012-13 Visiting Artist, Ashley Bellouin
The Berkeley Center for New Media hosts an artist in residence annually, providing them with a space in which to explore the boundaries of their work and experiment with new ideas Read more
01 Oct, 2012
Spring 2013: Eric Paulos Teaches "Critical Making: Materials, Protocols, and Culture"
Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
01 Oct, 2012
"A Note on Triumph" Meshes Acoustics with Digital Sounds to Create Hybrid Instruments
Sivan Eldar, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in the Music Department with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
19 Sep, 2012
Nicholas de Monchaux Presents Exhibit at the Venice Biennale, US Architecture Pavilion
Titled "Spontaneous Interventions : Design Actions for the Common Good" Read more
04 Sep, 2012
BCNM students collaborate on ZERO1 Biennial performance piece "Tulle/Tool"
Ashley Ferro-Murray and Erin Colleen Johnson recently collaborated on "Tulle/Tool," a performance piece commissioned by ZERO1 Biennial Read more
31 Aug, 2012
Alenda Chang, Ph.D. Rhetoric, DE in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
08 Aug, 2012
New Media Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM DE's
Congratulations to the following students! Read more
13 Jun, 2012
Video Art in the BCNM Commons - New Work by Henry Witecki, "The Bridge" (2012)
14 May, 2012
Who’s Achievement? — Evaluating Self-Constructed and Peer-Evaluated Badge Systems in Online Classrooms
14 May, 2012
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium
This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more
07 May, 2012
Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Innovation at Chicago's Field Museum
Professor and BCNM Executive Committee member Paz Gutierrez will be exhibiting one of her digitally fabricated walls made of agricultural infill at the Field Museum Read more
07 May, 2012
Welcoming BCNM's New DE and Certificate Students
We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more
05 Apr, 2012
AirQuest’s objective is to make scientific data playable and accessible to all. Read more
07 Mar, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Peter Lyman Fellow
For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more
01 Feb, 2012
A Variation on the Powers of Ten: Framework for Understanding Research
Currently, Powers of Ten will be showing at SFMOMA Six Lines of Flight on Sept. 15-Dec. 30, 2012
Read more
11 Jan, 2012
Artist Talk with Walter Kim on Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces
Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more
17 Nov, 2011
Call for Applications: Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media
Applications due February 6, 2012 Read more
25 Oct, 2011
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011)
We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more
12 Sep, 2011
Turning Data into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at CITRIS
01 Sep, 2011
Position Open: Assistant Professor, New Media, Tenure Track
Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more
31 Aug, 2011
The Tomato Quintet at Machine Project, Los Angeles, involved five pods filled with Tomatoes Read more
29 Aug, 2011
HyperSource: Bridging the Gap Between Source and Code-Related Web Sites
01 Aug, 2011
Data-Driven Elastic Models for Cloth: Modeling and Measurement
Read more
28 Jul, 2011
"Kinemathics": Kinetically Induced Mathematical Learning
Dor Abrahamson, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Education Cognition and Development: Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology, UC Berkeley Read more
25 Jul, 2011
Are We There Yet?, A Responsive Sound Installation, Ken Goldberg & Gil Gershoni, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Read more
14 Jul, 2011
Eden: A Professional Multitouch Tool for Constructing Virtual Organic Environments
15 Jun, 2011
CITRIS Launches Data and Democracy Initiative
Read more
Next deadline – 1 November, 2024
Designated Emphasis Program
Next deadline – November 1, 2024
Next deadline — October 1, 2023.
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
Applications are now open. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
Applications for Summer 2024 are due March 5, 2024.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 18, 2024
Applications are due March 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Next deadline - November 1, 2024
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Applications are due March 1, 2024
AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
Applications are now open. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
Applications for Summer 2024 are due March 5, 2024.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 18, 2024
Applications are due March 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Next deadline - November 1, 2024
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Applications are due March 1, 2024
AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
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