10 Sep, 2024 Art, Tech & Culture You've Just Been F$%^#d By PSYOPs: UFOs, Magic, Electronic Warfare, Mind Control, Artificial Intelligence, and the Death of the Internet with Trevor Paglen Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Filmmaker, Investigator, and Technologist An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture co-sponsored by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) and the Arts Research Center (ARC) 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
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
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
18 Mar, 2021 Conference Fandom + Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Panel with Jennifer Holt, Brewster Kahle, Alexander Dent, and Keller Easterling Read more
04 Mar, 2021 Conference Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction” with Kavita Philip The President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at the University of British Columbia and a Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures 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
30 Jan, 2020 Special Events Digitality, Racial Capitalism, and the Informatics of Value with Seb Franklin Senior Lecturer, King's College London 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
02 Mar, 2017 History & Theory The Pirate Function with Kavita Philip, Associate Professor of History 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
26 Jan, 2015 Art, Tech & Culture What Is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Art Degrees? An ATC lecture by Caroline Woolard Read more
31 May, 2014 Art, Tech & Culture Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems A part of our Arts and Technology Colloquium, Stephanie Syjuco - visual artist and educator - bestows a lecture Read more
19 Nov, 2012 Art, Tech & Culture Telesthesia: How Class and Power work in the Post-Internet Age In this ATC lecture, McKenzie Wark (Associate Prof. of Media and Culture at the New School) will talk about the changing meaning of digital communication within class relations 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
21 Oct, 2024 Trevor Paglen in MIT Press Reader BCNM alum Trevor Paglen reveals the unsettling biases and alienating effects of generative AI in The MIT Press Reader. Read more
13 Oct, 2024 Announcing BCNM's Fall 2024 Conference Grant Recipients The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more
01 Oct, 2024 Summer Research Reports: Lee Crandall on Visualizing Crypto-Economic/Ecologic Networks BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Lee Crandall on Visualizing Crypto-Economic/Ecologic Networks! Read more
25 Jul, 2024 Conference Grant Reports: William Morgan at Politics of the Machines William Morgan presented "Human-AI Interaction Design (HAIID): Synthetic Personae, Shoggoths and Alignment." 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
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
22 Feb, 2024 The Immediates Hannah Zeavin has a new article on the telepath and psychoanalysis in Tank. 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
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
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. Read more
20 Jun, 2023 Trevor Paglen's PsyOps We're moving from “surveillance capitalism” to an even more manipulative era, the artist said. Read more
30 May, 2023 Conference Grants: Harry Burson at SCMS Harry Burson presented his paper, "“Metaverse, Multiverse, Server-verse: Fantasies of Control and Connection”, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference. Read more
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
02 Apr, 2023 Kaitlin Forcier Reviews Surfing with Satoshi Alum Kaitlin Forcier reviews Domenico Quaranta's Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs in Media-N! Read more
18 Nov, 2022 BCNM at 4S 2022 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. 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
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
13 Oct, 2022 Tom McEnaney on the Problems of Removing Accents from Call Centers Tom speaks on the issues involved in filtering accented speech in a talk with KQED. 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
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
14 Sep, 2021 Playing Nature Reviewed in Media + Environment BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment. Read more
03 Jun, 2021 Transcript Now Online: Piracy & Capitalism Check out the transcript for the Piracy & Capitalism Panel! Read more
25 Apr, 2021 Watch Alenda Chang Talk on Playing for the Planet BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series. Read more
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 Feb, 2021 BCNM at UUU Virtual exhibition UUU (Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021) recently opened and features BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual and Jill Miller! Check it out! 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
02 Dec, 2020 danah boyd on Philanthropy's Techno-Solutionism Problem danah boyd recently wrote a paper titled "Philanthropy’s Techno-Solutionism Problem" for the Knight Foundation. 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
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 Spring 2021 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
12 Nov, 2020 Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
02 Sep, 2020 Abigail De Kosnik Named the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media Photo credit: John Lawson 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
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
05 Feb, 2020 BCNM at SLSA 2019 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
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
06 Jan, 2020 Alex Saum-Pascual on Fragmentation and the Digital City Alex offers an analysis of Vicente Luis Mora's Circular 07. Las afueras. Read more
02 Dec, 2019 Abigail De Kosnik on Baby Yoda in the Washington Post BCNM Director Abigail de Kosnik wrote about the Baby Yoda "GIF Takedown" and why it matters in a recent article for the Washington Post. 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
04 Aug, 2019 Damon Young Publishes Ironies of Web 2.0 Issue 2 "How to be Now" of Post 45 features Damon Young's investigation of irony in the age of the internet. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 ATC 2018-2019 In Review Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
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
25 Jan, 2019 Special Issue: Queerness & Video Games Co-Edited by Alum Bonnie Ruberg Bonnie Ruberg collaborates with Amanda Phillips on a special issue titled Not Gay as in Happy: Queer Resistance and Video Games. Read more
28 Nov, 2018 Jacob Gaboury at Situations Jacob Gaboury presented a lecture on queer computing and the concept of data processing beyond successful communication. Read more
15 Oct, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen at Extra City Kunsthal in Belgium Alum Trevor Paglen's work is in the exhibit "Extra States: Nations in Liquidation" at Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerpen, Belgium. 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
11 Apr, 2018 ATC Revisited: Irena Haiduk Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month. Read more
11 Jan, 2018 SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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