25 Oct, 2021 Commons Conversations Design Futures with Eric Rodenbeck Founder, Stamen Design Moderated by Eric Paulos Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) 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
12 Oct, 2020 Commons Conversations Cultural Heritage & Cultural Consumption with Gu Jiang National Center for Industry Research Nanjing University 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
17 Apr, 2017 Commons Conversations Degrees of Visibility with Ashley Hunt co-director of the California Institute of the Arts' Photography and Media Program Read more
03 Mar, 2017 Commons Conversations Designing for Truth 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 Our Landscape Futures with Geoff Manaugh, NYT best-selling author Read more
27 Jul, 2023 Fall 2023 BCNM Events 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
31 Oct, 2022 Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Ken Ueno Check out the video and transcript from this incredible conversation. Read more
22 Jul, 2022 Fall 2022 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Featuring BCNM poet alums Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, UCB Professor of Music Ken Ueno, Indigenous Technologies, and more! Read more
06 Jan, 2022 Spring 2022 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
30 Jul, 2021 Fall 2021 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers and online events! Featuring more events from our Indigenous Technologies Initiative, the artists Lisa Reihana and Maria Thereza Alves, and more. Read more
24 Nov, 2020 Commons Conversations Video and Transcript Now Online: Blockchain Chicken Farm Read more
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
10 Nov, 2020 Commons Conversations: Gu Jiang Transcript Now Online Interested in getting the transcript for Prof. Gu Jiang's great talk on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Consumption! We have you covered! Read more
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
11 Aug, 2020 Fall 2020 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! 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
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 Apr, 2017 Revisited: "Conveying Climate Change" Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, discussed how art can support science in advance of the Science March on Washington 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
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
16 Mar, 2017 Commons Conversations Video Now Online: "Radical Technologies" with Adam Greenfield Read more
16 Mar, 2017 Commons Conversations: Ian Ingram Revisited We recap this illuminating, wildly humorous talk, "Wild Robots: Bodies and Signs" 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
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