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10 Apr, 2025 Special Events

BCNM 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference

with BCNN alumni Andrea Gagliano, Brooke Belisle, Caitlin Marshall, Cesar Torres, David Humphrey, Katherine Chandler, Kris Paulsen, Laura Devendorf, Naomi Bragin, R. Stuart Geiger, Tiare Ribeaux, Therese Tierney, Will Payne (and more!)

A BCNM special event co-sponsored by the School of Information, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Department of African American Studies Read more

11 Oct, 2024 History & Theory

Games @ Berkeley

with Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future; Greg Niemeyer, Data Artist and Professor of Media Innovation, UC Berkeley; Alex Leavitt, Principal Researcher, Roblox; Scotty Hoag, Interactive Software Engineer, Sphere Entertainment; Bo Ruberg, Professor, Film & Media Studies, School of Humanities, UC Irvine; Alenda Y. Chang, Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Christopher J. Goetz, Associate Professor, Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; Rob Curl, Museum Historian and Research Manager at the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment; Phil Salvador, Library Director, Video Game History Foundation; Danny O'Dwyer, Founder, Noclip; Henry Lowood, Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and Curator for Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries

A History and Theory of New Media special event co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 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

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

ELO 2023 | Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change 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

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

14 Apr, 2022 Art, Tech & Culture

George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook

with Seitu Jones
Artist, Saint Paul, Minnesota

Presented in partnership the Department of Art Practice and co-sponsored by American Cultures. Read more

30 Sep, 2021 Special Events

The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online

with Kelly Baker Josephs
Professor of English at York College, CUNY

Presented by Media Studies and co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department and BCNM. Read more

18 Mar, 2021 Conference

Fandom + Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Panel

with Jennifer Holt, Brewster Kahle, Alexander Dent, and Keller Easterling Read more

11 Mar, 2021 Conference

Fandom + Piracy: Fandom & Race Panel

with andré carrington, Racquel Gates, Alfred Martin, and Rukmini Pande 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 Feb, 2021 Conference

Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “How should we theorize injury in fan studies?”

with Rebecca Wanzo

Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Washington University in St. Louis 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

15 Sep, 2020 Workshops

BCNM Student Orientation & Hangout

Join us for an online hangout with BCNM faculty and staff to learn more about new media at Cal! 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

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

23 Apr, 2019 Special Events

DataEDGE 2019

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

18 Mar, 2019 Commons Conversations

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

with Bonnie Ruberg
University of California, Irvine Read more

12 Feb, 2019 Special Events

DataEDGE 2019

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

08 Feb, 2019 Special Events

HIGH/LOW: Taste, Quality, and Resolution

Film & Media Graduate Student Conference
February 8-9, 2019 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

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

16 Apr, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture

Abolition Feminisms

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
Read more

12 Apr, 2018 Special Events

EV’RY BODY, THIS TIME: A Sexuality Studies Conference

A conference free and open to the public hosted by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and co-sponsored by BCNM. 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

05 Apr, 2018 Special Events

Neural Nets: Readings of Electronic Writing

With Alex Saum, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Boluk & more

Presented in partnership with the Peder Sather Grant 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

05 Mar, 2018 Special Events

Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework

with Moya Bailey
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

Co-sponsored by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; the BAD CRIPP community forum; Professor Karen Nakamura, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies; and the Disability Studies Research Cluster 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

14 Nov, 2017 Special Events

The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Workshop

with Scott Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture, Norway.
Presented in partnership with Digital Humanities at Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Peder Sather Grant. 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

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

08 May, 2017 Special Events

DataEdge Conference

Leading experts will discuss ways in which organizations are addressing issues at large in our fast-changing social environment. Read more

25 Apr, 2017 Commons Conversations

Digital Dissent

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

19 Apr, 2017 Special Events

Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism

with DJ Spooky Read more

24 Feb, 2017 Special Events

Syncing… Subject, Media, Society.

This year is the 25th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference! Don't miss it! 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

03 Nov, 2016 Special Events

Books in Browsers VII—Telling Small Stories

Don't let yourself or any book lover you know miss this summit in San Francisco, CA at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts! Read more

27 Sep, 2016 Special Events

Jane Jacobs and the Digital City

in partnership with SPUR San Francisco Read more

22 Sep, 2016

& Media Student Conference

with Kristopher Fallon (Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis) and Jenny Odell (Digital Media Artist) 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

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

30 Oct, 2015 Workshops

Networked Surveillance: Masterclass with Julian Oliver

A crash course in reading network topologies as political control structures, with discussions Read more

28 Oct, 2015 Special Events

Manufacturing Transparency Conference

An exciting, interdisciplinary symposium on secrecy, publicity, and authenticity Read more

17 Oct, 2015 Workshops

2015 Queerness and Games Conference

QGCon is now in its second year of celebrating LGBT identities in gaming. Free to public. 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

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

15 Jun, 2015 Special Events

QGCON Call for Proposals

The Queerness and Games Conference, hosted here at UC Berkeley, wants to know your thoughts on gaming and inclusivity, and more Read more

01 May, 2015 Special Events

Precarious Aesthetics Conference Call for Papers Deadline

Deadline May 1, 2015 Read more

13 Nov, 2014 Special Events

Art Installation Opening: Leslie Dreyer's “Reclaim Disrupt”

An SF-focused project on hyper gentrification Read more

25 Oct, 2014 Special Events

QGCon: The Queerness and Games Conference

Mark your calendars for thisconference, here again at UC Berkeley! Read more

22 Oct, 2014 Special Events

Image as Location Conference

When man-made images are the evidence of our environment and existence, how is our perception of the world shaped? Read more

24 Apr, 2014 Special Events

Bone Flute to Auto Tune

A conference on music, technologies, and the digital media that shapes it all Read more

18 Apr, 2014 Special Events

Theory/Post Theory Rhetoric Conference

26 Oct, 2013 Special Events

The Queerness and Games Conference

Gear up for another fantastic schedule at the Queerness and Games Conference, hosted here at UC Berkeley Read more

23 Oct, 2013 Special Events

Creating Minds: An Academic Conference on Reading and Writing in the Digital Age

14 May, 2013 Workshops

New Media Research Workshop: “Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture”

How can we better understand how content circulates within contemporary networked culture? Participate in this exciting workshop with Sam Ford 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

22 Jan, 2013 Special Events

"Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only," Video Art Exhibition

View new work by Jason Fritz at the BCNM Commons! 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 Feb, 2012 Special Events

BEARS 2012 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, BCNM Open House

This year the theme of the BEARS Conference is "Big Data at Berkeley." Don't miss it! Read more

03 Nov, 2011 History & Theory

Transmedia

A History and Theory of New Media lecture by Henry Jenkins (USC) 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

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

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

13 Dec, 2024

Xinwei Zhuang presents Across Scales: Hierarchical Urban Graph for Neighborhoods Partition and Energy End-use Stability at ACADIA 2024.

Conference Grant Reports: Xinwei Zhuang at ACADIA 2024

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented Across Scales: Hierarchical Urban Graph for Neighborhoods Partition and Energy End-use Stability at the ACADIA conference in Banff. Read more

25 Nov, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Arianna Khmelniuk at ASTR 2024

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Arianna Khmelniuk, a second-year graduate student in Art Practice, presented on olfaction, cinema, and cultural identity at the ASTR conference in Seattle! Read more

25 Nov, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Alexis Wood at NACIS 2024

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Alexis Wood presented her database project, State of Mine (Mind), at the NACIS annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington! Read more

25 Nov, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Vincente Perez at PAMLA 2024

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Vincente Perez presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation in Hip-Hop" at PAMLA in Palm Springs, California. Read more

21 Nov, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Tonya Nguyen at CSCW 2024

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Tonya Nguyen presented on SFUSD's algorithmic school assignment system at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Jose, Costa Rica. Read more

08 Nov, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Caleb Murray-Bozeman at ASAP

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Caleb Murray-Bozeman presented “The Failure of Participation in Aram Bartholl's Dead Drops” at ASAP in New York! Read more

30 Oct, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Eda Er at Frequency Series

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Eda Er presented Would Coulda Shoulda at the Frequency Series in Chicago. Read more

15 Oct, 2024

Announcing BCNM's 2024 Faculty Seed Grant Recipient

This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support one faculty member in their scholarship through a seed grant that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate this amazing artist! Read more

14 Oct, 2024

Ken Goldberg at CASE 2024

Check out the work Ken Goldberg presented at the 2024 International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering! 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

12 Oct, 2024

Ken Goldberg at ICML 2024

Check out Ken Goldberg's work presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2024! Read more

23 Sep, 2024

Lyman Report: Vincente Perez

We're pleased to have awarded Vincente Perez the 2024 Lyman Fellowship. Read more

26 Aug, 2024

BCNM Turns 20! Announcing our 2024-25 Public Events

BCNM is turning 20 this year! Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers and events to celebrate! Read more

26 Aug, 2024

Announcing the 2024-25 History and Theory of New Media Season

We are excited to announce the 2024-25 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Laura Harjo, Mariaelena Huambachano, danah boyd, and more! Read more

26 Aug, 2024

Announcing the 2024-25 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season

We are excited to announce the 2024-25 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Trevor Paglen, Alex Saum-Pascual, Damien McDuffie, and more! 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

10 Jul, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Alexis Wood at AAG

Alexis presented “Constellations as Critical Cartographic Method." Read more

15 Jun, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Sophia Perez at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting

Sophia Perez presented “Island Time" at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Read more

09 Jun, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Meg Everett at the American Educational Research Association

Meg Everett presented “Centering Student Experiences with TikTok in a Critical Media Literacy Course." Read more

08 Jun, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Jillian (Lee) Crandall at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting

Jillian (Lee) Crandall presented “Real Estate Tokenization: Digital Transformations in Land, Property, and Technoeconomic Development in Post-Industrial Contexts” and "Critical, Creative, Collaborative." Read more

08 Jun, 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Katherine Song at CHI 2024

Katherine presented Füpop! Read more

29 May, 2024

Promoting Green Transformations through Smart Engagement

Eleni Oikonomaki co-authors this paper on an assessment of 100 citizen-led urban greening projects. Read more

29 May, 2024

MARL: Multi-scale Archetype Representation Learning for Urban Building Energy Modeling

BCNM student Xinwei Zhuang and BCNM faculty member Luisa Caldas presented this paper at the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)! Read more

23 May, 2024

Ken Goldberg Co-Author in ICRA24 Best Paper

Congratulations to the authors of "Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X." Read more

20 May, 2024

BCNM's Big Wins 2024

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

05 May, 2024

Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more

03 May, 2024

Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Graduates

Artwork "HAYA" (Life) by Arianna Khmelniuk, in collaboration with Eddie Farr; Photographer: Wyatt Kane. Read more

26 Apr, 2024

BCNM at AAS 2024

24 Apr, 2024

Salon des Fantômes Published

by Alum Kyle Booten. Read more

30 Mar, 2024

Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2024

Check out the work Ken Goldberg is presenting at ICRA 2024! 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

BCNM at SCMS 2024

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more

24 Feb, 2024

Ken Goldberg at NeurIPS

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more

21 Feb, 2024

Alex Saum-Pascual in Conversation with Mercedes Bunz and Joan Fontcuberta

Mercedes Bunz, researcher in the fields of digital culture, and the photographer Joan Fontcuberta spoke with BCNM faculty member Alex Saum-Pascual about artificial intelligence and artistic creation. Read more

20 Feb, 2024

Alex Saum-Pascual Awarded 2023 Peder Sather Grant

Alex was awarded a grant for "Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity." 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

Congratulating Our Fall 2023 Graduates

Omnidirectional wifi speaker, Hae Sung Park. Read more

04 Dec, 2023

Ken Goldberg at CORL 2023

Check out the new papers Ken Goldberg and team presented at CoRL 2023! Read more

26 Nov, 2023

Bernard Stiegler Digital Inquiry Keynote

Stiegler made these remarks available for view in 2016. Read more

07 Nov, 2023

Conference Grant Reports: William Morgan and Financial Rationalities

William Morgan traveled to Brussels to present a paper at the Intersetions of Finance and Society Conference. 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.

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

26 Oct, 2023

Alum Christine Dierk Leads Adobe's Project Primrose

Geeky Gadgets features Christine's latest project to create an interactive dress capable of changing patterns. 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

28 Sep, 2023

BCNM at 4S 2023

Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more

17 Aug, 2023

BCNM at SIGCIS 2023

BCNM is proud to highlight Hannah Zeavin and Nicholaus Gutierrez at The 14th annual conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS]. Read more

16 Aug, 2023

Vincente Perez and Hip-Hop Poetics

Read about Vincente Perez's research into Hip-Hop poetics Read more

17 Jul, 2023

Ken Goldberg at RSS 2023

Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. 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

29 Jun, 2023

Conference Grant Reports: William Morgan on Autocatallaxy

William Morgan traveled to Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Beijing to conduct and present elements of his research as part of the Antikythera Program. Read more

27 Jun, 2023

BCNM's Big Wins 2023

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

Spring 2023 Events Review

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

30 May, 2023

BCNM at HCI 2023

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

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

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

Conference Grants: Pratiti at BASAS 2023

Pratiti presented their work "Ghosts (of) in Calcutta: Viewing the Cities ‘Dead’" at the annual meeting of the British Association for South Asian Studies. Read more

19 May, 2023

Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Graduates

Art by Tiare Ribeaux. Read more

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

24 Apr, 2023

BCNM at AERA 2023

19 Apr, 2023

BCNM at CHI 2023

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

18 Apr, 2023

Celeste Kidd at BCCD Video

Check out the video of Celeste Kidd on truth, lies and misinformation during cognitive development. Read more

13 Apr, 2023

Conference Grants: Alexis Wood at the AAG

Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood presented their upcoming paper, “All your base [maps] are belong to us,” at the 2023 American Associations of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Denver, Colorado on March 24th. Read more

13 Apr, 2023

Conference Grants: Meg Everett at the Society for Research in Child Development

05 Apr, 2023

Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the Indigenous Imaginarium

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

17 Mar, 2023

Conference Grants: Rebecca Levitan at the Archaeological Institute of America

Rebecca presented her work "New Research on Roman and Late Antique Living Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. 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

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

31 Jan, 2023

BCNM at SCMS 2023

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

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 and AutoLab Featured in IEOR Magazine

The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more

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

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

29 Nov, 2022

Spring 2023 BCNM Events

27 Nov, 2022

Announcing Our Fall 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort

Valencia James: AI_am Read more

18 Nov, 2022

Sim2Real & Optimist with Ken Goldberg

17 Nov, 2022

BCNM at SIGCIS

Eric Rawn, Morgan Ames, and Jacob Gaboury were featured in SIGCIS 2022:UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Read more

14 Nov, 2022

BCNM at CSCW 2022

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! 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

26 Oct, 2022

BCNM at ACM 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

BCNM at AMS/SEM/SMT 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

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

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

31 Aug, 2022

Ken Goldberg at IROS 2022

Ken Goldberg and team present four papers at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)! Read more

31 Aug, 2022

Applications for our Fall 2022 Conference Grants Now Open

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

30 Aug, 2022

Summer Research Report: William Morgan

Read about William's work across the globe, from cybernetics to AI in science fiction! 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

09 Aug, 2022

Conference Report: Molly Nicholas at Creativity and Cognition

Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

04 Aug, 2022

BCNM Around the Web July 2022

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

18 Jul, 2022

Ken Goldberg at RSS 2022

Ken Goldberg and team won a Best Systems Paper Award for "Autonomously Untangling Long Cables" at Robotics Science and Systems 2022. Read more

07 Jul, 2022

BCNM at ICA2022

Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. 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

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

12 Jun, 2022

Alenda Chang on the Damaged Planet

BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more

10 Jun, 2022

BCNM's Big Wins 2022

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! 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

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

21 May, 2022

BCNM Around the Web May

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

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

20 Apr, 2022

Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou on Diversity on Streaming Platforms in Pandemic Times

Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou present diversity Scores for films and television series on major streaming platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Read more

18 Apr, 2022

Greg Niemeyer Awarded Peder 2022 Sather Grant

Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more

18 Apr, 2022

Seed Grant Report: Jill Miller and My Mother's Titanium Hip

Photo credit: Jill Miller. 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!

13 Apr, 2022

BCNM at CHI 2022

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more

12 Apr, 2022

Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2022

Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2022! Read more

01 Apr, 2022

Women in Energy Make a Powerful Case for Inclusion

Camille Crittenden publishes an article on the Berkeley Blog on women in energy in honor of Women's History Month. Read more

30 Mar, 2022

BCNM at SCMS 2022

Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! 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 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

Applications for our Spring 2022 Conference Grants Now Open

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

04 Jan, 2022

BCNM at MLA 2022

Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more

03 Jan, 2022

Alex Saum-Pascual in Texts of Discomfort

Alex's electronic literature appears in the new anthology Texts of Discomfort. Read more

10 Dec, 2021

Conference Grant Reports: Juliana Friend on Wearing Illicit Images

Juliana attended the 2021 meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Conference and presented a paper entitled, “Wearing Illicit Images: Fabrics of Pornography and Citizenship in Senegal." 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

05 Dec, 2021

Bo Ruberg on Video Games to Play at the End of the World

Bo Ruberg gave the First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference Keynote address on October 21, 2021. 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

16 Nov, 2021

Conference Grants: Vincente Perez on ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS

Vincente Perez, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipient, presented "ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS: BLACK TWITTER, SIGNIFYIN', AND THE MUNDANE" at the 22nd annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Read more

27 Oct, 2021

R Stuart Geiger at CSCW

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

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

13 Oct, 2021

Announcing the Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipients

Congratulations to these amazing students working on media literacy, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! 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

04 Sep, 2021

Ken Goldberg at IROS 2021

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more

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

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

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

29 Jul, 2021

Camille Crittenden: Keep Public Meetings Open Through Technology

Camille published this important call to California to keep public meetings open with the technologies we've used during the pandemic. Read more

27 Jul, 2021

BCNM's Big Wins 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

We're Hiring: Fall 2021 Work Study Student Assistant

Join the BCNM Events & Communications team! Read more

25 Jul, 2021

BCNM at DIS 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

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

21 Jul, 2021

Applications for our Fall 2021 Conference Grants are now open!

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

06 Jul, 2021

BCNM at ELO 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

Juliana Friend at the LavLang Conference

Juliana Friend receieved a BCNM Conference Grant to help her attend the 27th Annual Lavendar Languages and Linguistics Conference. Read more

22 Jun, 2021

Spring 2021: BCNM Events in Review

19 Jun, 2021

BCNM Around the Web June

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

18 Jun, 2021

Noura Howell on Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring

Artwork by Noura Howell 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

26 May, 2021

Ken Goldberg on AI and Robots in a Post Pandemic World

Ken Goldberg recently spoke at IBM Think 2021, a conference focused on all things related to the cloud and artificial intelligence. 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.

Artwork by Tina Piracci Read more

08 May, 2021

BCNM at CHI 2021

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

05 May, 2021

ATC Revisited: Elizabeth LaPensée

30 Apr, 2021

BCNM at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference

BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more

25 Apr, 2021

BCNM Offers 15 Need Based Stipends

In the wake of COVID-19, BCNM converted existing grant programs to support its students with need-based stipends. Read more

20 Apr, 2021

Ken Goldberg on Other Intelligence

Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! 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

12 Apr, 2021

Ken Goldberg in WAFR 2020 Proceedings

Ken Goldberg's articles were recently featured in the WAFR 2020 Proceedings. Read more

15 Mar, 2021

BCNM Around the Web March 2021

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

01 Mar, 2021

Eric Paulos Promoted to Full Professor

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

BCNM SCMS 2021

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! 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

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 at MLA 2021

BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more

23 Jan, 2021

We're Hiring: Spring 2021 Student Assistant

Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more

22 Jan, 2021

Jane McGonigal at Refuel

Alum Jane McGonigal speaks at Refuel conference on how games can help build mental resilience, channel positive attitudes, and encourage collaboration in the real world. Read more

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

30 Nov, 2020

Ken Goldberg's AutoLab at ICRA 2020

Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2020. 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

17 Nov, 2020

Ken Goldberg at CoRL

Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). 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 the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more

09 Nov, 2020

Miyoko Conley Awarded Tailspinners Fellowship

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

29 Oct, 2020

Camille Crittenden Presents at the University Blockchain Research Initiative

Camille Crittenden recently presented on blockchain at the University Blockchain Research Initiative Connect Virtual conference. Read more

15 Oct, 2020

Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more

13 Oct, 2020

Bo Ruberg At the Crossroads Video Online Now

Missed out on Bo Ruberg's amazing talk on their new book "The Queer Game Avant-Garde" for At the Crossroads? Check out the video online now! Read more

29 Sep, 2020

John Scott Co-Authors Paper on Popularity of Peer-Shared Artifacts in Online Learning Environments

John Scott's co-authored paper earned an honorable mention for best paper submission at the Conference on Educational Data Science 2020. Read more

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

31 Aug, 2020

Björn Hartmann on Bridging Asymmetrical Communication Between External and VR Users

The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more

20 Aug, 2020

New Papers from Ken Goldberg at CASE 2020

A stunning seven papers were accepted at CASE 2020 from Ken Goldberg's lab. Read more

06 Aug, 2020

Alum John Scott on Inclusion in the Transition to Remote Teaching

06 Aug, 2020

Noura Howell Joins NC State University

04 Aug, 2020

BCNM at ELO 2020

30 Jul, 2020

We're Hiring: Fall 2020 Student Assistant

Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more

17 Jun, 2020

Bryan Truitt on Mediating the Human Face

Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more

30 Apr, 2020

Conference Grants: William Morgan on Machine Learning and the Digital Realization of Deleuze

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 Graduates

Photo: Bowen Wei. Read more

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

12 Apr, 2020

BCNM at CHI 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

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

04 Mar, 2020

Jen Schradie on The WELL

Jen Schradie was the latest guest on the Inkwell: Authors and Artists online discussion board. 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

20 Feb, 2020

BCNM Around the Web February 2020

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more

20 Feb, 2020

Announcing the 2020 Lyman Fellowship Recipient

20 Feb, 2020

BCNM at SCMS 2020

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! 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 at CES 2020

Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more

05 Feb, 2020

Stuart Geiger at CSCW 2019

Stuart Geiger talks about the "various trends in the lengths of published papers in ACM CSCW from 2000-2018" at CSCW 2019. 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

01 Feb, 2020

Conference Grants: Rebecca Levitan on the Digital Futures of Ancient Objects

Rebecca Levitan, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, ran a workshop on Discussing Next Steps for Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects at annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more

30 Jan, 2020

Camille Crittenden at Transatlantic Sync

Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Camille Crittenden spoke in a panel about ethics in technology at Transatlantic Sync, a conference aimed at connecting Silicon Valley and Germany on issues of technology and innovation. Read more

29 Jan, 2020

Conference Grants: Harry Burson on the Sound of Globalization

Harry Burson, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented his research on "The Sound of Globalization: An Archaeology of Immersive Media at the World’s Fair" at the Media Matter: Media-Archaeological Research and Artistic Practice conference. Read more

20 Jan, 2020

Conference Grants: Juliana Friend on Senegalese Ethics and Pornography

Juliana Friend, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented her research on "Porn, Pop-Ups, National Purity: Everyday Ethics and Digital Pornography" at The American Anthropological Association. Read more

17 Jan, 2020

Bo Ruberg in Oxford Bibliographies

Bo Ruberg contributed to an overview on the work in Feminist and Queer Game Studies for Oxford Bibliographies. Read more

16 Jan, 2020

We're Hiring: 2020 Student Assistants

Join the BCNM communication and events team! 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

27 Dec, 2019

Bo Ruberg Keynotes UCIESC 2019

Alum Bo Ruberg keynoted the UC Irvine Esports conference with a presentation on diversity and Esports. Read more

26 Dec, 2019

BCNM Alumni at 4S 2019

Four BCNM alumni participated at 4S 2019 in September, the annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science. Read more

29 Nov, 2019

Applications for our Spring 2020 Conference Grants Now Open

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

27 Nov, 2019

Conference Grants: KC Forcier on Reframing Moving Images in the Digital Age

KC Forcier, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented her research on traditions of canvas paintings in digital images at The Picturesque, an annual Film and Media Studies conference. Read more

20 Nov, 2019

Conference Grants: Will Payne on Liminal Mapping with Pseudo-Spatial Charts

Will Payne, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented his research on spatial data at the NACIS annual meeting. Read more

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

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

24 Oct, 2019

Eric Paulos as IEEE IEMCON Keynote

The IEEE Annual Information Technological Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference invites Eric Paulos as one of their keynote speakers. Read more

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

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

10 Sep, 2019

Lyman Dispatch: Cherise McBride

Chelsea McBride shares how the support of the Peter Lyman fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more

04 Sep, 2019

BCNM at NWSA 2019

BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico. Read more

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

20 Aug, 2019

BCNM at ELO 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

19 Aug, 2019

We're Hiring: 2019-2020 Student Assistants

Join the BCNM communication and events team! Read more

18 Aug, 2019

Conference Grants: Malika Imhotep on Toni Morrison and Digital Humanities

Malika presented “On Sethe’s Back: rememory, afro-cyborgues and black feminist ante-humanism" at the 2019 American Literature Association annual meeting. Read more

14 Aug, 2019

Alex Saum-Pascual at New Approaches to Transmedia Language Pedagogy International Conference

Alex presented the keynote at this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. 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

Jen Schradie at ASA 2019

The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more

05 Aug, 2019

Alum Alenda Chang at ASLE 2019

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's Thirteenth Biennial Conference was held at UC Davis in June. Read more

20 Jul, 2019

Andrea Horbinski Reviews Books for Sirens

Alum Andrea Horbinksi is on the Sirens team reviewing fantasy literature by women authors. Read more

15 Jul, 2019

Camille Crittenden at CENIC 2019

Camille spoke on the Pacific Research Platform. Read more

13 Jul, 2019

Applications for our Fall 2019 Conference Grants Now Open

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

BCNM at DIS 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

03 Jul, 2019

New Papers from Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2019

Ken Goldberg co-authored several papers presented at ICRA 2019. 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

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

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

02 Jun, 2019

Will Payne on Critical GIS at AAG

Will Payne presented "Crawling the City: Mobilizing Free Labor in the Spatial Data Economy" at the American Association of Geographer's 2019 Conference. Read more

30 May, 2019

Revisited: Art as Critique Conference

Felix Rosen recaps ARC’s Art as Critique Conference from March 1, 2019, which BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor. 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

24 May, 2019

Renée Pastel on Viral Videos at the PCA

Renée presented "Viral Videos as Metonymic Homespace in the “War on Terror”: Globalizing American Popular Culture." Read more

23 May, 2019

Bo Ruberg's "What to Do When Toxic Video Gaming Culture Enters the Classroom" Now Online

Bo's incredibly popular Game Developer's Conference lecture is now available for free to view online! Read more

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

BCNM at ICA 2019

Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! 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

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

07 May, 2019

Bo Ruberg Commons Conversation Video Now Online

07 May, 2019

Jessica Adams on Virtual Reality Narratives at the AAAL

Jessica presented "Envisioning the Globe: Symbolic Competence in 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Narratives" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Read more

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

01 May, 2019

Harry Burson on Stereo in the 19th Century at SCMS

Harry presented "Stereo in the 19th Century: Space, Audition, and the Théâtrophone" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, Washington. Read more

23 Apr, 2019

Commons Conversation Revisited: Bonnie Ruberg

22 Apr, 2019

KC Forcier on Looped Media at SCMS

KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. 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

04 Apr, 2019

Alum Jen Schradie at Le Númerique Peut Il Réinventer La Démocratie

Join Jen Schradie on April 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Sciences Po symposium! Read more

02 Apr, 2019

Eric Paulos a Mentor at the C&C Graduate Student Symposium

The Creativity and Cognition Graduate Student Symposium provides a forum in which students have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. Read more

22 Mar, 2019

Ken Goldberg at ICRA-X: Robots and Art Program

Ken Goldberg will be at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation this May. Read more

21 Mar, 2019

Ken Goldberg on Ethics in AI

The New York Times hosted the New Work Summit. Read more about the recommendations Ken Goldberg and other experts made regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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

19 Mar, 2019

Alum Bonnie Ruberg Published in How to Play Video Games

Matthew Payne's and Nina B. Huntemann's anthology "How to Play Video Games" features work by Ruberg. Read more

15 Mar, 2019

Revisited: High/Low Conference

15 Mar, 2019

Ken Goldberg in Back to the Sandbox

Goldberg contributed an article to Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy 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

25 Feb, 2019

Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Game Developer's Conference

BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg will present at the 2019 Game Developers' Conference Read more

21 Feb, 2019

BCNM at SCMS 2019

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! 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

14 Feb, 2019

Announcing the 2019 Eugene Jarvis Recipient

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Fionce Siow. Read more

12 Feb, 2019

Alum Stuart Geiger at Workshop on the Ethics and Policy Implications of Big Data

This February 15th and 16th, this workship will by held in the University of California, San Diego. Read more

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

31 Jan, 2019

Hacking Politics Revisited

11 Jan, 2019

Sonia Katyal in Courthouse News on AI

Sonia Katyal is one of the technology experts who shared their thoughts and opinions on AI in the workforce at the Our People-Centered Digital Future conference. Read more

03 Jan, 2019

BCNM at CSCW 2018

The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

27 Dec, 2018

Alum Reginold Royston at IC Africa

The University of Ghana hosted IC Africa with the theme African Digital Cultures: Emerging Research, Practices and Innovations. Read more

21 Dec, 2018

Alum John Scott at LRA 2018

John Scott contributed to two discussions at the 68th Annual LRA Conference. 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

03 Dec, 2018

Now Accepting Applications for our Spring 2019 Conference Grants

BCNM graduate students are invited to apply for funds to assist in their conference attendance. 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

26 Nov, 2018

Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort

26 Nov, 2018

Jen Schradie on Data & Democracy at Sciences Po

The Data & Democracy conference in Paris invited Jen Schradie as one of their panelists. Read more

26 Nov, 2018

Conference Grants: Grace Gipson and Malika Imhotep at ‘Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black’

21 Nov, 2018

Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more

08 Nov, 2018

Alumni Bonnie Ruberg & Chris Goetz at QGCon

The annual Queerness and Games Conference began in 2013 at the hands of BCNM Alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz. It continues to flourish and to create safe spaces, this year in Montréal. Read more

07 Nov, 2018

Conference Grants: Joyce Lee at EPIC

05 Nov, 2018

Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Legacies of Gaming and Technology

Bonnie Ruberg attended the 2018-19 digital humanities symposium, "My Mother Was a Computer: Legacies of Gender and Technology," as a panelist. Read more

05 Nov, 2018

Alum Bonnie Ruberg on Queer Indie Video Games in American Quarterly

Volume 70 of American Quarterly features pieces on the Digital Humanities, one work of which is written by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg. 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.

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

19 Oct, 2018

Revisited: Molly Steenson

26 Sep, 2018

Grace Gipson at DragonCon CPAC 2018

Gipson presented on podcasts and Black female narratives at DragonCon Comics and Popular Arts Conference 2018. Read more

24 Sep, 2018

Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018

BCNM professor Ken Goldberg, UCOT's Chris Ategeka and Google AI's Timnit Gebru presented "Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It" at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2018. Read more

17 Sep, 2018

Alum Stuart Geiger Keynotes ACM's OpenSym

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger gave te keynote address at the second day of OpenSym. Read more

04 Sep, 2018

Open House Fall 2018 Revisited

20 Aug, 2018

BCNM at ELO 2018

The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more

14 Aug, 2018

Yifei Liu at HCI 2018

The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. 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

30 Jul, 2018

Grace Gipson Presents at UNC's 2018 MURAP Conference

The 2018 Conference for UNC Chapel Hill's Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program focused on Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurities. 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

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

13 Jul, 2018

Ken Goldberg at RSS Workshop

The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." Read more

12 Jul, 2018

Eric Paulos Keynotes ASLLA 2018 Symposium

This invitation-only, small, roundtable discussion that lasts several days to encourage in-depth discussions of frontier research of leading scientists around the globe. Read more

11 Jul, 2018

Ken Goldberg to Keynote CRAV.ai

The Collaborative Robotics, Advanced Vision, and Artificial Intelligence conference will be held October 24-25 in Santa Clara, CA. 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

06 Jul, 2018

Alum Christo Sims Keynotes at Education Disrupted

Christo talked about techno-idealism and the possibilities for failed disruption. Read more

05 Jul, 2018

BCNM at DIS 2018

19 Jun, 2018

Eric Paulos at On-Body Interaction at Dagstuhl

Eric Paulos was an invited Participant at the Dagstuh seminar "Embodied Cognition Meets Sensor/Actuator Engineering to Design New Interfaces." Read more

19 Jun, 2018

Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2018 Conference Grants

Due October 1, 2018 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

07 Jun, 2018

BCNM at ICA 2018

Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more

06 Jun, 2018

Alum Andrea Horbinski Receives Honorable Mention for The Chute Award

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

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

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

27 May, 2018

After the Private Self with Damon Young

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

The Past is Present Videos Now Online

09 May, 2018

Congratulating our 2018 Graduates

08 May, 2018

Noura Howell at CHI 2018

07 May, 2018

Shannon Jackson on Systemic Crises in European Theater

Associate Professor at BCNM, Shannon Jackson, was a keynote speaker at a London conference held by the Goethe-institut. 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

03 May, 2018

Congratulating our 2018 New Media Undergraduate Certificate Class

Congratulations to these four stellar women, who have made a big impact at Cal in the New Media space. 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

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

02 May, 2018

Revisited: Medium/Environment

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

30 Apr, 2018

Harry Burson at SCMS

Through funding from the 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Harry Burson attended and shared his research at SCMS 2018. Read more

23 Apr, 2018

Andrea Horbinski at PCA/ACA 2018

Andrea Hobinski is a writer, reseracher, historian, and a BCNM alumni that has recently presented a part of her dissertation research at PCA/ACA 2018. Read more

19 Apr, 2018

Revisited: The Past is Present Symposium

18 Apr, 2018

Revisited: EV’RY BODY, THIS TIME

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

KC Forcier at SCMS 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

16 Apr, 2018

Cesar Torres Demo Arrangement Chair for Tei 2019

Cesar Torres, BCNM DE, was named demo arrangement co-chair for TEI 2019. Read more

11 Apr, 2018

Jen Schradie Keynote Speaker at Media Sociology Preconference

BCNM alum Jen Schradie will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Media Sociology Preconference taking place in August. 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

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

09 Apr, 2018

Welcome to BCNM Spring 2018 Visiting Scholar Michael Stevenson

A warm welcome to visiting scholar Michael Stevenson, web historian and Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam! Read more

19 Mar, 2018

Announcing the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!

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

13 Mar, 2018

Goldberg at Industry of Things World USA 2018

Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more

12 Mar, 2018

HTNM Conference Videos Now Online

02 Mar, 2018

Alum Andrea Horbinski at Beyond Academia Conference

Horbinski spoke at the Beyond Academia Conference as part of the Media and Communication panel. Read more

12 Feb, 2018

Alum Trevor Paglen at Webstock

Trevor Paglen will be speaking at this year's Webstock conference in New Zealand. Read more

06 Feb, 2018

Malika Imhotep and 'The Bank of Hysteria' Featured on The Root

Malika's NWMEDIA 190/290 project 'The Bank of Hysteria' was featured on The Root. 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.

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

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

30 Jan, 2018

Ken Goldberg at the Culture of the Future in Moscow

Ken Goldberg participated in arts 'laboratory' at NCCA, Moscow 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

David Bates at ENMI

David Bates presented "Un réseau peut-il être intelligent? [Can a network be intelligent?]" at Les Entretiens du Nouveau Monde Industriel 2017. Read more

24 Jan, 2018

Announcing our Spring 2018 Symposium — The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History

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

03 Dec, 2017

Lashon Daley at the National Women's Studies Association Conference 2017

As one of the recipients of the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant, Lashon Daley received funding to attend and present her research findings at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Conference. Read more

28 Nov, 2017

Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2018 Conference Grants

Due March 1, 2018 Read more

28 Nov, 2017

Harry Burson at Sounding Out Space

Harry Burson, a Fall 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient, attended the Sounding Out the Space international conference earlier this month in Dublin, Ireland. 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

17 Nov, 2017

Shannon Jackson at PARSE Conference 2017

Shannon Jackson participated in the "Vocabularies of Exclusion" strand at the PARSE Conference 2017 this week. Read more

17 Nov, 2017

Alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Games Studies Reviewed in First Person Scholar

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in First Person Scholar. Read more

13 Nov, 2017

Ken Goldberg at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2017

Ken Goldberg will speak at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2017 on Friday, November 17. 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

Alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Games Studies Reviewed in Creative Applications

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in Creative Applications. Read more

03 Nov, 2017

Ken Goldberg and Team Published on BAIR

Ken Goldberg and team published on BAIR about DART: Noise Injection for Robust Imitation Learning. 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

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

31 Oct, 2017

Alum Andrea Horbinski at Sirens 2017 Conference

Andrea Horbinski will be participating in two program items for the Sirens 2017 Conference in Colorado. Read more

24 Oct, 2017

Announcing the Fall 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!

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

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

19 Oct, 2017

Alums Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz in Camera Obscura

Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz, co-organizers and founders of the Queerness and Games Conference, collaborated on a published piece titled "In Practice: Queerness and Games." Read more

17 Oct, 2017

Ken Goldberg at TedX Oakland

Ken Goldberg will present at the TedX Oakland 2017 conference on Sunday October 22nd! Read more

17 Oct, 2017

Alum Bonnie Ruberg at IndieCade

At the beginning of October, alum Bonnie Ruberg attended IndieCade in Downtown Los Angeles to speak about the relationship between games and politics. Read more

12 Oct, 2017

Alum Andrea Horbinski at Mechademia 2017

Andrea Horbinski, BCNM alum, talked about manga as a science fiction medium at the Mechademia conference in late September. 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

Alum Reginold Royston at SNTA

BCNM alum Reginold Royston presented at the first day of the Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa conference. Read more

03 Oct, 2017

Alum Stuart Geiger at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be attending the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers later this October in Tartu, Estonia. Read more

26 Sep, 2017

Fall 2017 Applications Now Open Undergraduate Certificate Program

Undergraduated are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM undergrad program.
Applications due November 1. 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

31 Aug, 2017

Revisited: BCNM Open House Fall 2017

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

28 Aug, 2017

Learning Analytics Conference

Join cross-disciplinary experts from UC Berkeley and beyond as they share perspectives on data's influence on learning environments (think: how bCourses became bCourses) Read more

23 Aug, 2017

Now Accepting Applications for Conference Grants

Calling BCNM Grad students! If you're presenting a paper at a conference, apply for these grants to help subsidize the costs! Read more

08 Aug, 2017

Ryan Ikeda at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Ryan Ikeda reflects on his experience at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) this June in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Read more

25 Jul, 2017

Alex Saum-Pascual and aluma Lydia Tuan at ELO 2017

Last week, Assistant Professor Saum-Pascual and BCNM alum Lydia Tuan shared their scholarship with the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Portugal. Read more

18 Jul, 2017

Ken Goldberg at MIT Robotics Conference

The professor of Robotics, Automation, and New Media spent time at MIT last week for a conference on robots. 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

15 Jun, 2017

Nicholas de Monchaux at WEAR 2017

De Monchaux spoke at WEAR 2017 about his book Fashioning Apollo! Read more

07 Jun, 2017

Justin Berner at the NYU-Columbia Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Conference

Justin Berner presented paper "Waking up to a World in Color" for Happiness Conference at NYU. Read more

01 Jun, 2017

Molly Nicholas at CHI 2017

Molly Nicholas reflects on her experience at CHI 2017 in Denver. Read more

31 May, 2017

Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the Latin American Studies Association's 50th Conference

25 May, 2017

Ken Goldberg Chair at ICRA-X Public Forum Session

Ken Goldberg, professor at BCNM, was chair at ICRA-X Public Forum's session "Frontiers of Robotics" as part of outreach to the general public at ICRA2017! Read more

22 May, 2017

Grace Gipson at Black Imagine Oakland

Grace Gipson shared insights on comics and afrofuturism at the Black Imagine Oakland convention. Read more

16 May, 2017

Announcing Our 2017 Graduates

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

14 May, 2017

Jenni Higgs at AERA 2017

Jenni Higgs reflects on her experience at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) this May in San Antonio, Texas Read more

05 May, 2017

BCNM at CHI 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

24 Apr, 2017

Hubert Dreyfus in Memoriam

We are sad to hear of the passing of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. 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

07 Apr, 2017

KC Forcier at SCMS

06 Apr, 2017

Grace Gipson at the National Council of Black Studies

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

04 Apr, 2017

Bonnie Ruberg's "Queer Game Studies" Published

21 Mar, 2017

Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!

16 Mar, 2017

Revisited: "Syncing... Subject, Media, Society"

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

23 Feb, 2017

BCNM Alums’ QGCon 2017 Moves to LA

The Queerness and Games Conference takes the trip from NorCal to SoCal. Read more

21 Feb, 2017

Eric Paulos Gives Keynote at HotMobile Conference

This year's HotMobile Conference with Eric Paulos as Keynote speaker. Read more

17 Feb, 2017

Alpha60: Mapping Media

17 Feb, 2017

Jenni Higgs at Writing Research Across Borders IV in Colombia

25 Jan, 2017

Conference Grants: Juliana Friend in DC

25 Jan, 2017

Conference Grants: Grace Gipson in Melbourne

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

Video Now Online: Books in Browsers Series

Watch all 24 speaker events from this exciting conference here! Read more

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

19 Jan, 2017

Alex Saum in Europe!

Sabbatical is not slowing down Prof. Alex Saum-Pascual, BCNM and Spanish, who has been traveling across Europe to attended and present at several conferences! 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

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

12 Dec, 2016

Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2017 Conference Grants

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

14 Nov, 2016

AMPLab to Become RISELab

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

04 Nov, 2016

Grace Gipson at >Play Conference

>play is the largest student-run digital media and technology conference Read more

24 Oct, 2016

Cesar Torres at UIST

The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more

24 Oct, 2016

Jenni Higgs at DML

Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! 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

Video Now Online: Jane Jacobs and the Digital City

The BCNM and SPUR presented a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence 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

26 Sep, 2016

Revisited: & Media

22 Sep, 2016

Nicholas de Monchaux at 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale

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

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

Summer Research Report: Andrea Horbinski and Japanese Manga

Horbinski researched at the Harvard Yenching Library on Japanese Manga 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

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

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

05 Jul, 2016

Greg Niemeyer Thanks You for Three Years at BCNM

For the last three years, Greg Niemeyer has skillfully led the BCNM as the Center's Director. This July, he is beginning a well-deserved sabbatical 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

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

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

Berkeley and the new SFMOMA — partners in art and public engagement

Kate Mattingly, Designated Emphasis student, wrote about UCB's relationship with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Read more

23 May, 2016

Eric Paulos at Futures of Design Symposium in Colombia

23 May, 2016

BCNM at DIS 2016

BCNM was thrilled to be so widely represented at the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia Read more

23 May, 2016

BCNM Alumna Margaret Rhee in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 pairs full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces from scholarly blogs and conference presentations 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

Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2016

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

17 May, 2016

BCNM at CHI 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

Chris Goetz to join the University of Iowa as Assistant Professor

03 May, 2016

Shannon Jackson in Open Engagement

Open Engagement is part of the larger Cross Sector Conference 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

29 Mar, 2016

Digital Craftsmanship Workshop CFP

21 Mar, 2016

Revisited: "Critical Play"

A recap of Mary Flanagan's lecture, recapped by Kate Mattingly. Read more

02 Mar, 2016

Ken Goldberg's SPIE Keynote

10 Dec, 2015

Ken Goldberg at Hub '15

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

24 Nov, 2015

Video Series Now Online: "Manufacturing Transparency"

Watch the Manufacturing Transparency Conference's speaker videos here! In collaboration with the French Embassy, New Hive, and the Goethe Institute Read more

23 Nov, 2015

Ken Goldberg at National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

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

16 Nov, 2015

Ken Goldberg at NAKFI 2015

04 Nov, 2015

Meet John Scott

Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more

29 Oct, 2015

Revisited: "Manufacturing Transparency Conference"

We recap our collaboration with the French Embassy, New Hive, and the Goethe Institute for a symposium on transparency in a digital age Read more

28 Oct, 2015

HTNM 5th Anniversary and Revisited: "Technologies of Simulation"

with Claus Pias

Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

22 Oct, 2015

Video Now Online: Panel Twelve from Precarious Aesthetics Conference

Featuring Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen), David Rokeby (Ryerson University, Toronto), and Mark B. Hansen (Duke University) Read more

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

19 Oct, 2015

Ken Goldberg Paper at IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2015

You can see the other presentations in the technical program here! Read more

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

08 Oct, 2015

Manufacturing Transparency Submissions a Hit!

01 Oct, 2015

BCNM's Ken Goldberg Speaker at RoboBusiness Conference

24 Sep, 2015

Call for Art: Manufacturing Transparency

01 Sep, 2015

Research Opportunity: Textile Display Technology

"We are currently looking to work with 2-3 graduate or undergraduate researchers..." Read more

18 Aug, 2015

Greg Niemeyer Presents at InstructureCon 2015

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

16 Jul, 2015

Björn Hartmann Receives Best Paper Award at EICS 2015

13 Jul, 2015

Best Video Prize at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge

02 Jul, 2015

Tech Award Dispatches: Bonnie Ruberg

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

16 Jun, 2015

BCNM Faculty and Students Represent UCB at National Makers Faire

10 Jun, 2015

Ken Goldberg Finalist at ICRA 2015

06 May, 2015

Transparency: A Critical Approach with Emmanuel Alloa

The consensus is overwhelming: everybody seems to agree on the need for more transparency 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

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

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

03 Mar, 2015

Bonnie Ruberg Discusses Queerness and Games

In Bonnie's introduction, "Video Games, Queerness, and Beyond," she makes a case for the importance of talking about queerness when we talk about games Read more

25 Feb, 2015

Amy Catterson

12 Feb, 2015

Naomi Bragin

11 Feb, 2015

Kimiko Ryokai

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

Bonnie Ruberg

'My dissertation, “Pixel Whipped: Pain, Pleasure, and Media,” uses the concept of virtual pain to reimagine the role of embodiment in supposedly disembodied media form' Read more

10 Feb, 2015

Bjoern Hartmann

07 Feb, 2015

Michelle Ott Exhibitions

Michelle Ott is currently a MFA Student at the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice 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

03 Dec, 2014

Welcoming New Undergraduate Certificate Students

Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more

19 Nov, 2014

Revisited: "Reclaim Disrupt" Installation

We revisit UC Berkeley MFA candidate Leslie Dreyer's new exhibition on gentrification Read more

04 Nov, 2014

Videos Now Online: Image as Location

In partnership with Books in Browsers, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and swissnex San Francisco Read more

27 Oct, 2014

Video Now Online: Steven Johnson at "Image as Location"

The Image as Location conference was brought to you by BCNM, swissnex San Francisco, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate San Francisco, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Read more

14 Oct, 2014

Image as Location – John Scott's "Moferguson" at the Virtual Relocation Exhibit

11 Sep, 2014

Announcing IMAGE as LOCATION

A Bay Area Festival that explores the relationship between people, pictures, and places 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

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

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

Stuart Geiger Published in Information, Communication, and Society

Download a free copy of the article at Stuart's website! 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

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

03 Mar, 2014

Meet Tiffany Ng

This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Ng explores urban spaces through the architecture of music. 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

02 Dec, 2013

Connect with Chris Goetz and QGCon

The Berkeley Center for New Media’s interdisciplinary environment has provided Chris with a research home that allows him to draw from various fields — from psychology to computer science to design Read more

31 Oct, 2013

Videos Now Online: "Creating Minds" Conference

Creating Minds is now online! Watch the wonderful talks today! 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

29 Oct, 2013

Queerness and Games Conference Shoutout

Spearheaded by Chris Goetz and Bonnie Ruberg 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

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

07 May, 2013

New Media Research Group: Sam Ford "Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture"

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

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

27 Feb, 2013

BCNM faculty, Kimiko Ryokai, wins Google Faculty Research Award

04 Feb, 2013

Video Art in the BCNM Commons, New Work by Jason Fritz, "Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only"

Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster 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

08 Aug, 2012

New Media Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM DE's

Congratulations to the following students! Read more

14 May, 2012

BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium

This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more

29 Aug, 2011

HyperSource: Bridging the Gap Between Source and Code-Related Web Sites

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

21 Jul, 2011

Back to the Virtual Farm

15 Jun, 2011

The Digital Production Gap: The Digital Divide and Web 2.0 Collide

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

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The ghost in the machine is me.

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The Past into the Future: Afrofuturism and Ancient Egypt

Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia

George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook

The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online

Fandom + Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Panel

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Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction”

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Crisis and Creativity: Virtual Artists in Residence at UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative

BCNM Student Orientation & Hangout

Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics

Robots Are Creatures, Not Things

DataEDGE 2019

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

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HIGH/LOW: Taste, Quality, and Resolution

Hacking Politics: Symposium

Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Medium/Environment

Abolition Feminisms

EV’RY BODY, THIS TIME: A Sexuality Studies Conference

The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History

Neural Nets: Readings of Electronic Writing

Amateurism Across the Arts

Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework

Commons Conversations: Adolf Loos After the Death of Adolf Loos

The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Workshop

Combinatory Digital Poetics in Electronic Literature and Film

Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind

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Digital Dissent

Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism

Syncing… Subject, Media, Society.

Sex, Lies, and Data Mining

Books in Browsers VII—Telling Small Stories

Jane Jacobs and the Digital City

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Tsar Bell at 50th Anniversary of St. John

Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies

Networked Surveillance: Masterclass with Julian Oliver

Manufacturing Transparency Conference

2015 Queerness and Games Conference

Precarious Aesthetics Conference

Manufacturing Transparency Call for Papers

QGCON Call for Proposals

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Art Installation Opening: Leslie Dreyer's “Reclaim Disrupt”

QGCon: The Queerness and Games Conference

Image as Location Conference

Bone Flute to Auto Tune

Theory/Post Theory Rhetoric Conference

The Queerness and Games Conference

Creating Minds: An Academic Conference on Reading and Writing in the Digital Age

New Media Research Workshop: “Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture”

Disembodied: Literature and Transmission in a Digital Age

"Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only," Video Art Exhibition

Swinging and Flowing: Inclusion and Diversity in the Age of Data

BEARS 2012 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, BCNM Open House

Transmedia

Advancing the New Machine, Human Rights and Technology Conference

New Media Research Roundtable: On Common Ground, Paula Levine

Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences

World Craft, Business and Culture of Gaming in East Asia

Conference Grant Reports: Xinwei Zhuang at ACADIA 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Arianna Khmelniuk at ASTR 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Alexis Wood at NACIS 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Vincente Perez at PAMLA 2024

Conference Grant Reports: Tonya Nguyen at CSCW 2024

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Announcing BCNM's 2024 Faculty Seed Grant Recipient

Ken Goldberg at CASE 2024

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