The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Nisa Zamora and Em Erce. Read more

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

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías talks to Sarah M. Chappell in The Think Piece podcast. Read more

A butterfly flaps its wings. The air ripples, and time flows. Months later, a typhoon starts brewing above the ocean. Read more

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

Roboticist and artist Ken Goldberg takes the temperature of the current AI moment. Read more

We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses.  Read more

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

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

Check out this new article from Ken Goldberg! Read more

Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more

Artists Trevor Paglen, Khyati Trehan, and Sebastian Errazuris discuss the metaverse, NFTs, A.I., and what it all means for the art world and debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work. Read more

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

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

Congratulations to Sarah Sterman on being named a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more

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

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

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

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

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more

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

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

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

Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more

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

Jane McGonigal shares her story and experience on Because Games Matter. Read more

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

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

The article is included in the Gathering: Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual co-edits this amazing collection that features a host of BCNM contributions! Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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Ken Goldberg was interviewed on AI and machine learning for the Rotman School of Management's Winter 2020 magazine issue.  Read more

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

Alum Jane McGonigal is now on Coursera teaching us how to be futurist thinkers! Read more

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

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

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

Alex presented the keynote at this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. Read more

Camille Crittenden contributed the chapter on "Vienna" to the book Brahms in Context. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more

BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more

BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference!  Read more

Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more

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

McGonigal will teach a course titled, "How to Think Like a Futurist: Improve Your Powers of Imagination, Invention, and Capacity for Change." Read more

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

Alex Saum-Pascual attended the 2019 Chicago Modern Language Association Convention, presenting her research on the  intersection of digital humanities and Hispanic studies. Read more

Apply for Semester Long Collaborative Opportunity through CITRIS, in partnership with Tecnológico de Monterrey! Includes travel to Mexico this summer! Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

BCNM Alum Reginold Royston presented at the 2018 African Studies Association Read more

Alex Saum participated in the 13th International Colloquium in Computational Creativity organized by the friends of UAM Cuajimalpa in Mexico City, under the direction of Rafael Pérez.  Read more

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

Trevor Paglen's solo show for Altman Siegel was featured in San Francisco Art Quarterly.  Read more

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

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed in Archives & Manuscripts!  Read more

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

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

Niemeyer is hosting a Media Inclusion & Innovation course DJ Spooky Read more

with Jan De Vos Read more

This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making Read more

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

On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more

ArtReach is a non-profit mobile arts organization that is reframing the artist residency Read more

Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks.  Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

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

Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more

We are delighted to welcome 3 new graduate students to our Masters Certificate program Read more

Congratulations to all! Read more