22 Apr, 2024
History & Theory
Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements
with Lauren Klein
Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University
Presented with the Digital Humanities program and co-sponsored by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CCDS), the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and the Media Studies program Read more
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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
13 Mar, 2024
History & Theory
AI & the Humanities: Artificial Intelligence and Translation
with Behrooz Ghorbani, Researcher, OpenAI
Cathy Park Hong, English, UC Berkeley
Hoyt Long, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Presented in partnership with the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
26 Feb, 2024
History & Theory
Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics
with Christina Leza, Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College, and Trevor Reed, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Moderated by Sierra Edd, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Art Practice Read more
12 Oct, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations
An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places
with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, Elisava University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley Read more
07 Nov, 2022
History & Theory
Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
with Gillian Rose
Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media Studies Read more
18 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Data & Life in the Metaverse
Join media innovators to explore the potentials of the metaverse, both exciting and terrifying. With Emma Fraser, Don Hanson, Wade Wallerstein, and Richmond Wong.
Presented by Human Technology Futures Group and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley. Read more
14 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversations
with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Read more
09 Nov, 2021
Special Events
Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums
Featuring Margaret Rhee, Reginold Royston,and Ryan Shaw. Moderated by Clancy Wilmott.
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Grad Chats, a series focused on navigating the academic job market and career development with UC Berkeley grads. Read more
28 Sep, 2021
Special Events
The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more
16 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations
Blockchain Chicken Farm and Grass Mud Horses
with Xiaowei Wang
Writer and artist; author of Blockchain Chicken Farm
& An Xiao Mina
Writer and artist; author of From Memes to Movements Read more
07 Nov, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL
with Lawrence Lek
Artist, Filmmaker and Musician
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
15 Apr, 2020
Special Events
22 Jan, 2020
Commons Conversations
Digital Hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities
with Rahul Gairola
Murdoch University
Co-sponsored by the Color of New Media Working Group. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Special Events
The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
20 Mar, 2019
History & Theory
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
with Safiya Umoja Noble
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the CITRIS Policy Lab Read more
12 Feb, 2019
Special Events
The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
29 Nov, 2018
Special Events
Digital Workshops of the World: Software, Source Code and Skills Migration in the Global VFX Industries
with Leon Gurevitch
In partnership with the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar 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
12 Sep, 2018
History & Theory
Architectural Intelligence
with Molly Wright Steenson
Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
In partnership with the Department of Architecture Read more
06 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Workshop
Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. Read more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
With rapid advances in modern documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, how must our study of the past and its material legacy adapt? Read more
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more
14 Feb, 2018
Commons Conversations
Commons Conversations: Adolf Loos After the Death of Adolf Loos
This talk revisits the life and work of Adolf Loos during the architect’s lifetime, but also beyond his death in 1933. Read more
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
23 Oct, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Socially Engaged Internet-Art: Aesthetics of Information Ethics
with Paolo Cirio
Artist, NY
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art Practice Read more
17 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui
Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack
with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more
12 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Datasense: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience
with Natasha Schull
Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU
Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society
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11 Sep, 2017
Special Events
Book Talk — Intelligent Infrastructure: Zipcars, Invisible Networks, And Urban Transformation
with TF Tierney
Founding Director of URL: Urban Research Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Studies Read more
14 Aug, 2017
Special Events
Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute
Don't miss out on this annual series of digital humanities discussions and workshops! Read more
08 May, 2017
Special Events
Leading experts will discuss ways in which organizations are addressing issues at large in our fast-changing social environment. Read more
28 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Listening Session and Launch Party Read more
25 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations
BCNM, in partnership with the School of Information and Graduate School of Journalism, turn to the particular role, and power, of digital tools to express and organize political dissent, and create greater institutional and political transparency! Read more
19 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism
06 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Nicholas de Monchaux on Local Code: 3659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities
Join BCNM at the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive with an author talk with Nicholas de Monchaux. Read more
04 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe
with Jan De Vos
Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (BE) Read more
03 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Joris Maltha, CatalogTree co-founder Read more
13 Feb, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Geoff Manaugh, NYT best-selling author Read more
28 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor Read more
26 Nov, 2016
Special Events
"Local Code" Book Launch: a Conversation & Reading
with Nicholas de Monchaux Read more
13 Nov, 2016
History & Theory
Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes
with Virginia Kuhn,
Associate Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Special Events
Sex, Lies, and Data Mining
with Luke DuBois, co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data Read more
14 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
A continuation of the Symposium, sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Workshops
Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital Cities
Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the School of Information's Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. Read more
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
17 Aug, 2015
Workshops
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Digital Humanities at Berkeley will be running a summer institute of intensive workshops led by DH experts Read more
31 Jul, 2015
Special Events
Books in Browsers Request for Proposals Deadline
The succesful conference is back for its sixth year. And it wants your submissions! 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
13 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat
with Jesse Drew, UC Davis Professor, and Glenda Drew, artist and designer Read more
05 Mar, 2015
History & Theory
Against the Cultural Singularity
A lecture by Alan Liu, UCSB Profesor Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Special Events
Natural Frequencies: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance
A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversary of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more
02 Oct, 2014
History & Theory
A lecture by Jennifer Holt (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB) this October, held at Stephens Hall Read more
14 Nov, 2013
Special Events
From Data Visualization to Data Manifestation
with Kevin Walker, Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art Read more
14 Mar, 2013
History & Theory
Amateurdom and Its Discontents
with Lisa Gitelman, media historian
Co-sponsored by the Department of Rhetoric Read more
10 Dec, 2012
Special Events
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest
A panel of leading video activists, filmmakers, + technology developers on the implications for human rights investigations, advocacy campaigns, and social justice Read more
03 Dec, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Luminous Currents: Tracing Modernism from Bauhaus to Beehive
An Arts + Technology Colloquium lecture by JoAnne Northrup, former chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art Read more
13 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Anthropology as BIG DATA: Making the Case for Ethnography as a Critical Dimension in Digital Media and Technology Studies
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, on big data in human comunication research 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
30 Mar, 2012
Special Events
The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
Hosted at SFMoMA, featuring Nicholas DeMonchaux and the work of Buckminster Fuller Read more
06 Mar, 2024
Trevor Paglen on A History of the World in Spy Objects
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24 Feb, 2024
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more
13 Feb, 2024
Nicole Starosielski teaches Introduction to Digital Infrastructure this Summer
This summer, Professor Nicole Starosielski teaches Introduction to Digital Infrastructure. The challenge of this course will be not only to learn about the infrastructures that comprise the digital "cloud," but to develop innovative representations of them, based on your own original research into the internet’s “plumbing.” Read more
11 Feb, 2024
Living on the block: How equitable is tokenized equity?
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29 Jan, 2024
This panel seeks to examine the role that institutional arrangements play in shaping science and technology by interrogating what happens when institutions are threatened or collapse. Read more
29 Jan, 2024
Techno-legal Solutionism: Regulating Children’s Online Safety in the United States
In this paper, alum danah boyd and Maria P. Agnel unpack the theory of change at the center of the “duty of care." Read more
17 Jan, 2024
Summer Research Reports: Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter
We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more
29 Dec, 2023
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
05 Dec, 2023
Seed Grant Report: Clancy Wilmott and Before You Were Here
Clancy Wilmott received a faculty seed grant to create a map using experimental techniques combining GIS, geocomputation and hand drafting. Read more
04 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2023 Faculty Seed Grants
This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more
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
28 Sep, 2023
Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more
04 Sep, 2023
Lyman Report: Rashad Timmons on Racialized Geography in Ferguson
With the support of the Lyman Fellowship, Rashad Timmons traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to engage in fieldwork and archival research for my dissertation. Read more
17 Aug, 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
10 Aug, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Paloma Duong, Erik Davis, Lauren Klein, and more! Read more
28 Jun, 2023
How AI can distort human beliefs
Celeste Kidd and co-author Abeba Birhane have a new article in Science on how models can convey biases and false information to users! Read more
27 Jun, 2023
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
13 Jun, 2023
Ken Goldberg Exhibiting Trees, Time and Technology
Trees, Time, and Technology: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology Read more
30 May, 2023
Undergraduate Research Reports: Riya Manimaran on Hybrid Learning
Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more
19 May, 2023
Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Graduates
Art by Tiare Ribeaux. Read more
24 Apr, 2023
Celeste Kidd Publishes on Why We Disagree So Often
Is a dog more similar to a chicken or an eagle? Is a penguin noisy? Is a whale friendly?
Celeste Kidd and team say these absurd-sounding questions might help us better understand what’s at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments. Read more
20 Apr, 2023
danah boyd Awarded Morrison Prize
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society awarded alum danah boyd its prestigious Morrison Prize and lecture. Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
14 Apr, 2023
Making the Invisible Visible with Alum Trevor Paglen
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn talks to alum and artist Trevor Paglen about mass surveillance. Read more
29 Mar, 2023
Kris Paulsen Co-Edits Media N
With Brian Michael Murphy, alum Kris Paulsen co-edits a special issue of Media N on Afterlives of Data. Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies! Read more
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
09 Jan, 2023
Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Kidd Lab at Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023
Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more
30 Dec, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
22 Dec, 2022
Fall 2022 Events in Review
Thank you so much for joining us for another semester of BCNM events! We've collected our event transcripts and videos so you can tune in to amazing lectures from Pua Case, BCNM alumni Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, Visiting Scholar Gillian Rose, and more. Read more
05 Dec, 2022
Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
01 Dec, 2022
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more
27 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Valencia James: AI_am Read more
18 Nov, 2022
BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
14 Nov, 2022
AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M
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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
BCNM at American Studies Association 2022
Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads with Liza Gak
BCNM DE Liza Gak joins Data Skeptic to discuss her research on harmful weight loss advertising. 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
11 Oct, 2022
Announcing the Fall 2022 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Art by Clancy Wilmott. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Are Spotify’s Vibes the End of Segregated Listening?
Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more
25 Aug, 2022
Undergraduate Research: Jesse Clements
Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more
24 Aug, 2022
Summer Research Reports: Rebecca Levitan
Rebecca works on the digital documentation of ancient art! Read more
24 Aug, 2022
danah boyd & Morgan Ames on the Future of the Metaverse
Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more
22 Aug, 2022
danah boyd on the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
danah boyd discusses "Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?" Read more
17 Aug, 2022
danah boyd Featured in People of ACM
"I approach technology as a tool and an intervention. Certain futures are made easier because of technology, and certain futures get more complicated. We can make bets about the probabilities of certain futures, but we cannot see the future. We can only introduce other interventions." Read more
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
17 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg at WAFR 2022
The 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics was held on June 22-24, 2022. Read more
07 Jul, 2022
Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more
23 Jun, 2022
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 BCNM Events in Review
Check out our roundup of the last year of BCNM events, featuring event details, video recordings, and transcripts! Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! 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
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
19 Apr, 2022
BCNM at Data and the Metaverse
BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse." Read more
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
Greg Niemeyer Awarded Pro Helvetia Grant
Greg received a Pro Helvetia Grant for Data Art about Water in Africa! Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Jenna Burrell on the Datafied State
Jenna Burrell shares a new Data & Society research agenda in the earliest stages of discussion and planning. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!
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13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
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
24 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
11 Feb, 2022
BCNM Around the Web February 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
09 Feb, 2022
Mechanical Search on Shelves Using a Novel "Bluction" Tool
A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team. Read more
25 Jan, 2022
BCNM in 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics
Women in AI Ethics recognizes BCNM faculty and alumni in their list of honors, including Jenna Burrell, Morgan Ames, danah boyd, and Michelle Carney! Read more
22 Jan, 2022
BCNM Around the Web January 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
16 Dec, 2021
Congratulating Our Fall 2021 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Xincun Du. Read more
12 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more
12 Dec, 2021
An Ode to Responsible Data Science
Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! 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
21 Nov, 2021
Morgan Ames Wins Computer History Museum Prize
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14 Nov, 2021
Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
11 Nov, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Individualized Stress Detection Using an Unmodified Steering Wheel
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on detecting stress levels through steering wheel angle data. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Jenna Burrell Promoted to Professor of Information
BCNM executive commitee member Jenna Burrell has been promoted to full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information. 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
27 Sep, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Raises $26 Million
Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. 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
20 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Tonya Nguyen on Mutual Aid Organizations' Use of Technology
Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more
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
25 Jun, 2021
Tiffany Ng Promoted to Associate Professor
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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
Alum Tiffany Ng speaks on her musical influences in I Care If You Listen's "ListN Up." Read more
07 May, 2021
Trevor Paglen and Unseen Skies
Yaara Bou Melham documentary Unseen Skies spotlights the work of alum Trevor Paglen. Read more
25 Apr, 2021
David Bamman on Characterizing English Variation on Social Media
BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more
17 Apr, 2021
Björn Hartmann on Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off
Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more
03 Apr, 2021
danah boyd on Democracy's Data Infrastructure
BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure." Read more
29 Mar, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
Photo credit: Yuyao Jin Read more
19 Mar, 2021
The Book of the Dead in 3D with Rita Lucarelli
UC Berkeley Professor and Egypgytologist Rita Lucarelli's BCNM funded 3D coffin modeling project is set to debut at the Phoebe Hearst Museum later this year. Read more
18 Feb, 2021
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
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
21 Dec, 2020
BCNM Fall 2020: Events In Review
We’re so thankful to everyone who tuned in for our events this past semester. Keep reading for a round-up of our events and speakers! Read more
19 Nov, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm Featured in Rest of World
Xiaowei Wang was recently interviewed by Rest of World on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual in ICIDS Exhibition
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12 Nov, 2020
Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
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
28 Oct, 2020
Pablo Paredes Publishes Stress Tracker
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes explores the use of a computer trackpad in monitoring stress. Read more
15 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. 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
24 Sep, 2020
Xiaowei Wang & An Xiao Mina on WeChat
Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more
23 Sep, 2020
Seed Grants Recipient: Celeste Kidd and The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition during Belief Formation in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more
15 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment
Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more
14 Aug, 2020
The Revolution That Wasn't Reviewed in Mass Communication & Society
Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more
28 Jul, 2020
Jen Schradie on Wellbeing During COVID-19
"The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France" was published by a team of authors in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Read more
20 Jul, 2020
Bo Ruberg Publishes On LGBTQ Identities Challenging Norms of Demographics
"In the era of algorithms and big data [...] the issue of who is or is not “counted” profoundly affects visibility, access, and power in the digital realm." Read more
17 Jul, 2020
BCNM Around the Web July 2020
Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more
19 Jun, 2020
Gabrielle Clement on New Media Technology in the Courtroom
"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Students Finalists for Fast Company's Student World Changing Ideas
Collective Obscura, a project created by BCNM students, was one of the finalists for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2020. Read more
10 Jun, 2020
Critical Making Projects in Spring 2020 Made @ Berkeley
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12 May, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature"
BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual published "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature? And Why Should We Care?" in the 2019 Electronic Literature Organization essay collection. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating Our 2020 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!
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26 Apr, 2020
Revisited: Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more
21 Apr, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Summer Research Fellows
We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more
16 Apr, 2020
BCNM Around the Web April 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
13 Apr, 2020
Commons Conversations Revisited: Ceci Moss
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12 Apr, 2020
CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more
03 Apr, 2020
HTNM Revisited: Feminist Open Access & Internet Publishing
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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
27 Feb, 2020
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more
26 Feb, 2020
Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley." 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
10 Feb, 2020
Join Jill Miller & Greg Niemeyer in Mo'orea for ART 160N This Summer
Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! Read more
06 Feb, 2020
Commons Conversation Revisited: Rahul Gairola
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06 Feb, 2020
DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year. Read more
03 Feb, 2020
danah boyd on Privacy in the 2020 Census
danah boyd investigates the US Census Bureau's approach to "differential privacy" and its implications for data products. Read more
30 Jan, 2020
Alum danah boyd recently released a Data & Society report titled "Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited" in collaboration with Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft. Read more
04 Jan, 2020
cNet names danah boyd One of 30 Personalities Who Defined the 2010s
CNET's list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years includes alum, Data & Society founder, danah boyd. Read more
31 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Fabric Smoothing Policies
Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more
27 Dec, 2019
Claudia Von Vacano at EURNLP
Claudia presented her co-authored work on measuring hate speech in big data by unifying deep learning with item response theory. Read more
26 Dec, 2019
Revisited: Tangible User Interfaces Showcase
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26 Dec, 2019
Revisited: Critical Practices Showcase
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24 Dec, 2019
danah boyd Publishes Balancing Data Utility and Confidentiality in the 2020 US Census
A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more
24 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen’s ImageNet Roulette
ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more
16 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Deep Learning Transfer
Hate making your bed? This new bed finds a fun new robotic solution! Read more
12 Dec, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Ronak K. Kapadia
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17 Nov, 2019
Announcing our Fall 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Shuang Yan. Read more
30 Oct, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Julien Mailland
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18 Oct, 2019
Call for Participation: Contested Data
Alum danah boyd and Dan Bouk are running an incredible workshop at Data & Society. Application deadline: November 25, 2019. 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
25 Sep, 2019
danah boyd Named EFF Barlow Recipient
BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar' Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Open House Fall 2019 Revisited
This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more
22 Sep, 2019
Kris Fallon Publishes Where Truth Lies
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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
20 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more
18 Jul, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Screenshots for Fotomuseum
Jacob writes for the blog Still Searching on a history and theory of the computer screenshot. Read more
13 Jul, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Reviews The Noisy Renaissance
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
09 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more
04 Jul, 2019
Trevor Paglen & Kronos Quartet's Sight Machine at the Barbican
Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more
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
21 Jun, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Interviewed in Sounds from the Spires
Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more
15 Jun, 2019
All Woman Team Critiques Optimization Culture in NWMEDIA 190: Critical Practices
The students' commentary on our culture's enthusiasm for supplements is now showing in the CITRIS Tech Museum. Read more
13 Jun, 2019
Videos from 2019 DataEdge Now Available
BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
11 Jun, 2019
Jacob Gaboury on Regimes of Identification
Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more
06 Jun, 2019
William White on the Digital Heritage of People's Park
William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more
27 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Co-Chairing AI & Inclusivity Signature Initiative
The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more
27 May, 2019
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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19 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Graduates
Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more
18 May, 2019
Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more
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
23 Apr, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Bonnie Ruberg
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11 Apr, 2019
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Jen Schradie's Digital Activism Gap Highlighted in The Society Pages
The Society Pages features allum Jen Schradie's research on the digital activism gap. 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.
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21 Mar, 2019
Claudia von Vacano in Daily Cal
Claudia von Vacano moderated a panel around issues of diversity on campus. 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
09 Mar, 2019
DexNet 4.0 in the DailyCal
The DailyCal features Ken Goldberg and team's DexNet 4.0 Read more
07 Mar, 2019
Roger Antonsen and Greg Niemeyer's Network Paradox in Oslo
Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen discuss Network Simulation, first presented in San Francisco, with DJ Spooky at Norway's Kunstnernes Hus. Read more
05 Mar, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie in Democratic Audit
Schradie's studies of digital democracy indicate a large class and race based gap in digital activism in the US. Read more
03 Mar, 2019
Announcing the 2019 Lyman Fellowship Recipient
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24 Feb, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in HKW Video Stop Making Sense
Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more
12 Feb, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Receives Shirley Verrett Award
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08 Feb, 2019
Revisited: Questioning New Media Performance Night
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07 Jan, 2019
Trevor Paglen on NPR's Morning Edition
Alum Trevor Paglen discusses his art's focus on hidden structures of data collection and mass surveillance. Read more
03 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions in Automation Guest Editorial
Ken Goldberg and other IEEE luminaries call for greater openness around reproducible benchmarks. 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
Alum Trevor Paglen in Artes Mundi
Paglen is one of five runner-ups for the Artes Mundi 8, the UK's largest contemporary art prize. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
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26 Nov, 2018
Conference Grants: Grace Gipson and Malika Imhotep at ‘Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black’
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26 Nov, 2018
ATC Revisited: Kim Stanley Robinson
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21 Nov, 2018
Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
07 Nov, 2018
Conference Grants: Joyce Lee at EPIC
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05 Nov, 2018
Alum Jane McGonigal Creates Ethical Toolkit
Jane McGonigal developed a toolkit to help keep many large Silicon Valley tech companies, as well as start-ups, keep their priorities and ethics in check. Read more
31 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg in 5 Takeaways from TechCrunch Disrupt
Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.
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04 Oct, 2018
Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Geospatial Representation, Design, and Critical Cartography
Recruitment opens September 24th, 2018 and runs through November 5th, 2018. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Updated: Ken Goldberg at RoboBusiness 2018
BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press
Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
26 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations Revisited: Belinda Middleweek
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24 Sep, 2018
BCNM Students & Faculty Named GloUH Townsend Fellows
Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. Read more
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
30 Aug, 2018
Alum Jen Schradie Appointed as Asst Professor at the Sciences Po
BCNM Alum Jen Schradie was appointed an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Read more
20 Aug, 2018
The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more
17 Aug, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Machine Learning & UX Panel at IDEO
The IDEO MLUX Industry Panel focused on Designing and using Data Science Ethically. Read more
13 Aug, 2018
The Daily Cal Features Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net
The Dexterity-Network from AutoLab gets a well-deserved feature in the Daily Cal. Read more
07 Aug, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net in Video on New York Times
The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more
04 Aug, 2018
Jacob Gaboury Published in Women & Performance
Read "Becoming NULL: Queer relations in the excluded middle." Read more
19 Jun, 2018
Greg Niemeyer at Digital Art History Summer School in Málaga
Head to Spain this September to learn about Data & the Arts from Greg Niemeyer! Read more
18 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on the Peder Sather E-Lit Bergen Collaboration
Alex Saum-Pascual summarizes the amazing work that developed out of the Peder Sather grant funded collaboration between UCB and Bergen University on electronic literature. Read more
07 Jun, 2018
Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more
05 Jun, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibiting at Lismore Castle
The Lismore Castle opened When Facts Don't Matter on May 27th, 2018, an exhibition featuring alum Trevor Paglen. 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
Research Dispatches: Joyce Lee on Auditory Data Representation
Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship. Read more
27 May, 2018
Robotics TechCrunch Videos Now Available
For TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg discussed the “New Wave” in robot grasping for e-commerce warehouse order fulfillment. Read more
23 May, 2018
Welcome Claudia Von Vacano
We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more
17 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net Research Spotlighted in Nature
Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more
08 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg Receives Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest
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07 May, 2018
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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02 May, 2018
Will Payne at the American Association of Geographers 2018 Meeting
Will Payne was able to attend and present his paper at the American Association of Geographers Conference as one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant. Read more
30 Apr, 2018
Through funding from the 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Harry Burson attended and shared his research at SCMS 2018. Read more
25 Apr, 2018
New Selfie Poetry about Maternity & Software from Alex Saum-Pascual
Alex Saum-Pascual recently released a new electronic literature selfie poem about maternity and software. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Rita Lucarelli Receives CITRIS Seed Grant
Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Workshop
Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Exhibition
Asma Kazmi curated a fantastic virtual reality exhibition we were thrilled to preview as part of the Past is Present. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Symposium
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09 Apr, 2018
Greg Niemeyer Creates Ice Core Walk Project for Earth Day
The Ice Core Walk Project is self-guided audio tour where people can explore 800,000 years of climate history while remaining active. Read more
20 Mar, 2018
Alum Paglen's Exhibit for Altman Siegel in SFAQ
Trevor Paglen's solo show for Altman Siegel was featured in San Francisco Art Quarterly. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Alum Stuart Geiger on Computational Ethnography at University of Copenhagen
Stuart Geiger gave a public talk at the IT University of Copenhagen about the ethnography of computation. Read more
16 Mar, 2018
HTNM Revisited: "Software Arts" with Warren Sacks
Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year! Read more
12 Mar, 2018
Scott Rettberg Video Now Online
If you were unable to attend Professor Scott Rettberg's discussion about electronic literature last November, a video of his talk is now available for public viewing. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Alum Schradie Published in Social Media & Society
Alum Jen Schradie published an article on the North Carolina Moral Monday protests in Social Media & Society Read more
21 Feb, 2018
Common Conversations Revisited: Ines Weizman
Architecture professor Ines Weizman spoke at length about the life and legacy of Adolf Loos, delving into the work he left behind and how debates over ownership persist to this day. Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net in Technology Review
Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more
04 Feb, 2018
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation Video Now Online
If you couldn't make it out to the Humanizing Deportation conference back in December, there is now a video of the talk available on Youtube for public consumption. Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen on Artsy
Paglen's work was featured in "The Future of Art," a short film series on Artsy. Read more
25 Jan, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik & Alpha 60 in the California Magazine
Abigail De Kosnik discusses Game of Thrones and shares her pro-piracy argument with the data she has collected through her project titled "alpha60". Read more
23 Jan, 2018
Congratulations to our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates!
Congratulations to Shangjun (Jenny) Jiang and Allison Nguyen our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Read more
06 Dec, 2017
NWMEDIA 190/290 Critical Practices Showcase
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05 Dec, 2017
Trevor Paglen and Art in the Age of Mass Surveillance in The Guardian
BCNM alum and artist Trevor Paglen and his art were featured on an article on art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Read more
04 Dec, 2017
Revisited: NWMEDIA 201 Performance Night
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13 Nov, 2017
Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political
Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
13 Nov, 2017
ATC Revisited: Michael Rock
We revisit Michael Rock's talk as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture speaker series. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Berkeley's DeepDrive Releases 36,000 Nexar Research Videos
Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
ATC Revisited: Paolo Cirio, "Socially Engaged Internet-Art"
Revisiting Paolo Cirio's ATC speaker event about activism and social commentary through art. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Experts on Building Faster, More Secure AI Systems
Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more
27 Oct, 2017
The news reports on Reply All, a campus-wide symposium by the Berkeley Center of New Media, The Berkeley Graduate, the Graduate Assembly, and BridgeUSA on the 53rd anniversary of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. Read more
23 Oct, 2017
From Berkeley to Spain: A Summer of Digital Art History
Greg Niemeyer, Berkeley Center of New Media Director, and Justin Underhill speak about their experiences at the Digital Art History Summer School 2017 in Malaga, Spain. Read more
22 Oct, 2017
Revisited: Frank Foer, "World Without Mind"
Revisiting Frank Foer's ATC speaker event about his new book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Read more
19 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger Published in Big Data & Society
Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in Big Data & Society. Read more
16 Oct, 2017
HTNM Revisited: Natasha Schüll
From the NYU professor's talk, "Datasense," in which she discussed from her forthcoming book, "Keeping Track: Sensor Tehnology, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life." Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society. Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Alum Christo Sims on Disruptive Fixation on KPFA and Databite
Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. Read more
03 Oct, 2017
BCNM 2016-2017 Publications
Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more
03 Oct, 2017
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
11 Sep, 2017
Revisited: TF Tierney, Intelligent Infrastructure
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31 Aug, 2017
Revisited: BCNM Open House Fall 2017
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31 Aug, 2017
Revisited: Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute
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29 Aug, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux Quoted in Quartz
A Quartz article quoted De Monchaux about Elon Musk's Instagram post of SpaceX spacesuit prototype. 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
12 Aug, 2017
CS160 Final Project Showcase
Check out photos from an incredible semester with Cesar Torres' CS160 summer class! Read more
02 Aug, 2017
Alpha60 White Paper Published and in the News!
Prof. Abigail de Kosnik's seed grant funded digital humanities tool has been garnering major attention in the news! Read more
28 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg and Team Release Massive Dex-Net 2.0 Dataset!
Article on Goldberg and team's Dex-Net 2.0 data set release in Spectrum IEEE! 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
Abigail De Kosnik's Alpha 60 Featured in Daily Cal's Innovation Round Up
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14 May, 2017
Jenni Higgs reflects on her experience at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) this May in San Antonio, Texas Read more
12 May, 2017
Damon Young Receives Seed Grant for After the Private Self
Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more
08 May, 2017
NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making Showcase 2017 Revisited
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02 May, 2017
//supraliminal - Greg Niemeyer at ZKM
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01 May, 2017
Revisited: "Many to Many"
Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more
20 Apr, 2017
Revisited: "Conveying Climate Change"
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, discussed how art can support science in advance of the Science March on Washington Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Degrees of Visibility
Ashley Hunt discussed the visibility of prisons as part of our Commons Conversations series Read more
18 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Technology and Forensic Evidence in Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina, Prof. of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Read more
11 Apr, 2017
Revisited: Local Code at BAMPFA with Nicholas de Monchaux
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05 Apr, 2017
Revisited: "Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe"
with Jan De Vos Read more
05 Apr, 2017
Revisited: "Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials in Three Acts"
04 Apr, 2017
Revisited: “Designing Spaces for New Media Art”
Andy and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project, which houses affordable spaces for artists and non-profits, shared the pleasures and challenges of collecting art objects in this digital age. Read more
16 Mar, 2017
Video Now Online: Designing for Truth
with Joris Maltha Read more
16 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Syncing... Subject, Media, Society"
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16 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations: Ian Ingram Revisited
We recap this illuminating, wildly humorous talk, "Wild Robots: Bodies and Signs" Read more
07 Mar, 2017
Revisited: “Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini"
Missed Tanya Lombardo's lecture? No worries. We recapped it for you. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Greg Niemeyer’s Teaching Philosophy Featured in Le Monde
The BCNM faculty and Art Practice professor gave an interview in the renowned newspaper. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Video Now Online: "Our Landscape Futures"
Watch this event by Geoff Manaugh, New York Times-bestselling author on technology and utopias. Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Radical Technologies"
with Adam Greenfield Read more
27 Feb, 2017
Ken Goldberg Receives Google Research Grant
The 2016 Google Research Machine Learning and Data Mining Award goes to a BCNM faculty! Read more
07 Feb, 2017
Revisited: Collecting the Uncollectible
A beautiful discussion with Pamela Kramlich and Lawrence Rinder on curating new media art, the changing roles of museums, curators, and artists, and the construction of the Kramlich home. Read more
19 Jan, 2017
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen in New York Times
Trevor Paglen was featured in the New York Times article "A String Quartet Concert, With an A.I. Assist" Read more
07 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination"
A recap of "Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination" with Mike Tyka and Gray Area founder Josette Melchor. Read more
30 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Local Code" Book Launch
We recap the evening of conversation on Prof. de Monchaux's new book Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes”
Miyoko Conley, BCNM DE candidate, recaps Virginia Kuhn's HTNM lecture, "Video Analytics From Keywords to Keyframes." Read more
14 Nov, 2016
Grace Gipson as "Doctor of Comic Books"
Lashon Daley featured Grace Gipson, also a BCNM Designated Emphasis student, on her podcast Stories&Slams! Read more
14 Nov, 2016
We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Sex, Lies, and Data Mining"
We recap Luke Dubois's talk in Jacobs Institute for Design. 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
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
19 Oct, 2016
Revisited: "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual."
Some thoughts on Tom Sachs's engaging lecture, "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual." earlier this fall. Read more
11 Oct, 2016
Local Code by Nicholas de Monchaux Out Now at University of Princeton Architectural Press
04 Oct, 2016
Revisited: "Network Analysis of Media Studies"
On Miriam Posner's workshop event, recapped by Miyoko Conley. Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux's "Local Code" at Canadian Centre for Architecture
A part of the "Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention" exhibit Read more
26 Sep, 2016
Jingyi Li creates AO3 Scraper
BCNM undergrad Jingyi Li and a friend built a data scraper for the fan-content archive, Archive of Our Own Read more
08 Sep, 2016
Revisited: Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital City
We recap a masterclass around how technology functions in relation to Jane Jacobs' notion of community in cities Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season
his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Revisited: BCNM 2016 Open House
As always, the conversations were deeply engaging and we were excited to find new possibilities for collaborations across the disciplines Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Will Payne on Location-Based Services
Will Payne received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on location based services Read more
11 Jul, 2016
Greetings from the New Director
We are delighted to welcome Nicholas de Monchaux to his new role as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media Read more
05 Jul, 2016
Cultural Committee of the Danish Parliament Visits BCNM
The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more
30 Jun, 2016
Laura Devendorf to Join ATLAS at CU Boulder
Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more
28 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg's accepted papers at CASE 2016
Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more
21 Jun, 2016
BCNM Seed Grants 2017: Abigail De Kosnik's TorrentMap
Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Abigail De Kosnik to build her innovative tool TorrentMap Read more
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
Through Practice: Ashley Ferro-Murray and Mark Lam
“Through Practice” by Ashley Ferro-Murray is a somatic exploration of the contemporary relationship between biomedicine and new media, or genetics (DNA code) Read more
26 May, 2016
Meet Lark Buckingham: Critical Design
Animator, filmmaker, performance artist, designer, tinkerer, activist, and data scientist, Lark Buckingham is a versatile and multidisciplinary provocateur. Read more
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
Announcing our 2016 Graduates
Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
12 May, 2016
Revisited: Critical Making Exhibition
Critical Making students operationalize and critique the practice of making through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
12 May, 2016
Eric Paulos' CS 160 Interface Design Showcase
Teams were challenged to design novel smartphone and smartwatch applications focused on health and medical themes Read more
04 May, 2016
BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more
28 Apr, 2016
Gail De Kosnik Receives Berkeley Collegium Grant
BCNM's De Kosnik has received a Berkeley Collegium grant for her joint graduate/undergraduate class, "Making Sense of Cultural Data" Read more
26 Apr, 2016
Revisited: "Change and Stillness: Bodies and Gestures within Sensor Technology"
We recap this fascinating talk on this past showcase of sensor-technology art Read more
19 Apr, 2016
Revisited: Builders Association Berkeley Book Launch
BCNM was thrilled to partner with the Arts + Design | Arts Research Center for the launch of Shannon Jackson's contributions to "Builders Association" Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Revisited: "A Right to Remember"
with Brewster Kahle, invited by the UC Berkeley Regents Lecture Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Announcing 2016 Summer Research Awards
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are all completing Read more
29 Mar, 2016
Revisited: Insurgent Aesthetics
Ronak Kapadia, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, gave a talk on March 18th. Read the recap here. Read more
21 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Critical Play"
A recap of Mary Flanagan's lecture, recapped by Kate Mattingly. Read more
15 Mar, 2016
Laura Sydell on UC Cyber Security
Laura Sydell writes on the recent UC privacy and cybersecurity controversy for NPR Read more
07 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Library of the Future"
We revisit this engaging discussion with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason & Brewster Kahle Read more
02 Mar, 2016
Revisited: "Locking the Web Open: a Call for a New, Distributed Web"
We recap Brewster Kahle's lecture on privacy and free speech in the world wide web Read more
02 Mar, 2016
Revisited: Regents 2016 Tour with Brewster Kahle
We explored our obsession over the tangible in a tour with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, an online library of visual artifacts Read more
17 Feb, 2016
BCNM was pleased to host an open house for the Berkeley Engineering Annual Research Symposium of 2016 Read more
03 Feb, 2016
BCNM's Greg Niemeyer Featured in Daily Cal on UC Surveillance
Read more
08 Dec, 2015
NWMEDIA 201 Final Presentations
We were excited to see the final presentations of NWMEDIA 201, Questioning New Media, our foundational seminar on art, technology, and culture! Read more
02 Dec, 2015
Revisited: "Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process"
A summary of Adrien Segal's talk earlier this week, accompanied by photos and a social media round-up! Read more
01 Dec, 2015
New Undergraduates Announcement!
Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
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
Revisited: "Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing"
with Benjamin Bratton
a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) Read more
05 Nov, 2015
Revisited: "Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies"
with Julian Oliver Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
03 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Tarek Atoui's MATRIX 258
Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more
03 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Network Surveillance, Workshop with Julian Oliver
In collaboration with the School of Information on October 30th 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
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
01 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Ken Goldberg Speaker at RoboBusiness Conference
29 Sep, 2015
On the American artist and architect's lecture, "Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air" Read more
25 Sep, 2015
BCNM's Annual Open House Calls for Applications for Emphasis and Certificate in New Media!
24 Sep, 2015
Earthquakes on your mind? Check out Ken Goldberg’s artwork, Bloom.
Read more
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
Read more
17 Aug, 2015
Ada Initiative Shutting Down
The Ada Initiative helps women get involved and stay involved in open source, open data, open education, and other areas of free and open technology and culture Read more
27 Jul, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Robots and the Cloud in Time Magazine
Read more
01 Jul, 2015
Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks. Read more
14 May, 2015
Video Now Online: Jesse and Glenda Drew
Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more
29 Apr, 2015
México Participa Launched
México Participa is an innovative civic engagement platform based on the model of the California Report Card Read more
21 Apr, 2015
Books in Browsers - Request for Proposals
BIB VI will explore new forms of stories that embrace hybrid digital forms, or play with the tension between digital and physical interfaces Read more
07 Apr, 2015
Revisited: Martinat and Mayorga
We recap this wonderful discussion, "Reality Environments," hosted at the David Brower Center Read more
07 Apr, 2015
Revisited: "Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal"
The masterclass workshop led by Peruvian artist Jose Carlos Martinat and Enrique Mayorga, revisited Read more
11 Feb, 2015
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Being the Machine is a project that explores the relationship between humans-that-make and machines-that-make Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Lark Buckingham is the creator of Babump, a device posing as a business card holder that monitors heart rates Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for Innovation in New Media
Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more
21 Jan, 2015
Hack the Bells Dispatch from Sarah Stierch
Sarah Stierch spearheaded Hack the Bells, the world's first carillon remix competition Read more
14 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Maya Lin
The recording of this highly anticipated lecture by the great architect Maya Lin 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
18 Nov, 2014
Announcing the Winners of Hack the Bells
Winners of Hack the Bells, the first international carillon remix competition, have been selected Read more
30 Sep, 2014
We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more
03 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence Read more
21 Jul, 2014
The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more
19 May, 2014
Cyberphysical Democracy: Online Platforms and Offline Action
Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more
05 May, 2014
In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more
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
18 Apr, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more
15 Apr, 2014
ATC Revisited: Stephanie Syjuco
The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” Read more
26 Mar, 2014
Presenting the Robots and New Media Symposium
The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more
04 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Casey Reas
The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more
28 Jan, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more
09 Jan, 2014
New Media Exhibit Developer: Interactive Data Visualizations
The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more
18 Nov, 2013
Announcing the BCNM Data Literacy Initiative Award Recipient
The Data Literacy Initiative Prize was created to address the growing divide between the generation of large quantities of data and those with the tools to access and interpret this information Read more
12 Nov, 2013
HTNM Revisited: Lisa Parks
An eye-opening lecture last Thursday evening, November 7th, from Professor Lisa Parks marked the third installment of our 2013-2014 series Read more
01 Aug, 2013
DE Student Jen Schradie Featured on PBS.org
Jen Schradie's (Sociology) article on the impact of income inequality on Big Data appears on pbs.org Read more
23 Apr, 2013
BCNM New Media Students showcase Research at Spring Semester Presentation
UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more
09 Apr, 2013
Seeking Web Developer, Backend & Database for Game Website
The position is open to all current UC Berkeley students. Read more
17 Jan, 2013
DataCenter Welcomes Margaret Rhee (BCNM DE) to Board of Directors
Focusing on research justice and participatory methods, DataCenter partners with marginalized communities providing training and resources in research Read more
12 Dec, 2012
Human Rights Day: How Social Video Changes the Game for Advocacy and Accountability
To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, Camille Crittenden, the executive director of CITRIS's Data and Democracy Initiative, wrote an article in the Huffington Post Read more
10 Oct, 2012
International Day of the Girl and the Ongoing Need for More Girls in STEM Fields
CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative Director, Camille Crittenden wrote for the Huffington Post on Tuesday to advocate for continued efforts to bring girls into STEM fields Read more
26 Sep, 2012
Data & Democracy Initiative - Prop 30 Awareness
The UC Berkeley CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative has launched a social media experiment related to CA Proposition 30. It's open now and we welcome you to participate Read more
08 Aug, 2012
New Media Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM DE's
Congratulations to the following students! Read more
30 Jun, 2012
Forest by Bit, Using LiDAR to Represent Sierra Nevada Forests
14 May, 2012
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium
This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more
07 May, 2012
The Trend of Class, Race, and Ethnicity in Social Media Inequality
Read about Jen Schradie's (PhD, Sociology) study Read more
05 Apr, 2012
AirQuest’s objective is to make scientific data playable and accessible to all. Read more
07 Mar, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Peter Lyman Fellow
For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more
25 Oct, 2011
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011)
We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more
12 Sep, 2011
Turning Data into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at CITRIS
01 Aug, 2011
Data-Driven Elastic Models for Cloth: Modeling and Measurement
Read more
28 Jul, 2011
"Kinemathics": Kinetically Induced Mathematical Learning
Dor Abrahamson, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Education Cognition and Development: Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology, UC Berkeley Read more
15 Jun, 2011
CITRIS Launches Data and Democracy Initiative
Read more
15 Jun, 2011
The Digital Production Gap: The Digital Divide and Web 2.0 Collide
15 Jun, 2011
Pwning Asthma Triggers: Health Games as Technologies of Social Engagement
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