21 Mar, 2024 History & Theory Seeing and Seafaring: Maritime Navigation and the Scopic Regime of Computation with Bernard Geoghegan Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, King's College, London A History & Theory of New Media lecture presented by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) Read more
30 Jan, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture Generative Art and Deep Learning AI with Nettrice Gaskins Digital artist, academic, and cultural critic Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Jacobs Institute for Design, and Media Studies 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
22 Apr, 2021 History & Theory Indigenous Games with Elizabeth LaPensée Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice. Image credit: Elizabeth LaPensée Read more
01 Mar, 2021 History & Theory A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies with Margo Robbins Co-founder and President of the Cultural Fire Management Council and Valentin Lopez Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Presented in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays. Read more
03 Feb, 2021 History & Theory Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action with Marisa Duarte Assistant Professor, Arizona State University Co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the School of Information, American Cultures, and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
05 Nov, 2020 History & Theory World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures with Skawennati Artist & Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Image credit: Skawennati, "Renewal" 2016 Read more
10 Sep, 2020 History & Theory A Conversation with the Sogorea Te' Land Trust with Corrina Gould Lisjan Ohlone leader and co-founder of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust moderated by Marcelo Garzo Montalvo Read more
11 Apr, 2019 Special Events Sarah Winchester and the Origins of Silicon Valley with Homay King Bryn Mawr College Presented by the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
01 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Body Without Borders with Rhonda Holberton Artist, Oakland Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. 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
18 Mar, 2019 Commons Conversations Video Games Have Always Been Queer with Bonnie Ruberg University of California, Irvine Read more
11 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture News of the Future and the Future of News with Kevin Delaney Editor, Quartz In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
29 Oct, 2018 Commons Conversations Immersive Media: Performance, Experience, & Audience with Mona Kasra Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia 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
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
01 Mar, 2018 History & Theory The Software Arts with Warren Sack Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz 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
05 Oct, 2017 Commons Conversations Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. 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
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
24 Apr, 2017 Special Events Parenting for a Digital Future with Alicia Blum-Ross Research Officer in Media and Communications at the LSE Read more
19 Apr, 2017 Special Events Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism with DJ Spooky Read more
09 Dec, 2016 Special Events "Rogue Archives" Book Launch: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom "Rogue Archives" is authored by Prof. Gail De Kosnik 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
22 Sep, 2016 & Media Student Conference with Kristopher Fallon (Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis) and Jenny Odell (Digital Media Artist) Read more
22 Feb, 2016 Art, Tech & Culture Proxies and Placeholders with Hito Steyerl, renowned German artist Read more
01 May, 2015 Special Events Precarious Aesthetics Conference Call for Papers Deadline Deadline May 1, 2015 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
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
10 Apr, 2014 Special Events Student Research Presentations and New DE Welcome Cutting edge research happening here at BCNM! Join us in celebration of these amazing grad students. Read more
06 Mar, 2014 History & Theory The Cybernetic Hypothesis A History and Theory lecture by Alex Galloway, philosophy writer and programmer. Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Read more
06 Feb, 2014 History & Theory Indigenous Circuits A lecture by Lisa Nakamura, "Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture" 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
24 Jan, 2013 Special Events Streams, Gardens, and Clouds: Visualizing Dynamic Data for Engagement, Education and the Environment A CITRIS Data and Democracy event to celebrate Data Innovation Day Read more
04 Dec, 2012 Lo-Fi & Hi-Touch In The Age of Hi-Tech A lecture by Scott Doorley, creative director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford 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
25 Oct, 2012 History & Theory Imagined Networks with Wendy Chun, Prof. of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University Read more
02 May, 2012 Artist Talk at the BiD Lab with Walter Kim Lunch and conversation with Walter Kim, artist and engineer based in San Francisco Read more
26 Apr, 2012 History & Theory Tactical Media with Rita Raley, Associate Prof. of English, among other distinguished appointments Read more
23 Apr, 2012 Art, Tech & Culture On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
18 Nov, 2011 History & Theory Lydia Liu, in conversation with Martin Jay and David Bates on her new book, "The Freudian Robot" The author of "The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious" talking to Martin Jay (History) and David Bates (Rhetoric) 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
02 Dec, 2024 Announcing Our Fall 2024 Undergraduate Certificate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2024 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! 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
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
27 Sep, 2024 Seed Grant Report — Emma Fraser on Media in Ruins & the Strong Museum of Play Emma Fraser received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for exploring the form and aesthetics of new media and digital technologies. Read more about the progress of her research! 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
07 Apr, 2024 Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media. Read more
04 Apr, 2024 BCNM Around the Web Spring 24 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more
11 Mar, 2024 BCNM at SCMS 2024 Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! 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 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 Nov, 2023 The Digital is a Ruin: Digital Space, Geography and the End of the World Emma Fraser speaks on November 8th at the Geography colloquium. Read more
20 Sep, 2023 Jaclyn Zhou and Caleb Murray-Bozeman to Lead New Media Working Group We're thrilled to announce that Jaclyn Zhou and Caleb Murray-Bozeman are the new coordinators of the New Media Working Group! 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
07 Jun, 2023 Real Life in Real Time Co-Edited by Bo Ruberg Published by MIT Press, this new volume explores the cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Read more
30 May, 2023 Conference Grants: Harry Burson at SCMS Harry Burson presented his paper, "“Metaverse, Multiverse, Server-verse: Fantasies of Control and Connection”, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference. Read more
18 May, 2023 Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more
19 Apr, 2023 Alex Saum-Pascual in Poetry & the Senses Chapbook The Arts Research Center published a chapbook featuring their 2020 Poetry & the Senses Fellows, including Alex Saum-Pascual! Read more
13 Apr, 2023 Conference Grants: Meg Everett at the Society for Research in Child Development Read more
20 Mar, 2023 Abigail De Kosnik Receives Distinguished Teaching Award The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. 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 Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
31 Jan, 2023 Billboard Features Jill Miller's Ariel Stinks "Ariel Pink Used Jill Miller's Face on His Album Cover Without Permission, So She Responded With ‘Ariel Stinks’ NFTs" writes Billboard. 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
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
28 Nov, 2022 Announcing Our 2022 Undergraduate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
18 Nov, 2022 BCNM at 4S 2022 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
13 Oct, 2022 The Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology. Read more
21 Jul, 2022 Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance The latest paper from alum Reginold Royston in Social Media + Society. 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
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! Read more
05 Apr, 2022 Digital Intimacy in Real Time Bo Ruberg published on Live Streaming Gender and Sexuality in Television & New Media. Read more
30 Mar, 2022 Hannah Zeavin Awarded Inaugural Timothy Shary Prize The Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media is awarded by The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
23 Mar, 2022 Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more
08 Mar, 2022 To Practice an Understanding that the World is Made with Alenda Chang Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more
05 Feb, 2022 Bo Ruberg Publishes Trans Games Studies Bo Ruberg's Trans Games Studies has been published in University of Michigan's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more
27 Jan, 2022 Hot and Cool Mothers by Hannah Zeavin Hannah's latest article appears in Differences, a journal of feminist cultural studies. Read more
27 Jan, 2022 Reginold Royston on Podcasting Africa: Pedagogy, Research and Praxis Reginold Royston discusses pedagogy, research, and praxis in a roundtable discussion with the African Studies Association. Read more
09 Dec, 2021 BCNM at 4S 2021 Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! 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 Noura Howell Joins Georgia Tech BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more
20 Oct, 2021 Bo Ruberg at AOIR Online Bo Ruberg speaks at AoIR 2021 on the relationship between video games and political participation. Read more
01 Aug, 2021 Jen Schradie on the Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media. Read more
26 Jul, 2021 We're Hiring: Fall 2021 Work Study Student Assistant Join the BCNM Events & Communications team! Read more
18 Jun, 2021 Noura Howell on Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring Artwork by Noura Howell Read more
13 Feb, 2021 Bo Ruberg Wins Stonewall Book Award Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more
23 Jan, 2021 We're Hiring: Spring 2021 Student Assistant Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! Read more
08 Dec, 2020 Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology Jen Shradie's book was reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology! Read more
07 Dec, 2020 Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM Graduates! Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM graduates, jazmin calderón torres and Yairamen Roman Maldonado! Read more
24 Sep, 2020 Reggie Royston on Configuring Ghana Reggie Royston's research article, "Configuring Ghana's diaspora" is now available in African Diaspora. 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
30 Aug, 2020 Announcing BCNM's Fall 2020 Class Fund Recipients We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more
16 Aug, 2020 Submit to Queer / Trans / Digital Alum Bo Ruberg co-edits this great new series from NYU Press. Read more
11 Aug, 2020 Fall 2020 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
10 Aug, 2020 Announcing the 2020-2021 History and Theory of New Media Season This year, we are thrilled to share that our theme for the 2020-2021 series is Indigenous Technologies. Read more
02 Aug, 2020 Reggie Royston in AI4Afrika Team AI4Afrika's goal is to make AI more inclusive and aware of Afrikan perspectives. Read more
30 Jul, 2020 We're Hiring: Fall 2020 Student Assistant Join the BCNM Events and Communications team! 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
16 Apr, 2020 BCNM Around the Web April 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 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
24 Feb, 2020 Abigail De Kosnik and Clement Hil Goldberg in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media "Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism" was published as a chapter in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media Read more
16 Jan, 2020 We're Hiring: 2020 Student Assistants Join the BCNM communication and events team! Read more
06 Jan, 2020 Alex Saum-Pascual on Fragmentation and the Digital City Alex offers an analysis of Vicente Luis Mora's Circular 07. Las afueras. Read more
06 Nov, 2019 Abigail De Kosnik and Piracy as the Future of Culture BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik published 'Piracy and the Future of Culture' in the journal Third Text. Read more
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
21 Aug, 2019 Summer Research Dispatch: Juliana Friend on Sutura Juliana traveled to Senegal to study shifting notions of digital privacy and publicity. 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
12 Aug, 2019 BCNM Faculty, Students, Staff Advise on and Support Proposed Legislation on Digital Media Literacy Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 ATC 2018-2019 In Review Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
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
19 Jun, 2019 Alum Alenda Chang Co-Editor of Media + Environment Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. 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
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
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
25 Apr, 2019 Alex Saum-Pascual on #netnarr Alex lectured at a #NetNarr course at Kean University regarding her #Youtuber and #Selfiepoetry work Read more
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
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
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
12 Mar, 2019 Alum Christo Sims' Disruptive Fixation Reviewed in Pedagogies Earl Aguilera examines Christo Sims’ Disruptive Fixation and its contributions to the growing body of literature on technology in education. Read more
19 Feb, 2019 Alex Saum-Pascual at MLA Commons 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
27 Dec, 2018 Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Indiecade Bonnie Ruberg helped organize several panels at the premiere international event dedicated to celebrating independent games from around the globe. Read more
04 Dec, 2018 Announcing our Summer 2019 Courses This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Read more
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
01 Oct, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Ryan Ikeda & Electronic Literature This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more
10 Jun, 2018 Summer 2019 Course Proposals Now Open! We are now accepting applications to teach a NWMEDIA Summer 2019 course. Read more
26 May, 2018 2018 BCNM Seed Grants: Jacob Gaboury and Queer Computing Jacob Gaboury (Film & Media) received $5000 to examine the relationship between digital technologies and queer identity as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more
27 Apr, 2018 Jacob Gaboury Published in Grey Room BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury's research on the computer screen has been published in Grey Room, a peer-reviewed academic journal that includes articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics. 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
02 Mar, 2018 Jacob Gaboury at A+D Wednesdays The BAMPFA will be hosting a talk with Jacob Gaboury, as part of their Berkeley Art + Design programming. Read more
17 Jan, 2018 Kris Paulsen Receives Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship Alum Kris Paulsen has received the prestigious Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Read more
25 Dec, 2017 Alum Erin Johnson at the Power Plant Gallery Alum Erin Johnson is exhibiting The Way Things Can Happen at the Power Pant Gallery in Durham, NC. Read more
05 Dec, 2017 Rogue Archives Reviewed in Leonardo Reviews BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed by Leondardo Reviews. Read more
03 Dec, 2017 BCNM Seed Grant Funded New Cadavre Exquis by Neyran Turan Receives Award Neyran Turan, recipient of a BCNM seed grant, received an honorable mention from the 2017 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Awards. Read more
14 Nov, 2017 Niemeyer Receives Hewlett 50 Arts Commission Grant Greg Niemeyer and collaborators DJ Spooky and the Internet Archive receive prestigious Hewlett 50 Arts Commission grant for data sonified hip-hop opera! Read more
13 Nov, 2017 Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
11 Nov, 2017 BCNM at ASA 2017 Abigail De Kosnik and alum Reginold Royston presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2017. 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
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
15 Aug, 2017 Summer Research Dispatches: Miyoko Conley on Holograms in K-Pop Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more
01 Aug, 2017 Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more
01 May, 2017 Revisited: "Many to Many" Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more
16 Dec, 2016 Revisited: "Rogue Archives" Book Launch The discussion of Prof. De Kosnik's new book was held at University Press. Read more
12 Dec, 2016 Rogue Archives Reviewed in Digicult BCNM Professor Abigail De Kosnik's new book was reviewed by Sylvia Bertolotti in Digicult Read more
22 Nov, 2016 Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more
04 Nov, 2016 Grace Gipson at >Play Conference >play is the largest student-run digital media and technology conference Read more
03 Nov, 2016 Greg Niemeyer Collaboration with DJ Spooky for Internet Archive 20th Anniversary 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 GloUH: Gaming Virtual Bodies: Video Games in South Asian Cities The series hosts Irene Chien, BCNM alumna, to speak on moving through South Asian cities both within video games 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
04 Oct, 2016 Rogue Archives Published! An examination of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, looking in particular at Internet fan fiction archives. Congrats, Prof. De Kosnik! Read more
25 Aug, 2016 Summer Teaching Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez and Software Aesthetics Nicholaus Gutierrez was selected to teach "Software and Aesthetics" as a NWMEDIA R1B this past summer. Here, he describes the experience 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
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 Summer Research Opportunities: Hybrid Ecologies Lab The Hybrid Ecologies Lab, headed by Eric Paulos, is looking for skilled and passionate undergraduate and graduate students to join us this summer Read more
16 May, 2016 Ashley Ferro Murray named Curator of Theater and Dance at EMPAC EMPAC is described as where the arts, sciences, and technology use the same facilities and technologies Read more
19 Jan, 2016 Why Alex Saum Pascual Writes #SELFIEPOETRY "Fake Art Histories & the Inscription of the Digital Self" is an ongoing series of e-poems via the online platform NewHive Read more
01 Dec, 2015 New Undergraduates Announcement! Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
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
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
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
03 Mar, 2015 Announcing the 2015 Peter Lyman Fellow he Fellowship seeks to support a Ph.D. candidate in the writing of his or her dissertation on a topic related to new media through a summer stipend 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
01 May, 2014 Meet Jen Schradie Jen Schradie has never been afraid to confront the societal inequality she witnesses 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
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
06 Mar, 2014 Announcing the 2014 Peter Lyman Fellow The Fellowship seeks to support a Ph.D. candidate in the writing of his or her dissertation on a topic related to new media through a summer stipend Read more
11 Feb, 2014 HTNM Revisited: Lisa Nakamura, "Indigenous Circuits" Professor Nakamura took a closer look at archival documents left from the largely invisbilized history of a corporation that employed thousands of Navajo women from the '60s to '70s Read more
25 Nov, 2013 BCNM Welcomes New Students to the DE & Graduate Certificate in New Media We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs 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
14 Aug, 2013 Announcing the 2013-2014 History and Theory in New Media Lecture Series The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media with support from CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Read more
07 May, 2013 BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media Congratulations to all! Read more
19 Mar, 2013 Announcing the 2013 Peter Lyman Fellow, T. Geronimo Johnson For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” Read more
27 Feb, 2013 BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium, February 14, 2013 Exciting and innovative new UC Berkeley research projects weree presented at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). Read some of our students' research here! Read more
05 Nov, 2012 Digital Media Artist Jim Campbell Celebrated as “Bay Area Treasure” Brooke spoke at the Berkeley Art Museum about Jim Campbell’s Home Movies installation in 2008 and is preparing an article on his work. Read more
14 May, 2012 Who’s Achievement? — Evaluating Self-Constructed and Peer-Evaluated Badge Systems in Online Classrooms
11 Jan, 2012 Artist Talk with Walter Kim on Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more
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