27 Jan, 2027 Art, Tech & Culture

Below the Cloud

a symposium and participatory workshop on the environmental and social infrastructures of AI

curated by Danika Cooper, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, and Victoria Mohr, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium special event co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Farrand Public Education Grant
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24 Feb, 2025 Special Events

Virtual Realities and Digital Spaces

with Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley; Emma Fraser, Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley; Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley; and Alex Saum-Pascual, Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley

Presented by the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix. Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Department of Geography, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of Media Studies Read more

09 Dec, 2025
Detail from figure mapping the global ecology of AI infrastructure

Below the Cloud: A Community Workshop featuring AI Systems, Ecology, and Embroidery

The Berkeley Center for New Media is proud to support Below the Cloud, a symposium and workshop organized by Danika Cooper and Victoria Mohr (Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning) that will invite viewers to shift their gaze from the sky to the ground by tracing the environmental and social costs embedded within AI infrastructures, with a particular focus on water. Read more