25 Oct, 2021 Commons Conversations Design Futures with Eric Rodenbeck Founder, Stamen Design Moderated by Eric Paulos Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) Read more
21 Aug, 2018 Special Events BCNM Fall 2018 Open House Join the BCNM for our annual open house, filled with art, demonstrations, and new media programs from across campus! Read more
02 May, 2018 Special Events Critical Making Showcase Come to the free Critical Making Showcase at Jacobs Hall taking place Wednesday, May 2nd from 2-3:30pm as part of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Spring Read more
22 Aug, 2017 Special Events BCNM Fall 2017 Open House Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house Read more
23 Aug, 2016 Special Events Fall 2016 Open House This is a great opportunity to connect with faculty, students, and staff on campus who work in the new media space. Read more
09 Dec, 2015 Special Events Jacobs Institute Winter Design Showcase Join us as we celebrate this semester's student work at Jacobs Institute! Read more
07 May, 2015 Special Events Critical Making Course Exhibition Taught by Instructor Eric Paulos, GSI Emily Chen, and Lab Manager Chris Myers Read more
30 Jan, 2012 Special Events Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings: Technologies and Strategies for an Emerging Participatory Culture with Eric Paulos (Carnegie Mellon) Read more
15 Dec, 2024 Announcing Our Spring 2025 Class Fund Recipients We are very excited to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes! Read more
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
03 May, 2024 Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Graduates Artwork "HAYA" (Life) by Arianna Khmelniuk, in collaboration with Eddie Farr; Photographer: Wyatt Kane. 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
08 Sep, 2023 Eric Paulos Named Faculty Director of Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Professor Eric Paulos has been appointed as the new Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation (effective 1 July 2023). Read more
27 Jun, 2023 BCNM's Big Wins 2023 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
19 Apr, 2023 BCNM at CHI 2023 Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
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
16 Nov, 2022 BCNM at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium The 2022 Bay Area Robotics Symposium brings together roboticists from the Bay Area in an immersive program featuring BCNM professors. Read more
26 Oct, 2022 BCNM at ACM 2022 The 7th annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication will feature Berkeley professors Eric Paulos and Bjoern Hartmann and other experts and enthusiasts from many areas of academia and industry, in order to explore the use of computational tools for the creation of physical things. Read more
12 Oct, 2022 Sarah Sterman Joins UIUC Congratulations to Sarah Sterman on being named a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more
07 Jul, 2022 A Decade of Innovation from the CITRIS Invention Lab CITRIS celebrates the tenth birthday of the Invention Lab - co-founded by our own Eric Paulos. 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
07 Jun, 2022 BCNM Best Paper Award at Creativity & Cognition 2022 BCNMers Molly Nicholas, Sarah Sterman, and Eric Paulos received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more
20 Apr, 2022 Eric Paulos on Plastic Dynamism Eric Paulos speaks on the creative process of not only making but also unmaking. Read more
13 Apr, 2022 BCNM at CHI 2022 Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
02 Mar, 2022 BCNM Around the Web March 2022 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this March! Read more
10 Jan, 2022 Common Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Eric Rodenbeck We're pleased to share the transcript of our Common Conversations event with founder of Stamen Design Eric Rodenbeck. Read more
14 Nov, 2021 BCNM at UIST 2021 Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
23 Oct, 2021 Eric Paulos' Adroid Featured in Spectrum Video RoundUp Eric Paulos' Adroid features on IEEE Spectrum's "Video Friday: Dusty at Work > Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos". Read more
27 Sep, 2021 Eric Paulos on Kaleidescope Eric Paulos received a 2020-2021 BCNM faculty seed grant for his work developing Kaleidoscope. Read more
19 Aug, 2021 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jessie Mindel on Kaleidoscope Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more
27 Jul, 2021 BCNM's Big Wins 2021 It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021. Read more
25 Jul, 2021 BCNM at DIS 2021 Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more
08 May, 2021 BCNM at CHI 2021 Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
21 Apr, 2021 Janaki Vivrekar on Discovering HCI at Berkeley BCNM Certificate and EECS graduate student Janaki Vivrekar has compiled a list of on-campus resources, departments, and centers for those interested in studying the intersection of technology, communication, society, arts and design. Read more
09 Feb, 2021 Eric Paulos on the 67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know Eric Paulos published a Medium piece titled "67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know." Check it out! Read more
09 Oct, 2020 Eric Paulos Spearheads Remote Making at Berkeley "We want to be able to support (students), their projects, their ideas, and their innovations." Read more
21 Jul, 2020 BCNM Faculty Receive Berkeley Changemaker Grants [Image credit: Original image from: King st. Development in Toronto by Frank Gehry, edited by Elnaz Tafrihi Bailey.] Read more
25 Jun, 2020 BCNM Undergraduate Work Featured in Discovery An Android app created by BCNM undergrad Janaki Vivrekar was showcased by UC Berkeley Discovery. 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! Read more
23 Apr, 2020 Eric Paulos' Research on Familiar Stranger Helping to Combat COVID-19 BCNM Professor Eric Paulos' past research on Familiar Stranger from 2003 has been revived by MIT researchers in a plan to combat COVID-19. Read more
12 Apr, 2020 BCNM at CHI 2020 CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more
03 Apr, 2020 Hybrid Ecologies Lab Turn By Wire Featured in Hackaday Enter Turn by Wire, a unique set of force feedback and machine control concepts applied to a lathe brought to you by researchers Rundong Tian, Vedant Saran, Mareike Kritzler，Florian Michahelles, and Eric Paulos at Berkeley. Read more
17 Mar, 2020 Video Now Online: Visit Day Live A great video tour of some of the many Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, prototyping, and designcreative spaces at UC Berkeley, now online! Read more
26 Feb, 2020 BCNM in Made @ Berkeley Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley." Read more
08 Jan, 2020 BCNM at UIST 2019 Björn Hartmann and Eric Paulos at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium. Read more
19 Nov, 2019 Announcing our 2019 Undergraduate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more
24 Oct, 2019 Eric Paulos as IEEE IEMCON Keynote The IEEE Annual Information Technological Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference invites Eric Paulos as one of their keynote speakers. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 BCNM at DIS 2019 BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
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
20 Apr, 2019 César Torres Appointed Assistant Professor at UT Arlington Photo by Yuko Watanabe Read more
18 Apr, 2019 Eyeris Featured in CITRIS Inventors Series Eyeris, a wearable that aims to tackle the issue of sexual harassment, was created in Eric Paulos' NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making. Read more
02 Apr, 2019 Eric Paulos a Mentor at the C&C Graduate Student Symposium The Creativity and Cognition Graduate Student Symposium provides a forum in which students have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. Read more
12 Feb, 2019 Critical Making at UBI Comp Critical Making: Designing for Activism, featuring BCNM faculty Eric Paulos and Jill Miller as instructors, will be at the 10th International UBI Summer School in Oulu, Finland. Read more
10 Feb, 2019 Apply for Making Together: Crossing Borders + Connecting Communities Apply for Semester Long Collaborative Opportunity through CITRIS, in partnership with Tecnológico de Monterrey! Includes travel to Mexico this summer! Read more
12 Jul, 2018 Eric Paulos Keynotes ASLLA 2018 Symposium This invitation-only, small, roundtable discussion that lasts several days to encourage in-depth discussions of frontier research of leading scientists around the globe. Read more
27 Jun, 2018 Eric Paulos at ID KAIST Seminar Eric Paulos discusses "Cosmetic Computing: Towards Personal, Performative, Provocative, and Poetic Wearables." Read more
19 Jun, 2018 Eric Paulos at On-Body Interaction at Dagstuhl Eric Paulos was an invited Participant at the Dagstuh seminar "Embodied Cognition Meets Sensor/Actuator Engineering to Design New Interfaces." Read more
23 May, 2018 BCNM Students Named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts Several BCNM designers were named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts, garnering grants from a new program seeking to support and provided resources for Berkeley's design commuity. Read more
03 May, 2018 Congratulating our 2018 New Media Undergraduate Certificate Class Congratulations to these four stellar women, who have made a big impact at Cal in the New Media space. Read more
09 Apr, 2018 Announcing our Spring 2018 Designated Emphasis & Certificate Cohort We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
09 Apr, 2018 The BCNM Guide to CHI 2018 Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more
20 Mar, 2018 HairIO by Hybrid Ecologies in the Press BCNM Designated Emphasis Students Molly Nicholas and Christine Dierk, aided by BCNM faculty Eric Paulos, project HäirIÖ was featured heavily in the media! Read more
26 Feb, 2018 Eric Paulos Smashing Computer in Critical Making goes Viral on the Daily Mail and Boing Boing Read more
31 Jan, 2018 Hybrid Ecologies Lab Seeking Undergraduate Assistants Are you a UC Berkeley student interested in participating in Human-Computer Interaction research? Join the Hybrid Ecologies Lab! Read more
11 Jan, 2018 SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News Read more
28 Nov, 2017 Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus. Read more
31 Oct, 2017 Eric Paulos & Ken Goldberg Exhibiting at The Luggage Store Paulos and Goldberg are two of the many participating artists that will be featured at the "Illegal" exhibition special event at the Luggage Store Gallery. Read more
27 Oct, 2017 Eric Paulos and Unmaking Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more
28 Sep, 2017 Eric Paulos' Hybrid Ecologies Lab in Forbes for Work with Adobe Eric Paulos is one of the researchers from the Hybrid Ecologies Lab at UC Berkeley working with Adobe on their new endeavors. Read more
23 Aug, 2017 Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! Read more
16 May, 2017 Announcing Our 2017 Graduates We look forward to sharing their future endeavors! Read more
28 Apr, 2017 Ohmni TeleRobot Harnesses 20 Year-Old Research from Eric Paulos Research from Eric Paulos’ 20 year-old PRoP research group is still creating products! Read more
24 Apr, 2017 Hubert Dreyfus in Memoriam We are sad to hear of the passing of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Read more
21 Feb, 2017 Eric Paulos Gives Keynote at HotMobile Conference This year's HotMobile Conference with Eric Paulos as Keynote speaker. Read more
21 Feb, 2017 Hybrid Ecologies Lab Wins a Best Paper at CHI 2017 Light as a physical material? This paper won a major award for it. Read more
03 Feb, 2017 Engaged Courses: Critical Making Designs Protest Object Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object. Read more
28 Nov, 2016 Skintillates from Hybrid Ecologies Lab Featured in MakeZine Skintillates was featured in MakeZine's article "Light Up Your Body with Temporary Tattoo Circuits" Read more
24 Oct, 2016 Eric Paulos at Living Light in East Bay Express In the East Bay Express's monthly discussion, artists gather in Bay Area living rooms to discuss new media. Read more
10 Oct, 2016 Ken Goldberg on A Century of Art & Technology in the Bay Area Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more
22 Sep, 2016 Eric Paulos at Living Room Light Exchange Genevieve Quick, Eric Paolos, and Alex Cruse shared recent projects and works in progress at the Bay Area Living Room Light Exchange Read more
12 Sep, 2016 Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. 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
07 Jul, 2016 Two Honorable Mentions and a Best Paper at DIS 2016 This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more
07 Jul, 2016 Eric Paulos Receives Seed Grant for Making of Unmaking Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making Read more
05 Jul, 2016 Eric Paulos Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure Eric has been a driving force in advancing research at the intersection of design, art, innovation, and development, and on campus Read more
31 May, 2016 Ebb in the Press Ebb is an exciting, color changing thread being developed at UC Berkeley by students and faculty Read more
23 May, 2016 BCNM at DIS 2016 BCNM was thrilled to be so widely represented at the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia Read more
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
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
17 May, 2016 BCNM at CHI 2016 Congratulations to the incredible faculty and students who represented BCNM at CHI 2016, the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. Read more
12 May, 2016 Akhila Raju Receives Eugene Lawler Sudent Award and Discusses Dealing with Disability in Tech BCNM undergraduate Akhila Raju recently wrote about her journey through the computer science major at Cal while dealing with chronic depressive disorder Read more
12 May, 2016 2016 Faculty Seed Grants BCNM is pleased to announce the awards of its first ever Faculty Seed Grant 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
19 Jan, 2016 Skintillates: UC Berkeley Students engineer electronic temporary tattoo It comes as no surprise that Skintillates won the Maker of Merit honor in the National Maker Faire Read more
30 Nov, 2015 Jacobs Institute Winter Design Showcase Presentations will feature demos and project displays and allow the Berkeley public to interact with the student makers and explore cross-discipline design projects Read more
24 Nov, 2015 Ken Goldberg at De Young Museum On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more
23 Nov, 2015 Announcing our Newest Cohort of Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate Students We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more
30 Sep, 2015 In Memory of Tim Campbell His incredible positive energy gave us all strength and inspired us in our creative pursuits 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
20 Jul, 2015 Revisited: Critical Making Course Exhibition Check out photos of amazing student work! Read more
14 Jul, 2015 Hertzian Armor Featured on AdaFruit Eric Paulos' Spring 2015 Critical Making class gets another shout-out on AdaFruit's Wearable Wednesdays Read more
09 Jun, 2015 Editor's Choice Awards at Bay Area Maker Faire Three Editor's Choice awards were awarded to NWMEDIA 203: Critical Making projects at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire Read more
15 Dec, 2014 Revisited: Smartwatch Presentation Eric Paulos' CS160: User Interface Design Course was presented the challenge and opportunity of creating app which incorporate both smartphones and the Toq Smartwatc Read more
02 Sep, 2014 Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more
12 Jun, 2014 Invention Lab Video This amazing campus resource is co-directed by BCNM faculty members Read more
02 Jun, 2014 Meet Eric Paulos We're celebrating our 10th year! Hear how BCNM professor Eric Paulos designs devices that transform how we understand our world. Read more
21 May, 2014 Best in Class Award at Maker Faire! We’re thrilled to announce that BCNM faculty member Eric Paulos’ class NWMEDIA 290 — Critical Making received Best in Class Award for Maker Faire 2014 and will soon be featured on the Maker website! Read more
15 Apr, 2014 Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more
05 Sep, 2013 Announcing the Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more
01 Oct, 2012 Spring 2013: Eric Paulos Teaches "Critical Making: Materials, Protocols, and Culture" Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
