05 Sep, 2024 Special Events BCNM Fall 2024 Open House Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house and learn more about the new media ecosystem at Cal! Read more
07 Sep, 2023 Special Events BCNM Fall 2023 Open House Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house! Read more
17 Oct, 2022 History & Theory A Minor Cybernetic Hypothesis Kelli Moore Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Co-sponsored by Media Studies and the Department of Rhetoric Read more
07 Sep, 2022 Special Events BCNM Fall 2022 Open House Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house! 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
31 Aug, 2021 Special Events BCNM Fall 2021 Open House Curious about BCNM? Join us this fall for an *online* open house with current faculty and students. Read more
21 Nov, 2013 Special Events Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson Presented by The Arts Research Center Read more
31 Jan, 2013 History & Theory Media Materialities An HTNM lecture by Stefan Andriopoulos, Germanic Languages Chair at Coumbia University 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
07 Dec, 2023 Ken Goldberg Joins The House Fund Ken Goldberg partners with The House Fund, potential $115M to prospective Berkeley AI startups! Read more
17 Aug, 2023 BCNM at SIGCIS 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
12 Jun, 2023 Nicholaus Gutierrez on VR's Mythic Past The Ballad of Morton Hellig: On VR's Mythic Past was published in JCMS Journal! 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
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
17 Aug, 2022 Justin Berner Appointed Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Justin Berner joins NYU Shanghai as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. 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
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
27 Oct, 2021 Hannah Zeavin on New Books Network Hannah Zeavin was interviewed by J.J. Mull about her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Read more
27 Sep, 2021 Jenna Burrell Joins BCNM Executive Committee We extend a warm welcome to Professor Jenna Burrell, who has joined BCNM's executive committee. Read more
23 Aug, 2021 Dan O'Neill Joins BCNM Executive Committee We extend a warm welcome to Associate Professor Dan O'Neill, who will be joinging BCNM's Executive Committee. Read more
29 Jul, 2021 Nicholaus Gutierrez Joins Wellesley Congratulations to Nicholaus Gutierrez who will be teaching cinema and media studies this year at Wellesley. Read more
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
18 Apr, 2021 Hannah Zeavin Joins BCNM Hannah Zeavin, a lecturer in the English and History departments, has joined the BCNM Executive Committee. Read more
27 Apr, 2020 The Berkeley Center for New Media to Join the College of Engineering The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020. 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
29 Aug, 2019 Keith Feldman on Racism and Refugees Keith Feldman published a striking op-ed on racism and refugees in the Daily Cal. 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
11 Jan, 2019 Online Hate Index in the News Claudia Von Vacano and Brittan Heller's research on hate speech identifying AI was recently covered in the California Magazine. 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
15 Aug, 2018 Claudia von Vacano on AI that Recognizes Hate Speech Cronkite News highlights the work by the D-Lab on the Online Hate Index. Read more
26 Jun, 2018 Alex Saum-Pascual at the DH Summer Lecture Series This year, DH at Berkeley hosts a weekly DH Summer Lecture series, highlighting the distinguished work of faculty and scholars engaged in the digital humanities at UC Berkeley. 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
03 May, 2018 Electronic Literature in Spanish & Digital Poetry Reading by Alex Saum Pascual at Bergen On May 2nd, Alexandra Saum-Pascal visited UiB from UC Berkeley to present on electronic literature in Spanish. Read more
17 Oct, 2017 Welcome Tom McEnaney Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities. Read more
26 Sep, 2017 Fall 2017 Applications Now Open Undergraduate Certificate Program Undergraduated are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM undergrad program. Applications due November 1. Read more
01 Sep, 2017 Camille Crittenden on Women in Tech on Medium The CITRIS Deputy Director addresses the growing prominence of the gender gap in tech Read more
18 Jul, 2017 Koci Hernandez Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure Richard Koci Hernandez adds yet another distinguished title to his name: Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Journalism, with tenure! Read more
21 Jun, 2017 Camille Crittenden on Celebrations and Challenges for Queer Members of the Tech Community BCNM Executive Committee member, Camille Crittenden, published a post on Medium about the impertinence of LGBT inclusion in tech industries. Read more
22 Mar, 2017 Interview with Asma Kazmi! Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more
18 Jul, 2016 Ed Campion and the Sound Habitat This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field 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 Greg Niemeyer Thanks You for Three Years at BCNM For the last three years, Greg Niemeyer has skillfully led the BCNM as the Center's Director. This July, he is beginning a well-deserved sabbatical Read more
17 Nov, 2015 Meet Alex Saum-Pascual Raised in an Anglo-Spanish household in Madrid, Alex has always been fascinated by language Read more
20 Jul, 2015 "The Builders Association" by Shannon Jackson Now Available A new book by Shannon Jackson is now out! Read more
15 Jun, 2015 Margaret Rhee Robot Poetry Collection Radio Heart is an excerpt from her larger full-length collection Love, Robot currently under review Read more
15 Apr, 2015 Celebrate the Internet in Honor of Tax Season Camille tells the story of the public-private partnership that created the internet and details how public investment in this field is necessary Read more
29 Sep, 2014 David Bates at CSTMS Bates’ discourse drew from the post-WWII linking of human thought processes with that of artificial intelligence Read more
22 Jul, 2014 Why We Love Robots Wins Botsker The Robot Film Festival is "an annual celebration of robots on screen and in performance" Read more
05 May, 2014 Camille Crittenden on Transnational Justice, Culture, and Society We are proud to announce that Transnational Justice, Culture, and Society. Beyond Outreach, a book for which BCNM Executive Committee member Camille Crittenden contributed a chapter, has been published! Read more
22 Apr, 2014 How Computers Shape Our Minds BCNM former Director and Executive Committee member David Bates details how computers shape our minds in this article in Le Monde! Read more
07 Aug, 2013 Introducing BCNM's New Graduate Adviser Coye is an Associate Professor at the School of Information and a longtime member of the Berkeley Center for New Media Executive Committee Read more
19 Sep, 2012 Nicholas de Monchaux Presents Exhibit at the Venice Biennale, US Architecture Pavilion Titled "Spontaneous Interventions : Design Actions for the Common Good" Read more
28 Aug, 2012 William Gibson in conversation with Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley September 4, 2012, 7pm Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California Street (at Presidio) Read more
14 May, 2012 Who’s Achievement? — Evaluating Self-Constructed and Peer-Evaluated Badge Systems in Online Classrooms
07 May, 2012 Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Innovation at Chicago's Field Museum Professor and BCNM Executive Committee member Paz Gutierrez will be exhibiting one of her digitally fabricated walls made of agricultural infill at the Field Museum Read more
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