18 Mar, 2024 Commons Conversations Book Forms as New Media with Vincente Perez, author of Other Stories to Tell Ourselves, and Clarkisha Kent, author of Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto A Commons Conversation Read more
09 Feb, 2023 Special Events Hollywood Internships 2023 AAPI industry leaders Jason Lin (Producer, Story Arch Pictures), Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright (Executive Director, Hillman Grad Productions), and Laura Reddy (Manager, Range Media Partners). Read more
13 Apr, 2022 Art, Tech & Culture Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures with Adam and Zack Khalil Filmmakers This event is the first in a two-part series, presented with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) as part of the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium and the Indigenous Technologies Initiative. Read more
14 Feb, 2022 Commons Conversations Discriminating Data 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
21 Sep, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire?? with Pope.L Artist, Chicago Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
06 Apr, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years with William Pope.L Artist, Chicago Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
14 Mar, 2019 Special Events Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment and Technology with Zizi Papacharissi Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago Presented by TDPS Graduate Students, co-sponsored by BCNM Read more
09 Nov, 2018 Commons Conversations Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the 20th Century with Lucia Allais Associate Professor of Architecture, Princeton University Read more
24 Sep, 2018 Special Events Undergraduate Certificate Information Session 2018 Find out more about the certificate in new media for undergraduates at Cal! Read more
16 Apr, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Abolition Feminisms with Angela Davis Activist and Professor, CA interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media A 2018 Regents Lecture 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
13 Sep, 2017 Special Events Undergraduate Certificate Information Session Come and learn about the BCNM's Undergraduate Certificate program! Lunch provided. Read more
05 Dec, 2016 Special Events Reading Robot Poetry! or, How Robots Fall Out of Love Celebrating the publication of alum Margaret Rhee's Radio Heart; or How Robots Fall Out of Love Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Special Events Jane Jacobs and the Digital City in partnership with SPUR San Francisco 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
13 Sep, 2016 Special Events Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! Read more
14 Sep, 2015 Special Events Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! Read more
17 Feb, 2015 Special Events Welcome to Braggsville: Author Talk T. Geronimo Johnson in Conversation With April Sinclair Read more
06 Sep, 2011 History & Theory Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies with Sherry Turkle -- pioneering technologist; professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist Read more
03 Feb, 2025 We're Hiring! Calling all digital infrastructures experts! Be part of an exciting new curriculum. Read more
07 Nov, 2024 Summer 2025 Research Award Application Now Open Applications are due March 1, 2025. Read more
19 Sep, 2024 Apply to be a New Media Undergraduate Research Fellow in Spring 2025 Applications are due October 23, 2024! Read more
15 May, 2024 Vincente Perez Awarded Dissertation Year Fellowship This prestigious fellowship provides funding to diverse doctoral students that allow them to prioritize and focus on completing the dissertation. 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
23 Apr, 2024 Rashad Arman Timmons Awarded UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields. Read more
08 Apr, 2024 Video now online! Vincente Perez and Clarkisha Kent's Book Forms as New Media Missed the talk with Vincente Perez and Clarkisha Kent? A recording of their conversation has now been uploaded to YouTube. 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
11 Jul, 2023 Cesar Torres at Creativity & Cognition 2023 Alum Cesar Torres presented multiple papers, including "Cogcues: Shifting Perception through Interactive Projected Cues in Still Life Drawing," which won a Best Paper Award. Read more
10 Jul, 2023 Alex Saum-Pascual & Shannon Jackson Named 2023 Townsend Fellows The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities has encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostered innovative research, and promoted intellectual conversation across academic fields. Read more
06 Dec, 2022 We're Hiring an Events Coordinator & Office Manager in 2023 Join us at BCNM curating and offering an exciting array of programs, including our popular Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies program! Read more
12 Nov, 2022 Summer 2023 Research Award Application Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
04 Oct, 2022 Apply Now for the Spring 2023 New Media Undergraduate Research Fellowship Choose from projects on hybrid learning, immersive environments, and InsightXR. Applications are due November 1, 2022. Read more
07 Dec, 2021 Morgan Ames Wins the 2020 Sally Hacker Prize The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience. Read more
22 Nov, 2021 Summer 2022 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
08 Jun, 2021 Choyang Ponsar on The Forensic Imaginary Choyang Ponsar received a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on A Forensic Imaginary under the mentorship of Tory Jeffay. Read more
02 Jun, 2021 Riley Lenane on Influencers & Self Care Social media is overflowing with lifestyle Influencers categorized as self-care promoters. What are the political and ideoogical implications of self-care messaging and branding, particularly in the context of gendered and racialized discourses of femininity and (post)feminism? Read more
05 Mar, 2021 Make a Big Impact on the Future with the Big Give This year, arm the next generation of innovators with the tools to build just and equitable technological futures through the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
02 Feb, 2021 Ryan Ikeda on Excavating the Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature Ryan Ikeda recently published an article titled "Excavating Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature: Antiracism as Infrastructural Critique" in the Electronic Book Review. Check it out! Read more
20 Nov, 2020 Summer 2021 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
03 Nov, 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2021 Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020. Read more
29 Sep, 2020 Pope.L Video Highlights Now Online We're thrilled to share some highlights from Pope.L's Wiesenfeld and ATC lecture. Read more
29 Jun, 2020 Rebecca Abraham on Rachel Chen's Magical Musical Mat Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? 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 Bryan Truitt on Mediating the Human Face Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more
23 Apr, 2020 Harry Burson Named Lemelson Center Fellow Harry Burson is named 2020 Lemelson Center Fellow and will focus his research on the creation of a new mode of acoustic perspective. Read more
20 Nov, 2019 Summer 2020 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
05 Nov, 2019 We're Hiring an Events Coordinator! Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet. Read more
24 Jun, 2019 Stephanie Tang on the Heart Sounds Bench Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more
16 Jun, 2019 Arianna Ninh on Alterwear Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more
08 Jun, 2019 Camryn Bell on Algorithmic Gentrification with Will Payne Camryn received an BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on Algorithmic Gentrification under the mentorship of Will Payne. Read more
28 Nov, 2018 Summer 2019 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
30 May, 2018 We're Hiring! - Office Manager & Events Coordinator Wanted! The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. Read more
27 Apr, 2018 Abigail De Kosnik Awarded an IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Fellowship BCNM faculty, Abigail De Kosnik, will be in residance at the IAS from August 23 and September 22 as part of her awarded fellowship. Read more
18 Apr, 2018 Richard Koci Hernandez Named Bloomberg Chair Richard Koci Hernandez, an award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia, has been named the Bloomberg Chair at the Graduate School of Journalism. Read more
09 Nov, 2017 Summer Fellowships Now Available Applications for Summer 2018 are now available! BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer research. 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
18 Jul, 2017 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jenny Jiang This year, BCNM initiated its undergraduate research fellowships, which offer undergraduates the chance to engage in direct research experience with BCNM graduates. Read more
08 Jun, 2017 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Seth Lu Seth Lu reflects on his work with Juliana Friend through BCNM's undergraduate fellowship program. Read more
01 Jun, 2017 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Carmen Zheng Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more
25 May, 2017 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Canyon Perry Canyon Perry was selected to work with Yaira Roman Madonado on her project Literary and Digital Avant-Gardes in Post-National Puerto Rico. Read more
12 Dec, 2016 Summer 2017 Research Fellowships Now Open for Applications BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your summer doctoral or pre-doctoral research Read more
17 Oct, 2016 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Lydia Tuan and Digital Technology in Education Lydia Tuan was selected to work with Amy Koehler-Catterson (Education) on digital technologies as pedagogical tools Read more
11 Oct, 2016 Local Code by Nicholas de Monchaux Out Now at University of Princeton Architectural Press
01 Sep, 2016 Announcing Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium This event is a partnership between BCNM and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Read more
30 Aug, 2016 Jenni Higgs & Kyle Booten Receive National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 Read more
07 Jul, 2016 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: Jennifer Hartman, Lark Buckingham, and Everything After Jennifer Hartman was selected to work with Lark Buckingham (Art Practice) on her artistic exploration of the culture surrounding sexual violence 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
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 Apr, 2016 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: MacKenzie Alessi, John Scott, and Data Visualization What if we could map learning in the social realm? How would classroom engagement appear and shift over time? And how could we use this data to improve teaching? Read more
19 Apr, 2016 BCNM Ed Campion Receives a Guggenheim Congratulations are in order for Mr. Campion Read more
28 Jan, 2016 Summer '16 Research Awards Applications Due in March Applications Due: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Read more
01 Oct, 2015 Video Now Online: Vito Acconci Didn't snag a seat at Vito Acconci's ATC lecture? We saved one for you here. Read more
03 Aug, 2015 Summer Award Dispatches: Kiera Chase Kiera Chase's dissertation refines cognitive-science theoretical models that illuminate opportunities in children’s development of mathematical concepts Read more
30 Jul, 2015 Summer Award Dispatches: KC Forcier Here's what KC Forcier gained from the experience Read more
09 Feb, 2015 T. Geronimo Johnson Releases New Novel His first novel, Hold It ’Til It Hurts, was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Read more
08 Apr, 2014 Andrea Horbinski Awarded Koo Fellowship The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley Read more
20 Nov, 2013 Now Accepting Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship Applications Applications Due: February 1, 2014 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
20 May, 2013 New Media 2013 Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM Designated Emphasis Students Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students Read more
26 Nov, 2012 T. Geronimo Johnson receives advance praise for his new book "Hold it 'Til it Hurts" An exploration of the bond between two brothers awash with questions of race, disaster and war Read more
08 Aug, 2012 New Media Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM DE's Congratulations to the following students! Read more