Re-presenting Spaces: Literature, Ecology, the World We Share
The Cal Comp Lit Symposium featuring Emma Fraser as keynote. Read more
11 Sep, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later)
with Jesse Colin Jackson
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of GeographyRead more
28 Aug, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
The ghost in the machine is me.
with Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art PracticeRead more
07 Nov, 2022
History & Theory
Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
with Gillian Rose
Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media StudiesRead 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
04 Mar, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction”
with Kavita Philip
The President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at the University of British Columbia and a Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Clancy Wilmott: Green Parks, Red Dust: Maps, Visual Imperialism and the Cartographic imagination
Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Commons Conversations
Cultural Heritage & Cultural Consumption
with Gu Jiang
National Center for Industry Research
Nanjing University Read more
24 Apr, 2018
Special Events
Mapping as Research
with Trevor Paglen
Artist, CA
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art, UC Berkeley
hosted by the Arts Research Center
co-sponsored by BCNM, BAMPFA and the Department of GeographyRead more
13 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington 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
23 Feb, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
The Way Things Go
by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Special Events
Queering Agriculture: Food Security in the Nation's Capital and the Crises of Reproductive American Familism
by Bailey Kier, PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park Read more
07 Nov, 2013
History & Theory
Media Infrastructures
A History and Theory lecture by Lisa Parks, UCSB Professor and former Film & Media Studies Department Chair Read more
26 Apr, 2012
Special Events
Swinging and Flowing: Inclusion and Diversity in the Age of Data
A symposium pondering the emerging hierarchies of an increasingly "data-driven" world," hosted right here at UC Berkeley Read more
24 Feb, 2011
Special Events
World Craft, Business and Culture of Gaming in East Asia
15 Oct, 2024
Alexis Wood Awarded NSF GRFP
Congratulations to Alexis Wood for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program award! Read more
10 Jul, 2024
Conference Grant Reports: Alexis Wood at AAG
Alexis presented “Constellations as Critical Cartographic Method." Read more
15 Jun, 2024
Conference Grant Reports: Sophia Perez at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Sophia Perez presented “Island Time" at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Read more
08 Jun, 2024
Conference Grant Reports: Jillian (Lee) Crandall at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Jillian (Lee) Crandall presented “Real Estate Tokenization: Digital Transformations in Land, Property, and Technoeconomic Development in Post-Industrial Contexts” and "Critical, Creative, Collaborative."Read more
26 May, 2024
Speculative geographies: Fictions and futures
A new paper co-authored by Emma Fraser in Dialogues in Human Geography. 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
26 Apr, 2024
Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields. 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
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing the Summer 2024 BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more
01 Apr, 2024
Zekarias Musele Thompson and Lee Crandall at the Living Room Light Exchange
Two of our grad students are featured at tonight's Living Room Light Exchange! Read more
02 Dec, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2023 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Haya Constellation Altar, 2019, Arianna KhmelniukRead 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
30 Oct, 2023
Summer Research Reports: Alexis Wood on Digital Landscapes in Northern California
We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Alexis Wood on Digital Landscapes in Northern California. Read more
26 Oct, 2023
Alexis Wood on Erosion as Method(ology) at NACIS 23
Alexis Wood (Department of Geography & BCNM DE) presented her paper, “Erosion As Method(ology): Theorizing and Mapping Structures of Feeling” at the at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Conference. Read more
04 Sep, 2023
Lyman Report: Rashad Timmons on Racialized Geography in Ferguson
With the support of the Lyman Fellowship, Rashad Timmons traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to engage in fieldwork and archival research for my dissertation. Read more
27 Jul, 2023
Fall 2023 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers this fall! Featuring multi-disciplinary visual artist Jen Liu, UC Irvine Professor of Electronic Art & Design Jesse Colin Jackson, Indigenous Technologies lectures by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon and Dartmouth Professor Martina Broner, an “AI & The Humanities” roundtable discussion with Black in AI co-founder Timnit Gebru,plus so much more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Jen Liu, Jesse Colin Jackson, Valeria Luiselli, and more! Read more
25 Jul, 2023
The Future of Digital Space by Emma Fraser
The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal thinking. 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
01 Jun, 2023
Critical Computation on a Geographical Register
Clancy Wilmott has released a new research article titled "Critical computation on a geographical register." Read more
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more
13 Apr, 2023
Conference Grants: Alexis Wood at the AAG
Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood presented their upcoming paper, “All your base [maps] are belong to us,” at the 2023 American Associations of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Denver, Colorado on March 24th. Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Thank you so much for joining us for another semester of BCNM events! We've collected our event transcripts and videos so you can tune in to amazing lectures from Pua Case, BCNM alumni Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, Visiting Scholar Gillian Rose, and more. 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
The Hellman Fellows Fund supports promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Read more
18 Aug, 2022
Trevor Paglen & Experimental Geography
Listen to the Atlast Obscura podcast to hear BCNM alum discuss government surveillance, AI, and place! Read more
22 Jul, 2022
Fall 2022 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Featuring BCNM poet alums Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, UCB Professor of Music Ken Ueno, Indigenous Technologies, and more! Read more
21 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series, featuring Kelli Moore, Gloria Emeagwali, Gillian Rose, and more! Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Shadow Visions by Xiaowei Wang
BCNM D.E. and Geography PhD Xiaowei Wang's essay "Shadow Visions" was published in DING Magazine. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
Trevor Paglen on Time Sensitive
BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen was interviewed by Spencer Bailey for the podcast Time Sensitive. Read more
19 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Rashad Timmons on Slave Labor in Railway Construction
Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways. Read more
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers and online events! Featuring more events from our Indigenous Technologies Initiative, the artists Lisa Reihana and Maria Thereza Alves, and more. Read more
19 Jun, 2021
BCNM Around the Web June
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
30 Apr, 2021
BCNM at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more
03 Apr, 2021
danah boyd on Democracy's Data Infrastructure
BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure." Read more
29 Mar, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen recently joined PACE Gallery. Read more
06 Feb, 2020
BCNM at AAA 2019
DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year. Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Visit Xiaowei Wang's Exhibition '女 Nǚ: Other Half of The Sky'
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
15 Oct, 2019
Xiaowei Wang Receives Mozilla Creative Media Award
The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. 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
10 Sep, 2019
Trevor Paglen as the Fall 2019 Lamar Dodd Chair at UGA
The University of Georgia awards Trevor Paglen with the Lama Dodd Professional Chair as he joins them this year to teach an interdisciplinary seminar. Read more
29 Aug, 2019
Orbital Reflector in College Art Association Reviews
Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector was reviewed in College Art Association Reviews Read more
21 May, 2019
New Trevor Paglen Monograph: From the Archives of Peter Merlin
Read more
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 May, 2018
Revisited: Trevor Paglen on Mapping as Research
Read more
27 May, 2018
Research Dispatches: Joyce Lee on Auditory Data Representation
Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship. Read more
18 May, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Monograph Published by Phaidon
Read more
02 May, 2018
Will Payne at the American Association of Geographers 2018 Meeting
Will Payne was able to attend and present his paper at the American Association of Geographers Conference as one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux & Neyran Turan Receive Graham Foundation Award
Selected from more than 600 proposals, Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan were two of 74 recipients of a Graham Foundation grant. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen in MoMA
Paglen's work titled It Began as a Military Experiment (2017) is being displayed in New York's MoMA. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at the Cleveland Museum
Alum Trevor Paglen to speak at Cleveland Museum of Art Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Trevor Paglen and Art in the Age of Mass Surveillance in The Guardian
BCNM alum and artist Trevor Paglen and his art were featured on an article on art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Read more
17 Nov, 2017
Architectural Digest Profiles Alum Trevor Paglen
After winning the 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant, BCNM alum Trevor Paglen sits down to speak with the Architectural Digest. Read more
07 Nov, 2017
Alum Trevor Paglen in Conversation with Hito Steyerl in Porto
Trevor Paglen and Hito Steyerl participated in a Forum of the Future discussion. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
New York Times on BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen's Space Art
The New York Times features alum Trevor Paglen and his futuristic art. Read more
12 Oct, 2017
Alum Trevor Paglen Named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Read more
29 Aug, 2017
Greg Niemeyer & Ron Rael at Focus on the Visual Conference
This year's UC Berkeley Librarian Association conference turns its eyes to the digital humanities field Read more
11 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations: Color of New Media Working Group Transcription
The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Read more
Revisited: Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital City
We recap a masterclass around how technology functions in relation to Jane Jacobs' notion of community in cities Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season
his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Will Payne on Location-Based Services
Will Payne received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on location based services Read more
31 May, 2016
Abigail de Kosnik receives Berkeley Collegium Grant
Prof. De Kosnik received the Collegium's grant, Narrowing the Gap Between Teaching and Research Read more
We're so pleased to be able to share their achievements and wish them the best in their future projects! Read more
17 Mar, 2016
Announcing the Spring 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
Read more
01 Dec, 2015
New Undergraduates Announcement!
Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! 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, 2012
Futurefarmers Powers of Ten Book Forthcoming from Sternberg Press
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