14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. 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
16 Apr, 2020
History & Theory
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Christiane Paul
Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Professor at The New School and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Response from Claudia Schmuckli
Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Co-sponsored by AutoLab, Arts + Design, the Arts Research Center, Art Practice, BAMPFA, and held in conjunction with the DH Faire. Read more
18 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
with Morehshin Allahyari
Artist, New York
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University 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
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
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more
17 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui
Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack
with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more
14 Aug, 2017
Special Events
Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute
Don't miss out on this annual series of digital humanities discussions and workshops! Read more
19 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism
24 Feb, 2017
Special Events
Syncing… Subject, Media, Society.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference! Don't miss it! Read more
17 Feb, 2017
Special Events
with Bonnie Ruberg and Greg Niemeyer 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
22 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
with Hito Steyerl, renowned German artist Read more
28 Oct, 2015
Special Events
Manufacturing Transparency Conference
An exciting, interdisciplinary symposium on secrecy, publicity, and authenticity Read more
14 Oct, 2015
with Claus Pias, Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more
28 Sep, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air
with Vito Acconci, American designer, architect, performance and installation artist Read more
20 Mar, 2015
Special Events
A concert by electroacoustic composer Tarek Atoui. Co-presented with the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the MATRIX Program Read more
09 Mar, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments
by Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic composer Read more
19 Nov, 2014
Special Events
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Join us for a night of art and conversation around innovative ways to tackle climate change Read more
26 Jun, 2014
Special Events
The release of Ritwik Banerji's (DE) project, Maxine Read more
31 May, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems
A part of our Arts and Technology Colloquium, Stephanie Syjuco - visual artist and educator - bestows a lecture Read more
31 Jan, 2013
History & Theory
An HTNM lecture by Stefan Andriopoulos, Germanic Languages Chair at Coumbia University Read more
03 Dec, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Luminous Currents: Tracing Modernism from Bauhaus to Beehive
An Arts + Technology Colloquium lecture by JoAnne Northrup, former chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art Read more
23 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums
with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
05 Dec, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Heaven Can Wait: The Revolving Restaurant as Hypercinema
Bull.Miletic: Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic, recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's "Video Maker Award" Read more
28 Mar, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Sophie Calle, Artist Presentation with Q&A
Hosted at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Arrive early to claim your seat! 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
Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!
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11 Feb, 2022
BCNM Around the Web February 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
29 May, 2021
Miyoko Conley in the Bay Area Playwright's Festival
BCNM alum Miyoko Conley's play Human Museum will be featured in the 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Read more
08 May, 2021
Alum Tiffany Ng speaks on her musical influences in I Care If You Listen's "ListN Up." Read more
21 Apr, 2021
BCNM Mourns the Passing of Beth Bird
Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. Read more
18 Sep, 2020
Neyran Turan Promoted to Associate Professor
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24 Feb, 2020
Abigail De Kosnik and Clement Hil Goldberg in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media
"Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism" was published as a chapter in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media Read more
30 Jan, 2020
Camille Crittenden at Transatlantic Sync
Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Camille Crittenden spoke in a panel about ethics in technology at Transatlantic Sync, a conference aimed at connecting Silicon Valley and Germany on issues of technology and innovation. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more
09 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more
15 Apr, 2019
HTNM Revisited: Safiya Noble
Photo by Adriel Olmos. Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
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
26 Jun, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at the ICC Sophia University
Andrea traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to present at Sophia University's Institute of Comparative Culture. 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
30 Apr, 2018
Through funding from the 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Harry Burson attended and shared his research at SCMS 2018. 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
Greg Niemeyer in Open Codes Exhibition at ZKM
Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. 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
15 Jun, 2017
Video Now Online: "Conveying Climate Change"
16 Mar, 2017
Revisited: "Syncing... Subject, Media, Society"
Read more
10 Feb, 2017
with Bonnie Ruberg and Greg Niemeyer Read more
26 Oct, 2016
Andrea Horbinski Presents at the 2016 EU-Japan Agora Forum in Brussels
Held on October 24th and 25th in the Palais d'Egmont of Brussels, Belgium Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Nicholas de Monchaux at Dust and Data
BCNM's de Monchaux will attend the 13th International Bauhaus Colloquium, which will be held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Graduates
Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
05 Apr, 2016
Before It's Too Late - Archiving What We (Don't) Care About
An astute lesson from Brewster Kahle, archive.org founder, shared with our director Read more
28 Oct, 2015
HTNM 5th Anniversary and Revisited: "Technologies of Simulation"
with Claus Pias
Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Announcing the 2015-2016 ATC Series!
The theme of this year’s program is “Global Circulations.” Lectures will be held in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall from 7:30-9:00pm on Monday evenings Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Announcing the 2015-2016 HTNM Series!
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16 Jul, 2015
Björn Hartmann Receives Best Paper Award at EICS 2015
11 Feb, 2015
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" 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
25 Oct, 2011
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011)
We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
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