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27 Jan, 2027 Art, Tech & Culture

Below the Cloud

a symposium and participatory workshop on the environmental and social infrastructures of AI

curated by Danika Cooper, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, and Victoria Mohr, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium special event co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Farrand Public Education Grant
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17 Oct, 2025 Commons Conversations

AI and Global Digital Infrastructure

with Nicole Starosielski, Professor, Film & Media, UC Berkeley; Danika Cooper, Professor, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley; and special guests
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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

11 Feb, 2026

New Media DE & Certificate Cohort — Fall 2026

We are thrilled to welcome our latest cohort of new media students. This group of interdisciplinary scholars come from Computer Science, German, Envrionmental Design, and Landscape Architecture! Read more

09 Dec, 2025

Detail from figure mapping the global ecology of AI infrastructure

Below the Cloud: A Community Workshop featuring AI Systems, Ecology, and Embroidery

The Berkeley Center for New Media is proud to support Below the Cloud, a symposium and workshop organized by Danika Cooper and Victoria Mohr (Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning) that will invite viewers to shift their gaze from the sky to the ground by tracing the environmental and social costs embedded within AI infrastructures, with a particular focus on water. Read more

18 Apr, 2025

Announcing Our Spring 2025 DE & Certificate Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome this Spring's cohort—an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars from Film and Media, Information Science, Spanish and Portuguese, Envrionmental Design, Art Practice, Engineering, and Landscape Architecture! Read more

13 Apr, 2025

Danika Cooper Joins BCNM's Executive Committee

We're excited to welcome Danika Cooper, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, to the Berkeley Center for New Media's Executive Committee! Read more

19 May, 2023

Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Graduates

Art by Tiare Ribeaux. Read more

05 Dec, 2022

Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates

Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more

17 May, 2022

Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Graduates

Art by Edgar Fabián Frías Read more

23 Mar, 2022

Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort

Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more

13 Dec, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort

Art by Xincun Du. 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

29 Mar, 2021

Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort

Photo credit: Yuyao Jin Read more

12 Nov, 2020

Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more

29 Apr, 2020

Congratulating our 2020 Graduates

Photo: Bowen Wei. Read more

30 Mar, 2020

Announcing Our Spring 2020 Graduate Cohort

Image: Jingran Chu. Read more

28 Jan, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 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 year's Fellows. Read more

17 Nov, 2019

Announcing our Fall 2019 Graduate Cohort

Art by Shuang Yan. Read more

19 May, 2019

Congratulating our 2019 Graduates

Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more

19 Mar, 2019

Nicholas de Monchaux a Geddes Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

As a 2019 Geddes Fellow, Nicholas will offer a lecture on March 27th on Fashioning the idle gaze. Read more

26 Nov, 2018

Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort

Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio One Course on Radical Futures in Landscape Architecture Magazine

Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio ONE master's program, which begins next school year, was featured in the Landscape Architecture Magazine. Read more

20 Nov, 2017

Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort

Nicholas de Monchaux at Ohio State University Oct 18

BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux will be speaking at Ohio State University as part of its fall lecture series. Read more

18 Sep, 2017

UC Berkeley Team Selected To Design Adaptive Responses To Bay Area Climate Change

A diverse group of locally-based and globally-experienced professionals, academics, students, and policy makers from the University of California, Berkeley has been chosen to participate in the Resilient By Design (RBD) Bay Area Challenge. Read more

23 Jan, 2017

Walter Hood interviewed by Shannon Jackson in Boom California

Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more

01 Dec, 2015

New Undergraduates Announcement!

Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more

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