Calling all digital infrastructures experts! Be part of an exciting new curriculum. Read more

Application deadline: February 7, 2025 Read more

Check out alum Trevor Paglen's incredible work around the web this fall! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024!  Read more

A new article from Hannah Zeavin in The Chronicle of Higher Education Read more

We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses.  Read more

Xuan Wang was a visiting scholar at BCNM during 2022. Read more

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

We're so sad to bid farewell to Sophia Hussain but excited for her future endeavors at AK Press! Read more

Shout out to Xiaowei Wang for being a fellow at the National Center on Race & Digital Justice! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022!  Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd has joined Georgetown University for the year as a distinguished visiting professor. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more

This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more

It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021.  Read more

Congratulations to our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate graduates! We are proud of their accomplishments and high level of scholarship here at Cal, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors.  Read more

Berkeley High Jacket celebrated the women of Berkeley this March and spotlighted the incredible arts organization of Shannon Jackson. Read more

Jane McGonigal prepares us for post-pandemic life with her online Coursera course Life After COVID-19. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more

Janaki Vivrekar was recently interviewed by the Life in Quarantine Project on her Quarantined AI work. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more

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

BCNM alum Alenda Chang's new book was featured in Chroniques Vidéoludiques! Read more

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

Alex presented the keynote at this fantastic interdisciplinary conference. Read more

Felix Rosen recaps ARC’s Art as Critique Conference from March 1, 2019, which BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor. Read more

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

Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen discuss Network Simulation, first presented in San Francisco, with DJ Spooky at Norway's Kunstnernes Hus. Read more

On June 10-14, alum Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching a course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Read more

Ken Goldberg visited the University at Buffalo Department of Art as part of the Visiting Artist Speaker Series. Read more

The Livestream will be available to view for 24 hours starting at 6:30pm on Monday, September 10. 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

The annual May festival celebrates the work of both local and international artists and photographers in the CONTACT gallery. Read more

The Undergraduate Certificate in New Media was listed as one of the 10 "cool majors" at UC Berkeley by The Daily Californian.  Read more

Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen to speak at Cleveland Museum of Art Read more

Prof. David Bates is presenting "Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence” for the STS Program’s Annual Straker lecture. The lecture will occur on Tuesday, March 6th at 5 PM in Swing 122. Read more

Laurent El-Ghaoui's lecture 'Lifted neural nets' was the first seminar event of the Spring 2018 IEOR series. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November.  Read more

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

Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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The workshop has already reached it’s enrollment limit, and in response EMPAC is offering a lecture-only option during the week Read more

This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more

Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more

This year, the BCNM awarded five new media graduate students with technology services and training awards to help them fund the support they need to further their research agendas Read more

From their probing talk, "A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat," a part of the ATC series here at BCNM Read more

A lecture by Chris Goto-Jones, Comparative Philosophy Chair at Leiden University Read more

We revisit UCD Professor Elizabeth Freeman's lecture, "Sex in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gerard & Kelly's Kisses" Read more

Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement Read more

In partnership with Books in Browsers, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and swissnex San Francisco Read more

This year-long course is targeted at students with backgrounds in art, film, or computer science who intend to work in the visual effects, animation, and entertainment industries Read more

A Response to Eyal Weizman’s “Forensic Architecture” by Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric and Designated Emphasis in New Media) Read more

Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric) responds to the most recent History & Theory of New Media Lecture Read more

Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more

Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more

Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more