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

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

The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premiere conferences in their field. Read more

We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more

Read about Vincente Perez's research into Hip-Hop poetics Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

Harry Burson presented his paper, "“Metaverse, Multiverse, Server-verse: Fantasies of Control and Connection”, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference. Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more

MUSFORUM is the online network for women organists. Read more

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

Raphael Cohen will serve as the Center's Events Coordinator and Office Manager! Read more

"Ariel Pink Used Jill Miller's Face on His Album Cover Without Permission, So She Responded With ‘Ariel Stinks’ NFTs" writes Billboard. Read more

Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

The smartest person in the Marvel universe, how ‘Black Panther’ – and its sequel – changed Hollywood, and why representation in pop culture matters Read more

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

Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022.  Read more

Check out the video and transcript from this incredible conversation. Read more

THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! Read more

Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the  American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more

Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more

Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more

Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more

The latest paper from alum Reginold Royston in Social Media + Society. Read more

As part of her Fellowship, Gail is giving a lecture on July 11th! Watch it online! Read more

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

Vincente presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation" at the Silly Media conference at the University of Chicago. Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

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

The Whole Note reviews BCNM alumn Tiffany Ng's Dark Matters. Read more

Modern-day carillonists are now facing the challenge of reclaiming the instrument to better represent and speak to our diverse community. Read more

Published in Jazz & Culture.  Read more

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

Roar, building a "music metaverse," raised $7million in their first round of funding. Read more

Computer games can address ecological concerns. But is a game only ecological if it explicitly deals with environmental issues on the content level? Read more

Returning to the Concert Hall by Camille Crittenden Read more

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

Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more

Hala Kaddoura received a BCNM summer research award to advance her art practice. She traveled to Lebanon to begin a new project on joy. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more

Grace Gipson published an article on Southern hip hop in the Black Perspectives blog.   Read more

Lashon Daley's article on Black girl rage in film and literature has been published in the UChicago Journal of Women and Culture in Society. Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang was recently featured on the Gamers with Glasses podcast where she discussed video games and environmentalism, among other interesting topics. Read more

BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng speaks on her musical influences in I Care If You Listen's "ListN Up." Read more

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

Tiffany Ng's new album of carillon music by Stephen Rush dropped! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more

Rita Lucarelli, a UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Egyptology, spoke about crocodile mummies in the Fiat Vox podcast. 

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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

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

Tom McEnaney was recently on UC Berkeley Music's podcast to discuss remote instruction. Read more

AI4Afrika's goal is to make AI more inclusive and aware of Afrikan perspectives. Read more

Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? Read more

An Android app created by BCNM undergrad Janaki Vivrekar was showcased by UC Berkeley Discovery. Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more

Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley."  Read more

Rama Gottfried and Ritwik Banerji contributed pieces to the 2019 issue of Array.  Read more

Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! Read more

Ritwik Banerji presented a paper on free improvisation at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 64th annual meeting.  Read more

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

Alum Trevor Paglen's work is featured in the exhibition Age of You.

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Alum Tiffany Ng gives a gracious shout out to BCNM in the University of Michigan's podcast! Read more

Miyoko Conley, a recipients of our Fall 2019 Conference grant, presented her research on transnational fandoms at the annual Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA) conference. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2020. Read more

Juliana Friend reviews Ritwik Banerji's work on algorithm and anthropology. Read more

More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie.  Read more

McGonigal was featured on Meditative Story, a podcast from Thrive Media Read more

Camille Crittenden contributed the chapter on "Vienna" to the book Brahms in Context. Read more

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more

Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more

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

Miyoko Conley presented "Designing a K-pop Audience: Asian American Performance in KPOP the Musical" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference. Read more

We're  to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng's Music & Architecture: Selected Bibliography is available on Humanities Commons Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

Check out this video of Ritwik discussing "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation" Read more

BCNM faculty Nicholas de Monchaux, Shannon Jackson and Ken Goldberg, along with DE student Malika Imhotep participated in San Francisco's Night of Ideas. Read more

The project is a collaboration between Greg Niemeyer and DJ Spooky and celebrates the internet's evolution. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  Read more

The American Musicological Society Society for Music Theory featured Ritwik Banerji and his piece The Opportunity Cost of Experimentalism: Cultural Economics, Popular Music, and the Avant-Garde in Salvador, Brazil. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2019. Read more

This summer, Peter Humphrey explored the evolution of electroacoustic science and the history of sound recording. Read more

BCNM alum Tiffany Ng offered her thoughts on the dispute over St. Martin's decaying church carillons. Read more

This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more

The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

The Lismore Castle opened When Facts Don't Matter on May 27th, 2018, an exhibition featuring alum Trevor Paglen.  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

Marissa Ahmed was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Ritwik Banerji on his research about human sociality and algorithmic ethnography. Read more

Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship.  Read more

Several BCNM designers were named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts, garnering grants from a new program seeking to support and provided resources for Berkeley's design commuity. Read more

Greg Niemeyer's art installation with Olya Dubatova was exhibited at the Riddoch Gallery in South Australia. Read more

Congratulations to these four stellar women, who have made a big impact at Cal in the New Media space. Read more

Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more

Tiffany Ng was one of many lightning talk presenters at the University of Michigan's one-day conference for digital studies.  Read more

Amateurism Across the Arts, a symposium co-sponsored by BCNM, drew a crowd of 70 community members who explore DIY artistic production. Read more

Each year, the BCNM selects four graduate student projects that we believe will both interest and prove engaging to undergraduates. Undergraduates apply to be a research fellow and once selected, they have the opportunity to work on high-level research in concert with our graduates, who mentor them on research methods. Read more

BCNM Alumnus Trevor Paglen was selected to attend the 48th Annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.  Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng featured in "The invisible musician: carillonists at Michigan," by Sam Lu in The Michigan Daily.  Read more

Shannon Jackson participated in the "Vocabularies of Exclusion" strand at the PARSE Conference 2017 this week. Read more

BCNM alum Tiffany Ng has added affiliate faculty in Digital Studies to her profile. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik and alum Reginold Royston presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2017. Read more

Ed Campion, Department of Music chair, comments on the university Carillon and the Music Department's support. Read more

We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more

Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more

Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more

Human improviser meets machine improviser. Ritwik Banerji's Maxine improvises with Ken Ueno. Read more

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

Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more

Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng is fundraising for minority students to have the opportunity to learn the carillon Read more

Ed Campion (Music) received $5,000 to build a sound habitat with Ron Rael (Architecture) as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

Niemeyer is hosting a Media Inclusion & Innovation course DJ Spooky Read more

The Center of New Music and Audio Technologies‘ new website went public earlier this semester in a “soft” release. Read more

This past Fall, we were pleased to offer several grants to help support our students in sharing their research at the premiere conferences in their field Read more

Sabbatical is not slowing down Prof. Alex Saum-Pascual, BCNM and Spanish, who has been traveling across Europe to attended and present at several conferences!  Read more

Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more

Here, Buckingham describes teaching Advanced Digital Animation” as a NWMEDIA 90 this past summer Read more

Gipson received a summer research award from the BCNM to support her dissertation research by attending the Popular Culture Summer Research Workshop Read more

This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more

We recap this fascinating talk on this past showcase of sensor-technology art Read more

Tthe Berkeley Center for New Media presents a interview with John Graznow, one of the many collaborators on the construction of the bell's sound Read more

Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more

from his HTNM lecture, "System Addicts," earlier this April Read more

A recording of Alexander Weheliye's lecture, "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music" Read more

From the electroacoustic composer's lecture, "DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments" Read more

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

She discusses how the Joe Goode Performance Group is developing the piece "Poetics of Space", which is slated to open this September Read more

BCNM turned ten! Read more

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

She is Visiting Instructor of Music History at St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley Read more

The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more

A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more

Kimiko Ryokai's NWMEDIA/INFO C262: Tangible User Interfaces created new products aimed at shifting the way we interact with technology Read more

Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more

Winners of Hack the Bells, the first international carillon remix competition, have been selected Read more

The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

Listen to selected performances online, as well as a selection of other new music that Tiffany has premiered Read more

This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more

Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more

Bellouin's music is otherworldly, haunting, and as unique as the instrument that created it Read more

BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more

On her talk, "Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism” Read more

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

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

Congratulations to all! Read more

We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more

Congratulations to the following students! Read more

We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more

Rama Gottfried will be working with the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team at IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou based in Paris Read more

We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more

Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more

The Tomato Quintet at Machine Project, Los Angeles, involved five pods filled with Tomatoes Read more