04 Nov, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics with Guy Hoffman Robotics Researcher, Cornell University Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
23 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies with Marisa Morán Jahn Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Robots Are Creatures, Not Things with Madeline Gannon Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
29 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Places in Space Adam Savage Mythbusters, CA a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
01 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Body Without Borders with Rhonda Holberton Artist, Oakland Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. 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
04 Mar, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor with Nnedi Okorafor Artist, Olympia Fields, IL In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture In and out of the Body and into the Machine with Chico MacMurtrie Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture News of the Future and the Future of News with Kevin Delaney Editor, Quartz In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
19 Nov, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson Author, Davis, CA In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
19 Oct, 2018 Special Events Hacking Politics: Symposium Join us to explore how our political system has been — and might be — “hacked” in ways its framers could never have imagined. Read more
15 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Image and Amnesia with Kerry Tribe Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture The Networked Avant-garde with Kelani Nichole Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
05 Oct, 2017 Commons Conversations Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. Read more
22 Aug, 2017 Special Events BCNM Fall 2017 Open House Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house Read more
25 Apr, 2017 Commons Conversations Digital Dissent BCNM, in partnership with the School of Information and Graduate School of Journalism, turn to the particular role, and power, of digital tools to express and organize political dissent, and create greater institutional and political transparency! Read more
06 Apr, 2017 Special Events Nicholas de Monchaux on Local Code: 3659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities Join BCNM at the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive with an author talk with Nicholas de Monchaux. Read more
13 Feb, 2017 Commons Conversations Our Landscape Futures with Geoff Manaugh, NYT best-selling author Read more
26 Nov, 2016 Special Events "Local Code" Book Launch: a Conversation & Reading with Nicholas de Monchaux Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Special Events Jane Jacobs and the Digital City in partnership with SPUR San Francisco Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Workshops Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital Cities Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the School of Information's Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. Read more
23 Aug, 2016 Special Events Fall 2016 Open House This is a great opportunity to connect with faculty, students, and staff on campus who work in the new media space. Read more
30 Mar, 2012 Special Events The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area Hosted at SFMoMA, featuring Nicholas DeMonchaux and the work of Buckminster Fuller Read more
01 Nov, 2023 Announcing BCNM's Fall 23 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more
16 Apr, 2020 BCNM Around the Web April 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
14 Feb, 2020 Nicholas de Monchaux to Lead MIT's Department of Architecture Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and former BCNM Director, on this phenomenal new role! Read more
25 Sep, 2019 Nicholas de Monchaux on the Planetary Radio De Monchaux discusses Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo on Planetary Radio, the Planetary Society podcast. Read more
02 Sep, 2019 Nicholas de Monchaux Named the 2019-2024 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media Read more
01 Sep, 2019 BCNM around the Web September 2019 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
11 Jul, 2019 ATC 2018-2019 In Review Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019 Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
01 Jul, 2019 Announcing the New Berkeley Center for New Media Director Photo credit: John Lawson Read more
24 Jun, 2019 BCNM around the Web July 2019 Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more
09 May, 2019 Congratulating our 2019 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields 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
14 Mar, 2019 Nicholas de Monchaux on Space Suits of the Future in Pacific Standard The future of space suits and what it means for space exploration. Read more
30 Jan, 2019 BCNM at San Francisco's Night of Ideas 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
26 Sep, 2018 Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan in 7x7 Nicholas de Monchaux's Modem and Neyran Turan's Nemestudio were featured in 7x7's roundup of the amazing Bay Area Now exhibition! Read more
21 Aug, 2018 Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
21 Jun, 2018 Nicholas de Monchaux & Kathryn Moll at the Mills College Art Museum modem, the architecture firm of Nicholas de Monchaux and Kathryn Moll, is featured in Archaeology in Reverse at the MCAM. Read more
30 May, 2018 Nicholas de Monchaux on Dimensions of Citizenship - and Surveillance - in E-Flux Nicholas de Monchaux meditates for E-Flux on the scale of citizenship and our national apparatuses for surveillance when placed in the context of our vast planetary systems. 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
18 Apr, 2018 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
05 Feb, 2018 Spaces of Free Speech Panel Video from Reply All Now Online Watch the Reply All conference speakers discuss how various spaces, physical and digital, demand different responses and protections for free speech. The video is now available for public viewing on Youtube. Read more
28 Nov, 2017 ATC Video Now Online: Frank Foer Couldn't make it out to the Arts Technology Culture colloquium with Frank Foer and Nicholas Thompson back in September? The video of their dialogue about big tech is now online! Read more
21 Nov, 2017 The Spaces of Free Speech Video from Reply All Now Online The Spaces of Free Speech Panel panel during the Reply All symposium is now available for public viewing. Read more
17 Oct, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux Quoted in The Guardian on the Hyperloop Nicholas de Monchaux, an associate professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley, commented on Elon Musk's dream for an underground highway in Los Angeles. Read more
03 Oct, 2017 BCNM 2016-2017 Publications Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more
26 Sep, 2017 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
05 Sep, 2017 The 2017-2018 Critical Theory Working Group: Collaborations, Co-operatives, Coalition Building Read more
29 Aug, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux Quoted in Quartz A Quartz article quoted De Monchaux about Elon Musk's Instagram post of SpaceX spacesuit prototype. Read more
23 Aug, 2017 Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! Read more
02 Aug, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux at Exploratorium After Dark, Discussing Space Suits Don't miss out on this opportunity to hear Prof. de Monchaux discuss human space travel with Adam Savage, famed industrial designer. Read more
18 Jul, 2017 de Monchaux Quoted in Newsweek on Spacesuits Amidst all the talk of future migration to Mars, one overlooked subject is perhaps the most important: what will we wear? Read more
15 Jun, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux at WEAR 2017 De Monchaux spoke at WEAR 2017 about his book Fashioning Apollo! Read more
27 Apr, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux Named Bakar Faculty Fellow & Recipient of Spark Fund Award Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux on being named a Bakar Faculty Fellow and recipient of the Spark Fund Award for 2017-2018! Read more
06 Apr, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux Lecture at Eikones Nicholas de Monchaux presented a lecture at the Eikones National Center of Competence in Research as part of the “Planning, Contingency and the Image of the Modern City” series. Read more
02 Mar, 2017 Video Now Online: "Our Landscape Futures" Watch this event by Geoff Manaugh, New York Times-bestselling author on technology and utopias. Read more
23 Feb, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux at YBCA Europa Closing BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux performed with Tom Sachs in the closing performance piece of the Europa landing exhibition Read more
13 Jan, 2017 Urban Data Operations with Nicholas de Monchaux Jan 18 Don't miss out on this great discussion between Geoff Manaugh and Nicholas de Monchaux on Urban Data Operations at the Storefront for Art & Architecture this January 18 from 7-9pm! Read more
30 Nov, 2016 Revisited: "Local Code" Book Launch We recap the evening of conversation on Prof. de Monchaux's new book Read more
08 Nov, 2016 Nicholas de Monchaux at Drawing Futures Drawing Futures 2016 is a conference on "Speculations on Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture" taking place at the Bartlett School of Architecture 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
20 Oct, 2016 Video Now Online: Jane Jacobs and the Digital City The BCNM and SPUR presented a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence Read more
19 Oct, 2016 Revisited: "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual." Some thoughts on Tom Sachs's engaging lecture, "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual." earlier this fall. Read more
11 Oct, 2016 Local Code by Nicholas de Monchaux Out Now at University of Princeton Architectural Press
30 Sep, 2016 Revisited: Jane Jacobs and the Digital City At the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association's Urban Center in San Francisco Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Nicholas de Monchaux's "Local Code" at Canadian Centre for Architecture A part of the "Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention" exhibit Read more
12 Sep, 2016 Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more
08 Sep, 2016 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
01 Sep, 2016 Announcing Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium This event is a partnership between BCNM and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Read more
29 Aug, 2016 Nicholas de Monchaux at Ohio State University de Monchaux will speak as a part of the Architecture school's "Get Lectured" series Read more
11 Jul, 2016 Greetings from the New Director We are delighted to welcome Nicholas de Monchaux to his new role as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media Read more
05 Jul, 2016 Greg Niemeyer Thanks You for Three Years at BCNM For the last three years, Greg Niemeyer has skillfully led the BCNM as the Center's Director. This July, he is beginning a well-deserved sabbatical Read more
26 May, 2016 Berkeley and the new SFMOMA — partners in art and public engagement Kate Mattingly, Designated Emphasis student, wrote about UCB's relationship with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Read more
04 May, 2016 BCNM Explores: NASA Ames BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more
14 Apr, 2016 Nicholas de Monchaux and Alex Saum Pascual at 2016 Digital Humanities Faire Check out social media from the event! Read more
18 Mar, 2015 BCNM Welcomes Spring 2015 DE & Certificate Students 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
19 Sep, 2012 Nicholas de Monchaux Presents Exhibit at the Venice Biennale, US Architecture Pavilion Titled "Spontaneous Interventions : Design Actions for the Common Good" Read more
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