We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! 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

Alex was awarded a grant for "Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity." Read more

Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented their paper on ""Encoding Urban Ecologies: Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling" at ACADIA.

  Read more

Haripriya Sathyanarayanan traveled to La Jolla to present at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA)​ Conference. Read more

Elnaz received a summer research grant to work on an augmented reality project. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Kelsey Choe, Em Erce, and Anna Ma.  Read more

Read about Dongho Shin's project to develop digital systems capable of generating mnemonics—strategies that enhance memory retention, such as creating wordplay, narratives, and visuals. Read more

Isabel Li worked with Elnaz Tafrihi on InsightXR, a project which aims to provide accessible, remote co-design in architectural contexts through mobile AR experiences. Read more

Xiaowen Yuan worked with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on a project based on virtual reality and built environment design. Read more

Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

Next review date: Thursday, Apr 20, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Read more

Rebecca presented her work "New Research on Roman and Late Antique Living Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more

Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more

Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023!  Read more

Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more

The Fresno Bee goes in depth on blockchain with Camille Crittenden's expertise. Read more

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

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

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!

  Read more

The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more

Camille Crittenden publishes an article on the Berkeley Blog on women in energy in honor of Women's History Month. 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 generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more

Ken Goldberg and team publish a new paper on Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance. Read more

Vincente Perez, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipient, presented "ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS: BLACK TWITTER, SIGNIFYIN', AND THE MUNDANE" at the 22nd annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías was selected as a cultural ambassador for the San Francisco Arts Commission.  Read more

Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways.  Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition". Read more

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

Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more

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

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! 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

Check out the videos of the 5th Annual CITRIS Women in Tech Symposium available online! Read more

BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series.  Read more

BCNM Certificate and EECS graduate student Janaki Vivrekar has compiled a list of on-campus resources, departments, and centers for those interested in studying the intersection of technology, communication, society, arts and design.  Read more

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

Björn Hartmann recently published a paper titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages." Read more

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

BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinski features in a round table discussion on the role of historians in the tech industry. Read more

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

"01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 [forest]" appears in Mediating Art and Science. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal has us ask ourselves three questions during the pandemic. Read more

BCNM Designated Emphasis (D.E) program, Leah Rosenbaum published "Shaping Perception: Designing for Participatory Facilitation of Collaborative Geometry” Read more

The Commission's final report was recently released, recommending ways to "help the nation emerge as a more resilient democracy by 2026." Read more

A huge congratulations to our incredible team of assistants who are graduating this year! They have been essential to BCNM life and we'll miss them greatly! 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

CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more

Belgian newspaper De Tiljd reviews Jane McGonigal's "Futures Thinking Specialization" classes on Coursera. Read more

Alenda Chang's article, "Between Plants and Polygons: SpeedTrees and an Even Speedier History of Digital Morphogenesis" was included in the December 2019 issue of the journal "Natural Media". Read more

DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year.  Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more

The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more

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

BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more

If you're in Paris, join Christo Sims on June 13th for his talk on Disruptive Fixation! Read more

Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more

The article, written with Kris Gutiérrez, José Lizárraga, and Eduardo Rivero, was published in Human Development 2019, volume 62! Read more

Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more

Ken Goldberg will be co-hosting a talk with UC Berkeley's Michael Jordan at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics & AI. Read more

"It's About Power" by alum Jenni Higgs and Sepehr Vakil was published in the March 2019 volume of Communications of the ACM. 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

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more

We’re thrilled to be supporting our graduates as they travel across the globe to share their scholarship. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen's two dye sublimation prints were recently acquired by Stanford University.  Read more

BCNM Professor, Jill Miller's work will be exhibited in 'Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood' at the Palo Alto Art Center.  Read more

Camille Critterden published an article on Women's Equality on the Berkeley Blog.

  Read more

Join alum Andrea Horbinski to discuss transitioning out of academia at Sirens 2018! Read more

The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more

The Collaborative Robotics, Advanced Vision, and Artificial Intelligence conference will be held October 24-25 in Santa Clara, CA. Read more

Christo talked about techno-idealism and the possibilities for failed disruption. Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more

Running from June 6 to October 28, 2018, the Riga Biennial reflects on change. Read more

Molly Nicholas is a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient who attended "Engage at CHI" 2019 in Montréal, Canada. Read more

Jennifer Higgs, Leah Rosenbaum, and Bjoern Hartmann presented their respective research at AERA 2018. Read more

We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

As of very shortly after 10:00 AM this morning, this talk and the waitlist were sold out. Read more

Ken Goldberg participated in arts 'laboratory' at NCCA, Moscow Read more

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed by Leondardo Reviews. Read more

From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus.  Read more

Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

At the beginning of October, alum Bonnie Ruberg attended IndieCade in Downtown Los Angeles to speak about the relationship between games and politics. Read more

Stuart Geiger gave a presentation in regarding autoethnographic methods for studying data-driven knowledge production in Boston, Massachusetts. 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

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

Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more

Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object.  Read more

Lydia Tuan was selected to work with Amy Koehler-Catterson (Education) on digital technologies as pedagogical tools Read more

Niemeyer taught at the Digital Art History Summer School in Malaga, Spain from September 4th to 9th Read more

This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making 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

Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Devendorf's project is focused on how to use thermochromic pigments in weaving and crocheted materials Read more

BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more

BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more

We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more

BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more

Bonnie will be teaching and conducting research under the guidance of game industry veterans Read more

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

Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more

A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more

The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more

The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more

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

We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs 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

Crittenden recently published a blog post entitled "Public Open Data: the Good, the Bad, the Future" Read more

Coye is an Associate Professor at the School of Information and a longtime member of the Berkeley Center for New Media Executive Committee Read more

Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more

For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” Read more

*Update: online registration is now full, however please feel free to register for the wait list Read more

Applications for Fall 2013 admittance to both programs are due March 1, 2013 Read more

Due November 1, 2012 Read more

Dor Abrahamson, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Education Cognition and Development: Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology, UC Berkeley Read more