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

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 semester's Fellows. 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

Please join us in welcoming our 2023 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!  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

We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more

The recipient of the Light Bill Incubator Microgrant is Vincente Perez. They will receive $500, a slot in Sundress’s reading series, and a residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN. 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

Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. Read more

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

Vincente Perez's "Neighborhood Séance" was featured in River & South's 2021 year review! Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more

BCNM director Abigail De Kosnik's 2016 book Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom was reviewed by Michael J. Kramer of The Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Read more

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was recently featured on the 3 Books podcast, where she discussed how she designs games to help people develop resilience and positive attitudes in the face of life's challenges.  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

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

As the Coronavirus becomes more widespread she argues that we need to learn how to adapt quickly to global changes that will continue to disrupt our daily lives.  Read more

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! 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

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

Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970."  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

Tan Hoang Nguyen interrogated the art and film of Norman Yonemoto drawing out the unique socio-political elements that pervade Yonemoto's work.  Read more

Lyndsey Ogle and her work were featured on an episode of 'Mythicist Miwaukee' Read more

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

As one of the recipients of the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant, Lashon Daley received funding to attend and present her research findings at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Conference. Read more

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

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed in Archives & Manuscripts!  Read more

Shannon Jackson, BCNM ExComm member, is co-editing a keywords anthology intended to generate understanding across artistic disciplines.  Read more

Lashon Daley is a PhD scholar in performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley and spoke at  Litquake 2017 in San Francisco. Read more

Steffen Moestrup joins us from the University of Copenhagen to study personality driven journalism Read more

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

Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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

Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more

The series hosts Irene Chien, BCNM alumna, to speak on moving through South Asian cities both within video games  Read more

The third and final installment of Henry Jenkins' interview series with BCNM professor Gail de Kosnik has now been published 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

On Miriam Posner's workshop event, recapped by Miyoko Conley. Read more

The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more

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

On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more

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

with Claus Pias

Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

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

 faculty member in rhetoric as well as theater, dance and performance studies (TDPS), Shannon Jackson currently directs the campus’s Arts Research Center Read more

BCNM turned ten! Read more

Prof. De Kosnik has shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting graduate students Read more

This was a great opportunity to build community and emphasize the close collaboration that the Berkeley Center for New Media prizes Read more

from his lecture, "Gamic Orientalism" Read more

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

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

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

Check out how Ashley Ferro Murray explores what MOOCS might mean for theater, dance, and performance studies 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

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

UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more

Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more

This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" 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