Person Specificity and Physiovalence: Performance Practice Toward Decolonizing Classical Music
with Ken Ueno
Composer, vocalist, improviser, sound artist, and Professor of Music, UC Berkeley
Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by The Department of Ethnic StudiesRead more
15 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
with Dario Robleto
Artist, Houston; ARC's Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence
Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Latinx Research Center, and BCNM. Read more
09 Nov, 2021
Special Events
Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums
Featuring Margaret Rhee, Reginold Royston,and Ryan Shaw. Moderated by Clancy Wilmott. Presented as a part of BCNM’s Grad Chats, a series focused on navigating the academic job market and career development with UC Berkeley grads.Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
with Margaret Rhee
Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative LiteratureRead more
24 Apr, 2018
Special Events
Mapping as Research
with Trevor Paglen
Artist, CA
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art, UC Berkeley
hosted by the Arts Research Center
co-sponsored by BCNM, BAMPFA and the Department of GeographyRead more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
With rapid advances in modern documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, how must our study of the past and its material legacy adapt? Read more
Jose Alvarez on his own personal journey of investigation into the realms of consciousness, mysticism, spirituality Read more
25 Apr, 2024
Created Equal: Can tech regulation solve mental health issues?
alum danah boyd talks the possibilities of tech regulation. Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum at the Rorschach Theatre
Alum Miyoko Conley's play was presented as a reading earlier this month. Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
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
13 Oct, 2022
Tom McEnaney on the Problems of Removing Accents from Call Centers
Tom speaks on the issues involved in filtering accented speech in a talk with KQED. Read more
16 Aug, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 Class Grants
We're pleased to support Tom McEnaney's course on Sounding American. Read more
17 Jul, 2022
Jen Schradie on the Far Right's Efforts to Overturn Roe
L'Obs interviewed Jen Schradie on the far right's organization to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
BCNM Around the Web June 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Monocle! Read more
23 Apr, 2020
Eric Paulos' Research on Familiar Stranger Helping to Combat COVID-19
BCNM Professor Eric Paulos' past research on Familiar Stranger from 2003 has been revived by MIT researchers in a plan to combat COVID-19. Read more
11 Apr, 2020
Jane McGonigal on the Best of Our Knowledge
Listen to Jane McGonigal discuss video games on The Best of Our Knowledge! Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Greg Niemeyer Receives CLTC Grant
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity awarded Greg Niemeyer one of its inaugural grants for his music video project, "SweetWire." Read more
07 Feb, 2020
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum Live Feb 12
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Alum McGonigal on WUWF
BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was featured on WUWF, the NPR channel in Great Northwest Florida. Read more
07 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen on Human Biases in AI
Monocle Weekly published an interview with alum Trevor Paglen on our artificial intelligence systems. Read more
02 Nov, 2019
BCNM Around the Web November 2019
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
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
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
28 Aug, 2019
Tom McEnaney Promoted to Associate Professor
Read more
20 Aug, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie in KPFA
BCNM Alum Jen Schradie and digital activism was featured on KPFA's Against the Grain! Read more
12 Aug, 2019
BCNM Faculty, Students, Staff Advise on and Support Proposed Legislation on Digital Media Literacy
Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.
Interview with Alum Jen Schradie in the Indy and WUNC
Jen discusses her book The Revolution That Wasn't in North Carolina, where much of her research was based. Read more
01 Jun, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen on BBC's Invisible Networks with James Bridle
In this episode, "Invisibe Networks," alum Trevor Paglen investigates how technology is changing the way we see. Read more
21 Feb, 2019
BCNM at SCMS 2019
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
21 Dec, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen's Surveillance Art Featured on NPR
NPR brings Trevor Paglen's art to life in this great feature! Read more
21 Nov, 2018
Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
07 Nov, 2018
Tom McEnaney Finalist for MSA First Book Prize
Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2017) by Tom McEnaney made it onto the short list for the First Book Prize. Read more
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: JOSE FERREIRA + ASMA KAZMI runs from September 10 – 28, 2018. Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Tom McEnaney Launches GloUH Colloquium
Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Announcing 2018 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! We are excited to support the amazing work these students will be completing over the summer. Read more
13 Mar, 2018
Revisited: “Brotherhood is Powerful" with Tan Hoang Nguyen
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
06 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Keynote at Ways of Knowing Conference
Alum Trevor Paglen and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun were Keynote Speakers at Ways of Knowing Cities Conference by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia.
Richard Koci Hernandez discusses black & white iPhone photography on an episode of Photography Radio. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
Welcome Tom McEnaney
Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities. Read more
14 Oct, 2017
Summer Research Dispatch: Maija Hynninen & Sounding Sculpture
Read about Maija Hynninen's BCNM-funded research as she builds and improves the sound diffusion system for 'Sounding Sculpture.' Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Alum Christo Sims on Disruptive Fixation on KPFA and Databite
Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. 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
08 Aug, 2017
Alum Ashley Ferro-Murray in Conversation with Andrew Schneider on WAMC
Listen to this witty show's episode shared between Obie Award-winning Schneider and Alum Ashley Ferro-Murray. Read more
24 May, 2017
Tom McEnaney Publishes Acoustic Property
A new book exploring the prehistory of wireless culture from BCNM Alum Tom McEnany Read more
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
Commons Conversations: Color of New Media Working Group Transcription
The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more
06 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Reading Robot Poetry!"
We revisit alum Margaret Rhee's reading from her new published collection Read more
26 Sep, 2016
Jingyi Li creates AO3 Scraper
BCNM undergrad Jingyi Li and a friend built a data scraper for the fan-content archive, Archive of Our Own Read more
09 Sep, 2016
Lashon Daley reads Mr. Okra in Confetti Park
Lashon Daley is a BCNM DE student and working on a PhD in Performance Studies Read more
01 Aug, 2016
Many-to-Many Receives Digital Humanities Grant
Juliana Friend (Anthropology) received a Collaborative Research Grant from Digital Humanities at Berkeley for her project, Many to Many Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Graduates
Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
12 May, 2016
Sivan Eldar Receives Postdoc at IRCAM
BCNM's Sivan Eldar will be heading off to Paris for an 8 month postdoc at the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (IRCAM Read more
19 Apr, 2016
BCNM Ed Campion Receives a Guggenheim
Congratulations are in order for Mr. Campion Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Announcing 2016 Summer Research Awards
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are all completing Read more
23 Nov, 2015
Announcing our Newest Cohort of Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate Students
We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more
15 Jun, 2015
Margaret Rhee Robot Poetry Collection
Radio Heart is an excerpt from her larger full-length collection Love, Robot currently under review Read more
15 May, 2014
Critical Making Showcase
24 Apr, 2014
Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class
We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more
18 Apr, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more
28 Jan, 2014
Student Research Presentations
BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more
29 Oct, 2013
Revisited: Creating Minds
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
23 Apr, 2013
BCNM New Media Students showcase Research at Spring Semester Presentation
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
01 Oct, 2012
"A Note on Triumph" Meshes Acoustics with Digital Sounds to Create Hybrid Instruments
Sivan Eldar, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in the Music Department with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
14 May, 2012
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium
This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
Fall 2019
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New Media Research Fellowship
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