26 Jun, 2014 Special Events Maxine CD Release Party The release of Ritwik Banerji's (DE) project, Maxine Read more
18 Nov, 2022 BCNM at 4S 2022 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
15 Nov, 2022 BCNM Around the Web November Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
25 Oct, 2022 BCNM at AMS/SEM/SMT 2022 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
22 Jul, 2022 Fall 2022 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Featuring BCNM poet alums Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, UCB Professor of Music Ken Ueno, Indigenous Technologies, and more! Read more
28 Apr, 2022 People Are Not Fixed Media by Ritwik Banerji Ritwik published an article illustrating the Fixed media which are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. Read more
09 Dec, 2021 Whiteness as Improvisation, Non-Whiteness as Machine by Ritwik Banerji Published in Jazz & Culture. Read more
08 Dec, 2021 BCNM Around the Web November 2021 Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
14 Oct, 2021 BCNM Around the Web October 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
11 Feb, 2020 Rama Gottfried & Ritwik Banerji in Array Rama Gottfried and Ritwik Banerji contributed pieces to the 2019 issue of Array. Read more
03 Feb, 2020 Ritwik Banerji at SEM 2019 Ritwik Banerji presented a paper on free improvisation at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 64th annual meeting. Read more
13 Nov, 2019 Now Accepting Applications for the 2020 Lyman Fellowship Applications are due February 1, 2020. Read more
16 Oct, 2019 BCNM around the Web October 2019 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
15 Oct, 2019 Alumni Juliana Friend and Ritwik Banerji in Fieldsights Juliana Friend reviews Ritwik Banerji's work on algorithm and anthropology. 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
17 Feb, 2019 Alum Ritwik Banerji at the MMaP Research Center Check out this video of Ritwik discussing "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation" Read more
28 Nov, 2018 Ritwik Banerji at AMS/SMT 2018 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
11 Nov, 2018 Now Accepting Applications for the 2019 Lyman Fellowship Applications are due February 1, 2019. Read more
10 Sep, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Ritwik Banerji on Improvisation This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more
18 Jul, 2018 Ritwik Banerji Published on Interactions with Artificial Social Agents The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more
28 May, 2018 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Marissa Ahmed on Music, Improvisation, Ethnography 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
25 Apr, 2018 Research Insights: Algorithmic Ethnography with Ritwik Banerji Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. 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
25 Jan, 2018 Introducing our Spring 2018 Research Assistants 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
30 Oct, 2017 Lyman Fellowship Applications Now Open We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more
07 Sep, 2017 Live Fieldwork with Bob & Maxine's Virtual Free Improvisation Orchestra Human improviser meets machine improviser. Ritwik Banerji's Maxine improvises with Ken Ueno. Read more
01 Jun, 2017 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Carmen Zheng Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more
17 May, 2017 Announcing Our 2017 Undergraduate Certificate Grads These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more
28 Feb, 2017 Announcing the 2017 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipient The generous Eugene Jarvis Media Innovation Scholarship was awarded to this forward-thinking student. Read more
28 Feb, 2017 Announcing the Lyman 2017 Fellowship Recipients This year's Lyman fellow and runner-up goes to... Read more
23 Jan, 2017 Conference Grants: Ritwik Banerji in Utrecht 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
17 Oct, 2016 Announcing the BCNM Conference Grant Recipients! 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
04 Dec, 2012 BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more
