BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

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

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

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

Published in Jazz & Culture.  Read more

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

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

Rama Gottfried and Ritwik Banerji contributed pieces to the 2019 issue of Array.  Read more

Ritwik Banerji presented a paper on free improvisation at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 64th annual meeting.  Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2020. 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

Juliana Friend reviews Ritwik Banerji's work on algorithm and anthropology. Read more

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

Check out this video of Ritwik discussing "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation" Read more

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

Applications are due February 1, 2019. Read more

This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more

The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

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

Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more

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

We are now accepting applications from current UC Berkeley PhD students. Applications are due February 1, 2018. Read more

Human improviser meets machine improviser. Ritwik Banerji's Maxine improvises with Ken Ueno. Read more

Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

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

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

We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more