10 Sep, 2024
Art, Tech & Culture
You've Just Been F$%^#d By PSYOPs: UFOs, Magic, Electronic Warfare, Mind Control, Artificial Intelligence, and the Death of the Internet
with Trevor Paglen
Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Filmmaker, Investigator, and Technologist
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture co-sponsored by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) and the Arts Research Center (ARC) Read more
14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
30 Sep, 2021
Special Events
The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online
with Kelly Baker Josephs
Professor of English at York College, CUNY
Presented by Media Studies and co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department and BCNM. Read more
13 Sep, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
How Can a Maori Girl Recolonise the Screen Using Mighty Pixels
with Lisa Reihana
Artist, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
30 Aug, 2021
Commons Conversations
Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora
with Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderated by BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
18 Feb, 2021
Women in Tech Symposium – The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction,
We're co-sponsoring! Read more
01 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Rhonda Holberton
Artist, Oakland
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
03 Dec, 2018
Special Events
Questioning New Media Performance Night
Join Professor Jill Miller’s Questioning New Media class for a thrilling evening of final presentations/performances. Read more
12 Sep, 2018
History & Theory
Architectural Intelligence
with Molly Wright Steenson
Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
In partnership with the Department of Architecture Read more
12 Apr, 2018
Special Events
EV’RY BODY, THIS TIME: A Sexuality Studies Conference
A conference free and open to the public hosted by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
06 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Workshop
Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. Read 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
04 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Exhibition
Deep Dive Or the Limits of Immersion was curated by Asma Kazmi. We preview the show as part of the Past is Present. Read more
17 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui
Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack
with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more
11 Sep, 2017
Special Events
Book Talk — Intelligent Infrastructure: Zipcars, Invisible Networks, And Urban Transformation
with TF Tierney
Founding Director of URL: Urban Research Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Studies Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Special Events
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Drop in anytime; stay as long as you'd like! Read more
11 Jul, 2016
Special Events
BCNM at Graduate Programs Fair
Learn about our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate in New Media programs! Read more
03 Sep, 2015
Special Events
Welcome Back! BCNM's Fall Open House
Celebrate the new semester with us, here at BCNM Read more
20 Mar, 2015
Special Events
A concert by electroacoustic composer Tarek Atoui. Co-presented with the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the MATRIX Program Read more
09 Mar, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments
by Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic composer Read more
18 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Theory/Post Theory Rhetoric Conference
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
FutARism: The Possiblities of Augmented Reality in Art Making
with Amir Baradaran, Media and Performance Artist, New York Read more
20 May, 2024
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
09 Apr, 2024
Sacramento Paradox with Greg Niemeyer
Greg Niemeyer, Some Information Cannot Be Displayed, Digital print in etched glass frame, 2024. Read more
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients
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
11 Mar, 2024
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more
25 Jan, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows
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
07 Nov, 2023
Conference Grant Reports: William Morgan and Financial Rationalities
William Morgan traveled to Brussels to present a paper at the Intersetions of Finance and Society Conference. Read more
04 Nov, 2023
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2023 Faculty Seed Grants
This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more
14 Oct, 2023
Edgar Fabián Frías' Work at CalPoly
Edgar's work is featured in the exhibition Lifelike! Read more
05 Oct, 2023
World Building for Immersive Storytelling
Interview with Alex McDowell RDI Read more
17 Aug, 2023
Edgar Fabian Frias at Australia's TWFineArts
15 Aug, 2023
Valencia James & Landship Valiant Star
Read about Valencia James and Landship Valiant Star; a multimodal research project in which I am exploring the living history of the Barbados Landship. Read more
11 Aug, 2023
Dongho Shin on Digital Systems Generating Mnemonics
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
12 Jun, 2023
Nicholaus Gutierrez on VR's Mythic Past
The Ballad of Morton Hellig: On VR's Mythic Past was published in JCMS Journal! Read more
25 May, 2023
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2023
Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Faculty Seed Grant Report: Firetime
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06 Apr, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! 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 Mar, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
05 Jan, 2023
Spring 2023 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open
Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more
29 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Class Fund Recipients
We’re thrilled to be able to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more
24 Aug, 2022
danah boyd & Morgan Ames on the Future of the Metaverse
Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
Summer 2022 Research with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan
Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more
08 Jul, 2022
Abigail Lomibao on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
Interactive Mixed-Dimensional Media for Cross-Dimensional Collaboration in Mixed Reality Environments
Björn Hartmann co-authors this new paper with Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel. Read more
23 Jun, 2022
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 BCNM Events in Review
Check out our roundup of the last year of BCNM events, featuring event details, video recordings, and transcripts! Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
16 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
Project by Jessie Mindel with Selin Longmire, Angelica Song, Bradley Russo. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Akemi Nagashiki on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Akemi was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanaryanan on graduate level research, supporting Haripriya's project on spatial design in pediatric healthcare spaces. Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Jen Schradie on the French Presidential Election
Interview with researcher Jen Schradie. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!
Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
31 Mar, 2022
Jen Schradie on the 2022 Elections
Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing the Spring 2022 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Art by Greg Niemeyer. Read more
01 Mar, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Simulating Polyculture Farming
Check out Ken Goldberg's article on Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation! Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
04 Jan, 2022
HTNM Indigenous Technologies Event Transcript Now Online: Lisa Reihana
We're pleased to share the transcript of our Indigenous Technologies event with Maori artist and filmmaker Lisa Reihana. Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Xincun Du. Read more
12 Dec, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Cohort
Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more
29 Nov, 2021
Trevor Paglen and Hito Steyerl in Conversation
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07 Oct, 2021
Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora: Cathy Thomas Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the updated transcript and video for Cathy Thomas's “Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora”. Read more
18 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías & Charlie Amáyá Scott on Ancestors
Edgar Fabián Frías and Charlie Amáyá Scott speak on connecting to their ancestors in "You Are Also Your Ancestors". Read more
02 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias Speaks to Bunny Michaels about Queer Ancestors
The conversation with Bunny Michaels is part of Edgar's Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project. Read more
01 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias Speaks to Michael Espinoza about Queer Ancestors
Edgar Fabián Frías and Michael Espinoza speaks on identity and ancestry in "I Am A Spiritual Being Because Of My Queerness". Read more
19 Aug, 2021
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jessie Mindel on Kaleidoscope
Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more
28 Jul, 2021
De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche by Jacob Gaboury
Jacob published De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche in LA HAUTE ET LA BASSE DÉFINITION DES IMAGES: Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Read more
24 Jul, 2021
Janaki Vivrekar on Transforming Social Media Interfaces with Embodied Constraints
Janaki Vivrekar discusses the critical designs that make up our digital social media experiences in her new technical report. Read more
23 Jul, 2021
BCNM Around the Web July 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Autolab at ICRA 2021
Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2021! Read more
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Getting a Grip on Reality
Ken Goldberg recently published the editorial for Science Robotics. Read more
21 May, 2021
Congratulating our 2021 Graduates
These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields.
Artwork by Tina Piracci Read more
08 May, 2021
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
21 Apr, 2021
Janaki Vivrekar on Discovering HCI at Berkeley
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
17 Apr, 2021
Rita Lucarelli's Work Featured on TechStory
Rita Lucarelli has been using VR technologies to create new immersive experiences in Egyptology. Read more
10 Apr, 2021
Dark Matters by Tiffany Ng Released
Tiffany Ng's new album of carillon music by Stephen Rush dropped! Read more
31 Mar, 2021
Call for Entries: Refamiliarization
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30 Mar, 2021
Alenda Chang on Primal Tourism
BCNM alum Alenda Chang is being featured in artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen's online VR ecological art event, focused on the intersection between ecology, sustainability, and technologies.
Read more
29 Mar, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2021 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
Photo credit: Yuyao Jin Read more
20 Feb, 2021
Experience Kevin Lo's Return the Eye
Kevin Lo and alex cruse come together to launch Return the Eye. Read more
18 Feb, 2021
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
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 year's Fellows. Read more
30 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's AutoLab at ICRA 2020
Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2020. Read more
03 Nov, 2020
Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2021
Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020. Read more
31 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Receives BCNM Faculty Seed Grant
Read more
15 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Janaki Vivrekar's QuarantineAI
Janaki Vivrekar was recently interviewed by the Life in Quarantine Project on her Quarantined AI work. Read more
08 Sep, 2020
Jenni Higgs Publishes on the Reading for Understanding Initiative
Jenni Higgs recently published a research article on the Reading for Understanding Initiative in the International Literacy Association's Reading Research Quarterly. Read more
31 Aug, 2020
Björn Hartmann on Bridging Asymmetrical Communication Between External and VR Users
The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more
30 Aug, 2020
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2020 Class Fund Recipients
We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more
21 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Kevin Lo Returns to Digital Art
Kevin Lo and his longtime collaborator were excited to present their art in physical space, but have no returned to the digital realm in light of COVID-19. Read more
15 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment
Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more
21 Jul, 2020
BCNM Faculty Receive Berkeley Changemaker Grants
[Image credit: Original image from: King st. Development in Toronto by Frank Gehry, edited by Elnaz Tafrihi Bailey.] Read more
25 Jun, 2020
BCNM Undergraduate Work Featured in Discovery
An Android app created by BCNM undergrad Janaki Vivrekar was showcased by UC Berkeley Discovery. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Alum Brooke Belisle Edits Journal on Virtual Reality
Our BCNM alum Brooke Belisle co-edited the Journal of Visual Culture's issue on Virtual Reality: Immersion and Empathy. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating Our 2020 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!
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29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating our 2020 Graduates
Photo: Bowen Wei. Read more
21 Apr, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 Summer Research Fellows
We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more
20 Apr, 2020
Learning to Smooth and Fold Real Fabric Using Dense Object Descriptors Trained on Synthetic Color Images
Aditya Ganapathi et al., including our own Ken Golberg, on robotic fabric manipulation. Read more
03 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on COVID-19, Robots, and Us
Ken Goldberg was invited to host an online discussion on "COVID-19, robots and us". Read more
03 Apr, 2020
New Paper on Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation
Ken Goldberg was part of the team to publish a new paper "VisuoSpatial Foresight for Multi-Step, Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation". Read more
01 Apr, 2020
Alum Alenda Chang's Playing Nature on Chroniques Vidéoludiques
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's new book was featured in Chroniques Vidéoludiques! Read more
30 Mar, 2020
Announcing Our Spring 2020 Graduate Cohort
Image: Jingran Chu. Read more
05 Mar, 2020
Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
26 Feb, 2020
Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley." Read more
20 Feb, 2020
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more
31 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Fabric Smoothing Policies
Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more
08 Dec, 2019
Trevor Paglen at Nam June Paik Art Center
Trevor Paglen's first solo exhibition in Korea is held at the Nam June Paik Art Center until February 2, 2020. Read more
20 Nov, 2019
Summer 2020 Research Award Applications Now Open
We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
17 Nov, 2019
Announcing our Fall 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Shuang Yan. Read more
17 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Rhonda Holberton
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23 Aug, 2019
Alex Saum Pascual in Fobias Fonias Fagias
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11 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
11 Jul, 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
10 Jul, 2019
Berkeley Talks: #SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality
(Photo by Meg via Flickr) Read more
30 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Part of Team Introducing Robotics to Water Conservation in Farming
The UC Merced led team Read more
28 May, 2019
Soravis Prakkamakul on VR at CHI 2019
Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
27 May, 2019
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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19 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Graduates
Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more
09 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more
03 May, 2019
"Within These Walls" & its sequel "Dreams of Flight"
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14 Apr, 2019
ATC Revisited: Rhonda Holberton
Photo by Malachi Tran. Read more
14 Mar, 2019
Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
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
21 Feb, 2019
Jane McGonigal at Restaurant Innovation Summit
Alum Jane McGonigal was the keynote speaker at the Restaurant Innovation Summit in November 2018. Read more
18 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Robots in Nature Machine Intelligence
Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more
08 Feb, 2019
Revisited: Questioning New Media Performance Night
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21 Dec, 2018
Neyran Turan Publishes on New Cadavre Exquis in Perspecta
Yale University School of Architecture's Perspecta featured Neyran Turan's project in their last publication. Read more
21 Dec, 2018
Alum John Scott at LRA 2018
John Scott contributed to two discussions at the 68th Annual LRA Conference. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
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21 Nov, 2018
Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Lyman Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez on the History of VR
Nicholaus Gutierrez received the 2018 Lyman Fellowship, which provides a stipend to a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support the writing of his Ph.D. dissertation on a topic related to new media. Read more
14 Aug, 2018
The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. Read more
09 Aug, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Yang Liu on VR
This summer, Yang Liu developed UNREAL, a Virtual Reality project for architectural design. Read more
20 Jul, 2018
Asma Kazmi on the Outcomes of Cranes & Cube
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28 Jun, 2018
Fall 2018 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more
14 Jun, 2018
Neyran Turan on the Outcomes of New Cadavre Exquis
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28 May, 2018
2018 Seed Grants: Rita Lucarelli & the New Media of the Book of the Dead
The BCNM Faculty Seed Grant Program awarded $5000 to Rita Lucarelli (Near Eastern Studies) to digitally transposition Egyptian coffins into 3D models. Read more
27 Apr, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik Awarded an IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Fellowship
BCNM faculty, Abigail De Kosnik, will be in residance at the IAS from August 23 and September 22 as part of her awarded fellowship. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Rita Lucarelli Receives CITRIS Seed Grant
Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Exhibition
Asma Kazmi curated a fantastic virtual reality exhibition we were thrilled to preview as part of the Past is Present. 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
11 Apr, 2018
ATC Revisited: Irena Haiduk
Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Designated Emphasis & Certificate Cohort
We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Announcing the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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16 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Open Source Stewart Platform
We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more
06 Mar, 2018
Photographs from Koci Hernandez Featured in Two New Books
Multimedia and Journalism Prof. Koci-Hernandez' photographs are featured in 100 Great Street Photographs and Mobile Street Photography. Read more
20 Feb, 2018
Announcing the Lyman 2018 Fellowship Recipients
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25 Jan, 2018
Announcing the 2018 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipients
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more
24 Jan, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Symposium — The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
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03 Dec, 2017
BCNM Seed Grant Funded New Cadavre Exquis by Neyran Turan Receives Award
Neyran Turan, recipient of a BCNM seed grant, received an honorable mention from the 2017 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Awards. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Harry Burson at Sounding Out Space
Harry Burson, a Fall 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient, attended the Sounding Out the Space international conference earlier this month in Dublin, Ireland. Read more
20 Nov, 2017
Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort
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13 Nov, 2017
Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political
Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
15 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Miyoko Conley on Holograms in K-Pop
Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more
31 May, 2017
Call for Students: Cranes and Cube: Architecture, Built and Unbuilt
An opportunity to accompany Professor Asma Kazmi on a paid two-week research and production trip to Jeddah, Medina, and Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia in August 2017. Read more
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
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15 May, 2017
Asma Kazmi Receives Seed Grant for Cranes and Cube
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13 May, 2017
Neyran Turan Receives Seed Grant for Cadavre Exquis
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28 Apr, 2017
Greg Niemeyer received BCNM research funding to build a VR rendering of Earth. Read more
13 Apr, 2017
Announcing our 2017-2018 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
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06 Apr, 2017
Revisited Update: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
BCNM was proud to be part of UC Berkeley's 2017 Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon Read more
17 Feb, 2017
Video Now Online: Ken Goldberg at WAFR
Check out Ken Goldberg's Chair Remarks at WAFR 2016 and other work by UC Berkeley students and faculty! Read more
19 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Saving Water in Agriculture with Robots on UC Merced News
An article titled "Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture" Read more
18 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the 12th Annual Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
UC Berkeley students and faculty attended the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) Read more
22 Nov, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort
These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more
04 Nov, 2016
Grace Gipson at >Play Conference
>play is the largest student-run digital media and technology conference Read more
03 Nov, 2016
Video Now Online: A Workshop on Network Analysis for Film & Media
Missed Miriam Posner's workshop the other day? No worries. Watch it here. Read more
24 Oct, 2016
New Images from Greg Niemeyer’s Research Trip to Barrow!
With a BCNM grant, Prof. Greg Niemeyer is creating radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Ken Goldberg at the Samsung CEO Summit
The theme this year was "The Age of Insight and Learning" Read more
19 Sep, 2016
Félix Treviño's music TRVN featured on Arca!
Félix is a BCNM DE student, and interested in exploring the different manifestations of bodies and violence in literature Read more
25 Jul, 2016
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2016 Open House
11 Jul, 2016
Greg Niemeyer and the Internet from the Inside Out.
Greg Niemeyer will create radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more
28 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg's accepted papers at CASE 2016
Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more
02 Mar, 2016
At "The Art of Humanizing Robotics" with Ken Goldberg
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21 Jan, 2016
Papers from Precarious Aesthetics
Last October BCNM invited scholars from around the world to come together and explore the complexity of the image and representation in the digital age Read more
07 Jan, 2016
Farewell to a Berkeley Visionary Sonya Rapoport
Rapoport was a former Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium speaker at the Berkeley Center for New Media. She passed away in June, 2015 Read more
11 Feb, 2015
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
15 Apr, 2014
Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept
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
04 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Casey Reas
The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more
06 Feb, 2013
BEARS 2013 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, BCNM Open House
Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium is a program of the Industrial Relations Office, UC Berkeley Read more
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
New Media Research Fellowship
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Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – March 1, 2025
Applications are due October 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation