11 Oct, 2024
History & Theory
with Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future; Bo Ruberg, Professor, Film & Media Studies, School of Humanities, UC Irvine; Alenda Y. Chang, Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Phil Salvador, Library Director, Video Game History Foundation; Danny O'Dwyer, Founder, Noclip; Henry Lowood, Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and Curator for Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries
A History and Theory of New Media special event co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Read more
26 Feb, 2024
History & Theory
Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics
with Christina Leza, Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College, and Trevor Reed, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Moderated by Sierra Edd, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Art Practice Read more
13 Nov, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with Raven Chacon
Composer
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Music, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Art Practice
Read more
17 Oct, 2023
Special Events
Unleashing Nostalgia: 'Video Games and Playful Media' Class Explores the Past and Future of Gaming
Join us as we delve into the pixelated worlds of yesteryears and unveil the secrets of gaming's enduring legacy at UC Berkeley's exciting class taught by our very own BCNM faculty member, Emma Fraser! Read more
16 Oct, 2023
History & Theory
Rerouting Media in the Living Forest
with Martina Broner
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College, and Co-Founder of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies and Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLAS), the Media Studies program, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
02 Oct, 2023
Commons Conversations
with Tim Evatt
Production Designer at Pixar Animation Studio
A Commons Conversation Read more
28 Aug, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
The ghost in the machine is me.
with Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice Read more
17 Mar, 2023
Conference
The Past into the Future: Afrofuturism and Ancient Egypt
with Rita Lucarelli (UC Berkeley), Max Jefferson (UC Berkeley), Ytasha Womack (Chicago), Vorris Nunley (UC Riverside), Darryl Smith (UC Berkeley), John Jennings (UC Riverside), Stanford Carpenter (University of Chicago), Claudia Attimonelli (University of Bari, Italy), Dexter Story (UCLA), Luciana Parisi (Duke University), Abu Qadim Haqq, and more.
Presented by Center of Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) with the support of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS), the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC), and the Italian Institute of Culture, San Francisco. Read more
10 Mar, 2023
Conference
Hydrocolonialism Symposium
Featuring: Katie Anania (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Craig Cohen (UCSF), Mina Girgis (UC Berkeley), Mahmoud Hassan (Fayoum University), Isabel Hofmeyr (New York University), Rita Lucarelli (UC Berkeley), Mercy Mueni (TMWDP), Ibrahim Mwakare (TMWDP), Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley), Xitlaly Olivera (UC Berkeley), Patrick Owuor (York University), Sera Young (Northwestern University) and many more TBA.
Co-presented with the Department of Art Practice, with support from the Haas Scholars Program. Read more
06 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with
Teddy Cruz, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Fonna Forman, Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, Center on Global Justice, University of California San Diego
Co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art Practice, the Arts Research Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies Read more
02 Mar, 2023
Commons Conversations
Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia
with Maggie Jack (Syracuse University, The School of Information)
Presented by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS), and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is co-sponsoring. Read more
30 Jan, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Generative Art and Deep Learning AI
with Nettrice Gaskins
Digital artist, academic, and cultural critic
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Jacobs Institute for Design, and Media Studies Read more
07 Nov, 2022
History & Theory
Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
with Gillian Rose
Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media Studies Read more
31 Oct, 2022
History & Theory
Digital Platforms and Ancient African Knowledge Systems: Triumphs and Vulnerabilities
with Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the American Indian Graduate Program, the Arts Research Center, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the School of Information, Media Studies, Native American Studies, and the Center for Race and Gender Read more
17 Oct, 2022
History & Theory
A Minor Cybernetic Hypothesis
Kelli Moore
Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University
Co-sponsored by Media Studies and the Department of Rhetoric Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Special Events
Author Meets Critics: “Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy”
with Darieck Scott
Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley
Moderated by Greg Niemeyer, Professor of Media Innovation, and Toban Fellow, Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix and the Department of African American Studies Read more
29 Sep, 2022
Special Events
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 Studies Read more
12 Sep, 2022
Commons Conversations
Body Language: Sick and Disabled Crazy Femmes in Conversation
with Ra Malika Imhotep
Black feminist writer, performance artist, and scholar
and Caleb Luna
Artist and public scholar
Moderated by Miyuki Baker
with an introduction from BCNM's Director Gail De Kosnik
Co-presented with the Color of New Media Working Group and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Department of English, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Read more
29 Aug, 2022
History & Theory
Pua Case
Kumu Hula, teacher, and aloha ʻāina protector
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the American Indian Graduate Program, Arts Research Center, the Department of Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and Native American Studies Read more
14 Apr, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook
with Seitu Jones
Artist, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Presented in partnership the Department of Art Practice and co-sponsored by American Cultures. Read more
14 Apr, 2022
Special Events
BAMPFA Indigenous Film Series Events: Films by New Red Order
Adam Khalil in Person
Presented by BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. Co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures
with Adam and Zack Khalil
Filmmakers
This event is the first in a two-part series, presented with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) as part of the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium and the Indigenous Technologies Initiative. Read more
16 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Symposium on The Media Crease
with André Brock, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Georgia Tech
and Karen Tongson, Professor of English, Gender & Sexuality studies, and American Studies & Ethnicity, and Chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California
Presented in partnership with the Color of New Media Working Group. 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
07 Mar, 2022
Special Events
Asian Americans in Hollywood: Breaking Through with Lasting Impact in the Industry
with Daniel Wu, Melvin Mar, Jason Lin, and Gail De Kosnik
Co-sponsored by Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. The first in a two part series on Asian Americans and AAPI in the media and entertainment industry. The event will be free of charge and open to the public, but will encourage attendees to make donations to the new Scholarship for AAPI and Media & Entertainment Creatives. Read more
14 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversations
with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Read more
07 Feb, 2022
History & Theory
Tequiologies: Indigenous Solutions Against Climate Catastrophe
with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Linguist, writer, translator, language rights activist and researcher ayuujk (mixe)
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Alianza UCMX, Spanish & Portuguese, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
08 Nov, 2021
Commons Conversations
Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine
with Liat Berdugo
Artist and Writer, Associate Professor, The University of San Francisco Read more
25 Oct, 2021
History & Theory
Beyond Settler Sex and Family: Kim TallBear in Conversation
with Kim TallBear
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
In conversation with Marcelo Garzo Montalvo
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, San Marcos
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, American Cultures, Anthropology, The Program in Critical Theory, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
25 Oct, 2021
Commons Conversations
with Eric Rodenbeck
Founder, Stamen Design
Moderated by Eric Paulos
Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) Read more
04 Oct, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
Colonial Practices and Cultural Repression by the Municipality against the Community Museum of the Valle de Xico but “It is our 25th anniversary and we are still here.”
with Maria Thereza Alves
Artist
Moderated by Edgar Fabián Frias
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, the Center for Race and Gender, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program.
Read more
01 Oct, 2021
Workshops
Bread Symphony Workshop with Katya Rozanova, Emily Saltz, Ashley Lewis, and Max Horwich Read more
30 Sep, 2021
Special Events
Event with Edgar Fabián Frías and short film screenings Read more
29 Sep, 2021
Special Events
Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more
28 Sep, 2021
Special Events
The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. 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
22 Apr, 2021
History & Theory
with Elizabeth LaPensée
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice.
Image credit: Elizabeth LaPensée Read more
05 Apr, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Artist, Dubai
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Arts Research Center, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
18 Mar, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Panel
with Jennifer Holt, Brewster Kahle, Alexander Dent, and Keller Easterling Read more
11 Mar, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy: Fandom & Race Panel
with andré carrington, Racquel Gates, Alfred Martin, and Rukmini Pande Read more
04 Mar, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction”
with Kavita Philip
The President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at the University of British Columbia and a Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures Read more
01 Mar, 2021
History & Theory
A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies
with Margo Robbins
Co-founder and President of the Cultural Fire Management Council
and Valentin Lopez
Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Presented in partnership with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays.
Read more
25 Feb, 2021
Conference
Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “How should we theorize injury in fan studies?”
with Rebecca Wanzo
Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Washington University in St. Louis Read more
03 Feb, 2021
History & Theory
Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action
with Marisa Duarte
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the School of Information, American Cultures, and the Center for Race and Gender. Read more
16 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations
Blockchain Chicken Farm and Grass Mud Horses
with Xiaowei Wang
Writer and artist; author of Blockchain Chicken Farm
& An Xiao Mina
Writer and artist; author of From Memes to Movements Read more
07 Nov, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL
with Lawrence Lek
Artist, Filmmaker and Musician
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
05 Nov, 2020
History & Theory
World Re-Building: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures
with Skawennati
Artist & Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Image credit: Skawennati, "Renewal" 2016 Read more
25 Oct, 2020
Special Events
Crisis and Creativity: Virtual Artists in Residence at UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative
With Mithu Sen
Performs conceptual and interactive multi-format byproducts which include drawing, poetry, moving images, sculptures, installations, sound
And Brendan Fernandes
Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Commons Conversations
Cultural Heritage & Cultural Consumption
with Gu Jiang
National Center for Industry Research
Nanjing University Read more
21 Sep, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire??
with Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
15 Sep, 2020
Special Events
SweetWire by Greg Niemeyer Live
with Greg Niemeyer
Read more
10 Sep, 2020
History & Theory
A Conversation with the Sogorea Te' Land Trust
with Corrina Gould
Lisjan Ohlone leader and co-founder of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust
moderated by Marcelo Garzo Montalvo Read more
13 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
ONLINE: Neural Abstractions
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Tom White
Artist and Researcher
Victoria University of Wellington School of Design
Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire.
Read more
06 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years
with William Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
12 Mar, 2020
History & Theory
ONLINE: Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Francesca Coppa, co-founder Organization for Transformative Works
and Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson, co-founders Transformative Works & Cultures
Co-sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the School of Information, the D-Lab, UC Berkeley Libraries, and the Department of Film & Media Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Special Events
with James Hodge
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media as part of the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar
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 Literature Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
with Amy LaViers
Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
04 Nov, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Leonel Moura
Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies
with Marisa Morán Jahn
Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Robots Are Creatures, Not Things
with Madeline Gannon
Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
29 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Adam Savage
Mythbusters, CA
a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with
Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Special Events
Sarah Winchester and the Origins of Silicon Valley
with Homay King
Bryn Mawr College
Presented by the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media. 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
18 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
with Morehshin Allahyari
Artist, New York
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University Read more
18 Mar, 2019
Commons Conversations
Video Games Have Always Been Queer
with Bonnie Ruberg
University of California, Irvine Read more
04 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
with Nnedi Okorafor
Artist, Olympia Fields, IL
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
In and out of the Body and into the Machine
with Chico MacMurtrie
Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
News of the Future and the Future of News
with Kevin Delaney
Editor, Quartz
In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
08 Feb, 2019
Special Events
HIGH/LOW: Taste, Quality, and Resolution
Film & Media Graduate Student Conference
February 8-9, 2019 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
19 Nov, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech
Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
with Kim Stanley Robinson
Author, Davis, CA
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One
Read more
15 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kerry Tribe
Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Networked Avant-garde
with Kelani Nichole
Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Roxane Gay
Author, Indiana Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Special Events
BCNM Fall 2018 Open House
Join the BCNM for our annual open house, filled with art, demonstrations, and new media programs from across campus! Read more
27 Apr, 2018
Special Events
Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Medium/Environment
Berkeley Film & Media’s 4th biennial conference seeks to bring together leading international media theorists working on questions of “environmental media” broadly conceived Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
new art, flag art, good art, portal art
with Ian Cheng
Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and as part of the Arts + Design Monday Nights at BAMPFA program. Read more
05 Mar, 2018
Special Events
Brotherhood is Powerful: The Pornography and Video Art of Norman Yonemoto
with Nguyen Tan Hoang
Associate Professor, UCSD
Co-sponsored with the Department of Ethnic Studies, Performance Studies Graduate Group, the Department of Film & Media Read more
01 Mar, 2018
History & Theory
with Warren Sack
Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz Read more
23 Oct, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Socially Engaged Internet-Art: Aesthetics of Information Ethics
with Paolo Cirio
Artist, NY
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art Practice 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
12 Oct, 2017
History & Theory
Datasense: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience
with Natasha Schull
Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU
Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society
Read more
25 Sep, 2017
Special Events
Tool Talk — Mario Krell, "Field Studies with Multimedia Big Data"
Learn about a new tool that allows researchers to leverage large user generated data, such as Flickr, without being experts in data processing. Read more
02 May, 2017
Workshops
Scalar for Multimedia Digital Projects
Hosted by Stacy Reardon and developed by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, Scalar is a web platform for multimedia digital projects and academic texts. Read more
19 Apr, 2017
Special Events
Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism
17 Apr, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Ashley Hunt
co-director of the California Institute of the Arts' Photography and Media Program Read more
04 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe
with Jan De Vos
Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (BE) 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
15 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Wild Robots: Bodies & Signs
with Ian Ingram, LA-based artist Read more
03 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Joris Maltha, CatalogTree co-founder Read more
01 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
with Adam Greenfield, information architect and designer Read more
13 Feb, 2017
Commons Conversations
with Geoff Manaugh, NYT best-selling author Read more
17 Jan, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Collecting the Uncollectible
with art collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich in conversation with Larry Rinder, BAMPFA Director Read more
08 Dec, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Designing Spatiality for New Media Art
with Andrew and Deborah Rappaport,
founders of the Minnesota Street Project Read more
28 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor Read more
13 Nov, 2016
History & Theory
Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes
with Virginia Kuhn,
Associate Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC Read more
10 Nov, 2016
Special Events
Sex, Lies, and Data Mining
with Luke DuBois, co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data Read more
03 Nov, 2016
Special Events
Books in Browsers VII—Telling Small Stories
Don't let yourself or any book lover you know miss this summit in San Francisco, CA at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts! Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual.
Tom Sachs
Sculptor, NY
In partnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Art Practice Department Read more
14 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
A continuation of the Symposium, sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
13 Oct, 2016
History & Theory
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
with Paul Edwards
Sponsored by the Townsend Center, the Dean of Humanities, the Berkeley Center for New Media, and the Department of Rhetoric. Read more
29 Sep, 2016
History & Theory
A Workshop on Network Analysis for Film & Media
with Miriam Posner Read more
07 May, 2016
Special Events
"Souvenir" is a multimedia performance inspired by the Aimee Suzara's work Read more
03 Mar, 2016
Special Events
A conversation with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason & Brewster Kahle Read more
02 Mar, 2016
Special Events
with Brewster Kahle
The Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive brings an insightful lecture to BCNM, as part of the Regents Lecture Series. Read more
01 Mar, 2016
Special Events
Locking the Web Open: A Call for a New, Distributed Web
with Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Read more
22 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
with Hito Steyerl, renowned German artist Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process
with Adrien Segal
Oakland-based sculptural data artist and designer Read more
02 Nov, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies
with Julian Oliver, a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin Read more
28 Oct, 2015
Special Events
Manufacturing Transparency Conference
An exciting, interdisciplinary symposium on secrecy, publicity, and authenticity Read more
17 Oct, 2015
Workshops
2015 Queerness and Games Conference
QGCon is now in its second year of celebrating LGBT identities in gaming. Free to public. Read more
15 Oct, 2015
Special Events
Precarious Aesthetics Conference
Join us as we interrogate the historical, theoretical, and philosophical implications of precarious aesthetics Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Special Events
Non-existent at 82° 30′ N 108° 22′ W: Mirages, Digital Maps, and the Historical Problem of Location
In this time of hyper-locatability via digital maps, what kinds of places and things might still remain lost? Read more
28 Sep, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air
with Vito Acconci, American designer, architect, performance and installation artist Read more
31 Jul, 2015
Special Events
Books in Browsers Request for Proposals Deadline
The succesful conference is back for its sixth year. And it wants your submissions! Read more
15 Jun, 2015
Special Events
The Queerness and Games Conference, hosted here at UC Berkeley, wants to know your thoughts on gaming and inclusivity, and more Read more
01 May, 2015
Special Events
Precarious Aesthetics Conference Call for Papers Deadline
Deadline May 1, 2015 Read more
13 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat
with Jesse Drew, UC Davis Professor, and Glenda Drew, artist and designer Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
with Jose Carlos Martinat, artist, and Enrique Mayorga, researcher Read more
02 Apr, 2015
History & Theory
A lecture on "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music"
by Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern Professor Read more
09 Mar, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments
by Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic composer Read more
26 Feb, 2015
History & Theory
by Chris Goto-Jones, Leiden University Read more
23 Feb, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
19 Feb, 2015
History & Theory
An HTNM lecture by Elizabeth Freeman, UCD Professor Read more
26 Jan, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
What Is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Art Degrees?
An ATC lecture by Caroline Woolard Read more
19 Nov, 2014
Special Events
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Join us for a night of art and conversation around innovative ways to tackle climate change Read more
17 Nov, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial
An ATC lecture by Rick Lowe Read more
13 Nov, 2014
History & Theory
Cold War Multimedia: The Democratic Surround
An HTNM lecture by Fred Turner, Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University Read more
03 Nov, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Creative Interventions and Social Activation
A lecture by Cheryl Haines on her collaboration with Ai Weiwei, at the David Brower Center Read more
25 Oct, 2014
Special Events
QGCon: The Queerness and Games Conference
Mark your calendars for thisconference, here again at UC Berkeley! Read more
22 Oct, 2014
Special Events
Image as Location Conference
When man-made images are the evidence of our environment and existence, how is our perception of the world shaped? Read more
04 Oct, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing
A lecture by Brett Cook, Read more
02 Oct, 2014
History & Theory
A lecture by Jennifer Holt (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB) this October, held at Stephens Hall Read more
29 Sep, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
This not-to-be-missed lecture by renowned American architect, Maya Lin Read more
08 Sep, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
The Death Throes of the Desert God
An ATC lecture by John Perry Barlow, cattle rancher and Grateful Dead songwriter Read more
09 May, 2014
Special Events
@Berkeley: #MyFirstMOOC Screening
Register for John Scott's (DE) screening here Read more
06 May, 2014
Special Events
Mobile App Challenge Demo Day
Sponsored by CITRUS, a semester-long competition for students! Read more
10 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Student Research Presentations and New DE Welcome
Cutting edge research happening here at BCNM! Join us in celebration of these amazing grad students. Read more
06 Mar, 2014
Special Events
We invite you to this symposium of discussions on privacy protections, surveillance methods, and resistance in our digital world Read more
21 Nov, 2013
Special Events
Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson
Presented by The Arts Research Center Read more
26 Oct, 2013
Special Events
The Queerness and Games Conference
Gear up for another fantastic schedule at the Queerness and Games Conference, hosted here at UC Berkeley Read more
22 Jan, 2013
Special Events
"Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only," Video Art Exhibition
View new work by Jason Fritz at the BCNM Commons! Read more
10 Dec, 2012
Special Events
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest
A panel of leading video activists, filmmakers, + technology developers on the implications for human rights investigations, advocacy campaigns, and social justice Read more
04 Dec, 2012
Workshops
Fantasy in Videogames and Cinema: The Ludic Body in Media Convergence
Christopher Goetz on fantasies shared between videogames and cinema, starting with The Matrix Read more
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
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
14 Nov, 2012
New Media Graduate Student Presentations
Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here Read more
16 Oct, 2012
Workshops
New Media Working Group: Henry Witecki, Visual Artist, Oakland
Witecki, interdisciplinary artist and writer, will present his recent body of composite images, animations, and projections Read more
01 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Tweeting Your Way to the White House: Social Media and the 2012 Campaign
Do new technologies help us talk across party lines, or do they contribute to more polarization? A panel of a professor, company founder, and president of a social media company discuss. Read more
02 May, 2012
Artist Talk at the BiD Lab with Walter Kim
Lunch and conversation with Walter Kim, artist and engineer based in San Francisco Read more
16 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Media Bichos and other Displays for Engaging People to Watch Videos in the Museum
with Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art in New York Read more
23 Jan, 2012
Special Events
Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy
with Howard Rheingold, independent scholar at Stanford's Department of Communication Read more
05 Dec, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Heaven Can Wait: The Revolving Restaurant as Hypercinema
Bull.Miletic: Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic, recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's "Video Maker Award" Read more
21 Nov, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape
with Marc Horowitz, interdisciplinary artist. A part of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
03 Nov, 2011
History & Theory
A History and Theory of New Media lecture by Henry Jenkins (USC) Read more
31 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Present Continuous Past(s): The Centre Pompidou New Media Collection
with Christine Van Assche, Chief Curator and Curator of New Media at the Centre Georges Pompidou Read more
21 Sep, 2011
Special Events
Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Video Voyages
An evening at the BCNM Commons Read more
07 Sep, 2011
Special Events
Desirée Holman in Conversation with Sherry Turkle
artist Holman and MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self at MIT Turkle Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Advancing the New Machine, Human Rights and Technology Conference
A symposium for anyone interested in uniting the tech-world and the human rights community Read more
30 Mar, 2011
Special Events
New Media Research Roundtable: On Common Ground, Paula Levine
Led by Paula Levine, artist and researcher whose experimental videos have shown in screenings in New York's Lincoln Centre Read more
28 Mar, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Sophie Calle, Artist Presentation with Q&A
Hosted at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Arrive early to claim your seat! Read more
24 Feb, 2011
Special Events
World Craft, Business and Culture of Gaming in East Asia
07 Feb, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Surfaces of Constant Simultaneity
Jose Alvarez on his own personal journey of investigation into the realms of consciousness, mysticism, spirituality Read more
03 Feb, 2011
Special Events
Immersed in Mediated Spaces – Playful Immersion and the Quest for Immediacy in Video Games
A lecture by Carl Therrien (Stanford) Read more
17 Nov, 2010
Special Events
Artist Lecture: Nao Bustamante
Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing Read more
11 Oct, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
Art and the Utopian Imaginary
with Mark Tribe, artist and occasional curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics Read more
26 Aug, 2024
BCNM Turns 20! Announcing our 2024-25 Public Events
BCNM is turning 20 this year! Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers and events to celebrate! Read more
26 Aug, 2024
Announcing the 2024-25 Indigenous Technologies Season
We are excited to announce the 2024-2025 season of our Indigenous Technologies lecture series, featuring Laura Harjo and Mariaelena Huambachano Read more
26 Aug, 2024
Announcing the 2024-25 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2024-25 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Laura Harjo, Mariaelena Huambachano, danah boyd, and more! Read more
26 Aug, 2024
Announcing the 2024-25 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2024-25 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Trevor Paglen, Alex Saum-Pascual, Damien McDuffie, and more! Read more
24 Jul, 2024
Abigail De Kosnik on Kamala Harris Fandom
Abigail De Kosnik talks about Kamala Harris' presidential campaign and pop and meme culture. Read more
15 Jun, 2024
Conference Grant Reports: Sophia Perez at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Sophia Perez presented “Island Time" at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Read more
09 Jun, 2024
Conference Grant Reports: Meg Everett at the American Educational Research Association
Meg Everett presented “Centering Student Experiences with TikTok in a Critical Media Literacy Course." Read more
20 May, 2024
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
13 May, 2024
Video now online! Lauren Klein's Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements
Missed the talk with Lauren Klein? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
05 May, 2024
Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients
We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more
18 Apr, 2024
Alum Xiaowei Wang Interviews ATC Speaker Jen Liu
A video installation that gleans new meanings from endings, writes Xiaowei Wang for Bomb magazine. Read more
15 Apr, 2024
Video now online! Sylvain Parasie's Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
Missed the talk with Sylvain Parasie? The video is now uploaded to YouTube! Read more
08 Apr, 2024
Video now online! Vincente Perez and Clarkisha Kent's Book Forms as New Media
Missed the talk with Vincente Perez and Clarkisha Kent? A recording of their conversation has now been uploaded to YouTube.
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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
04 Apr, 2024
BCNM Around the Web Spring 24
Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more
21 Mar, 2024
Video now online! Paloma Duong's Mediascapes of Postsocialism: Cuban New Media Cultures After the End of History
Missed the talk with Paloma Duong? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
21 Mar, 2024
Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Conference Grant Recipients
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
04 Mar, 2024
Video now online! Christina Leza and Trevor Reed's Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics
Missed the talk with Christina Leza and Trevor Reed? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
24 Feb, 2024
This robot sews up a wound with six stitches all by itself. Read more
24 Feb, 2024
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more
23 Feb, 2024
Alum Trevor Paglen Featured in El País
From secret CIA prisons to the images that train AI, this article shares how Trevor Paglen looks where we cannot see. Read more
21 Feb, 2024
Alex Saum-Pascual in Conversation with Mercedes Bunz and Joan Fontcuberta
Mercedes Bunz, researcher in the fields of digital culture, and the photographer Joan Fontcuberta spoke with BCNM faculty member Alex Saum-Pascual about artificial intelligence and artistic creation. Read more
15 Feb, 2024
Video now online! Raven Chacon's What Gets Amplifed
Missed the talk with Raven Chacon, 2023 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
09 Feb, 2024
Video now online! Tim Evatt's Designing for Animation
Missed the Commons Conversation with Tim Evatt, Production Designer at Pixar Animation Studio? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube! Watch below as Tim Evatt discusses his passion for studying visual structure in film and how to start a portfolio for animation.
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29 Jan, 2024
danah boyd on Data Impact
What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? 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
17 Jan, 2024
Summer Research Reports: Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter
We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more
15 Jan, 2024
Why we don't have robot butlers yet
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20 Dec, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual on L&S in the Age of AI
Alex spoke about AI and Research Innovation Across Disciplines! Read more
13 Dec, 2023
Interview with Edgar Fabián Frías in Bold Journey
Edgar talks art and their journey to reach their current practice. Read more
29 Nov, 2023
Apply for the 2024 AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more
27 Nov, 2023
Video now online! Jen Liu's The ghost in the machine is me.
Missed the talk with Jen Liu about her multifaceted GHOST_WORLD project, which proposes an intrinsically paradoxical task: to represent electronics workers through the digital imaging technologies that are designed to erase them, bridging the distance between labor and consumer through location-based AR? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
27 Nov, 2023
Video now online! Jesse Colin Jackson Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later)
Missed the discussion with Jesse Colin Jackson exploring the architectures we construct—from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds—through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
05 Nov, 2023
The Digital is a Ruin: Digital Space, Geography and the End of the World
Emma Fraser speaks on November 8th at the Geography colloquium. 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
18 Oct, 2023
Emma Fraser's 'Video Games and Playful Media' Class Explores the Past and Future of Gaming.
Image Jami Smith/UC Berkeley Library. Read more
05 Oct, 2023
World Building for Immersive Storytelling
Interview with Alex McDowell RDI Read more
15 Sep, 2023
Valencia James at Murphy & Cadogan Exhibition
Valencia James will be presenting a new iteration of their art installation, Landship Valiant Star at SomArts Gallery in San Francisco. Read more
13 Sep, 2023
Gloria Emeagwali Video & Transcript Now Online
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28 Aug, 2023
How the Art World is Embracing AI
Alum Trevor Paglen features in new video published by cheddar news. 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
10 Aug, 2023
Rita Kuleva Video and Transcript Now Online
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10 Aug, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Jen Liu, Jesse Colin Jackson, Valeria Luiselli, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Paloma Duong, Erik Davis, Lauren Klein, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Indigenous Technologies Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our Indigenous Technologies lecture series, featuring Raven Chacon, Christina Leza, Trevor Reed, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies lecture series, featuring Eduardo Costa, Martina Broner, micha cárdenas, and more! Read more
25 Jul, 2023
The Future of Digital Space by Emma Fraser
The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal thinking. Read more
19 Jul, 2023
Alum Bo Ruberg Promoted to Full Professor
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17 Jul, 2023
Hannah Zeavin Talks #OverwhelmedMom
Hannah Zeavin joins Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Sophie Hamacher and Rea McNamara to discuss the intersection of parenting and technology. Read more
10 Jul, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual & Shannon Jackson Named 2023 Townsend Fellows
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities has encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostered innovative research, and promoted intellectual conversation across academic fields. Read more
28 Jun, 2023
Edgar Fabián Frías on the Salesforce Tower
For the entire month of June, alum Edgar Fabián Frías' art, "Hechizo Tuutú," was featured on the Salesforce tower! Read more
07 Jun, 2023
Real Life in Real Time Co-Edited by Bo Ruberg
Published by MIT Press, this new volume explores the cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. 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
11 May, 2023
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman Video & Transcript Now Online!
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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
18 Apr, 2023
Chris Goetz Publishes The Counterfeit Coin
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18 Apr, 2023
Celeste Kidd at BCCD Video
Check out the video of Celeste Kidd on truth, lies and misinformation during cognitive development. Read more
18 Apr, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Untitled (atomic) form 2
Alex published her latest work in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Read more
15 Apr, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more
12 Apr, 2023
Osman Khan Video & Transcript Now Online!
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05 Apr, 2023
Profile of Alum Edgar Fabian Frias in Voyage LA
Check out this new interview with alum Edgar Fabián Frías in VoyageLA! Read more
03 Apr, 2023
BCNM Around the Web April 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this April! Read more
30 Mar, 2023
Ken Goldberg on The Next Billion Cars
Ken Goldberg joins host Mark Pesce to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Read more
29 Mar, 2023
Kris Paulsen Co-Edits Media N
With Brian Michael Murphy, alum Kris Paulsen co-edits a special issue of Media N on Afterlives of Data. Read more
20 Mar, 2023
Tracing the Roots of Computer Graphics: A Conversation With Jacob Gaboury
Jacob Gaboury, the author of “Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics” and 2022 Computer History Museum Book Prize winner, delves into the forgotten past of computer-generated images and their impact on our present and future. Read more
16 Mar, 2023
Nettrice Gaskins Video & Transcript Now Online
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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
27 Feb, 2023
Rachel Chen to Join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Doctoral student in specical education and new media Rachel Chen to join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Read more
19 Jan, 2023
Asian Americans in Hollywood Video and Transcript Now Online
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18 Jan, 2023
Jill Miller Presents Future Perfect
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17 Jan, 2023
Ra Malika Imhotep, and Caleb Luna, “Body Language Sick and Disabled Crazy Femmes in Conversation”
Artists Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb explore the beauty that lives within them through embodied study and research as well as everyday practices of solidarity and collective liberation Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Gillian Rose Video & Transcript Now Online
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06 Jan, 2023
Andrea Horbinski at CasaCon22
Andrea Horbinski presented at CasaCon22 this past December. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Kidd Lab at Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023
Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more
30 Dec, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
22 Dec, 2022
Fall 2022 Events in Review
Thank you so much for joining us for another semester of BCNM events! We've collected our event transcripts and videos so you can tune in to amazing lectures from Pua Case, BCNM alumni Ra Malika Imhotep and Caleb Luna, Visiting Scholar Gillian Rose, and more. Read more
19 Dec, 2022
Kelli Moore Transcript and Video Now Online
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16 Dec, 2022
Yasnaya Aguilar Gil Video & Transcript Now Online
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05 Dec, 2022
Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
27 Nov, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort
Valencia James: AI_am 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
14 Nov, 2022
Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2022
Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more
31 Oct, 2022
Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Ken Ueno
Check out the video and transcript from this incredible conversation. Read more
26 Oct, 2022
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías Co-curates TheyFriend
THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Playing with "Real Women"
Our alum Bo Ruberg offers "A Sexual Prehistory of Realism in Video Games" on ROMchip, a journal of game histories. Read more
20 Oct, 2022
Pua Case Transcript and Video Now Online
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19 Oct, 2022
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Lashon Daley Starts a Book Vlog
BCNM alumni Lashon Daley's first vlog is up! Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Image caption: Video still of Bruno Latour lecturing at UC Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2005 Read more
11 Oct, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías Starts Mutant Musings
Alum Edgar Fabián Frías launches a new channel and discusses cryptoart and censorship. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
New Media Experimental Art Studio
Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023! Read more
06 Oct, 2022
Apply for the AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
We are thrilled to launch the inaugural UC Berkeley Center for New Media AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship. Applications are due March 1, 2023. Read more
05 Oct, 2022
A great new course being offered by Emma Fraser this Spring 2023! Read more
16 Sep, 2022
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling
Alum Bo Ruberg's article is featured in Sexualities. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Summer Research Report: Irma Barbosa
Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more
01 Sep, 2022
BCNM Around the Web September
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this September! 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
11 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg's Knot Untying Robots Featured in New Scientist
Matthew Sparkes features the work from Ken Goldberg's lab in "Robot unties knotted cables but can't pick them up off the floor" for the New Scientist. Read more
06 Aug, 2022
I'm Baby: Digital Reproduction in the Metavese
Hannah Zeavin has a new article out in The Baffler. Read more
05 Aug, 2022
Reginold Royston at Ghana as Crossroads 2022
Alum Reginold Royston presented Digital Diaspora / Digital Ambivalence. Read more
04 Aug, 2022
BCNM Around the Web July 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
27 Jul, 2022
Jane McGonigal Talks Future Thinking with Gwyneth Paltrow
She features on Gwyneth Paltrow's podcast The Goop. Read more
22 Jul, 2022
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
20 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for our ATC Lecture Series! Featuring Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman, and artsits Nettrice Gaskins and Osman Khan. Read more
18 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg and team won a Best Systems Paper Award for "Autonomously Untangling Long Cables" at Robotics Science and Systems 2022. Read more
17 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg at WAFR 2022
The 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics was held on June 22-24, 2022. Read more
13 Jul, 2022
Seitu Jones Transcript & Video Now Online
Revisit this great event with Seitu Jones on "George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook" Read more
12 Jul, 2022
Adam and Zack Khalil Transcript & Video Now Online
Revisit this great event with Adam and Zack Khalil on "Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures.” Read more
10 Jul, 2022
#BlackGamersMatter: Gaming and the Black Imaginary
Dr. Grace Gipson speaks on Black gamers as part of Temple University's series on Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism. 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
24 Jun, 2022
Liat Berdugo Transcript Now Online
Revisit this great event with Liat Berdugo on "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine." 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
22 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature Reviewed in the Journal of Environmental Media
Read the review by Kara Stone of "Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games" Read more
19 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on Ecology & Technology
Watch Alenda Chang present at Penn State on ecology and technology! Read more
15 Jun, 2022
Grace Gipson on Respectability Politics
Twitter was on fire after #theslap incident and alum Grace Gipson analyzes some of what's going on. Read more
14 Jun, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías at TheyFriend
Edgar Fabián Frías was featured in the 2021 TheyFriend Nonbinary performance festival and you can see their work online! Read more
12 Jun, 2022
Alenda Chang on the Damaged Planet
BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
09 Jun, 2022
Clancy Wilmott Awarded 2022 PBK Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to Clancy Wilmott on being a warded a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award for the branch of Northern California! Read more
03 Jun, 2022
Malika Imhotep Discusses gossypin
Ra Malika Imhotep joins Lost City Books to discuss her new collection, gossypin. Read more
03 Jun, 2022
Commons Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Wendy Chun
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21 May, 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
17 May, 2022
Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Graduates
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías Read more
17 May, 2022
Affect & Algorithm with Hannah Zeavin
Hannah discussed Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Read more
14 May, 2022
The Illusion of Digital Democracy with Jen Schradie
In this short teaser for her book, The Revolution That Wasn't, Jen Schradie asks whether the internet is conservative. Read more
29 Apr, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías Performs in HI, Solo #11
HI, SOLO is a bi-annual performance series conceived by Alexx Shilling and Devika Wickremesinghe. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Conference Grant Reports: Elisa Giardina Papa at the Venice Biennale
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28 Apr, 2022
The Queer Posthumanism of Video Games that cannot be Played
Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world. Read more
28 Apr, 2022
Lina Matine on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Lina Matine worked with Harry Burson on his research into the development of “Ambisonics". Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Mary Smith Reviews the Queer Games Avant-Garde
Bonnie Ruberg's The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games is reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly. Read more
21 Apr, 2022
Bo Ruberg on Hot Tub Streaming
Bo Ruberg discusses Hot Tub streaming and what it brings to erotic lesiure culture. Read more
20 Apr, 2022
Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou on Diversity on Streaming Platforms in Pandemic Times
Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou present diversity Scores for films and television series on major streaming platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Read more
20 Apr, 2022
Eric Paulos on Plastic Dynamism
Eric Paulos speaks on the creative process of not only making but also unmaking. Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Seed Grant Report: Jill Miller and My Mother's Titanium Hip
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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!
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13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Andrea Gagliano on Data Science and Design
Andrea Gagliano is featured in the first MLUX Seattle meetup. Read more
05 Apr, 2022
Digital Intimacy in Real Time
Bo Ruberg published on Live Streaming Gender and Sexuality in Television & New Media.
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01 Apr, 2022
Therapy With a Human Face by Hannah Zeavin
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Read more
01 Apr, 2022
The Wall Street Journal Reviews Imaginable
Emily Bobrow writes "Jane McGonigal Believes Games Can Change the World" for the WSJ. Read more
31 Mar, 2022
Bo Ruberg on Queer Gaming Practices on Arebyte
Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
24 Mar, 2022
Bo Ruberg in Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play
Alum Bo Ruberg joins Christopher Patterson, Aaron Trammell, and Kishonna Gray to discuss the diverse and not always harmless ways that pleasure moves us in and through play. Read more
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
22 Mar, 2022
Bo Ruberg in Conversation on Queer Gaming
Alum Bo Ruberg chats about queer gaming with designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer. Read more
12 Mar, 2022
Announcing the Spring 2022 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more
11 Mar, 2022
Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg in conversation with Kate Crawford
Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more
11 Mar, 2022
Asian Americans in Hollywood Video Now Online
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02 Mar, 2022
BCNM Around the Web March 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this March! Read more
01 Mar, 2022
Grace Gipson in Black Feminist Futures Series
Grace Gipson was featured in a conversation on the topic of Black Women and Theories of the Future! Read more
28 Feb, 2022
Hannah Zeavin at Town Hall Seattle
Hannah Zeavin discusses her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy with Town Hall Seattle. Read more
25 Feb, 2022
Grace Gipson on Hollywood's History of Portraying African Americans
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24 Feb, 2022
Commons Conversation Video Now Online: Wendy Chun
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24 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Accelerating quadratic optimization with reinforcement learning
Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more
18 Feb, 2022
HTNM Video Now Online: Yásnaya Aguilar Gil
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16 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2022 Class Fund Recipients
This semester, we were thrilled to support our students in digital storytelling. Read more
10 Feb, 2022
Bo Ruberg Publishes the Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis
The article appears in American Literature and argues that the AIDS crisis indicates the "present absence of queerness in video games." Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Beyond Settler Sex and Family: Kim TallBear Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the updated transcript and video for Kim TallBear's “Beyond Settler Sex and Family”. Read more
31 Jan, 2022
Maria Thereza Alves Transcript and Video Now Online
Check out the transcript and video for Maria Thereza Alves' “Colonial Practices And Cultural Repression By The Municipality Against The Community Museum of the Valle De Xico but “It Is Our 25th Anniversary And We Are Still Here.” Read more
26 Jan, 2022
Vincente Perez Reads for Poetry & the Senses
BCNM DE Vincente Perez was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Fall 2021 and read work produced over the semester. Read more
23 Jan, 2022
An Ode to Handwriting by Greg Niemeyer
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22 Jan, 2022
BCNM Around the Web January 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
12 Jan, 2022
Decal Alert: Writing in the Age of the Internet
Interested in the intersection of literature and technology? Take a deep dive into the field of "electronic literature"! Read more
10 Jan, 2022
Common Conversations Event Transcript Now Online: Eric Rodenbeck
We're pleased to share the transcript of our Common Conversations event with founder of Stamen Design Eric Rodenbeck. Read more
06 Jan, 2022
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! 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
02 Jan, 2022
Jacob Gaboury Book Chat at the Townsend Center
Jacob discusses his new book Image Objects (MIT, 2021). Read more
29 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg on The Golem & AI
Ken Goldberg discusses artificial intelligence in relation to the classic film, The Golem. Read more
27 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web December 2021
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more
20 Dec, 2021
Alex Saum-Pascual and the New Poetics at BAMPFA
Watch Alex talk discuss her creative path of subversion in poetry. Read more
15 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabian Frias in UncannySFValley
Edgar's work on Astral Projection appears in Casey Kauffmann’s curated exhibition within NFT Oasis, Everybody’s Doing The Emails. 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
12 Dec, 2021
An Ode to Responsible Data Science
Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! Read more
08 Dec, 2021
Bo Ruberg's Queer Games Avant-Garde Reviewed
Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and 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
07 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Liat Berdugo
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06 Dec, 2021
ATC Video Now Online: Maria Thereza Alves
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05 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in Transcendence
Art by Edgar Fabián Frías. Read more
05 Dec, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Video Games to Play at the End of the World
Bo Ruberg gave the First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference Keynote address on October 21, 2021. Read more
05 Dec, 2021
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Eric Rodenbeck
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04 Dec, 2021
HTNM Video Now Online: Kim Tallbear
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27 Nov, 2021
Alenda Chang on Ecological Crisis and Video Games
Computer games can address ecological concerns. But is a game only ecological if it explicitly deals with environmental issues on the content level? Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Bo Ruberg Promoted to Associate Professor
BCNM alum Bo Ruberg has been promoted to Associate Professor at UC Irvine! Read more
21 Nov, 2021
Asma Kazmi in Suspended Matter
Art by Asma Kazmi Read more
16 Nov, 2021
Conference Grants: Vincente Perez on ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS
Vincente Perez, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipient, presented "ANAGRAMMATICAL (DIGITAL) BLACKNESS: BLACK TWITTER, SIGNIFYIN', AND THE MUNDANE" at the 22nd annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Read more
14 Nov, 2021
Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more
11 Nov, 2021
Hannah Zeavins Has Some Deep Thoughts on Teletherapy
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavins was featured on Thoughts on Record, the podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Read more
25 Oct, 2021
"Trevor Paglen: Vision After Seeing" Opening Reception at the Athenaeum
"Trevor Paglen: Vision After Seeing" Opening Reception at the Athenaeum Read more
23 Oct, 2021
Eric Paulos' Adroid Featured in Spectrum Video RoundUp
Eric Paulos' Adroid features on IEEE Spectrum's "Video Friday: Dusty at Work > Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos". Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Bo Ruberg speaks at AoIR 2021 on the relationship between video games and political participation. Read more
20 Oct, 2021
BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more
18 Oct, 2021
Grace Gipson Making Our Stories Visible
Grace Gipson recently presented a compelling and thorough lecture on Black experiences portrayed in television. 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
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
25 Sep, 2021
BCNM Around the Web September 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
23 Sep, 2021
Jacob Gaboury and Hannah Zeavin presented at the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society 2021 conference! 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
18 Sep, 2021
The Distance Cure: Hannah Zeavin & Fred Turner at Gray Area
BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin chats about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy in a conversation with Professor Fred Turner and Gray Area. Read more
14 Sep, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Media + Environment
BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment. Read more
14 Sep, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías Featured in Frame by Frame
Current MFA Candidate Edgar Fabián Frías was recently published in Frame by Frame, a GIF-based book. Read more
06 Sep, 2021
Summer Research: Erica Deeman, Fast Fashion, & Jamaica
Erica Deeman received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work exploring the cultural heritage of her ancestors and expressing her findings through a video performance. Read more
04 Sep, 2021
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2021
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more
04 Sep, 2021
Lyman Report: Lashon Daley
Lashon Daley shares how the support of the Peter Lyman felowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. 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
Summer Research: Rachel Chen on Embodied Platforms for Children on the Autism Spectrum
Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. 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
30 Aug, 2021
Jane McGonigal on Slaying Stress
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
30 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin in Conversation with Grace Lavery at The Strand
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26 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg at ICML 2021
Check out the amazing work from Ken Goldberg and team at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2021! Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías and Rainbow Visions at ESMOA
Edgar Fabián Frías speaks on creative ingenuity and reframing traditional ways of thinking with ESMoA in "Rainbow Visions Prismatic Beings". Read more
21 Aug, 2021
BCNM Around the Web August 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more
17 Aug, 2021
Summer Research Dispatch: Edgar Fabián Frías and the Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors Project
You can now watch Edgar's conversations with leading artists on Queer, Trans & Gender Variant Ancestors. Plus, look out for billboards near you! Read more
07 Aug, 2021
Hannah Zeavin on Teletherapy at the Psychotherapy Action Network
Hannah Zeavin recently joined two other panelists to discuss the promise and peril of teletherapy in PsiAN Forum Live: "Teletherapy -- Where do we go from here?". Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers and online events! Featuring more events from our Indigenous Technologies Initiative, the artists Lisa Reihana and Maria Thereza Alves, and more. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 History and Theory of New Media Season
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Pablo Paredes on the Invisible Future of Health Monitoring
Pablo Paredes features on Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health's The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring. Read more
27 Jul, 2021
It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021. Read more
25 Jul, 2021
Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more
25 Jul, 2021
Hannah Zeavin Publishes The Distance Cure
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25 Jul, 2021
Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL and IRL Spheres Now Online
BCNM was thrilled to cosponsor this great event from the Center for Race and Gender, now viewable online! 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
22 Jul, 2021
Review of the Queer Games Avant Garde in Journal of Play
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20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Insights Robotics
Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more
06 Jul, 2021
The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more
04 Jul, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Making Players Care
Bo Ruberg & Rainforest Scully-Blaker publish Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games in the International Journal of Cultural Studies! Read more
30 Jun, 2021
Fandom + Piracy: Event Videos and Transcripts Available
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28 Jun, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed on Gamers with Glasses
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed by Gamers with Glasses. Read more
26 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg & the CDL Reading Group on Klara and the Sun
Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more
25 Jun, 2021
Neyran Turan's Venice Biennale Exhibition Featured in the News
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22 Jun, 2021
Playing Nature Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more
19 Jun, 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
12 Jun, 2021
jazmin caldéron torres and between starshine & clay
BCNM alum jazmin caldéron torres's collective, Lead to Life, premiered its newest ritual film, "between starshine & clay" in May! 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
04 Jun, 2021
Alenda Chang on the Ethics of Eating Pokemon
BCNM alum Alenda Chang was recently featured on the Gamers with Glasses podcast where she discussed video games and environmentalism, among other interesting topics. Read more
03 Jun, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Piracy & Capitalism
Check out the transcript for the Piracy & Capitalism Panel! Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Work by Maija Hynninen & Olivia Ting at SF Contemporary Music Until June 23
BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! Read more
26 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Christiane Paul
Check out the updated transcript for Christiane Paul's HTNM lecture, "Online: Art & AI"! Read more
25 May, 2021
BCNM Around the Web May 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more
23 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Fandom & Race
Check out the updated transcript for the Fandom + Race Panel! 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.
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09 May, 2021
Video Now Online: Fandom & Race Panel
Check out the video recording of the Fandom & Race panel! Read more
08 May, 2021
Celeste Kidd on the Ethics of AI
Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies. Read more
08 May, 2021
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more
07 May, 2021
Watch CITRIS Women in Tech Videos Now
Check out the videos of the 5th Annual CITRIS Women in Tech Symposium available online! Read more
07 May, 2021
Fandom & Piracy: Kavita Philip Transcript Now Online
Check out the transcript for Kavita Philip's "Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction"! Read more
05 May, 2021
ATC Transcript and Video Now Online: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Check out the updated transcript for Lawrence Abu Hamndan's "The Sonic Image" Read more
30 Apr, 2021
BCNM at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more
25 Apr, 2021
Watch Alenda Chang Talk on Playing for the Planet
BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series. Read more
24 Apr, 2021
10 Games to Play on Earth Day
Alenda Chang has collaborated on a list of 10 nature-related games to play in honor of Earth Day. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
HTNM Transcript Now Online: Margo Robbins & Valentin Lopez
Check out the updated transcript for Margo Robbins and Valentin Lopez's "A Conversation on Wildfire Ecologies." Read more
21 Apr, 2021
BCNM Mourns the Passing of Beth Bird
Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. Read more
21 Apr, 2021
Video Now Online: Margo Robbins & Valentin Lopez
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20 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Other Intelligence
Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! Read more
17 Apr, 2021
BCNM Around the Web April 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more
15 Apr, 2021
Fandom & Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Video Now Online
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15 Apr, 2021
Fandom & Piracy: Rebecca Wanzo Transcript Now Online
Check out the updated transcript for Rebecca Wanzo's “How should we theorize injury in fan studies?”. Read more
12 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg in WAFR 2020 Proceedings
Ken Goldberg's articles were recently featured in the WAFR 2020 Proceedings. Read more
11 Apr, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Summer Research Fellows
Image by Edgar Fabián Frias. Read more
08 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on the New Wave of Robotic Grasping
UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ken Goldberg recently sat down to talk about the future of robotics through the University of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar Series. Read more
04 Apr, 2021
Announcing the 2020 Eugene Jarvis Recipient
The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more
31 Mar, 2021
Call for Entries: Refamiliarization
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27 Mar, 2021
New Coursera Course on Life After COVID-19 from Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal prepares us for post-pandemic life with her online Coursera course Life After COVID-19. Read more
18 Mar, 2021
Alenda Chang Interview at Serpentine Galleries
Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more
16 Mar, 2021
86 Things Exhibition from Neyran Turan's Nemestudio
Neyran Turan's architectural practice, NEMESTUDIO, will be displaying its "86 Things" exhibition at the University of Arkansas! Read more
15 Mar, 2021
BCNM Around the Web March 2021
Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more
02 Mar, 2021
HTNM Transcript Now Online: Marisa Duarte
Check out the updated transcipt for Marisa Duarte's Indigenous Cyber-relationality: Discerning the Limits and Potential for Connective Action! Read more
02 Mar, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Co-Opting AI & Games
Bo Ruberg was recently featured on a Periscope livestream to discuss Co-Opting AI & Games. Check it out! Read more
25 Feb, 2021
Alenda Chang on Rambunctious Video Games for Do Your Bit
Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. 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
14 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg on Critical Perspectives in Technology
Bo Ruberg is a guest on the sixth episode of public lecture series "Critical Perspectives on Technology." Read more
14 Feb, 2021
The Queer Games Avant-Garde Reviewed in Information, Communications, and Society
BCNM alum Bo Ruberg's book The Queer Games Avant-Garde is reviewed in the Information Communication & Society Journal. Read more
13 Feb, 2021
Bo Ruberg Wins Stonewall Book Award
Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more
11 Feb, 2021
Virtual exhibition UUU (Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021) recently opened and features BCNM's Alex Saum-Pascual and Jill Miller! Check it out! Read more
09 Feb, 2021
Jane McGonigal on The Knowledge Project
Jane McGonigal was recently interviewed by The Knowledge Project on her work and beliefs on video games. Read more
08 Feb, 2021
BCNM Around the Web February 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
04 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie on France 24 on Regulating Big Tech
Jen Schradie recently appeared on France 24 to discuss regulating Big Tech companies. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Jane McGonigal on Because Games Matter
Jane McGonigal shares her story and experience on Because Games Matter. Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Alenda Chang on Gamers with Glasses
Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
22 Dec, 2020
Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot
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21 Dec, 2020
BCNM Fall 2020: Events In Review
We’re so thankful to everyone who tuned in for our events this past semester. Keep reading for a round-up of our events and speakers! Read more
10 Dec, 2020
Into Beethoven's Sound Box by Alum Olivia Ting
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09 Dec, 2020
Announcing Our Spring 2021 Spring Class Fund Recipients
This year, we’re thrilled to be able to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more
01 Dec, 2020
Xiaowei Wang interviewed by Severance author Ling Ma in Wired
Xiaowei Wang recently spoke with Ling Ma on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm for Wired. 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
30 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more
28 Nov, 2020
Bo Ruberg in Queer Gaming In Conversation
Bo Ruberg leads a conversation with fellow designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer to talk about queer game design and the thought processes behind it. Read more
25 Nov, 2020
HTNM Indigenous Technologies Event Transcript Now Online: Corrina Gould
We're pleased to share the transcript of our first Indigenous Technologies event with Sogorea Te' Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould. Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI, Automation, and Work in the Age of Anxiety
Ken Golberg describes the role of artificial intelligence and automation technology in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations Video and Transcript Now Online: Blockchain Chicken Farm
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21 Nov, 2020
Bo Ruberg on How LGBTQ Experiences Challenge Dominant Narratives of Independent Games
Bo Ruberg contributes to the first edition of Game Studies textbook Independent Videogames. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Trevor Paglen Teaching at the Alternative Art School
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen has joined the Alternative Art School with Mel Chin, and Janine Antoni. Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual in ICIDS Exhibition
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18 Nov, 2020
Reviews of Trevor Paglen's Bloom and Opposing Geometries
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17 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more
17 Nov, 2020
HTNM Transcript Now Online: Skawennati
Check out the updated transcipt for Skawennati's World ReBuilding: Aboriginal Territories in CyberSpace and the Initiative for Indigenous Future! Read more
14 Nov, 2020
Playing Nature Reviewed in ISLE
Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE. Read more
14 Nov, 2020
ATC: Lawrence Lek Video Now Online
Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Lawrence Lek on The Sinofuturist Trilogy. Read more
13 Nov, 2020
Jill Miller's Holding it Together
Jill Miller features in Palo Alto Art Center's exhibition "Holding it Together" Read more
13 Nov, 2020
ATC Transcript Now Online: Lawrence Lek
Interested in getting the transcript for Lawrence Lek's great talk on "The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL"! We have you covered! Read more
12 Nov, 2020
Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations: Gu Jiang Video Now Online
Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Professor Gu Jiang on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Consumption. Read more
10 Nov, 2020
Commons Conversations: Gu Jiang Transcript Now Online
Interested in getting the transcript for Prof. Gu Jiang's great talk on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Consumption! We have you covered! Read more
04 Nov, 2020
Alex Saum-Pascual at Formación Artistica
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03 Nov, 2020
Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2021
Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020. Read more
01 Nov, 2020
Celeste Kidd on Let's Learn About
Celeste Kidd features on Let's Learn About: How Humans Form Knowledge Read more
31 Oct, 2020
Eric Paulos Receives BCNM Faculty Seed Grant
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20 Oct, 2020
UCI Press Features Bo Ruberg
Bo Ruberg has recently joined colleagues in film and media studies and art history as an associate editor of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Read more
19 Oct, 2020
Hear Bo Ruberg at PlayThink
Bo Ruberg's podcast interview on PlayThink is now available! Read more
19 Oct, 2020
Bo Ruberg on The Gendered Emotional Labor of Video Game Live Streaming
Bo Ruberg's and Amanda Cullen's article has been published on Digital Culture and Society! Read more
15 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more
13 Oct, 2020
Bo Ruberg At the Crossroads Video Online Now
Missed out on Bo Ruberg's amazing talk on their new book "The Queer Game Avant-Garde" for At the Crossroads? Check out the video online now! Read more
07 Oct, 2020
Alenda Chang and Playing Nature Featured in ASLE
Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more
02 Oct, 2020
HTNM Video Now Available: Sogorea Te' Land Trust
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01 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg and Tata Communications on How AI Can Diversify Human Thinking
Ken Goldberg worked on a global study with Tata Communications, looking at the potential impact of AI on human thinking. Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
29 Sep, 2020
Revisited: "Pope L's Notes on the roll of the artist when the world has always been on fire?"
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29 Sep, 2020
Pope.L Video Highlights Now Online
We're thrilled to share some highlights from Pope.L's Wiesenfeld and ATC lecture. Read more
23 Sep, 2020
Seed Grants Recipient: Celeste Kidd and The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition during Belief Formation in the Internet Era
Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more
10 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web September 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! 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
20 Aug, 2020
New Papers from Ken Goldberg at CASE 2020
A stunning seven papers were accepted at CASE 2020 from Ken Goldberg's lab. Read more
18 Aug, 2020
BCNM Around the Web August 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
11 Aug, 2020
Playing Nature Reviewed in Manchester Game Studies Network
Sam Illingworth reviewed alum Alenda's Chang latest book on ecology in video games. Read more
10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 History and Theory of New Media Season
This year, we are thrilled to share that our theme for the 2020-2021 series is Indigenous Technologies. Read more
10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
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06 Aug, 2020
Review of Playing Nature in Digital Culture and Education
Alum Alenda Chang's book is reviewed in Digital Culture and Education Read more
23 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Society, Robots, & Us Panel
Hear Ken Goldberg on a panel discussing intersections between robotics and socio-technical issues. Read more
22 Jul, 2020
Review of Video Games Have Always Been Queer in First Person Scholar
Betsy Brey reviews Bo Ruberg's book in "The Queer Games We Play." 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
18 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Lab Teaches Robots to Sew Sutures
Look forward to robotic surgeon assistants! Read more
17 Jul, 2020
BCNM Around the Web July 2020
Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more
05 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on How Roboticists Can Help with COVID 19
You can now watch all ICRA 2020 plenary keynotes and panels online! Read more
26 Jun, 2020
Ken Goldberg on robotic-assisted healthcare in COVID-19
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24 Jun, 2020
Review of The Queer Games Avant-Garde in Times Higher Education
Alum Bonnie Ruberg's latest book, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, was given a glowing review by Times Higher Education. Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Around the Web June 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more
30 May, 2020
Bo Ruberg Publishes on Biased Definitions Of Sexual Content in Video Game Live Streaming
Bo Ruberg, BCNM alum, publishes article "'Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise, objectionable'; Biased definitions of sexual content in videogame live streaming." Read more
30 May, 2020
Electronic Literature Final Projects
Check out the awesome final projects for Alex Saum-Pascual's Electronic Literature class! Image credit: Sergio Cabada Ortiz, Las abajeñas
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30 May, 2020
Video Games Have Always Been Queer Reviewed in American Journal of Play
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19 May, 2020
Jen Schradie on France 24 on Conspiracy, Lies, and the Coronavirus Infodemic
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15 May, 2020
Poetry from Alex Saum-Pascual in The New River
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14 May, 2020
BCNM Around the Web May 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more
13 May, 2020
Alenda Chang on Advisory Board of Video Games and the Humanities
Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more
12 May, 2020
HTNM Video Now Online: Feminist Open Access Publishing
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30 Apr, 2020
Conference Grants: Bélgica del Rio on The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body
Bélgica del Rio, a Spring 2020 Conference Grant recipient, presented "The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body” at the American Indian and Indigenous Collective’s 6th Annual Symposium. Read more
29 Apr, 2020
Congratulating our 2020 Graduates
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29 Apr, 2020
Trevor Paglen Talks to Kate Crawford at Pace
Trevor Paglen spoke to Kate Crawford at the Pace Gallery about "Art, Politics, and AI in the Time of COVID-19". Read more
25 Apr, 2020
Video of Jen Schradie in Le numérique : amplificateur des inégalités et des extrémismes ?
Watch Jen Schradie speak about digital technologies and their potential threats during a round table discussion at Sciences Po in April 2019. Read more
23 Apr, 2020
C19 Shield - Support their Efforts!
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21 Apr, 2020
Alenda Chang Mentor for Indiecade Climate Jam
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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
20 Apr, 2020
The COVID Cookbook from Jill Miller's AP Class
Jill Miller's UC Berkeley class, Food Fight/Art 160, transitions to remote learning, developing the "COVID Cookbook." Read more
16 Apr, 2020
BCNM Around the Web April 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
12 Apr, 2020
CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! 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
09 Apr, 2020
Alenda Chang on Super Gamer Podcast
Listen to Alenda Chang talk about the environment and the natural world in games on the Super Gamer Podcast! Read more
05 Apr, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Margaret Rhee
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05 Apr, 2020
Video Now Online: Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't
Video now available from BCNM alum Jen Schradie's CITRIS Research Exchange seminar 'The Revolution That Wasn't!' 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
Greg Niemeyer in CalMatters on Online Education
Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley associate Professor, on online education in the midst of COVID-19.
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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
01 Apr, 2020
Alum Bo Ruberg on Empathy and Its Alternatives
BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg published an article in Communication, Culture and Critique. Read more
30 Mar, 2020
Alum Alenda Chang in France Culture
BCNM Alum Alenda Chang's work was featured in the Savoirs section of France Culture. Read more
29 Mar, 2020
Alum Bo Ruberg Publishes The Queer Games Avant-Garde
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17 Mar, 2020
Video Now Online: Visit Day Live
A great video tour of some of the many Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, prototyping, and designcreative spaces at UC Berkeley, now online! Read more
10 Mar, 2020
BCNM Around the Web March 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more
10 Mar, 2020
Alum Trevor Paglen Now Showing at PACE
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen recently joined PACE Gallery. Read more
09 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Rahul Gairola
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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
02 Mar, 2020
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: Ronak Kapadia
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02 Mar, 2020
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature in Foreword Reviews
Foreword Reviews recently featured Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
27 Feb, 2020
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Alum John Scott at Blackboard Ally Tour
Check out all of the episodes from BCNM alum John Scott's 2019 Blackboard Ally Tour! Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Conference Grants: BCNM at the Shenzhen Biennale
Eleni Oikonomaki, Lian Song, Rashad Timmons, and Bryan Truitt were Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipients and attended the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). Read more
27 Feb, 2020
Video Games Have Always Been Queer Reviewed in New Media & Society
BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer was reviewed by Christopher Persaud of New Media & Society. Read more
26 Feb, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Art in the Age of Anxiety
Trevor Paglen's video installation, "Circles," will be showcased in the upcoming "Art in the Age of Anxiety" exhibition. Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Alenda Chang's Playing Nature in Science
Alum Alenda Chang's book Playing Nature was reviewed in Science. 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
18 Feb, 2020
Alum Jane McGonigal’s SuperBetter Featured on BuiltIn
McGonigal's smartphone app on wellness SuperBetter was just featured on BuiltIn. 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
11 Feb, 2020
Bo Ruberg on the Precarious Labor of Queer Indie Game Makers Reprinted in TV & Media
Bo Ruberg was featured in Television and New Media's special issue, "Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor." Read more
10 Feb, 2020
Join Jill Miller & Greg Niemeyer in Mo'orea for ART 160N This Summer
Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! Read more
06 Feb, 2020
DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was featured on WUWF, the NPR channel in Great Northwest Florida. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more
02 Feb, 2020
Jane McGonigal on WAMC on a Better Life Through Gaming
Listen to alum Jane McGonigal discuss creating games that heal. Read more
28 Jan, 2020
Announcing Our 2020 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
17 Jan, 2020
Bo Ruberg in Oxford Bibliographies
Bo Ruberg contributed to an overview on the work in Feminist and Queer Game Studies for Oxford Bibliographies. Read more
13 Jan, 2020
BCNM Around the Web January 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more
12 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Marisa Morán Jahn
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11 Jan, 2020
Trevor Paglen in Being Human
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more
10 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Madeline Gannon
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08 Jan, 2020
Björn Hartmann and Eric Paulos at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium. Read more
02 Jan, 2020
Bo Ruberg on Women's Breasts in Online Streaming
Bo Ruberg published "Nothing But a 'Titty Streamer'" in Critical Studies in Media Communication with Amanda Cullen and Kathryn Brewster. Read more
31 Dec, 2019
Video Games Have Always Been Queer Reviewed in Critical Studies in Media & Communication
Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer was reviewed by Cenk Koknar in Critical Studies in Media & Communication. Read more
27 Dec, 2019
Claudia Von Vacano at EURNLP
Claudia presented her co-authored work on measuring hate speech in big data by unifying deep learning with item response theory. Read more
27 Dec, 2019
Bo Ruberg Keynotes UCIESC 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg keynoted the UC Irvine Esports conference with a presentation on diversity and Esports. Read more
20 Dec, 2019
BCNM Around the Web December 2019
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
18 Dec, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes Playing Nature
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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
04 Dec, 2019
Alum Kirsten Chen Co-Curates Momentum for Franchise
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27 Nov, 2019
Conference Grants: KC Forcier on Reframing Moving Images in the Digital Age
KC Forcier, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented her research on traditions of canvas paintings in digital images at The Picturesque, an annual Film and Media Studies conference. Read more
27 Nov, 2019
Julien Mailland Video Now Available
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06 Nov, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik and Piracy as the Future of Culture
BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik published 'Piracy and the Future of Culture' in the journal Third Text. 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
02 Nov, 2019
#Identity Book Launch Video Now Online
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23 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Morehshin Allahyari
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22 Oct, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie Video on The Big Think
If you've been wondering "Have conservative groups mastered the art of internet activism?", Jen Schradie has the answer! Read more
22 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Nnedi Okorafor
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17 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Rhonda Holberton
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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
16 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Chico MacMurtrie
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15 Oct, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg on GamerGate Culture in The Verge
The article covers a critical issue facing those teaching videogames today. Read more
07 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
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
01 Oct, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen on Inside My Studio
“INSIDE MY STUDIO” WITH TREVOR PAGLEN featured on video series from Cultured Magazine. Read more
22 Sep, 2019
Kris Fallon Publishes Where Truth Lies
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18 Sep, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg's Book Reviewed in Feminist Media Studies
BCNM alum Bo Ruberg's book Video Games Have Always Been Queer reviewed in Feminist Media Studies. Read more
17 Sep, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg Leads Inclusive Streaming Initiative at UCI
We're thrilled to see our alum Bo Ruberg leading the fantastic new Inclusive Streaming Initiative! Read more
14 Sep, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kevin Delaney
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04 Sep, 2019
BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico. Read more
21 Aug, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg and Queerness in Video Games on Team LFG
Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG Read more
19 Aug, 2019
Summer Research Dispatch: KC Forcier on the Computational Loop in Network Culture
KC examined how artworks engage with the looping logic of code, with its potential for ongoing and indefinite temporality, and how this relates to the perception of temporality in networked culture as similarly indeterminate. 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.
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11 Aug, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg at FDG 2019
Ruberg presents "Necklines and ‘Naughty Bits’: Constructing and Regulating Bodies in Live Streaming Community Guidelines." Read more
05 Aug, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang at ASLE 2019
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's Thirteenth Biennial Conference was held at UC Davis in June. Read more
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
Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more
10 Jul, 2019
Bo Ruberg on the Precarious Labor of the Queer Indie Game Maker
Bo's article appeared in a Special Issue of Television & New Media on Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor. Read more
09 Jul, 2019
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more
06 Jul, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg on Video Games Have Always Been Queer at UCLA
A great recap of Bo's visit to UCLA was featured in The Daily Bruin. Read more
25 Jun, 2019
Malika Imhotep at Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo
Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo, a screening program curated by Erin Christovale, followed by a conversation between the curator and Ra Malika Imhotep. Read more
24 Jun, 2019
BCNM around the Web July 2019
Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more
21 Jun, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Quoted in Le Monde
Can video games help raise awareness about ecological causes? Alum Alenda Chang weighs in on the debate in a recent Le Monde article on video games and environmentalism. Read more
19 Jun, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Co-Editor of Media + Environment
Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more
18 Jun, 2019
Jacob Gaboury and alum Bo Ruberg will speak at the Diversity and Inclusion Summit. Read more
13 Jun, 2019
Videos from 2019 DataEdge Now Available
BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
09 Jun, 2019
Ken Goldberg's TechCrunch Video Now Online
Ken spoke to Michael Jordan on Artificial Intelligence: Minds, Economies and Systems that Learn. Read more
07 Jun, 2019
Stefanos Geroulanos HTNM Video Now Online
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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
25 May, 2019
Alum Bo Ruberg on the UCI Podcast
Bo chats about the history of video games through the lens of LGBTQ theory! Read more
24 May, 2019
Renée Pastel on Viral Videos at the PCA
Renée presented "Viral Videos as Metonymic Homespace in the “War on Terror”: Globalizing American Popular Culture." Read more
23 May, 2019
Bo Ruberg's "What to Do When Toxic Video Gaming Culture Enters the Classroom" Now Online
Bo's incredibly popular Game Developer's Conference lecture is now available for free to view online! Read more
18 May, 2019
Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! 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
07 May, 2019
Bo Ruberg Commons Conversation Video Now Online
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03 May, 2019
"Within These Walls" & its sequel "Dreams of Flight"
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30 Apr, 2019
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes "Straight Paths through Queer Walking Simulators"
Alum Bonnie Ruberg publishes new article in Games and Culture! Read more
25 Apr, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual on #netnarr
Alex lectured at a #NetNarr course at Kean University regarding her #Youtuber and #Selfiepoetry work Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal on Ologies Podcast
Dr. McGonigal shares her perspectives on the various choices in the gaming industry in an Ologies podcast. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Commons Conversation Revisited: Bonnie Ruberg
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18 Apr, 2019
Eyeris Featured in CITRIS Inventors Series
Eyeris, a wearable that aims to tackle the issue of sexual harassment, was created in Eric Paulos' NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making. Read more
16 Apr, 2019
Miyoko Conley on K-Pop at SCMS
Miyoko Conley presented "Designing a K-pop Audience: Asian American Performance in KPOP the Musical" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
Tory Jeffay on Surveillance at SCMS
Tory presented "Body/Camera: Viewing Raw Images of Policing through the Lens of Early Film" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more
11 Apr, 2019
Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
10 Apr, 2019
Kirsten Chen Curates Play Me Love You
BCNM undergrad Kirsten Chen curates a virtual reality art show at Swim Gallery! Read more
08 Apr, 2019
ATC Revisited: Morehshin Allahyari
Photo by Malachi Tran. Read more
02 Apr, 2019
Trevor Paglen at University of Michigan Ann Arbor Art Museum
Alum Trevor Paglen will be featured in "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene." Read more
23 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kim Stanley Robinson
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22 Mar, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Kelani Nichole
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21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Bonnie Ruberg at UCLA's Feminist Book Celebration
Alum Bonnie Ruberg was part of a panel discussion at UCLA's Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration on International Women's Day. Read more
19 Mar, 2019
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Published in How to Play Video Games
Matthew Payne's and Nina B. Huntemann's anthology "How to Play Video Games" features work by Ruberg. Read more
15 Mar, 2019
You can now view Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 in action online. 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
28 Feb, 2019
New Reviews of Queer Games Studies
Two more publications have reviewed alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Game Studies. Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Game Developer's Conference
BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg will present at the 2019 Game Developers' Conference Read more
24 Feb, 2019
Alum Trevor Paglen in HKW Video Stop Making Sense
Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more
21 Feb, 2019
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! 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
19 Feb, 2019
Alex Saum-Pascual at MLA Commons
Alex Saum-Pascual attended the 2019 Chicago Modern Language Association Convention, presenting her research on the intersection of digital humanities and Hispanic studies. 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
14 Feb, 2019
Abigail De Kosnik in Unwatchable
Abigail De Kosnik is a contributor to the 2019 essay anthology, edited by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen. Read more
09 Feb, 2019
BCNM in Vision & Light: Processing Perception
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08 Feb, 2019
Revisited: Questioning New Media Performance Night
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30 Jan, 2019
Rita Lucarelli Video Now Online
Watch Rita Lucarelli's presentation for the CITRIS Spring Research Exchange Seminar Series Read more
25 Jan, 2019
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes "Video Games Have Always Been Queer"
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25 Jan, 2019
Special Issue: Queerness & Video Games Co-Edited by Alum Bonnie Ruberg
Bonnie Ruberg collaborates with Amanda Phillips on a special issue titled Not Gay as in Happy: Queer Resistance and Video Games. Read more
21 Jan, 2019
Alum Jane McGonigal on Your Brain in Video Games
Quartz published an article by Frank Lantz in which he explains our brains' relationships with gaming. Alum Jane McGonigal argues that it has positive effects. Read more
30 Dec, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Published in A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
"Queerness and Video Games: Queer Game Studies and New Perspectives through Play" was published in Volume 24, issue 4. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Teams Up with Kronos Quartet for Sight Machine
Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
HTNM Molly Steenson Video Now Online
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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
08 Nov, 2018
Alumni Bonnie Ruberg & Chris Goetz at QGCon
The annual Queerness and Games Conference began in 2013 at the hands of BCNM Alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz. It continues to flourish and to create safe spaces, this year in Montréal. Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Legacies of Gaming and Technology
Bonnie Ruberg attended the 2018-19 digital humanities symposium, "My Mother Was a Computer: Legacies of Gender and Technology," as a panelist. Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg on Queer Indie Video Games in American Quarterly
Volume 70 of American Quarterly features pieces on the Digital Humanities, one work of which is written by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg. Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Published on Straight-Washing in TWC
Alum Bonnie Ruberg published article on straight-washing in the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press
Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
12 Sep, 2018
Alum Chris Gates Publishes on Nostalgic Travel in Videogames
Chris Goetz's analysis on 1990s and early 2000s video games was published in research journal Loading... Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Lyman Dispatch: Grace Gipson on Unleashing Your Inner Superhero
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05 Sep, 2018
BCNM Alum Chris Gates on Function and Fiction in Videogames in Arts
BCNM alum Chris Gates's paper "Trellis and Vine: Weaving Function and Fiction in Videogame Play" published in Arts. Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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07 Aug, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net in Video on New York Times
The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more
20 Jul, 2018
Asma Kazmi on the Outcomes of Cranes & Cube
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19 Jul, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at DIGRA 2018
The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more
15 Jul, 2018
Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes on Sex Workers in Video Games
Feminist Media Studies published Bonnie's article "Representing sex workers in video games: feminisms, fantasies of exceptionalism, and the value of erotic labor" Read more
18 Jun, 2018
Alex Saum-Pascual on the Peder Sather E-Lit Bergen Collaboration
Alex Saum-Pascual summarizes the amazing work that developed out of the Peder Sather grant funded collaboration between UCB and Bergen University on electronic literature. Read more
13 Jun, 2018
Alum Clement Hil Goldberg at Outfest LA
Clement Hil Goldberg's Our Future Ends plays at Outfest Los Angeles this July 13, 2018! Read more
11 Jun, 2018
Asma Kazmi & Alum Lark VCR at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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28 May, 2018
Queer Game Studies Reviewed on Electronic Book Review
Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg, was reviewed on Electronic Book Review. Read more
28 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg on TechCrunch Robotics at Berkeley in CGTN America
Ken Goldberg, who was a keynote speaker at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, was featured on America CGTN. Read more
27 May, 2018
Robotics TechCrunch Videos Now Available
For TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg discussed the “New Wave” in robot grasping for e-commerce warehouse order fulfillment. Read more
23 May, 2018
Welcome Claudia Von Vacano
We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more
18 May, 2018
The Past is Present Videos Now Online
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17 May, 2018
ATC Video Now Online: Nicholas Negroponte
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07 May, 2018
Revisited: Critical Making Showcase
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07 May, 2018
Alum Chris Goetz Reviews MetaGaming in Critical Inquiry
BCNM alum Chris Goetz draws on his video game expertise to critique a recently published book, MetaGaming. Read more
03 May, 2018
Electronic Literature in Spanish & Digital Poetry Reading by Alex Saum Pascual at Bergen
On May 2nd, Alexandra Saum-Pascal visited UiB from UC Berkeley to present on electronic literature in Spanish. Read more
25 Apr, 2018
New Selfie Poetry about Maternity & Software from Alex Saum-Pascual
Alex Saum-Pascual recently released a new electronic literature selfie poem about maternity and software. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
New Ken Goldberg Dex-Net Video Online
A video of Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 is now online, featured in publications such as the MIT Technology Review and Mashable. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
As one of the recipients of the Spring 2018 BCNM Confrence Grant, KC Forcier received funding to attend and present her research findings at the Society for Film and Media Studies Annual Conference. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
The BCNM Guide to CHI 2018
Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more
20 Mar, 2018
HairIO by Hybrid Ecologies in the Press
BCNM Designated Emphasis Students Molly Nicholas and Christine Dierk, aided by BCNM faculty Eric Paulos, project HäirIÖ was featured heavily in the 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
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
12 Mar, 2018
Scott Rettberg Video Now Online
If you were unable to attend Professor Scott Rettberg's discussion about electronic literature last November, a video of his talk is now available for public viewing. Read more
02 Mar, 2018
Video: Ogle on Social Justice and Free Speech in Mythicist Miwaukee
Lyndsey Ogle and her work were featured on an episode of 'Mythicist Miwaukee' Read more
26 Feb, 2018
Eric Paulos Smashing Computer in Critical Making goes Viral on the Daily Mail and Boing Boing
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26 Feb, 2018
Jacob Gaboury a 2018 Media Archaeology Lab Resident
BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury was selected as one of 10 fellows for the 2018 Media Archaeology Lab's residency program. Read more
20 Feb, 2018
Announcing the Lyman 2018 Fellowship Recipients
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06 Feb, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibited at the ICA Boston
Trevor Paglen's work is being exhibited in Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Read more
05 Feb, 2018
HTNM Natasha Schüll Video Now Online
Missed out on Natasha Schüll's talk about self-tracking devices? The video of her lecture is now live. Read more
05 Feb, 2018
Spaces of Free Speech Panel Video from Reply All Now Online
Watch the Reply All conference speakers discuss how various spaces, physical and digital, demand different responses and protections for free speech. The video is now available for public viewing on Youtube. Read more
05 Feb, 2018
All Videos from Reply All Now Online
Couldn't make it out to the all-day symposium, Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media, last semester? All the panels, addresses and remarks have now been uploaded onto Youtube. Read more
04 Feb, 2018
Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation Video Now Online
If you couldn't make it out to the Humanizing Deportation conference back in December, there is now a video of the talk available on Youtube for public consumption. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
2017 Conference on Robotic Learning CoChaired by Ken Goldberg Now Online
Video from the conference, co-organized by Ken Goldberg, are now online Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Bonnie Ruberg Receives Inclusiveness Excellence Spirit Award at UCI
BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg received the Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award at UCI for work diversifying esports. Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen on Artsy
Paglen's work was featured in "The Future of Art," a short film series on Artsy. Read more
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
23 Jan, 2018
ATC Video Now Online: Michael Rock
23 Jan, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at WEF meeting
BCNM Alumnus Trevor Paglen was selected to attend the 48th Annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Read more
17 Jan, 2018
Kris Paulsen Receives Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship
Alum Kris Paulsen has received the prestigious Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Read more
11 Jan, 2018
SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News
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25 Dec, 2017
Alum Erin Johnson at the Power Plant Gallery
Alum Erin Johnson is exhibiting The Way Things Can Happen at the Power Pant Gallery in Durham, NC. Read more
04 Dec, 2017
Revisited: NWMEDIA 201 Performance Night
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28 Nov, 2017
ATC Video Now Online: Frank Foer
Couldn't make it out to the Arts Technology Culture colloquium with Frank Foer and Nicholas Thompson back in September? The video of their dialogue about big tech is now online! Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Robert Reich Video from Reply All Now Online
Watch former US Secretary of Labor and UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich give the keynote address for the Reply All symposium. The video is now available to the public via YouTube. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort
From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector in the News
The news reports on Trevor Paglen, BCNM alum and 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and his plans to launch an artistic satellite into space by 2018. Read more
21 Nov, 2017
The Spaces of Free Speech Video from Reply All Now Online
The Spaces of Free Speech Panel panel during the Reply All symposium is now available for public viewing. Read more
20 Nov, 2017
Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort
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17 Nov, 2017
Alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Games Studies Reviewed in First Person Scholar
Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in First Person Scholar. Read more
13 Nov, 2017
Alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Games Studies Reviewed in Creative Applications
Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in Creative Applications. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Berkeley's DeepDrive Releases 36,000 Nexar Research Videos
Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Bonnie Ruberg Published in Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Alum Bonnie Ruberg has been published in the June 2017 issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Alum Trevor Paglen Visiting Faculty at The New Normal
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen is named visiting faculty at The New Normal, a post-graduate program in Moscow, Russia. Read more
03 Nov, 2017
5 Questions with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg sits down with the UCB Student Affairs to answer prospective students' questions. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Review of Alum Edited Queer Games Studies in CSMC
BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg's book, Queer Game Studies, was reviewed in the Critical Studies in Media Communication journal. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at Gaming Representation Symposium at Smith College
Bonnie Ruberg, BCNM alum, was a panelist at the Gaming Representation Symposium at Smith College to talk about her contributions to a new book. Read more
26 Oct, 2017
CFP Games Studies Guest Edited by Alum Bonnie Ruberg & Amanda Philips
Alum Bonnie Ruberg and Amanda Philips are guest editors for a special issue in Game Studies, the international journal of computer game research. Read more
19 Oct, 2017
TF Tierney Video on Intelligent Infrastructures Now Online
TF Tierney's book talk about intelligent infrastructure is now available for public viewing. Read more
19 Oct, 2017
Alums Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz in Camera Obscura
Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz, co-organizers and founders of the Queerness and Games Conference, collaborated on a published piece titled "In Practice: Queerness and Games." Read more
17 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg at TedX Oakland
Ken Goldberg will present at the TedX Oakland 2017 conference on Sunday October 22nd! Read more
17 Oct, 2017
Alum Bonnie Ruberg at IndieCade
At the beginning of October, alum Bonnie Ruberg attended IndieCade in Downtown Los Angeles to speak about the relationship between games and politics. 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
03 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg & Automation Lab on RTVE
Ken Goldberg and the Automation Lab make an appearance on RTVE's "El cazador de crebros," or "The Brain Hunter," to talk about artificial intelligence. Read more
18 Sep, 2017
UC Berkeley Team Selected To Design Adaptive Responses To Bay Area Climate Change
A diverse group of locally-based and globally-experienced professionals, academics, students, and policy makers from the University of California, Berkeley has been chosen to participate in the Resilient By Design (RBD) Bay Area Challenge. Read more
23 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! Read more
22 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Juliana Friend and Many-to-Many
Read about Friend's ethnographic research for her Many-to-Many project, funded by BCNM Read more
17 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Malika Imhotep at the International School for Decolonial Black Feminism
Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more
15 Aug, 2017
Summer Research Dispatches: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Humanizing Deportation
Read Yairamaren Roman Maldonado's account of collaborating with the UC Digital Storytelling project, funded by BCNM Read more
08 Aug, 2017
Alum Clement Hil Goldberg at Counterpulse
Hil Goldberg's "Our Future Ends" will be showcased at the established experimental performance space in San Francisco. Read more
02 Aug, 2017
Ken Goldberg at Autodesk Design Night
Goldberg's research project on cloud-connected robots discussed at the Autodesk Gallery in downtown SF! Read more
01 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more
18 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg at MIT Robotics Conference
The professor of Robotics, Automation, and New Media spent time at MIT last week for a conference on robots. Read more
29 Jun, 2017
Greg Niemeyer on Data Art in Moving Ideas.arts video!
Greg Niemeyer presents on data art for Moving Ideas! Read more
15 Jun, 2017
Video Now Online: "Conveying Climate Change"
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
24 May, 2017
Greg Niemeyer Publishes Alternate Reality Games with Antero Garcia
Alternate Reality Games at the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is a volume of scholarship on the state of alternate reality gaming. Read more
17 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Undergraduate Certificate Grads
These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
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11 May, 2017
Arts + Design Mondays @BAMPFA Videos Now Online
Check out the videos from some of the great lectures this semester, including our Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
08 May, 2017
NWMEDIA C203: Critical Making Showcase 2017 Revisited
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06 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Cloud Robotics with Living MacTavish
Will a robot take your job? Ken Goldberg on cloud robotics with Living MacTavish Read more
02 May, 2017
//supraliminal - Greg Niemeyer at ZKM
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01 May, 2017
Revisited: "Many to Many"
Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more
28 Apr, 2017
Greg Niemeyer received BCNM research funding to build a VR rendering of Earth. Read more
24 Apr, 2017
ATC Video Now Online: “Designing Spaces for New Media Art”
If you missed our recent Arts, Technology and Culture colloquium with Andy and Deborah Rappaport - the video is now live Read more
13 Apr, 2017
Video Now Online: "Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe"
with Jan De Vos Read more
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award 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
06 Apr, 2017
Grace Gipson at the National Council of Black Studies
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04 Apr, 2017
BCNM at Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference 2017
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies held its 2017 Conference at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
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20 Mar, 2017
A Statement Regarding UCPD Crowdsourcing Request for Identification
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16 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations Video Now Online: "Radical Technologies" with Adam Greenfield
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16 Mar, 2017
Video Now Online: Designing for Truth
with Joris Maltha Read more
02 Mar, 2017
Video Now Online: "Our Landscape Futures"
Watch this event by Geoff Manaugh, New York Times-bestselling author on technology and utopias. Read more
28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the Lyman 2017 Fellowship Recipients
This year's Lyman fellow and runner-up goes to... Read more
23 Feb, 2017
BCNM Alums’ QGCon 2017 Moves to LA
The Queerness and Games Conference takes the trip from NorCal to SoCal. Read more
23 Feb, 2017
Nicholas de Monchaux at YBCA Europa Closing
BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux performed with Tom Sachs in the closing performance piece of the Europa landing exhibition Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Hybrid Ecologies Lab Wins a Best Paper at CHI 2017
Light as a physical material? This paper won a major award for it. Read more
21 Feb, 2017
Introducing Our Undergraduate Research Fellows
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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
17 Feb, 2017
ATC Video Now Online: "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual."
With Tom Sachs
Missed this event? Have no fear! Watch it here! Read more
25 Jan, 2017
Conference Grants: Grace Gipson in Melbourne
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
23 Jan, 2017
Video Now Online: "Sex, Lies, and Data Mining"
Heard the buzz about Luke Dubois's lecture? Listen to it yourself here! Read more
23 Jan, 2017
Video Now Online: Books in Browsers Series
Watch all 24 speaker events from this exciting conference here! Read more
19 Jan, 2017
BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen in New York Times
Trevor Paglen was featured in the New York Times article "A String Quartet Concert, With an A.I. Assist" Read more
08 Dec, 2016
Video Now Online: “Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes”
with Virginia Kuhn. Check it out! Read more
07 Dec, 2016
ATC Video Now Online: "Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination"
Missed our ATC Lecture with Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor? The video recording of the lecture is now online at Archive.org! Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Video Analytics: From Keywords to Keyframes”
Miyoko Conley, BCNM DE candidate, recaps Virginia Kuhn's HTNM lecture, "Video Analytics From Keywords to Keyframes." Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Announcing the Fall 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
We are very excited to welcome our newest cohort of Ph.D Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate students Read more
06 Nov, 2016
Revisited: "Books in Browsers VII - Telling Small Stories"
We revisit the incredible conference held in San Francisco 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
03 Nov, 2016
Greg Niemeyer Collaboration with DJ Spooky for Internet Archive 20th Anniversary
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31 Oct, 2016
Getting a Game Studies PhD: A Guide for Aspiring Video Game Scholars
A guide written by Bonnie Ruberg, a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at USC Read more
24 Oct, 2016
GloUH: Gaming Virtual Bodies: Video Games in South Asian Cities
The series hosts Irene Chien, BCNM alumna, to speak on moving through South Asian cities both within video games Read more
20 Oct, 2016
Video Now Online: Jane Jacobs and the Digital City
The BCNM and SPUR presented a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence Read more
18 Oct, 2016
Together, we can think bigger and shape the future of new media 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 Oct, 2016
Summer Teaching Dispatch: Lark Buckingham and Advanced Digital Animation
Here, Buckingham describes teaching Advanced Digital Animation” as a NWMEDIA 90 this past summer Read more
04 Oct, 2016
Shannon Jackson on How Art Transforms Us at Battery Powered
Featured in "The Power of Art & Creativity," a moderated discussion at The Battery Read more
30 Sep, 2016
NetProv as Performance Art
(Netprov is internet improv.) 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
12 Sep, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium
This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more
09 Sep, 2016
Lyman Dispatch: Jenni Higgs on Digital Talk
The fellowship is supported by donations from Professor Barrie Thorne, Sage Publications and many individual friends and faculty Read more
26 Aug, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season
his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Digital Stories and Popular Voices in Puerto Rico
Here's what she discovered with a BCNM-funded grant Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Summer Research Report: Grace Gipson and the Popular Culture Summer Workshop
Gipson received a summer research award from the BCNM to support her dissertation research by attending the Popular Culture Summer Research Workshop Read more
01 Aug, 2016
E-lit #selfie poetry and Alex Saum Pascual in Berkeley News
Highlights of not only her academic studies in electronic literature, but also her creative e-lit poetry projects Read more
01 Aug, 2016
Bonnie Ruberg and 'Doing it for free'
Alumna Bonnie Ruberg had her article 'Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography' published in a special issue Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity at Tata Communication Summit
18 Jul, 2016
Ed Campion and the Sound Habitat
This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more
30 Jun, 2016
Laura Devendorf and Abigail De Kosnik's paper wins Best Paper Award!
Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more
30 Jun, 2016
Video Now Online: No Legacy
The incredible No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica exhibition now has a live online presence Read more
18 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg and robotic system changing laparoscopic surgery
The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more
31 May, 2016
Ebb is an exciting, color changing thread being developed at UC Berkeley by students and faculty Read more
26 May, 2016
Through Practice: Ashley Ferro-Murray and Mark Lam
“Through Practice” by Ashley Ferro-Murray is a somatic exploration of the contemporary relationship between biomedicine and new media, or genetics (DNA code) Read more
26 May, 2016
Meet Lark Buckingham: Critical Design
Animator, filmmaker, performance artist, designer, tinkerer, activist, and data scientist, Lark Buckingham is a versatile and multidisciplinary provocateur. Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing Our 2016 Undergraduate Certificate Grads
We're so pleased to be able to share their achievements and wish them the best in their future projects! Read more
19 May, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Graduates
Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
17 May, 2016
Congratulations to the incredible faculty and students who represented BCNM at CHI 2016, the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. Read more
17 May, 2016
Chris Goetz to join the University of Iowa as Assistant Professor
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16 May, 2016
Ashley Ferro Murray named Curator of Theater and Dance at EMPAC
EMPAC is described as where the arts, sciences, and technology use the same facilities and technologies Read more
12 May, 2016
Laura Devendorf's Color Changing Thread
Devendorf's project is focused on how to use thermochromic pigments in weaving and crocheted materials Read more
12 May, 2016
Eric Paulos' CS 160 Interface Design Showcase
Teams were challenged to design novel smartphone and smartwatch applications focused on health and medical themes Read more
26 Apr, 2016
Revisited: Recasting the Tsar Bell
We recap our unveiling of an electronic replication concert of the largest bell of all time Read more
11 Apr, 2016
Video Now Online: "Library of the Future"
Experience all the buzz about last week's conversation for yourself! Watch the video here. Read more
07 Apr, 2016
Video Now Online: "Right to Remember"
As a part of The Regents Lectures, Brewster Kahle discussed digital archives. Watch it here. 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
05 Apr, 2016
ATC Video Now Online: Ron Rael
"Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials" Read more
04 Apr, 2016
Video Now Online: "Locking the Web Open"
with Brewster Kahle Read more
17 Mar, 2016
Announcing the Spring 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort
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25 Feb, 2016
Ken Goldberg Comments on Atlas for Wired
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23 Feb, 2016
Revisited: "Proxies and Placeholders"
A recap of Hito Steyerl's incredible lecture! Read more
16 Feb, 2016
Gail De Kosnik Interviews Tabaimo at Artist's First US Exhibition
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01 Feb, 2016
QGCon Promotional Video Live!
QGCon is a free, weekend-long, interdisciplinary exploration of the intersection between LGBTQ issues and video games Read more
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
10 Dec, 2015
Video Now Online: "Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process"
Watch this ATC lecture by Adrien Segal online here Read more
08 Dec, 2015
NWMEDIA 201 Final Presentations
We were excited to see the final presentations of NWMEDIA 201, Questioning New Media, our foundational seminar on art, technology, and culture! Read more
04 Dec, 2015
Revisited: "Everything After: Opossum Impressions"
We revisit Lark Buckingham's installation from this past week Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Video Series Now Online: "Manufacturing Transparency"
Watch the Manufacturing Transparency Conference's speaker videos here! In collaboration with the French Embassy, New Hive, and the Goethe Institute Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Kate Mattingly on the Forty Part Motet
BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more
19 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Precarious Aesthetics Conference"]
Keynote speakers included: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago; Christine Ross, McGill University; Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley; Jeffrey Skoller, UC Berkeley; Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook University; W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago Read more
16 Nov, 2015
Björn Hartmann's SceneSkim on Engadget
05 Nov, 2015
Video Now Online: "Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies"
Watch the video of Julian Oliver's lecture here Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
03 Nov, 2015
Revisited: Network Surveillance, Workshop with Julian Oliver
In collaboration with the School of Information on October 30th Read more
26 Oct, 2015
Shannon Jackson's New Retrospective of "The Builders Association"
Founded in 1994, the company has forged a reputation for work that blurs medium, genre, and temporality through masterful video, architecture, sound, and text interrogation Read more
22 Oct, 2015
Video Now Online: Panel Twelve from Precarious Aesthetics Conference
Featuring Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen), David Rokeby (Ryerson University, Toronto), and Mark B. Hansen (Duke University) Read more
22 Oct, 2015
We're excited to be featuring two new courses in Summer 2016! Read more
20 Oct, 2015
Video Now Online: Panel Ten from Precarious Aesthetics Conference
Featuring Kristen Whissel (UC Berkeley), Andrew Utterson (Ithaca College), Jordan Schonig (University of Chicago) Read more
14 Oct, 2015
Alumnus Jane McGonigal's "SuperBetter" on Living Gamefully
BCNM alumnus Jane McGonigal's book SuperBetter has been reviewed in The New Yorker by Nathan Heller Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2015 Conference
Ken was a co-author on "Transition State Clustering: Unsupervised Surgical Trajectory Segmentation For Robot Learning " Read more
08 Oct, 2015
Manufacturing Transparency Submissions a Hit!
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01 Oct, 2015
Video Now Online: Vito Acconci
Didn't snag a seat at Vito Acconci's ATC lecture? We saved one for you here. Read more
30 Sep, 2015
Chris Goetz Featured on Memory Insufficient
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24 Sep, 2015
Technology Award Dispatches: Rama Gottfried
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24 Sep, 2015
Call for Art: Manufacturing Transparency
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24 Sep, 2015
Announcing the 2015-2016 HTNM Series!
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16 Sep, 2015
GNOSISONG: An Audiovisual Installation by Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer
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01 Sep, 2015
Research Opportunity: Textile Display Technology
"We are currently looking to work with 2-3 graduate or undergraduate researchers..." Read more
11 Aug, 2015
#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Women in Tech
We're thrilled to see the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer gathering momentum! Read more
06 Aug, 2015
Field Notes: Teaching Nostalgia & the Future in New Media
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30 Jul, 2015
Summer Award Dispatches: KC Forcier
Here's what KC Forcier gained from the experience Read more
27 Jul, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Robots and the Cloud in Time Magazine
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27 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Naomi Bragin
This year, the BCNM awarded five new media graduate students with technology services and training awards to help them fund the support they need to further their research agendas Read more
22 Jul, 2015
Tech Award Dispatches: Lark Buckingham
20 Jul, 2015
Revisited: Alexander Weheliye
from his HTNM lecture, "System Addicts," earlier this April Read more
20 Jul, 2015
HTNM Video Now Online: System Addict
A recording of Alexander Weheliye's lecture, "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music" Read more
20 Jul, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Tarek Atoui
From the electroacoustic composer's lecture, "DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments" Read more
20 Jul, 2015
"The Builders Association" by Shannon Jackson Now Available
A new book by Shannon Jackson is now out! Read more
15 Jul, 2015
The Atlantic's Bold Bets Features Ken Goldberg
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14 Jul, 2015
Hertzian Armor Featured on AdaFruit
Eric Paulos' Spring 2015 Critical Making class gets another shout-out on AdaFruit's Wearable Wednesdays Read more
13 Jul, 2015
Best Video Prize at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge
17 Jun, 2015
Fall 2015 Events Sneak Preview
Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more
14 May, 2015
Video Now Online: Jesse and Glenda Drew
Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more
21 Apr, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Rirkrit Tiravanija
A March lecture on his art exhibition, now at YBCA Read more
21 Apr, 2015
Books in Browsers - Request for Proposals
BIB VI will explore new forms of stories that embrace hybrid digital forms, or play with the tension between digital and physical interfaces Read more
07 Apr, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Reality Environments
View the recording of this ATC lecture, "Reality Environments" Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Summer 2015 Research Awards
BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more
24 Mar, 2015
Precarious Aesthetics Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more
18 Mar, 2015
BCNM Welcomes Spring 2015 DE & Certificate Students
Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more
17 Mar, 2015
HTNM Video Now Online: "Gamic Orientalism"
A lecture by Chris Goto-Jones, Comparative Philosophy Chair at Leiden University Read more
10 Mar, 2015
from the UCSB professor's talk, "Against the Cultural Singularity" Read more
03 Mar, 2015
HTNM Revisited: Chris Goto-Jones
from his lecture, "Gamic Orientalism" Read more
03 Mar, 2015
Bonnie Ruberg Discusses Queerness and Games
In Bonnie's introduction, "Video Games, Queerness, and Beyond," she makes a case for the importance of talking about queerness when we talk about games 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
10 Feb, 2015
Lark Buckingham is the creator of Babump, a device posing as a business card holder that monitors heart rates Read more
10 Feb, 2015
'My dissertation, “Pixel Whipped: Pain, Pleasure, and Media,” uses the concept of virtual pain to reimagine the role of embodiment in supposedly disembodied media form' Read more
10 Feb, 2015
Gail is currently focused on the following projects Read more
09 Feb, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Caroline Woolard
Part of the ATC Lecture series Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Revisited: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance
A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for Innovation in New Media
Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more
20 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Rick Lowe
A recording of the community organizer's lecture, "Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial" Read more
15 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Cheryl Haines
From her lecture, "Creative Interventions and Social Activation" Read more
14 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Maya Lin
The recording of this highly anticipated lecture by the great architect Maya Lin Read more
12 Jan, 2015
ATC Video Now Online: Brett Cook
A wonderful lecture on community and dialogue, available right here. Read more
10 Dec, 2014
Tangible User Interfaces Student Project Exhibition
Kimiko Ryokai's NWMEDIA/INFO C262: Tangible User Interfaces created new products aimed at shifting the way we interact with technology Read more
03 Dec, 2014
Welcoming New Undergraduate Certificate Students
Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more
25 Nov, 2014
HTNM Video Now Online: Fred Turner
Missed out on this standing-room only lecture “Cold War Multimedia: The Democratic Surround”? Catch it here. Read more
19 Nov, 2014
Revisited: "Reclaim Disrupt" Installation
We revisit UC Berkeley MFA candidate Leslie Dreyer's new exhibition on gentrification Read more
18 Nov, 2014
HTNM Revisited: Fred Turner
Megan Hoetger (TDPS) revisits Fred Turner’s recent History and Theory of New Media Lecture Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Welcoming New DE and Certificate Students
04 Nov, 2014
Videos Now Online: Image as Location
In partnership with Books in Browsers, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and swissnex San Francisco Read more
28 Oct, 2014
Ken Goldberg: Cloud Robotics and Next Gen Surgery Robots
BCNM co-founder and director emeritus Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed by the NY Times for two separate pieces Read more
27 Oct, 2014
Video Now Online: Steven Johnson at "Image as Location"
The Image as Location conference was brought to you by BCNM, swissnex San Francisco, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate San Francisco, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Read more
14 Oct, 2014
Image as Location – Xavier Lucchesi "Glance Inside the Body"
Xavier Lucchesi’s art takes the traditions of the nude, the portrait, and the still life into the digital age Read more
13 Oct, 2014
HTNM Video Now Online: Jennifer Holt
The video and downloadable audio of this exciting lecture, "Cloud Policy," by UCSB Prof. Holt Read more
06 Oct, 2014
HTNM Revisited: Jennifer Holt
UCSB's Film and Media Studies Associate Professor sat down with us earlier this month. Read highlights here. Read more
30 Sep, 2014
ATC Video Now Online: John Perry Barlow
Thoughts on life's purpose, monotheism, and working with the Grateful Dead -- all in one video, here Read more
03 Sep, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Kyle Booten
Kyle Booten (Education) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Read more
02 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more
13 Aug, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Laura Devendorf
Laura Devendorf (Information) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award Read more
21 Jul, 2014
The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more
12 Jun, 2014
This amazing campus resource is co-directed by BCNM faculty members Read more
02 Jun, 2014
We're celebrating our 10th year! Hear how BCNM professor Eric Paulos designs devices that transform how we understand our world Read more
21 May, 2014
Best in Class Award at Maker Faire!
We’re thrilled to announce that BCNM faculty member Eric Paulos’ class NWMEDIA 290 — Critical Making received Best in Class Award for Maker Faire 2014 and will soon be featured on the Maker website! Read more
12 May, 2014
John Scott Awarded Eisner Prize
John's video is a pseudo-response to Frederick Wiseman's 2013 documentary 'At Berkeley' Read more
24 Apr, 2014
Urban Data Canvas Hackathon Video
We now have video online from the Urban Data Canvas Hackathon that took place earlier this year, facilitated by Casey Reas! Read more
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
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
10 Apr, 2014
Announcing BCNM's 2014 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! Each student will receive $1,000 of summer assistance to support their research initiatives. Read more
07 Apr, 2014
Playing Race with Bonnie Ruberg
This summer, BCNM DE Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching New Media 150 AC – “Playing Race: Investigating American Racial Identities through Video Games,” which will fulfill the American Cultures requirement Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Technology Services and Training Fellowship
This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more
24 Mar, 2014
ATC Revisited: Don Buchla
Don Buchla offered a crowd-pleasing performance on March 10th as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
18 Mar, 2014
HTNM Revisited: The Black Box, the Light Box and Photo-Receptivity
A contribution by Katherine Chandler on Alexander Galloway's recent HTNM talk Read more
03 Mar, 2014
This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Ng explores urban spaces through the architecture of music. Read more
11 Feb, 2014
HTNM Revisited: Lisa Nakamura, "Indigenous Circuits"
Professor Nakamura took a closer look at archival documents left from the largely invisbilized history of a corporation that employed thousands of Navajo women from the '60s to '70s 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
02 Dec, 2013
Connect with Chris Goetz and QGCon
The Berkeley Center for New Media’s interdisciplinary environment has provided Chris with a research home that allows him to draw from various fields — from psychology to computer science to design Read more
06 Nov, 2013
A Response to Eyal Weizman’s “Forensic Architecture” by Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric and Designated Emphasis in New Media) Read more
31 Oct, 2013
Videos Now Online: "Creating Minds" Conference
Creating Minds is now online! Watch the wonderful talks today! Read more
29 Oct, 2013
Queerness and Games Conference Shoutout
Spearheaded by Chris Goetz and Bonnie Ruberg Read more
24 Sep, 2013
HTNM Blog - Peter Lunenfeld
Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric) responds to the most recent History & Theory of New Media Lecture Read more
05 Sep, 2013
Announcing the Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series
Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more
28 Aug, 2013
The Color of New Media Working Group
Supported by UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. Organized by Professor Abigail De Kosnik (BCNM, TDPS) Read more
20 May, 2013
Inventing the Future of Games 2013: Interactive Storytelling Symposium, Report by Chris Goetz
IFOG 2013 Symposium brought together academics and practitioners (as well as academic practitioners) for a stimulating conversation about storytelling in videogames Read more
20 May, 2013
New Media 2013 Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM Designated Emphasis Students
Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students 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
10 Apr, 2013
BCNM Welcomes New Students to the DE & Graduate Certificate in New Media
We are delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs! Read more
03 Apr, 2013
Learning Mode Conference Recap & Highlight Video
Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more
27 Feb, 2013
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium, February 14, 2013
Exciting and innovative new UC Berkeley research projects weree presented at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). Read some of our students' research here! Read more
04 Feb, 2013
Video Art in the BCNM Commons, New Work by Jason Fritz, "Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only"
Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster Read more
19 Dec, 2012
"Tether and Accretions : Fantasy as Form in Videogames," Christopher Geotz
Goetz, a BCNM Designated Emphais student and Film & Media PhD candidate, recently published an article about videogames in the academic journal Read more
12 Dec, 2012
Human Rights Day: How Social Video Changes the Game for Advocacy and Accountability
To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, Camille Crittenden, the executive director of CITRIS's Data and Democracy Initiative, wrote an article in the Huffington Post Read more
10 Dec, 2012
BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research
Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more
31 Aug, 2012
Alenda Chang, Ph.D. Rhetoric, DE in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
29 Aug, 2012
Eric Paulos awarded Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica
08 Aug, 2012
New Media Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM DE's
Congratulations to the following students! Read more
30 Jun, 2012
Forest by Bit, Using LiDAR to Represent Sierra Nevada Forests
13 Jun, 2012
Video Art in the BCNM Commons - New Work by Henry Witecki, "The Bridge" (2012)
14 May, 2012
Who’s Achievement? — Evaluating Self-Constructed and Peer-Evaluated Badge Systems in Online Classrooms
14 May, 2012
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium
This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more
07 May, 2012
Welcoming BCNM's New DE and Certificate Students
We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more
04 May, 2012
Kony 2012 Video Inspires Students to Take Action
02 May, 2012
Digital Inquiry: Keynote Talk by Bernard Stiegler
The two day symposium brought together interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and media industry representatives to reflect on the nature of knowledge in the digital age Read more
07 Mar, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Peter Lyman Fellow
For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more
11 Jan, 2012
Artist Talk with Walter Kim on Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces
Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more
01 Sep, 2011
Position Open: Assistant Professor, New Media, Tenure Track
Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more
25 Jul, 2011
Are We There Yet?, A Responsive Sound Installation, Ken Goldberg & Gil Gershoni, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Read more
25 Jul, 2011
"Opinion Space" is a social media technology designed to help communities generate and exchange ideas about important issues and policies. Read more
15 Jun, 2011
The Digital Production Gap: The Digital Divide and Web 2.0 Collide
Next deadline – November 1, 2024
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
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Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – October 1, 2024
Applications are due October 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Applications are due March 1, 2024
AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – October 1, 2024
Applications are due October 1, 2024
Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
Applications are due March 1, 2024
AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship
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