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
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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.
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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
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
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
01 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Rhonda Holberton
Artist, Oakland
Presented 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
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
06 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Workshop
Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. Read more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
With rapid advances in modern documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, how must our study of the past and its material legacy adapt? Read more
02 Apr, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Mediating Reality: The New Role of Visual Journalism - CANCELED
with Richard Koci Hernandez, Emmy award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia 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
02 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
The Comatose, the Cadaver, and the Chimera: Alternate Anatomical Architectures
An Arts + Technology Colloquium with Stellarc, 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
03 May, 2024
Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Graduates
Artwork "HAYA" (Life) by Arianna Khmelniuk, in collaboration with Eddie Farr; Photographer: Wyatt Kane. Read more
31 Mar, 2024
Announcing Our Spring 2024 DE & Certificate Cohort
Art by Yangyang Yang. 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
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
18 Sep, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 Class Grants
We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses. 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
25 Jul, 2023
The Future of Digital Space by Emma Fraser
The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal thinking. Read more
13 Jun, 2023
Undergraduate Research Report: Xiaowen Yuan on Immersive Virtual Environments
Xiaowen Yuan worked with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on a project based on virtual reality and built environment design. Read more
12 Jun, 2023
Nicholaus Gutierrez on VR's Mythic Past
The Ballad of Morton Hellig: On VR's Mythic Past was published in JCMS Journal! Read more
19 Apr, 2023
Faculty Seed Grant Report: Firetime
Read more
23 Mar, 2023
Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients
We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies! Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients
Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more
30 Dec, 2022
Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
21 Oct, 2022
Melancholic Media by Hannah Zeavin
Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more
11 Oct, 2022
Announcing the Fall 2022 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Art by Clancy Wilmott. Read more
06 Oct, 2022
New Media Experimental Art Studio
Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023! Read more
24 Aug, 2022
danah boyd & Morgan Ames on the Future of the Metaverse
Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more
15 Aug, 2022
Summer 2022 Research with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan
Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more
09 Aug, 2022
Conference Report: Molly Nicholas at Creativity and Cognition
Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more
08 Jul, 2022
Abigail Lomibao on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more
01 Jul, 2022
Interactive Mixed-Dimensional Media for Cross-Dimensional Collaboration in Mixed Reality Environments
Björn Hartmann co-authors this new paper with Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel. Read more
10 Jun, 2022
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
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
28 Apr, 2022
Akemi Nagashiki on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Akemi was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanaryanan on graduate level research, supporting Haripriya's project on spatial design in pediatric healthcare spaces. Read more
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
13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
29 Mar, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Research Award Recipients
23 Mar, 2022
Announcing the Spring 2022 BCNM Faculty Seed Grants
Art by Greg Niemeyer. Read more
24 Feb, 2022
Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
20 Jan, 2022
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
26 Nov, 2021
Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects Reviewed in Critical Inquiry
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects! Read more
29 Jul, 2021
Nicholaus Gutierrez Joins Wellesley
Congratulations to Nicholaus Gutierrez who will be teaching cinema and media studies this year at Wellesley. Read more
21 May, 2021
Congratulating our 2021 Graduates
These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields.
Artwork by Tina Piracci Read more
19 Mar, 2021
The Book of the Dead in 3D with Rita Lucarelli
UC Berkeley Professor and Egypgytologist Rita Lucarelli's BCNM funded 3D coffin modeling project is set to debut at the Phoebe Hearst Museum later this year. Read more
06 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web November 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more
31 Aug, 2020
Björn Hartmann on Bridging Asymmetrical Communication Between External and VR Users
The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more
15 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment
Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more
13 Aug, 2020
Danielle Svehla Christianson Published in Media+Environment
"01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 [forest]" appears in Mediating Art and Science. 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
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
29 Apr, 2020
Alum Brooke Belisle Edits Journal on Virtual Reality
Our BCNM alum Brooke Belisle co-edited the Journal of Visual Culture's issue on Virtual Reality: Immersion and Empathy. Read more
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
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
17 Nov, 2019
Announcing our Fall 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Shuang Yan. Read more
17 Oct, 2019
ATC Video Now Online: Rhonda Holberton
Read more
28 May, 2019
Soravis Prakkamakul on VR at CHI 2019
Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
19 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Graduates
Work by Mathieu Iniesta. Read more
09 May, 2019
Congratulating our 2019 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates
These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more
07 May, 2019
Jessica Adams on Virtual Reality Narratives at the AAAL
Jessica presented "Envisioning the Globe: Symbolic Competence in 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Narratives" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Read more
22 Apr, 2019
KC Forcier on Looped Media at SCMS
KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. 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
21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
14 Mar, 2019
Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
We're to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more
21 Dec, 2018
Alum John Scott at LRA 2018
John Scott contributed to two discussions at the 68th Annual LRA Conference. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Announcing our Fall 2018 Graduate Cohort
Read more
21 Nov, 2018
Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Lyman Dispatch: Nicholaus Gutierrez on the History of VR
Nicholaus Gutierrez received the 2018 Lyman Fellowship, which provides a stipend to a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support the writing of his Ph.D. dissertation on a topic related to new media. Read more
14 Aug, 2018
The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. Read more
09 Aug, 2018
Summer Research Dispatch: Yang Liu on VR
This summer, Yang Liu developed UNREAL, a Virtual Reality project for architectural design. Read more
20 Jul, 2018
Asma Kazmi on the Outcomes of Cranes & Cube
Read more
18 Jul, 2018
Ritwik Banerji Published on Interactions with Artificial Social Agents
The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more
05 Jun, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Exhibiting at Lismore Castle
The Lismore Castle opened When Facts Don't Matter on May 27th, 2018, an exhibition featuring alum Trevor Paglen. Read more
27 Apr, 2018
Abigail De Kosnik Awarded an IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Fellowship
BCNM faculty, Abigail De Kosnik, will be in residance at the IAS from August 23 and September 22 as part of her awarded fellowship. Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Workshop
Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Announcing 2018 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! We are excited to support the amazing work these students will be completing over the summer. Read more
09 Apr, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Designated Emphasis & Certificate Cohort
We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Announcing the Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Read more
20 Feb, 2018
Announcing the Lyman 2018 Fellowship Recipients
Read more
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
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
28 Nov, 2017
Harry Burson at Sounding Out Space
Harry Burson, a Fall 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient, attended the Sounding Out the Space international conference earlier this month in Dublin, Ireland. Read more
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
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
Read more
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
23 Jan, 2017
Video Now Online: Books in Browsers Series
Watch all 24 speaker events from this exciting conference here! 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
24 Oct, 2016
The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more
25 Aug, 2016
Revisited: BCNM 2016 Open House
As always, the conversations were deeply engaging and we were excited to find new possibilities for collaborations across the disciplines Read more
11 Jul, 2016
Greetings from the New Director
We are delighted to welcome Nicholas de Monchaux to his new role as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media Read more
30 Sep, 2015
Chris Goetz Featured on Memory Insufficient
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
New Media Research Fellowship
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Applications are due October 1, 2024
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New Media Research Fellowship
Next deadline – October 1, 2024
Applications are due October 1, 2024
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