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
20 Mar, 2023
Special Events
The Parables Experience at MozFest Virtual
with curators ill Weaver (a Detroit-based artist and organizer. They co-founded Emergence Media and Complex Movements)
and Valencia James (a performer, maker, and researcher from Barbados, interested in the intersection between dance, theater, technology, and activism, currently pursuing an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley)
This event is hosted by MozFest, which is part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. 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
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.
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
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
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
29 Nov, 2018
Special Events
Digital Workshops of the World: Software, Source Code and Skills Migration in the Global VFX Industries
with Leon Gurevitch
In partnership with the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar Read more
12 Apr, 2018
Special Events
EV’RY BODY, THIS TIME: A Sexuality Studies Conference
A conference free and open to the public hosted by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and co-sponsored by BCNM. Read more
06 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Workshop
Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. Read more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
With rapid advances in modern documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, how must our study of the past and its material legacy adapt? Read more
05 Apr, 2018
Special Events
Neural Nets: Readings of Electronic Writing
With Alex Saum, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Boluk & more
Presented in partnership with the Peder Sather Grant Read more
04 Apr, 2018
Special Events
The Past is Present: Exhibition
Deep Dive Or the Limits of Immersion was curated by Asma Kazmi. We preview the show as part of the Past is Present. Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Special Events
The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Workshop
with Scott Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture, Norway.
Presented in partnership with Digital Humanities at Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Peder Sather Grant. Read more
08 Nov, 2017
Special Events
Combinatory Digital Poetics in Electronic Literature and Film
with Scott Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture, Norway.
Presented in partnership with Digital Humanities at Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Peder Sather Grant. Read more
14 Aug, 2017
Special Events
Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute
Don't miss out on this annual series of digital humanities discussions and workshops! Read more
24 Feb, 2017
Special Events
Syncing… Subject, Media, Society.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference! Don't miss it! Read more
13 Sep, 2016
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session
Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! 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
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
17 Aug, 2015
Workshops
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Digital Humanities at Berkeley will be running a summer institute of intensive workshops led by DH experts Read more
01 Jul, 2015
Special Events
Manufacturing Transparency Call for Papers
The interdisciplinary conference is hosting a prize contest for best papers. Get writing! 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
06 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
with Jose Carlos Martinat, artist, and Enrique Mayorga, researcher Read more
20 Mar, 2015
Special Events
A concert by electroacoustic composer Tarek Atoui. Co-presented with the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the MATRIX Program Read more
09 Mar, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments
by Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic composer Read more
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
19 Apr, 2014
Special Events
Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum
A practicum of artist-led workshops that develop exercises, prompts, or actions that engage questions of art, labor, and economics. Don't miss out! Read more
05 Apr, 2014
Workshops
We're continuing Women's History month with this hands-on event! Join in at BCNM Commons. 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 Sep, 2011
Special Events
with Uday Danvadate, co-founder and CEO of SonicRim, a global design research consulting practice Read more
19 Jan, 2011
Special Events
Design Futures: Making Technology Meaningful – Bridging Research & Practice
with Dr. Jaspal Sandhu and Dr. Mahad Ibrahim (Gobee) 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
07 Apr, 2024
Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media. Read more
11 Mar, 2024
Big Give is coming on March 14 - Join me!
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
29 Dec, 2023
Alex Saum-Pascual Awarded 2023 Peder Sather Grant
Alex was awarded a grant for "Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity." 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
30 Nov, 2023
Announcing Our Fall 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort
Haya Constellation Altar, 2019, Arianna Khmelniuk Read more
20 Sep, 2023
Jaclyn Zhou and Caleb Murray-Bozeman to Lead New Media Working Group
We're thrilled to announce that Jaclyn Zhou and Caleb Murray-Bozeman are the new coordinators of the New Media Working Group! Read more
08 Jun, 2023
Jill Miller & Asma Kazmi Receive C/Change Grant
Read more
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
20 Mar, 2023
Valencia James Co-Curates The Parables Experience
The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more
18 Jan, 2023
Jill Miller Presents Future Perfect
Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Greg Niemeyer Awarded Peder 2022 Sather Grant
Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more
23 Mar, 2022
Edgar Fabián Frías and Jill Miller present at ICA SF's Meantime. Read more
31 Dec, 2021
Edgar Fabián Frías in In Collaboration with Earth
Edgar Fabián Frías joined the exhibition In Collaboration with Earth at Gearbox Gallery which ran December 6–17, 2021 Read more
18 Aug, 2021
Announcing Our Fall 2021 Class Fund Recipients
This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more
19 Jun, 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
08 May, 2021
Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! 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 Mar, 2021
BCNM Around the Web March 2021
Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more
30 Jan, 2021
Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows
Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more
22 Jan, 2021
Alum Jane McGonigal speaks at Refuel conference on how games can help build mental resilience, channel positive attitudes, and encourage collaboration in the real world. Read more
25 Nov, 2020
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
11 Nov, 2020
Gail De Kosnik Joins C2I2 Scholars Council
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
11 Aug, 2020
Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers!
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
30 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Combating COVID-19 in Science Magazine
Ken Goldberg recently wrote about combating COVID-19 with robotics in Science Magazine. 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
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
27 Feb, 2020
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! 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
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
19 Nov, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Undergraduate Cohort
We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! 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
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
21 Mar, 2019
Announcing our Spring 2019 Graduate Cohort
Art by Yuanpei Zhuang. Read more
15 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg in Back to the Sandbox
Goldberg contributed an article to Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy 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
12 Feb, 2019
Critical Making at UBI Comp
Critical Making: Designing for Activism, featuring BCNM faculty Eric Paulos and Jill Miller as instructors, will be at the 10th International UBI Summer School in Oulu, Finland. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Conference Grants: Grace Gipson and Malika Imhotep at ‘Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black’
Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018
BCNM professor Ken Goldberg, UCOT's Chris Ategeka and Google AI's Timnit Gebru presented "Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It" at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2018. Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Lyman Dispatch: Grace Gipson on Unleashing Your Inner Superhero
Read more
08 May, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen in ScotiaBank Contact Photography Exhibition
The annual May festival celebrates the work of both local and international artists and photographers in the CONTACT gallery. 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 Symposium
Read more
10 Apr, 2018
Jill Miller Gives Art Practice Lecture
BCNM faculty Jill Miller was invited to present an artist talk as part of the Art Practice 2018 Noon Lecture Series. 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
09 Apr, 2018
Welcome to BCNM Spring 2018 Visiting Scholar Michael Stevenson
A warm welcome to visiting scholar Michael Stevenson, web historian and Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam! Read more
05 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Robotics May 11
Ken Goldberg will be a speaker in the lineup for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics 2018 this coming May.
Read more
02 Mar, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Beyond Academia Conference
Horbinski spoke at the Beyond Academia Conference as part of the Media and Communication panel. Read more
24 Jan, 2018
Announcing our Spring 2018 Symposium — The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Alum Leslie Dreyer ACES Artist in Residence
"A ‘Sanctuary City’ but who gets to live here?"
with Leslie Dreyer ACES Artist in Residence and BCNM Alum Read more
03 Nov, 2017
Conference Grants: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado in Davis
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado reflects on her experience at the Imagining America conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more
24 Oct, 2017
Alex Saum and Scott Rettberg Awarded Peder Sather Grant
Alex Saum-Pascual from UC Berkeley and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen received a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study grant. 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
10 Oct, 2017
Alum Stuart Geiger at the Bay Area Science Festival
BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November. Read more
31 Aug, 2017
Revisited: BCNM Open House Fall 2017
Read more
17 Aug, 2017
De Kosnik to Speak at EMPAC
BCNM and TDPS Prof. Abigail De Kosnik will present a talk on the Media Crease on September 13th, as part of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Art Center's 2017 season! Read more
31 May, 2017
Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the Latin American Studies Association's 50th Conference
Read more
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
21 Feb, 2017
Eric Paulos Gives Keynote at HotMobile Conference
This year's HotMobile Conference with Eric Paulos as Keynote speaker. Read more
17 Feb, 2017
Jenni Higgs at Writing Research Across Borders IV in Colombia
22 Nov, 2016
Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort
These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more
25 Oct, 2016
BCNM was pleased to partner with the University of California Davis Libraries and Digital Humanities at Berkeley to bring PressForward to UC Berkeley Read more
24 Oct, 2016
Shannon Jackson at the Tate Exchange
The assistant professor in Rhetoric and Performance Studies will participate in a series of events at the renowned London museum Read more
18 Oct, 2016
Together, we can think bigger and shape the future of new media 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
23 Aug, 2016
Revisited: Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute 2016
Check out the photos from the event as well as the highlights of the various courses and lectures on offer Read more
07 Jul, 2016
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dispatches: Jennifer Hartman, Lark Buckingham, and Everything After
Jennifer Hartman was selected to work with Lark Buckingham (Art Practice) on her artistic exploration of the culture surrounding sexual violence Read more
24 Jun, 2016
Alex Saum-Pascual Selfie Poetry to be Exhibited
Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more
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
03 May, 2016
Shannon Jackson in Open Engagement
Open Engagement is part of the larger Cross Sector Conference Read more
24 Sep, 2015
Alan Liu and Clifford Lynch at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
BCNM is proud to be a supporting partner of the 1st UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Summer Institute Read more
24 Sep, 2015
David Bamman at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Check out the highlights from Friday, August 21st’s presentation by David Bamman Read more
01 Sep, 2015
Calling Artists, Coders, E-Lit Lovers: GSR Opportunity
Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual! Read more
13 Jul, 2015
Best Video Prize at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge
23 Jun, 2015
The Berkeley Center for New Media was well represented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2015 in Victoria, Canada this year! Read more
12 May, 2014
New Media Working Group Exploratorium Field Trip
The New Media Working Group visited the Exploratorium last Tuesday, May 6th for a tour of new media exhibits and discussion of the production of new media works Read more
18 Mar, 2014
Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting a WikiWomen's edit-a-thon to encourage The more women to edit Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia’s coverage of women's history 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
07 May, 2013
BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media
Congratulations to all! Read more
16 Apr, 2013
Margaret Rhee receives 2013 Yamashita Prize Honorable Mention
Rhee is the recipient of an honorable mention for the 2013 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize which honors young social activists Read more
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Designated Emphasis Program
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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.
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
Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
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