with Xiaowei Wang
Writer and artist; author of Blockchain Chicken Farm
& An Xiao Mina
Writer and artist; author of From Memes to MovementsRead more
04 Oct, 2018
History & Theory
Learning To Interact: Cybernetics and Play
with Timothy Stott
Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture
Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology 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
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
05 Feb, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Connectivity as a Human Right
with Nick Negroponte
Architect, MIT, Massachussetts Presented in partnership with the Jacobs Institute for Design InnovationRead 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 Centerand the Dean of Arts and HumanitiesRead more
05 Oct, 2017
Commons Conversations
Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media
New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. Read more
22 Aug, 2017
Special Events
BCNM Fall 2017 Open House
Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for our annual open house Read more
20 Mar, 2017
Special Events
Color of New Media 2017 Open House!
Learn more about the diverse ecology of new media activities happening on campus! Read more
30 Mar, 2012
Special Events
The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
Hosted at SFMoMA, featuring Nicholas DeMonchaux and the work of Buckminster Fuller Read more
BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
02 Nov, 2022
BCNM at American Studies Association 2022
Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022. Read more
25 Oct, 2022
BCNM at AMS/SEM/SMT 2022
Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more
07 Aug, 2022
Big Gaming Questions with Alenda Chang
Alenda Chang joins in an asynchronous roundtable discussion with Tara Fickle, Gregory Grieve, and Chris Patterson on Gaming Plus Project. 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
21 May, 2022
BCNM Around the Web May
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! 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
Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more
09 Mar, 2021
"What Can a Robot Do?" With Ken Goldberg
Professor Ken Goldberg recently delved into the connections between nature and technology in a Nero Magazine interview. 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
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
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
14 Nov, 2020
Playing Nature Reviewed in ISLE
Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE.Read more
11 Oct, 2020
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Published
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
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
30 Aug, 2020
Announcing BCNM's Fall 2020 Class Fund Recipients
We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more
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
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
02 Jul, 2020
Clancy Wilmott & Emma Fraser Publish Ruins of the Smart City
The visual intervention was published in the journal of Visual Communication and considers what the city could be by investigating the cities of today. 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
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
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
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
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
Malika Imhotep Wins Award for Critical Writing
Gulf Coast announced the winner of the 2019 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, Ra Malika Imhotep, for her essay "On Retrieval." 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
18 Dec, 2019
Alum Alenda Chang Publishes Playing Nature
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
09 Jul, 2019
HTNM 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! 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
30 May, 2019
Revisited: Art as Critique Conference
Felix Rosen recaps ARC’s Art as Critique Conference from March 1, 2019, which BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor. Read more
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
18 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Robots in Nature Machine Intelligence
Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Tom McEnaney Launches GloUH Colloquium
Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more
19 Apr, 2018
Revisited: The Past is Present Exhibition
Asma Kazmi curated a fantastic virtual reality exhibition we were thrilled to preview as part of the Past is Present. Read more
18 Apr, 2018
Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio One Course on Radical Futures in Landscape Architecture Magazine
Nicholas de Monchaux's Studio ONE master's program, which begins next school year, was featured in the Landscape Architecture Magazine. Read more
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
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
13 Nov, 2017
Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political
Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
11 Sep, 2017
Revisited: TF Tierney, Intelligent Infrastructure
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
17 Nov, 2016
Shannon Jackson on Funding the Arts at Battery Powered
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11 Oct, 2016
Local Code by Nicholas de Monchaux Out Now at University of Princeton Architectural Press
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
26 May, 2016
Berkeley and the new SFMOMA — partners in art and public engagement
Kate Mattingly, Designated Emphasis student, wrote about UCB's relationship with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Read more
09 Jan, 2014
New Media Exhibit Developer: Interactive Data Visualizations
The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more
07 May, 2013
BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media
