06 Jan, 2026 BCNM’s Global Digital Infrastructure Program Joins Global Dialogue at the Haitian School on Internet Governance Global Digital Infrastructure (GDI) Program Manager, Federica Tortorella, delivered a session at the recent EHGI 2025 Read more
09 Dec, 2025 Below the Cloud: A Community Workshop featuring AI Systems, Ecology, and Embroidery The Berkeley Center for New Media is proud to support Below the Cloud, a symposium and workshop organized by Danika Cooper and Victoria Mohr (Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning) that will invite viewers to shift their gaze from the sky to the ground by tracing the environmental and social costs embedded within AI infrastructures, with a particular focus on water. Read more
04 Dec, 2025 AI in the Ancient Wisdom: Trees, Time, and Technology Exhibit In Ancient Wisdom, Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain explore the creative potential of AI by using it to create an aerial video portrait of LA and to enable visitors to create a series of customized textual and visual “tree tributes.” Visit BCNM member Ken Goldberg's latest art exhibit from January 22 to April 21, 2026 at the di Rosa Contemporary Art Museum in San Francisco, and read more about the themes and process of making the exhibit here. Read more
19 Nov, 2025 Summer 2026 Research Award Applications Now Open Applications for Summer 2026 Research Awards are now available! BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your graduate summer research. These fellowships are open to New Media graduate students only. Deadline March 13, 2026. Read more
18 Nov, 2025 Now Accepting Applications for 2026 Lyman Fellowship The Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media is now open for applications from a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support dissertation writing. Deadline February 2, 2026. Read more
17 Nov, 2025 Social Sciences D-Lab supports fellowship to expand accessibility to data science education The Social Sciences D-Lab recently launched a new program to prepare postdocs to lead research and teaching that emphasize equity, cultural relevance and ethical practice in data science. Read more
10 Nov, 2025 Welcoming Aaron Fai to BCNM! Aaron Fai will serve as the Center's Associate Director! Read more
31 Oct, 2025 Sonia Jorge, Founder of Global Digital Inclusion Partnership, Defines "Meaningful Connectivity" in Talk for Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure Speaker Series Sonia Jorge educated students on the digital divide in the course, Building a Sustainable Internet, held at UC Berkeley in October 2025. The talk by the digital policy expert was a bold call to action that encouraged students to become proactive on the nuanced issue of internet access. Read more
14 Oct, 2025 Alex Saum-Pascual Brings Digital Poetry to the Alhambra BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual presented Traceroute Poems, segundo viaje at cultr_ALH, a site-specific poetic performance linking fiber-optic networks and the Alhambra’s historic flows of light, water, and energy. Read more
22 Sep, 2025 Apply Now: Designated Emphasis in New Media at BCNM BCNM’s Designated Emphasis (D.E.) program is for selected UC Berkeley Ph.D. students from any Berkeley home department with research interests in new media. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025! Read more
