29 Jan, 2026 Art, Tech & Culture The World According to Sound: Ways of Knowing An immersive sonic experience about the spirit of academic inquiry with Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett Founders/Producers, The World According to Sound An Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium special presentation 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
12 Apr, 2023 Special Events Rivers, Forests & Earth: Speculating Dalit Histories and Dalit Futures in Bengal Featuring Hugo and Nebula Prize Nominee Mimi Mondal Presented by UC Berkeley's Bangali Student Association (BSA) with the support of Institute for South Asia Studies, the South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African (SSWANA) Initiative, and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM). Read more
18 Feb, 2021 Women in Tech Symposium – The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction, We're co-sponsoring!
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
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
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
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
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
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
16 Apr, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Abolition Feminisms with Angela Davis Activist and Professor, CA interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media A 2018 Regents Lecture 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
30 Nov, 2017 Special Events Women in Tech: A Symposium on Innovation & Entrepreneurship This public half-day symposium will highlight the experience of women in the tech industry—from established companies to startups and the venture capital firms that support them. 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
26 Nov, 2016 Special Events "Local Code" Book Launch: a Conversation & Reading with Nicholas de Monchaux Read more
09 Nov, 2016 Art, Tech & Culture Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials in Three Acts Ronald Rael is an applied architectural researcher, author, design entrepreneur, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Special Events Jane Jacobs and the Digital City in partnership with SPUR San Francisco Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Workshops Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital Cities Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the School of Information's Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. 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
30 Oct, 2015 Workshops Networked Surveillance: Masterclass with Julian Oliver A crash course in reading network topologies as political control structures, with discussions Read more
05 May, 2015 Special Events 2015 CITRIS Mobile App Challenge A challenge to promote innovation, community service, and career development among UC Berkeley students Read more
08 Apr, 2015 Workshops Lunch with Product Design Pioneer Patricia Moore A special opportunity for BCNM students and faculty to discuss inclusive design and share projects Read more
23 Feb, 2015 Art, Tech & Culture The Way Things Go by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
04 Oct, 2014 Art, Tech & Culture Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing A lecture by Brett Cook, 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
29 Mar, 2014 Special Events Impossible Hackathon We're bringing wifi, food, API's, an amazing community... You bring ideas help this "economy of kindness" Read more
06 Mar, 2014 History & Theory The Cybernetic Hypothesis A History and Theory lecture by Alex Galloway, philosophy writer and programmer. Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Read more
18 Nov, 2013 Art, Tech & Culture Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism A lecture by Laetitia Sonami -- composer, performer, and sound artist Read more
24 Oct, 2012 Special Events Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids with Saul Griffith, Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab Read more
24 Oct, 2012 Special Events Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids with Saul Griffith, Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab Read more
16 Apr, 2012 Special Events From Chat to Interactives: The Evolution of the Digital Commons A lecture by Laura Robinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University Read more
25 Apr, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Pure Engineering – Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and Consumerism with Raffaello D’Andrea, an artist and Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Read more
09 Mar, 2011 Special Events New Media Research Roundtable: A Moving Image – Media and Metaphor in Stage Performance An informal talk and screening led by Ellen Bromberg, Guggenheim Fellow, choreographer, and media artist 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
13 Sep, 2025 BCNM's Nicole Starosielski Wins im100 Award Congratulations to BCNM and Film & Media Studies Professor Nicole Starosielski on being recognized by data center industry group iMasons as an im100 award winner for 2025. Professor Starosielski won the award for developing education on digital infrastructure, specifically this year's launch of the Global Digital Infrastructure Certificate at BCNM. Read more
03 Feb, 2025 We're Hiring! Calling all digital infrastructures experts! Be part of an exciting new curriculum. Read more
07 Nov, 2024 Summer 2025 Research Award Application Now Open Applications are due March 1, 2025. Read more
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
11 Jul, 2023 Cesar Torres at Creativity & Cognition 2023 Alum Cesar Torres presented multiple papers, including "Cogcues: Shifting Perception through Interactive Projected Cues in Still Life Drawing," which won a Best Paper Award. Read more
27 Jun, 2023 BCNM's Big Wins 2023 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
26 May, 2023 Kimiko Ryokai & Team Awarded 1.29M Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more
20 Mar, 2023 Abigail De Kosnik Receives Distinguished Teaching Award The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more
17 Mar, 2023 Bo Ruberg Receives the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award SCMS recently announced the winners, including our own alum Bo Ruberg! Read more
13 Mar, 2023 Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
07 Feb, 2023 Grace Gipson on Pop Junctions On the Pop Junctions blog, BCNM alum Grace Gipson discusses race, fandom, and casting Halle Bailey in the the 2023 live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Read more
31 Jan, 2023 Xiaowei Wang Receives Science & Literature National Book Award Blockchain Chicken Farm has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2023 $10,000 science and literature awards! Read more
23 Dec, 2022 Ken Goldberg and AutoLab Featured in IEOR Magazine The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more
16 Dec, 2022 Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the National Humanities Conference Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Read more
06 Dec, 2022 We're Hiring an Events Coordinator & Office Manager in 2023 Join us at BCNM curating and offering an exciting array of programs, including our popular Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies program! Read more
18 Nov, 2022 BCNM at 4S 2022 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
12 Nov, 2022 Summer 2023 Research Award Application Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
31 Aug, 2022 Ken Goldberg at IROS 2022 Ken Goldberg and team present four papers at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)! Read more
31 Aug, 2022 Applications for our Fall 2022 Conference Grants Now Open BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more
22 Jul, 2022 Hannah Zeavin on the Power of Teletherapy R.H. Cohen interviews Hannah Zeavin on her book The Distance Cure for Public Books. Read more
10 Jun, 2022 BCNM's Big Wins 2022 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
16 May, 2022 Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients Project by Jessie Mindel with Selin Longmire, Angelica Song, Bradley Russo. Read more
05 Feb, 2022 Applications for our Spring 2022 Conference Grants Now Open BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more
02 Feb, 2022 Clement Hil Goldberg Receives Creative Capital Award Congratulations to Clement Hil Goldberg's 'Let Me Let You Go' for receiving the Creative Capital Award which supports artists who are pushing boundaries and asking challenging questions! Read more
09 Dec, 2021 Ken Goldberg on Grasping in Science News for Students "Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more
07 Dec, 2021 Morgan Ames Wins the 2020 Sally Hacker Prize The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience. Read more
06 Dec, 2021 Hannah Zeavin Wins the 2021 Brooke Hindle Award The Society for the History of Technology awards $10,000 for the Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology. Read more
04 Dec, 2021 Laptops Alone Can't Bridge the Digital Divide by Morgan Ames The failures of One Laptop per Child have much to teach us about fixing educational inequities, Morgan Ames writes for Technology Review. Read more
22 Nov, 2021 Summer 2022 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
30 Aug, 2021 Summer Research: Hala Kaddoura on Joy Hala Kaddoura received a BCNM summer research award to advance her art practice. She traveled to Lebanon to begin a new project on joy. Read more
20 Aug, 2021 Summer Research Dispatch: Tonya Nguyen on Mutual Aid Organizations' Use of Technology Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. 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
06 Aug, 2021 Clement Goldberg Selected PAGE Quarter Finalist Clement Goldberg was selected as a Quarter Finalist for the the 2021 PAGE Awards! Read more
27 Jul, 2021 BCNM's Big Wins 2021 It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021. Read more
21 Jul, 2021 Applications for our Fall 2021 Conference Grants are now open! BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to help defray the costs associated with sharing their work at conferences. Read more
25 Apr, 2021 BCNM Offers 15 Need Based Stipends In the wake of COVID-19, BCNM converted existing grant programs to support its students with need-based stipends. 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
17 Apr, 2021 Celeste Kidd Receives Janet Taylor Spence Award BCNM faculty member Celeste Kidd is a recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for her work on knowledge acquisition! 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
20 Nov, 2020 Summer 2021 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
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
01 Sep, 2020 Summer Research Dispatch: Chris Chan & International Art Collaborations COVID-19 curtailed travel, but Chris Chan continued to develop relationships with artists in China and Taiwan. 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
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
12 Aug, 2020 Summer Research Dispatch: Emily Gui & Zoom Glitches Artist Emily Gui created a new work using Zoom to document these unprecedented times. Read more
07 Jul, 2020 BCNM Students Receive Architecture Awards Congratulations to the amazing BCNM students receiving prized awards from the Architecture Department. Read more
17 Jun, 2020 BCNM Students Finalists for Fast Company's Student World Changing Ideas Collective Obscura, a project created by BCNM students, was one of the finalists for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2020. Read more
23 Apr, 2020 Harry Burson Named Lemelson Center Fellow Harry Burson is named 2020 Lemelson Center Fellow and will focus his research on the creation of a new mode of acoustic perspective. Read more
27 Feb, 2020 Excavating AI Wins BSHS Ayrton Prize BSHS Ayrton Prize 2019 Winners Announced and Excavating AI by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford is included. Read more
04 Jan, 2020 cNet names danah boyd One of 30 Personalities Who Defined the 2010s CNET's list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years includes alum, Data & Society founder, danah boyd. Read more
29 Nov, 2019 Applications for our Spring 2020 Conference Grants Now Open BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with conference attenddance. Read more
20 Nov, 2019 Summer 2020 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
05 Nov, 2019 We're Hiring an Events Coordinator! Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet. Read more
15 Oct, 2019 Xiaowei Wang Receives Mozilla Creative Media Award The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. Read more
25 Sep, 2019 danah boyd Named EFF Barlow Recipient BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar' Read more
06 Sep, 2019 Summer Research Dispatch: Brian Bartz in Trevor Paglen's Studio Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more
22 Aug, 2019 Summer Research Dispatch: Tory Jeffay on Photographic Evidence & Police Body Cameras Read more
21 Aug, 2019 Summer Research Dispatch: Juliana Friend on Sutura Juliana traveled to Senegal to study shifting notions of digital privacy and publicity. 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
16 Aug, 2019 Rebecca Levitan Summer Dispatch: Polychromy in Athens This summer, Rebecca traveled to Athens to study architectural sculpture and figural graffiti using cutting edge imaging. Read more
13 Jul, 2019 Applications for our Fall 2019 Conference Grants Now Open BCNM students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with conference attenddance. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 ATC 2018-2019 In Review Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! 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 Alum Naomi Bragin Receives NEH Summer Stipend Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970." Read more
14 Mar, 2019 Alum Margaret Rhee Receives Best Book Award from AAAS The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. Read more
03 Dec, 2018 Now Accepting Applications for our Spring 2019 Conference Grants BCNM graduate students are invited to apply for funds to assist in their conference attendance. Read more
28 Nov, 2018 Summer 2019 Research Award Applications Now Open We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more
05 Nov, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen Receives Nam June Paik Art Center Prize Trevor Paglen has won the bi-annual Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, which comes with a $45,000 award and solo exhibition. Read more
31 Oct, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Peter Humphrey and Electroacoustic Science This summer, Peter Humphrey explored the evolution of electroacoustic science and the history of sound recording. Read more
01 Oct, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Caribbean Literary Portrayals of New Media This summer, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado explored how Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content use new media to reconfigure power relations. Read more
01 Oct, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Ryan Ikeda & Electronic Literature This summer, Ryan Ikeda examined how instructors, departments and institutions teach electronic literature. Read more
10 Sep, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Ritwik Banerji on Improvisation This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more
30 Aug, 2018 Summer Research Dispatch: Noura Howell on Biosensing This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. 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
19 Jun, 2018 Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2018 Conference Grants Due October 1, 2018 Read more
06 Jun, 2018 Alum Andrea Horbinski Receives Honorable Mention for The Chute Award We're thrilled to share that alum Andrea Horbinski received an honorable mention for The Chute Award in the inaugural Comics Studies Society Awards. Read more
30 May, 2018 We're Hiring! - Office Manager & Events Coordinator Wanted! The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. 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
18 Apr, 2018 Richard Koci Hernandez Named Bloomberg Chair Richard Koci Hernandez, an award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia, has been named the Bloomberg Chair at the Graduate School of Journalism. Read more
03 Dec, 2017 BCNM Seed Grant Funded New Cadavre Exquis by Neyran Turan Receives Award Neyran Turan, recipient of a BCNM seed grant, received an honorable mention from the 2017 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Awards. Read more
28 Nov, 2017 Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2018 Conference Grants Due March 1, 2018 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
27 Oct, 2017 Eric Paulos and Unmaking Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more
23 Aug, 2017 Now Accepting Applications for Conference Grants Calling BCNM Grad students! If you're presenting a paper at a conference, apply for these grants to help subsidize the costs! Read more
28 Apr, 2017 Visualizing the Internet Greg Niemeyer received BCNM research funding to build a VR rendering of Earth. Read more
22 Mar, 2017 Interview with Asma Kazmi! Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more
27 Feb, 2017 Ken Goldberg Receives Google Research Grant The 2016 Google Research Machine Learning and Data Mining Award goes to a BCNM faculty! Read more
12 Dec, 2016 Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2017 Conference Grants The BCNM is able to offer a small subsidy for students attending the premiere conferences in their fields Read more
12 Sep, 2016 Upcoming Women in Technology Symposium Gender diversity among leadership teams and the broader workforce offers demonstrated advantages for innovative thinking, job satisfaction, and corporate bottom lines Read more
01 Sep, 2016 Announcing Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium This event is a partnership between BCNM and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Read more
01 Aug, 2016 Many-to-Many Receives Digital Humanities Grant Juliana Friend (Anthropology) received a Collaborative Research Grant from Digital Humanities at Berkeley for her project, Many to Many Read more
27 Jul, 2016 Valencia: Now Available to Rent on Vimeo Clement Hil Goldberg, recent Art Practice and BCNM DE graduate, produced the experimental feature length film with Michelle Tea Read more
07 Jul, 2016 Two Honorable Mentions and a Best Paper at DIS 2016 This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more
19 May, 2016 Announcing our 2016 Graduates Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
12 May, 2016 Akhila Raju Receives Eugene Lawler Sudent Award and Discusses Dealing with Disability in Tech BCNM undergraduate Akhila Raju recently wrote about her journey through the computer science major at Cal while dealing with chronic depressive disorder Read more
12 May, 2016 2016 Faculty Seed Grants BCNM is pleased to announce the awards of its first ever Faculty Seed Grant Read more
09 May, 2016 Interactive Urban Lighting Recommended for NEA UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media - one of 64 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town projects selected nationwide Read more
19 Apr, 2016 BCNM Ed Campion Receives a Guggenheim Congratulations are in order for Mr. Campion 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
28 Jan, 2016 Summer '16 Research Awards Applications Due in March Applications Due: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Read more
21 Sep, 2015 T. Geronimo Johnson's “Welcome to Braggsville” Longlisted for National Book Award "Welcome to Braggsville" relates the humorous story of four UC Berkeley students who plot a protest against a Civil War re-enactment in a segregated Southern town Read more
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
09 Jun, 2015 Editor's Choice Awards at Bay Area Maker Faire Three Editor's Choice awards were awarded to NWMEDIA 203: Critical Making projects at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire Read more
06 Apr, 2015 Summer 2015 Research Awards BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more
17 Mar, 2015 Abigail De Kosnik wins Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award Prof. De Kosnik has shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting graduate students Read more
11 Feb, 2015 Kimiko Ryokai Kimiko's research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of beyond-desktop computational media 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
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
29 Oct, 2013 Revisited: Creating Minds Creating Minds, an academic conference on reading and writing in the digital age had over 300 attendees throughout the day's talks and panels! Read more
15 Oct, 2013 First Winner of the Turing Test Tournament Every month, BCNM recognizes a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score and awards the designated UC Berkeley student organization with a $1000 prize Read more
14 Aug, 2013 Announcing the 2013-2014 History and Theory in New Media Lecture Series The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media with support from CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Read more
09 Aug, 2013 BCNM's Coye Cheshire Awarded NSF Grant For his project "Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems" Read more
17 Jul, 2013 BCNM Masters Student Jason Glassford Awarded Fellowship The Murphy and Cadogan awards are designed to “help fuel the continued forward-thinking, visual arts movement that makes the Bay area unique” 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
19 Jun, 2012 BCNM Student Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Digital Democracy and Social Movements The Sociology Program of the NSF awards grants that have "theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes" Read more