23 Feb, 2026 History & Theory Remodeling Rationality: A History of Unorthodox Computing and AI with Rodrigo Ochigame Historian and Anthropologist of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, Netherlands A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event Read more
29 Sep, 2025 Art, Tech & Culture Coralations with Melody Jue Professor, English, University of California, Santa Barbara A New Media & Oceans event Read more
04 Mar, 2024 History & Theory Mediascapes of Postsocialism: Cuban New Media Cultures After the End of History with Paloma Duong Associate Professor of Latin American and Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) Read more
18 Mar, 2021 Conference Fandom + Piracy: Piracy & Capitalism Panel with Jennifer Holt, Brewster Kahle, Alexander Dent, and Keller Easterling Read more
20 Jan, 2015 Special Events CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit 2015 We're sponsoring a semester-long competition for the best mobile apps that address civic needs! 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
23 Apr, 2012 Art, Tech & Culture On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
15 Nov, 2010 Art, Tech & Culture Architectural Communication in the Knowledge Economy with Jeffrey Inaba, founder of INABA, an architecture firm based in Los Angeles Read more
30 Apr, 2025 Announcing BCNM's Spring 2025 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. We look forward to seeing the work of these students spread across the globe! Read more
21 Mar, 2024 Video now online! Paloma Duong's Mediascapes of Postsocialism: Cuban New Media Cultures After the End of History Missed the talk with Paloma Duong? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
26 Jul, 2023 Announcing the 2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media Season We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our HTNM lecture series, featuring Paloma Duong, Erik Davis, Lauren Klein, and more! Read more
26 Jul, 2023 Announcing the 2023-2024 Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies Season We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies lecture series, featuring Eduardo Costa, Martina Broner, micha cárdenas, and more! Read more
18 Jan, 2023 Vincente Perez Receives Sundress Microgrant The recipient of the Light Bill Incubator Microgrant is Vincente Perez. They will receive $500, a slot in Sundress’s reading series, and a residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN. Read more
15 Aug, 2022 BCNM at ASA 2022 The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more
22 Jan, 2022 BCNM Around the Web January 2022 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
03 Jun, 2021 Transcript Now Online: Piracy & Capitalism Check out the transcript for the Piracy & Capitalism Panel! Read more
04 Feb, 2021 Trevor Paglen Featured in Forbes Trevor Paglen was recently featured in a Forbes article about his art dedicated to exposing the "biogtry of AI". Read more
01 Feb, 2021 Six Books About Robots & AI from Ken Goldberg Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! Read more
12 Nov, 2020 Announcing the Fall 2020 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome this Fall’s graduate cohort! Read more
03 Sep, 2020 Alum Trevor Paglen Featured in Wall Street Journal Magazine Trevor Paglen was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal Magazine on his work in art and artificial intelligence. Read more
01 Jan, 2020 Trevor Paglen & Kate Crawford On Excavating AI Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets 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
01 Sep, 2019 BCNM around the Web September 2019 More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie. 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
21 Nov, 2018 Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
07 Nov, 2018 Tom McEnaney Finalist for MSA First Book Prize Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2017) by Tom McEnaney made it onto the short list for the First Book Prize. 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
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
09 Jul, 2018 Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the LASA 2018 Conference Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." 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
05 Dec, 2017 Trevor Paglen and Art in the Age of Mass Surveillance in The Guardian BCNM alum and artist Trevor Paglen and his art were featured on an article on art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Read more
13 Nov, 2017 Yairamaren Roman Maldonado Part of "Boricuas in Berkeley" Aiding Puerto Rico Yairamaren Roman Maldonado, a BCNM graduate student, joins Boricuas in Berkeley to aid Puerto Rico. 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
17 Oct, 2017 Welcome Tom McEnaney Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities. Read more
31 May, 2017 Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the Latin American Studies Association's 50th Conference Read more
24 May, 2017 Tom McEnaney Publishes Acoustic Property A new book exploring the prehistory of wireless culture from BCNM Alum Tom McEnany Read more
03 Feb, 2015 Announcing the Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for Innovation in New Media Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more
12 May, 2014 Mobile Apps Demo Day BCNM was excited to offer NWMEDIA 198 this semester, a decal associated with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society's (CITRIS) Mobile Apps Challenge Read more
21 Jan, 2014 Connect with BCNM's Naomi Bragin and Street Dance This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Naomi Bragin explores power structures through street dance. Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2020
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2019