19 Apr, 2027 History & Theory

Attending to Existence in the Work of Jonathan Sterne: Lessons from the Past, Reflections for the Future

with Carrie Rentschler, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and Associate Member of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, McGill University; Mara Mills, Associate Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication, and Director of the Center for Disability Studies, New York University; Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor, Communication, Stanford University; and Tom McEnaney, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese, and craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media, UC Berkeley

A History & Theory of New Media special event Read more

03 Sep, 2026 Art, Tech & Culture

Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations

curated by Antonio Somaini with Hannes Bajohr and Sonja Thiel, in dialogue with the France–Berkeley research initiative The Latent Spaces of Culture, featuring works by Nouf Aljowaysir; Gašper and Nina Beguš & Metahaven; Grégory Chatonsky; Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler; Asma Kazmi & Jill Miller; Andrea Khôra; Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage; Greg Niemeyer; and Mario Santamaria & Alex Saum-Pascual

An Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium special event Read more

12 Mar, 2026 Indigenous Technologies

Native Seas: Traditional Micronesian Navigators Visit the Bay Area

with Students and Relatives of Papa Mau Piailug

An Indigenous Technologies and New Media & Oceans week-long educational program bringing traditional navigators from the Northern Mariana Islands to the Bay Area for events including a celestial navigation presentation at the California Academy of Science's Morrison Planetarium, a keynote lecture on the UC Berkely campus, and a traditional boat-building workshop at Waterside Workshops.  Read more

14 Oct, 2024 Art, Tech & Culture

Internet Tour

An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places

by Alex Saum-Pascual, Poet and Assoc Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, and Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona. With the participation of Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor of Art Practice, the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media, and the Indigenous Poetics Lab at the Arts Research Center. Read more

30 Nov, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture

Echoes from the Borderlands

with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum, and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists

A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event, presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the American Cultures Center. Read more

12 Oct, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture

Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations

An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places

with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, Elisava University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley Read more

14 Nov, 2012

New Media Graduate Student Presentations

Three DE students (Theater, Performance, Dance Studies; New Media) will present their research this past semester. Read their fascinating presentation abstracts here

04 Sep, 2026

Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations - On Display Until October 3

Following a successful opening reception on September 3, the exhibit will be on display at Worth Ryder Art Gallery for a month. Curated by Antonio Somaini with Hannes Bajohr and Sonja Thiel, in dialogue with the France–Berkeley research initiative The Latent Spaces of Culture, featuring works by Nouf Aljowaysir; Gašper and Nina Beguš & Metahaven; Grégory Chatonsky; Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler; Asma Kazmi & Jill Miller; Andrea Khôra; Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage; Greg Niemeyer; and Mario Santamaria & Alex Saum-Pascual

An Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium special event Read more