The Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to support undergraduates, in particular those undertaking our New Media Certificate, to support new media graduate students on dissertation-level research. Deadline March 2. Read more

We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! This past semester, Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on Olfactory Narratives in Cinema, a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions—particularly around gender, race, and global culture. Read more

We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! McKenzie Diep worked with Maria Pettis on Bottomlands: Mapping Black Cemeteries in the Mid-South, a project addressing pending erasures of place, memory, and sites of meaning by archiving and constructing a public database of traces, scattered across material, mnemonic, and digital archives. Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Alexis Wood presented her database project, State of Mine (Mind), at the NACIS annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington! Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Alexis Wood on Social Media and sSecessionist Movements! Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more

Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media.  Read more

Clancy Wilmott received a faculty seed grant to create a map using experimental techniques combining GIS, geocomputation and hand drafting. Read more

Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more

Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more

Alum Kaitlin Forcier reviews Domenico Quaranta's Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs in Media-N! Read more

We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more

Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more

Rebecca works on the digital documentation of ancient art! Read more

Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more

Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more

Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more

The issue on "Transnational Fandom" is available via the University of Minnesota Press. Read more

"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets Read more

ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more

The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more

Rebecca Levitan presented "Out of Etruria: Collecting and Context in California" at a conference at Marco Besso Foundation with help from a BCNM Conference Grant. Read more

This summer, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado explored how Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content use new media to reconfigure power relations. Read more

Read "Becoming NULL: Queer relations in the excluded middle." Read more

Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more

Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more

BCNM ExComm member Sonia Katyal discusses the dynamic between technology and culture in her article, "Technoheritage," which was published in the California Law Review.  Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual from UC Berkeley and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen received a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study grant. Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more

BCNM's De Kosnik has received a Berkeley Collegium grant for her joint graduate/undergraduate class, "Making Sense of Cultural Data" Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Adam Hutz (Rhetoric) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what he's done so far! Read more

In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more

The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” Read more

The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more

The position is open to all current UC Berkeley students. Read more