17 Oct, 2025 Commons Conversations AI and Global Digital Infrastructure with Nicole Starosielski, Professor, Film & Media, UC Berkeley; Danika Cooper, Professor, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley; and special guests A Commons Conversation Read more
01 Feb, 2025 Special Events Eco Ensemble: Best of Berkeley with the UC Berkeley Music Department’s ensemble Presented by Cal Performances. Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT), Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Music Department, and Meyer Sound Read more
21 Oct, 2024 Art, Tech & Culture Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality with Damien McDuffie Creative Technologist, Digital Archivist, Augmented Reality Artist, Founder of Black Terminus AR, and Black Public Media Visiting Artist Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology An Oakland New Media event co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies Read more
13 Nov, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture What Gets Amplified with Raven Chacon Composer An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Music, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
11 Sep, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later) with Jesse Colin Jackson Associate Professor, Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of Geography Read more
13 Mar, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture Road to Hybridabad with Osman Khan Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the South Asia Art Initiative Read more
29 Sep, 2022 Special Events Person Specificity and Physiovalence: Performance Practice Toward Decolonizing Classical Music with Ken Ueno Composer, vocalist, improviser, sound artist, and Professor of Music, UC Berkeley Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by The Department of Ethnic Studies Read more
04 Oct, 2021 Art, Tech & Culture Colonial Practices and Cultural Repression by the Municipality against the Community Museum of the Valle de Xico but “It is our 25th anniversary and we are still here.” with Maria Thereza Alves Artist Moderated by Edgar Fabián Frias Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, the Center for Race and Gender, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
01 Oct, 2021 Workshops Refamiliarization: Day 3 Bread Symphony Workshop with Katya Rozanova, Emily Saltz, Ashley Lewis, and Max Horwich Read more
30 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization: Day 2 Event with Edgar Fabián Frías and short film screenings Read more
29 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization: Day 1 Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more
28 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more
13 Sep, 2021 Art, Tech & Culture How Can a Maori Girl Recolonise the Screen Using Mighty Pixels with Lisa Reihana Artist, Aotearoa/New Zealand Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
07 Nov, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL with Lawrence Lek Artist, Filmmaker and Musician Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
25 Oct, 2020 Special Events Crisis and Creativity: Virtual Artists in Residence at UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative With Mithu Sen Performs conceptual and interactive multi-format byproducts which include drawing, poetry, moving images, sculptures, installations, sound And Brendan Fernandes Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts Read more
16 Mar, 2020 Commons Conversations ONLINE: Expanded Internet Art with Ceci Moss, curator, writer, education, LA *Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom* Read more
21 Oct, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Non-Human Art with Leonel Moura Artist, Lisbon Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies with Marisa Morán Jahn Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Robots Are Creatures, Not Things with Madeline Gannon Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
01 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Body Without Borders with Rhonda Holberton Artist, Oakland Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. 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
09 Nov, 2018 Commons Conversations Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the 20th Century with Lucia Allais Associate Professor of Architecture, Princeton University Read more
15 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Image and Amnesia with Kerry Tribe Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
24 Apr, 2018 Special Events Mapping as Research with Trevor Paglen Artist, CA in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art, UC Berkeley hosted by the Arts Research Center co-sponsored by BCNM, BAMPFA and the Department of Geography Read more
14 Feb, 2018 Commons Conversations Commons Conversations: Adolf Loos After the Death of Adolf Loos This talk revisits the life and work of Adolf Loos during the architect’s lifetime, but also beyond his death in 1933. 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
25 Apr, 2017 Commons Conversations Digital Dissent BCNM, in partnership with the School of Information and Graduate School of Journalism, turn to the particular role, and power, of digital tools to express and organize political dissent, and create greater institutional and political transparency! Read more
19 Apr, 2017 Special Events Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism with DJ Spooky Read more
03 Apr, 2017 Art, Tech & Culture Remapping History: The Unwanted Population - CANCELED with Tiffany Chung, internationally noted cartographer Read more
11 Feb, 2017 Special Events Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA Prof. Niemeyer on the latest exhibition Read more
17 Jan, 2017 Art, Tech & Culture Collecting the Uncollectible with art collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich in conversation with Larry Rinder, BAMPFA Director Read more
17 Nov, 2016 Art, Tech & Culture The Peaks and Valleys of Kinetic Sculpture with Reuben Margolin, American-born artist and sculptor Read more
10 Nov, 2016 Special Events Sex, Lies, and Data Mining with Luke DuBois, co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data Read more
22 Feb, 2016 Art, Tech & Culture Proxies and Placeholders with Hito Steyerl, renowned German artist Read more
03 Dec, 2015 Special Events Everything After: Opossum Impressions An installation by Lark Buckinham, UC Berkeley MFA student Read more
28 Sep, 2015 Art, Tech & Culture Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air with Vito Acconci, American designer, architect, performance and installation artist Read more
06 Apr, 2015 Art, Tech & Culture Reality Environments with Jose Carlos Martinat, artist, and Enrique Mayorga, researcher Read more
05 Apr, 2015 Workshops Espacio Publico, Contexto Personal A Masterclass with Jose Carlos Martinat. Open to artists, inventors, and engineers Read more
23 Feb, 2015 Art, Tech & Culture The Way Things Go by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
19 Feb, 2015 History & Theory Intermedia Dance An HTNM lecture by Elizabeth Freeman, UCD Professor Read more
03 Feb, 2015 Special Events Natural Frequencies: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversary of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more
13 Nov, 2014 Special Events Art Installation Opening: Leslie Dreyer's “Reclaim Disrupt” An SF-focused project on hyper gentrification Read more
03 Nov, 2014 Art, Tech & Culture Creative Interventions and Social Activation A lecture by Cheryl Haines on her collaboration with Ai Weiwei, at the David Brower Center Read more
04 Oct, 2014 Art, Tech & Culture Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing A lecture by Brett Cook, Read more
29 Sep, 2014 Art, Tech & Culture What is Missing? This not-to-be-missed lecture by renowned American architect, Maya Lin Read more
26 Jun, 2014 Special Events Maxine CD Release Party The release of Ritwik Banerji's (DE) project, Maxine Read more
21 Nov, 2013 Special Events Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson Presented by The Arts Research Center 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
17 Nov, 2013 Special Events “What is this sound?” Composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada will perform a live sound experience at BAMPFA. Be sure to not miss out! Read more
07 Nov, 2013 History & Theory Media Infrastructures A History and Theory lecture by Lisa Parks, UCSB Professor and former Film & Media Studies Department Chair Read more
14 Oct, 2013 Art, Tech & Culture Skin Play: Visual Ethics and ”Race” in Digital Art with Jennifer Gonzalez, UCSC History of Art and Visual Culture instructor Read more
16 Sep, 2013 Art, Tech & Culture Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional with Allan deSouza, UC Berkeley faculty and photographer Read more
04 Mar, 2013 Art, Tech & Culture Of CAVES and Curiosity Meredith Tromble (SFAI) and Dawn Sumner (UCD) on "Imaging and Imagination in Collaborative Research" Read more
22 Jan, 2013 Special Events "Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only," Video Art Exhibition View new work by Jason Fritz at the BCNM Commons! Read more
04 Dec, 2012 Lo-Fi & Hi-Touch In The Age of Hi-Tech A lecture by Scott Doorley, creative director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
14 Nov, 2012 Special Events FutARism: The Possiblities of Augmented Reality in Art Making with Amir Baradaran, Media and Performance Artist, New York Read more
16 Oct, 2012 Workshops New Media Working Group: Henry Witecki, Visual Artist, Oakland Witecki, interdisciplinary artist and writer, will present his recent body of composite images, animations, and projections 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
21 Nov, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape with Marc Horowitz, interdisciplinary artist. A part of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
31 Oct, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Present Continuous Past(s): The Centre Pompidou New Media Collection with Christine Van Assche, Chief Curator and Curator of New Media at the Centre Georges Pompidou Read more
10 Oct, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface with Kal Spelletich, SF-based artist Read more
21 Sep, 2011 Special Events Opening Reception and Artist Talk, Video Voyages An evening at the BCNM Commons Read more
28 Mar, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Sophie Calle, Artist Presentation with Q&A Hosted at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Arrive early to claim your seat! 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
17 Nov, 2010 Special Events Artist Lecture: Nao Bustamante Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing Read more
11 Oct, 2010 Art, Tech & Culture Art and the Utopian Imaginary with Mark Tribe, artist and occasional curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics 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
23 May, 2025 Spring 2025 Critical Making Showcase Brings Wearables to Life The Berkeley Center for New Media’s Spring 2025 Critical Making course culminated in an inspiring public showcase, Fashioning Fashionables. Art by Diana Bolanos, Christy Huang, Lydia Millhon, Hailey Pemberton, and Sasha Suggs. Read more
10 May, 2025 Announcing Our Summer 2025 Undergraduate Research Fellows 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
18 Apr, 2025 Announcing Our Spring 2025 DE & Certificate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome this Spring's cohort—an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars from Film and Media, Information Science, Spanish and Portuguese, Envrionmental Design, Art Practice, Engineering, and Landscape Architecture! Read more
13 Apr, 2025 Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller Showcase “Carbonivore” at Gray Area Exhibition BCNM faculty members Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller have unveiled Carbonivore, a new immersive installation at Gray Area Gallery, running from April 22 to July 20, 2025. Art by Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller. Read more
25 Mar, 2025 Announcing the 2025 Lyman Recipients BCNM is excited to announce Eda Er (Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition) and Meg Everett (Ph.D. candidate in the Learning Sciences and Human Development) have been awarded this year’s 2025 Peter Lyman Fellowship! Read more
12 Mar, 2025 Announcing Our Summer 2025 New Media Courses We are excited to announce our recommended New Media courses for Summer 2025! Whether you're drawn to sound design, tech geopolitics, feminist media studies, or animation, these courses will inspire creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on learning in the ever-evolving landscape of new media. Read more
13 Feb, 2025 Video now online! Damien McDuffie's "Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality" Missed Damien McDuffie's ATC lecture on augmented reality? A recording of the talk has now been uploaded to YouTube! Read more
06 Feb, 2025 Design Matters: Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain On the Design Matters podcast, BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg and his partner Tiffany Shlain delve into their artistic collaboration, creative processes, and work-life balance! Read more
05 Jan, 2025 "Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology" Featured in Cultured Magazine BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg's collaborative exhibition “Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology” is featured in Cultured Magazine! Read more
25 Dec, 2024 Those Abstract Designs on Salesforce Tower Actually Tell the Story of the Bay An article from Pendarvis Harshaw on Greg Niemeyer's newest art installation. Read more
23 Nov, 2024 Ken Goldberg and the Wisdom of Trees in Hyperallergic BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain's installation Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology has been spotlighted in Hyperallergic. Read more
24 Oct, 2024 Xiaowei Wang Presents Feral Frequencies Xiaowei Wang presents Feral Frequencies: live performance and radio séance at / (Slash) Art Gallery! Read more
17 Oct, 2024 Trevor Paglen Featured in 25 Important AI Works Check out Trevor Paglen's piece featured in ARTnews's 25 Essential AI Artworks! Read more
15 Oct, 2024 Ken Goldberg & Tiffany Shlain's Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology Join artists Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain for a special guided walkthrough of their new exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center! Read more
15 Oct, 2024 Announcing BCNM's 2024 Faculty Seed Grant Recipient This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support one faculty member in their scholarship through a seed grant that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate this amazing artist! Read more
13 Oct, 2024 Announcing BCNM's Fall 2024 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. Read more
10 Oct, 2024 Summer Research Reports: Eda Er on Marbled Narratives BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Eda Er on Marbled Narratives! Read more
23 Sep, 2024 Announcing Our Fall 2024 Class Fund Recipients We're excited to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more
21 Sep, 2024 BCNM Around the Web Summer 2024 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer 2024! 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
05 May, 2024 Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more
18 Apr, 2024 Alum Xiaowei Wang Interviews ATC Speaker Jen Liu A video installation that gleans new meanings from endings, writes Xiaowei Wang for Bomb magazine. Read more
07 Apr, 2024 Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients 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
04 Apr, 2024 BCNM Around the Web Spring 24 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more
23 Feb, 2024 Alum Trevor Paglen Featured in El País From secret CIA prisons to the images that train AI, this article shares how Trevor Paglen looks where we cannot see. Read more
15 Feb, 2024 Video now online! Raven Chacon's What Gets Amplifed Missed the talk with Raven Chacon, 2023 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
21 Dec, 2023 Asma Kazmi Awarded 2023 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Microgrant The award is offered by the New Media Caucus. Read more
13 Dec, 2023 Interview with Edgar Fabián Frías in Bold Journey Edgar talks art and their journey to reach their current practice. Read more
04 Nov, 2023 Announcing BCNM's Fall 2023 Faculty Seed Grants This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more
15 Sep, 2023 Valencia James at Murphy & Cadogan Exhibition Valencia James will be presenting a new iteration of their art installation, Landship Valiant Star at SomArts Gallery in San Francisco. Read more
15 Aug, 2023 Valencia James & Landship Valiant Star Read about Valencia James and Landship Valiant Star; a multimodal research project in which I am exploring the living history of the Barbados Landship. Read more
10 Aug, 2023 BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023 Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
29 Jun, 2023 Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman on Art, Surveillance, and Investigation Trevor and Eyal discuss how art and architecture can be harnessed to challenge structures of power and state control. Read more
13 Jun, 2023 Ken Goldberg Exhibiting Trees, Time and Technology Trees, Time, and Technology: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology Read more
22 Apr, 2023 Alum Tiffany Ng Featured Artist on MUSFORUM MUSFORUM is the online network for women organists. Read more
14 Apr, 2023 Making the Invisible Visible with Alum Trevor Paglen The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn talks to alum and artist Trevor Paglen about mass surveillance. Read more
05 Apr, 2023 Profile of Alum Edgar Fabian Frias in Voyage LA Check out this new interview with alum Edgar Fabián Frías in VoyageLA! Read more
23 Mar, 2023 Announcing Our Summer 2023 Research Award Recipients 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
13 Mar, 2023 Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
15 Nov, 2022 BCNM Around the Web November Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
06 Oct, 2022 New Media Experimental Art Studio Join us for this brand new class this Spring 2023! Read more
10 Sep, 2022 Summer Research Report: Irma Barbosa Read about Irma's work titled "Ternura means Tenderness". Read more
25 Aug, 2022 Summer Research Reports: Kevin CK Lo Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more
22 Jul, 2022 Tiffany Ng Named Chair of Organ Department Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more
19 Jun, 2022 Trevor Paglen and the Art of Security Shane Harris speaks to artist Trevor Paglen on Chatter to explore themes of surveillance, security, and secrecy. Read more
29 Apr, 2022 Edgar Fabián Frías Performs in HI, Solo #11 HI, SOLO is a bi-annual performance series conceived by Alexx Shilling and Devika Wickremesinghe. Read more
21 Apr, 2022 Jill Miller presents “Dog Pack” with collaborator Melody Chang at ICASF https://www.jillmiller.net/media#/dog-pack/ Read more
18 Apr, 2022 Seed Grant Report: Jill Miller and My Mother's Titanium Hip Photo credit: Jill Miller. Read more
31 Mar, 2022 Bo Ruberg on Queer Gaming Practices on Arebyte Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more
23 Mar, 2022 Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more
11 Dec, 2021 Review of Trevor Paglen's San Jose Art Exhibition Letha Ch’ien reviews the art installation in San Jose that sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon. Read more
08 Dec, 2021 BCNM Around the Web November 2021 Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
14 Oct, 2021 Edgar Fabián Frías in Monolith BCNM graduate student Edgar Fabián Frías will be exhibiting their installation project as part of the group exhibition Monolith presented by Southern Exposure. Read more
13 Oct, 2021 Announcing the Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these amazing students working on media literacy, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
06 Sep, 2021 Summer Research: Erica Deeman, Fast Fashion, & Jamaica Erica Deeman received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work exploring the cultural heritage of her ancestors and expressing her findings through a video performance. Read more
23 Jul, 2021 BCNM Around the Web July 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
19 Jun, 2021 BCNM Around the Web June Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
21 May, 2021 Congratulating our 2021 Graduates These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields. Artwork by Tina Piracci Read more
21 Dec, 2020 BCNM Fall 2020: Events In Review We’re so thankful to everyone who tuned in for our events this past semester. Keep reading for a round-up of our events and speakers! Read more
14 Nov, 2020 ATC: Lawrence Lek Video Now Online Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Lawrence Lek on The Sinofuturist Trilogy. Read more
12 Nov, 2020 Announcing our 2020 Undergraduate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2020 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! 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
18 Aug, 2020 BCNM Around the Web August 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! 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
21 Apr, 2020 Announcing Our 2020 Summer Research Fellows We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more
16 Apr, 2020 BCNM Around the Web April 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
12 Apr, 2020 BCNM at CHI 2020 CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more
10 Mar, 2020 Alum Trevor Paglen Now Showing at PACE BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen recently joined PACE Gallery. Read more
27 Feb, 2020 Trevor Paglen & Kate Crawford’s Making Faces “Making Faces,” an installation conceived by AI researcher Kate Crawford and artist Trevor Paglen for Prada Mode, a two-day cultural event held in Paris on Jan. 19 and 20, tells us how exactly facial recognition works and who it benefits. Read more
27 Feb, 2020 Conference Grants: BCNM at the Shenzhen Biennale Eleni Oikonomaki, Lian Song, Rashad Timmons, and Bryan Truitt were Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipients and attended the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). Read more
26 Feb, 2020 Trevor Paglen in Art in the Age of Anxiety Trevor Paglen's video installation, "Circles," will be showcased in the upcoming "Art in the Age of Anxiety" exhibition. Read more
12 Feb, 2020 Greg Niemeyer Receives CLTC Grant The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity awarded Greg Niemeyer one of its inaugural grants for his music video project, "SweetWire." Read more
29 Jan, 2020 Conference Grants: Harry Burson on the Sound of Globalization Harry Burson, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented his research on "The Sound of Globalization: An Archaeology of Immersive Media at the World’s Fair" at the Media Matter: Media-Archaeological Research and Artistic Practice conference. Read more
03 Jan, 2020 Trevor Paglen at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Alum Trevor Paglen's work is featured in the exhibition Age of You. Read more
08 Dec, 2019 Trevor Paglen at Nam June Paik Art Center Trevor Paglen's first solo exhibition in Korea is held at the Nam June Paik Art Center until February 2, 2020. Read more
16 Oct, 2019 BCNM around the Web October 2019 More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal. 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
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
13 Jul, 2019 Alum Tiffany Ng Reviews The Noisy Renaissance The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. 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
21 Jun, 2019 Alum Tiffany Ng Interviewed in Sounds from the Spires Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more
22 Apr, 2019 KC Forcier on Looped Media at SCMS KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more
11 Apr, 2019 Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
22 Mar, 2019 Ken Goldberg at ICRA-X: Robots and Art Program Ken Goldberg will be at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation this May. Read more
14 Mar, 2019 Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients We're to our extraordinary 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 premier conferences in their field. Read more
19 Dec, 2018 William Morgan at UNSW Law WIlliam Morgan's article "Big Data’s Accursed Share: Locating Waste in the Infosphere"and art installation brought together new media and environment. Read more
26 Sep, 2018 Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan in 7x7 Nicholas de Monchaux's Modem and Neyran Turan's Nemestudio were featured in 7x7's roundup of the amazing Bay Area Now exhibition! Read more
12 Sep, 2018 Andrew Atwood at University of Wisconsin BCNM faculty Andrew Atwood will be speaking at the University of Wisconsin on Oct 5. Read more
04 Sep, 2018 Asma Kazmi Exhibits at the University of Hawai'i HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: JOSE FERREIRA + ASMA KAZMI runs from September 10 – 28, 2018. Read more
26 Jun, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen Contributing to For Freedoms Billboard Project Driving through Denver, CO? Look out for alum Trevor Paglen's billboard art for For Freedoms! Read more
21 Jun, 2018 Nicholas de Monchaux & Kathryn Moll at the Mills College Art Museum modem, the architecture firm of Nicholas de Monchaux and Kathryn Moll, is featured in Archaeology in Reverse at the MCAM. Read more
23 May, 2018 BCNM Students Named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts Several BCNM designers were named Jacobs Innovation Catalysts, garnering grants from a new program seeking to support and provided resources for Berkeley's design commuity. Read more
08 May, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen in ScotiaBank Contact Photography Exhibition The annual May festival celebrates the work of both local and international artists and photographers in the CONTACT gallery. Read more
03 May, 2018 Ken Goldberg at Michigan School of Information Ken Goldberg was recently invited by the University of Michigan to give a talk on the campus about his previous work and research. Read more
30 Apr, 2018 Harry Burson at SCMS Through funding from the 2018 BCNM Conference Grant, Harry Burson attended and shared his research at SCMS 2018. Read more
11 Apr, 2018 ATC Revisited: Irena Haiduk Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month. Read more
10 Apr, 2018 Jill Miller Gives Art Practice Lecture BCNM faculty Jill Miller was invited to present an artist talk as part of the Art Practice 2018 Noon Lecture Series. Read more
25 Dec, 2017 Alum Erin Johnson at the Power Plant Gallery Alum Erin Johnson is exhibiting The Way Things Can Happen at the Power Pant Gallery in Durham, NC. Read more
05 Dec, 2017 Alum Leslie Dreyer ACES Artist in Residence "A ‘Sanctuary City’ but who gets to live here?" with Leslie Dreyer ACES Artist in Residence and BCNM Alum Read more
28 Nov, 2017 Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector in the News The news reports on Trevor Paglen, BCNM alum and 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and his plans to launch an artistic satellite into space by 2018. Read more
17 Oct, 2017 New York Times on BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen's Space Art The New York Times features alum Trevor Paglen and his futuristic art. Read more
02 Aug, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux at Exploratorium After Dark, Discussing Space Suits Don't miss out on this opportunity to hear Prof. de Monchaux discuss human space travel with Adam Savage, famed industrial designer. Read more
16 May, 2017 Andrew Atwood Receives Seed Grant for New Apps for New Audiences Andrew Atwood received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to create interactive app designs as a way to engage and attract new audiences to architecture Read more
27 Apr, 2017 Nicholas de Monchaux Named Bakar Faculty Fellow & Recipient of Spark Fund Award Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux on being named a Bakar Faculty Fellow and recipient of the Spark Fund Award for 2017-2018! Read more
07 Apr, 2017 BCNM Seed Grants 2017: Ed Campion and the Sound Habitat Ed Campion (Music) received $5,000 to build a sound habitat with Ron Rael (Architecture) as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more
05 Apr, 2017 Revisited: "Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials in Three Acts" with Ron Rael Read more
04 Apr, 2017 Revisited: “Designing Spaces for New Media Art” Andy and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project, which houses affordable spaces for artists and non-profits, shared the pleasures and challenges of collecting art objects in this digital age. Read more
23 Jan, 2017 Walter Hood interviewed by Shannon Jackson in Boom California Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more
23 Jan, 2017 Cinemagillah at the National Museum of Jewish History A participatory art project by BCNM prof. Ken Goldberg and his wife, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Read more
23 Jan, 2017 Ron Rael in the Museum of Modern Art In a New York exhibition, "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter" Read more
17 Nov, 2016 Announcing the Fall 2016 DE & Graduate Certificate Cohort We are very excited to welcome our newest cohort of Ph.D Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate students Read more
19 Oct, 2016 Revisited: "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual." Some thoughts on Tom Sachs's engaging lecture, "Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual." earlier this fall. Read more
25 Aug, 2016 Summer Research Report: Yairamaren Roman Maldonado on Digital Stories and Popular Voices in Puerto Rico Here's what she discovered with a BCNM-funded grant 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
18 Jul, 2016 Ed Campion and the Sound Habitat This year the Berkeley Center for New Media offered four faculty research grants to seed ambitious academic projects in the field Read more
21 Jun, 2016 Lark Buckingham and Everything After Lark Buckingham’s art centers around the forces that shape human identities, particularly those of the queer community Read more
26 May, 2016 Through Practice: Ashley Ferro-Murray and Mark Lam “Through Practice” by Ashley Ferro-Murray is a somatic exploration of the contemporary relationship between biomedicine and new media, or genetics (DNA code) Read more
26 May, 2016 Meet Lark Buckingham: Critical Design Animator, filmmaker, performance artist, designer, tinkerer, activist, and data scientist, Lark Buckingham is a versatile and multidisciplinary provocateur. Read more
19 May, 2016 Announcing our 2016 Graduates Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
16 May, 2016 Ashley Ferro Murray named Curator of Theater and Dance at EMPAC EMPAC is described as where the arts, sciences, and technology use the same facilities and technologies 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
14 Apr, 2016 Recasting the Tsar Bell with John Granzow Tthe Berkeley Center for New Media presents a interview with John Graznow, one of the many collaborators on the construction of the bell's sound Read more
21 Mar, 2016 Revisited: "Critical Play" A recap of Mary Flanagan's lecture, recapped by Kate Mattingly. Read more
25 Feb, 2016 Margaret Rhee's "Kimchi Poetry Machine" With kimchi as a metaphor for the poetic process, Rhee creates an interactive model for presenting poetry Read more
07 Jan, 2016 Farewell to a Berkeley Visionary Sonya Rapoport Rapoport was a former Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium speaker at the Berkeley Center for New Media. She passed away in June, 2015 Read more
01 Dec, 2015 New Undergraduates Announcement! Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
24 Nov, 2015 Kate Mattingly on the Forty Part Motet BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more
17 Nov, 2015 Meet Alex Saum-Pascual Raised in an Anglo-Spanish household in Madrid, Alex has always been fascinated by language Read more
14 Sep, 2015 Poetics of Space - how a performance becomes a personal encounter Goode is known for blurring lines between text and movement; now he's interested in the proximities of the performers and the audience Read more
17 Jun, 2015 Fall 2015 Events Sneak Preview Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more
29 Apr, 2015 Announcing our Spring 2015 Graduating Class We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more
18 Mar, 2015 BCNM Welcomes Spring 2015 DE & Certificate Students 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
11 Feb, 2015 "Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
10 Feb, 2015 "Natural Frequencies" on NPR Author Laura Sydell discusses Bay Area fault lines, data visualization, the process of generating the score for the carillons Read more
03 Feb, 2015 Revisited: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more
21 Jan, 2015 Hack the Bells Dispatch from Sarah Stierch Sarah Stierch spearheaded Hack the Bells, the world's first carillon remix competition Read more
14 Jan, 2015 ATC Video Now Online: Maya Lin The recording of this highly anticipated lecture by the great architect Maya Lin Read more
15 Dec, 2014 Revisited: "Count Me In - Walking & the City" On Thursday, December 11th, the Berkeley Center for New Media, in partnership with.. Read more
19 Nov, 2014 Revisited: "Reclaim Disrupt" Installation We revisit UC Berkeley MFA candidate Leslie Dreyer's new exhibition on gentrification Read more
18 Nov, 2014 HTNM Revisited: Fred Turner Megan Hoetger (TDPS) revisits Fred Turner’s recent History and Theory of New Media Lecture Read more
04 Nov, 2014 ATC Revisited: Cheryl Haines At “Creative Interventions and Social Activation” on November 3rd, Cheryl Haines discussed her collaboration with the artist and activist Ai Weiwei Read more
30 Sep, 2014 ATC Revisited: Maya Lin We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more
11 Sep, 2014 Announcing IMAGE as LOCATION A Bay Area Festival that explores the relationship between people, pictures, and places Read more
01 Aug, 2014 Meet Sarah Stierch This month, hear how BCNM Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch supports open source information through diversifying Wikipedia and digitizing small museums’ archives Read more
01 Jul, 2014 Meet Kimiko Ryokai and Laura Devendorf We’re sharing ten stories of BCNM’s life so far Read more
29 May, 2014 Margaret Rhee — A Feminist History of Kimchi This Friday, she will facilitating a kimchi poetry activity along with performance artist Erin O'Brien Read more
24 Apr, 2014 Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students 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
19 Nov, 2013 ATC Revisited: Laetitia Sonami On her talk, "Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism” Read more
04 Feb, 2013 Video Art in the BCNM Commons, New Work by Jason Fritz, "Aunt Charlies Lounge: Smoking Only" Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster Read more
10 Dec, 2012 BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more
04 Dec, 2012 BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more
05 Nov, 2012 Digital Media Artist Jim Campbell Celebrated as “Bay Area Treasure” Brooke spoke at the Berkeley Art Museum about Jim Campbell’s Home Movies installation in 2008 and is preparing an article on his work. Read more
31 Aug, 2012 The Art of Video Games? Alenda Chang, Ph.D. Rhetoric, DE in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
01 Feb, 2012 Aesthetic Applications of Wave Field Synthesis Rama Gottfried will be working with the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team at IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou based in Paris Read more
25 Jul, 2011 Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet?, A Responsive Sound Installation, Ken Goldberg & Gil Gershoni, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Read more
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