09 Dec, 2025 Special Events Gendered and Racialized Barriers to Persistence in Undergraduate Data Science Education with Claudia Natalia von Vacano, Executive Director and Senior Research Associate, D-Lab and Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley, and David J. Harding, Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley, and Faculty Director, D-Lab A D-Lab special event Read more
16 Oct, 2023 History & Theory Rerouting Media in the Living Forest with Martina Broner Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College, and Co-Founder of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies and Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLAS), the Media Studies program, and the Department of Art Practice 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
12 Oct, 2020 Commons Conversations Cultural Heritage & Cultural Consumption with Gu Jiang National Center for Industry Research Nanjing University Read more
02 May, 2018 Special Events Critical Making Showcase Come to the free Critical Making Showcase at Jacobs Hall taking place Wednesday, May 2nd from 2-3:30pm as part of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Spring 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
06 Apr, 2018 Special Events The Past is Present: Workshop Experts will lead participants through point cloud surveying to rendering data in virtual reality. 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
03 May, 2017 Special Events Spring Critical Making Showcase Come celebrate the projects of Design Innovation students! 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
12 Jan, 2017 Art, Tech & Culture Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini with Tanya Zimbardo, a contemporary art curator based in San Francisco 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
04 May, 2016 Special Events Critical Making Showcase Experience this season's NWMEDIA203 Showcase at Jacobs Hall Read more
07 Mar, 2015 Workshops Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon A MoMA Edit-A-Thon satellite event here on campus Read more
07 May, 2013 Workshops New Media Research Workshop: "Youth, New Media, and Social Reproduction" A presentation by Jeremy Schulz, UC Berkeley Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, on the multifaceted linkages between new media and social reproduction Read more
03 Dec, 2012 Art, Tech & Culture Luminous Currents: Tracing Modernism from Bauhaus to Beehive An Arts + Technology Colloquium lecture by JoAnne Northrup, former chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art Read more
06 Nov, 2012 Special Events Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents Leila Takayama, research scientist, on communicating with robots Read more
19 Sep, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Social Turns and Reciprocal Systems with Shannon Jackson, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the Arts Research Center Read more
12 Apr, 2011 Special Events New Media Research Roundtable: Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham "New Media and Human Rights Research Methods" Read more
24 Jan, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Rhinoceros Beetles, Kissable Frogs and other Close Encounters with Biodiverse and the Tasty Future An Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture by Natalie Jeremijenko Read more
20 Apr, 2025 Announcing Our Summer 2025 Research Award Recipients Congratulations to our 2025 Summer Research Award recipients from Ethnic Studies, Environmental Design, Geography, Information, Film and Media, Rhetoric, and Anthropology. Read more
05 Jan, 2025 Announcing Our Spring 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
23 Nov, 2024 Geo-Semantics II by Alex Saum-Pascual Check out BCNM faculty member Alex Saum-Pascual's latest hand-drawn poem, “Terms of Service: Untitled (rock) form 3”! 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
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
25 Apr, 2024 Created Equal: Can tech regulation solve mental health issues? alum danah boyd talks the possibilities of tech regulation. Read more
18 Apr, 2023 Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Untitled (atomic) form 2 Alex published her latest work in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Read more
13 Mar, 2023 Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients 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
30 Dec, 2022 Announcing Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellows Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more
28 Nov, 2022 Announcing Our 2022 Undergraduate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
24 Aug, 2022 danah boyd & Morgan Ames on the Future of the Metaverse Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more
22 Aug, 2022 danah boyd on the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast danah boyd discusses "Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?" Read more
15 Aug, 2022 Summer 2022 Research with Haripriya Sathyanarayanan Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more
08 Jul, 2022 Abigail Lomibao on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more
12 Mar, 2022 Announcing the Spring 2022 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more
24 Feb, 2022 Announcing Our Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more
20 Jan, 2022 Alex Saum-Pascual in Hyperrhiz Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut appears in Hyperrhiz 24's Fall issue. Read more
20 Jan, 2022 Announcing Our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellows Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more
20 Oct, 2021 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jahara Cayabyab on Designing Hospital Spaces Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces. 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
02 Mar, 2021 Make Alex Saum's Survey Monkey Poem Create your own poem using Alex Saum-Pascual's interactive survey from Survey Monkey! Read more
01 Mar, 2021 danah boyd & Gail De Kosnik on the New Normal danah boyd & Gail De Kosnik were featured in an article from the Pew Research Center and Elon University on Imagining the Internet, predicting how technology, climate change, and politics will effect a post-Covid-19 world. Read more
01 Feb, 2021 Jen Schradie Publishes on COVID in France Jen Schradie recently published a paper on COVID-19 in France, titled "L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement." Read more
03 Nov, 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2021 Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020. Read more
28 Oct, 2020 Pablo Paredes Publishes Stress Tracker BCNM alum Pablo Paredes explores the use of a computer trackpad in monitoring stress. Read more
01 Oct, 2020 Jenni Higgs on Digital Discourse in Classrooms Jenni Higgs recently published an academic article titled "Digital Discourse in Classrooms: Language Arts Teachers’ Reported Perceptions and Implementation." Read more
10 Sep, 2020 BCNM Around the Web September 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
08 Sep, 2020 Alex Saum-Pascual's Poetry in Perspektive Alex Saum-Pascual published a poem and project titled "made to disappear" in Perspektive. Read more
20 Jul, 2020 Bo Ruberg Publishes On LGBTQ Identities Challenging Norms of Demographics "In the era of algorithms and big data [...] the issue of who is or is not “counted” profoundly affects visibility, access, and power in the digital realm." Read more
17 Jul, 2020 BCNM Around the Web July 2020 Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more
05 Mar, 2020 Jen Schradie Interviewed for "The Data Driving Democracy" Jen Schradie was recently interviewed in "The Data Driving Democracy," a research paper by Christina Couch. Read more
07 Oct, 2019 Announcing the Fall 2019 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 premier conferences in their field. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 BCNM at DIS 2019 BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
06 Jun, 2019 William White on the Digital Heritage of People's Park William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more
29 May, 2019 Celeste Kidd and the Role of Reasoning and Metacognition in the Internet Era Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more
15 Mar, 2019 Ken Goldberg in Back to the Sandbox Goldberg contributed an article to Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy Read more
03 Jan, 2019 BCNM at CSCW 2018 The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! 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
01 Oct, 2018 Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
24 Sep, 2018 BCNM Students & Faculty Named GloUH Townsend Fellows Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. 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
19 Jul, 2018 Alum Bonnie Ruberg at DIGRA 2018 The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more
02 Jul, 2018 Alum Stuart Geiger on Career Paths in Academic Data Science A new report in SocArXiv investigates career prospects in academic Data Science. Read more
27 May, 2018 Research Dispatches: Joyce Lee on Auditory Data Representation Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship. Read more
19 Apr, 2018 Revisited: The Past is Present Workshop Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more
19 Mar, 2018 Alum Stuart Geiger on Computational Ethnography at University of Copenhagen Stuart Geiger gave a public talk at the IT University of Copenhagen about the ethnography of computation. Read more
23 Jan, 2018 Congratulations to our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Congratulations to Shangjun (Jenny) Jiang and Allison Nguyen our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Read more
03 Nov, 2017 Conference Grants: Will Payne at the Future of Food in St. Louis Will Payne reflects on his experience at the Future of Food Studies conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. 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
12 Oct, 2017 Alum Stuart Geiger at the Society for Social Studies of Science in Boston Stuart Geiger gave a presentation in regarding autoethnographic methods for studying data-driven knowledge production in Boston, Massachusetts. Read more
18 Jul, 2017 Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Jenny Jiang This year, BCNM initiated its undergraduate research fellowships, which offer undergraduates the chance to engage in direct research experience with BCNM graduates. Read more
20 Jun, 2017 Bay Area Artists Report Published How are Bay Area visual artists really getting paid? Read more
31 May, 2017 Call for Students: Cranes and Cube: Architecture, Built and Unbuilt An opportunity to accompany Professor Asma Kazmi on a paid two-week research and production trip to Jeddah, Medina, and Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia in August 2017. Read more
14 May, 2017 Jenni Higgs at AERA 2017 Jenni Higgs reflects on her experience at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) this May in San Antonio, Texas Read more
18 Apr, 2017 Will Payne at the American Association of Geographers Will Payne presented his research at the American Association of Geographers this April in Boston, MA. Read more
09 Sep, 2016 Lyman Dispatch: Jenni Higgs on Digital Talk The fellowship is supported by donations from Professor Barrie Thorne, Sage Publications and many individual friends and faculty Read more
25 Aug, 2016 Summer Research Report: Will Payne on Location-Based Services Will Payne received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on location based services Read more
17 May, 2016 Motherhood and Raspberry Pi: Challenges for Mothers in Technology The lack of gender diversity in technology fields has become a hot topic of late, for good reason 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
10 Feb, 2016 Final Report on Women of Wikipedia Pilot Program The WOW! Editing Group created a pilot program with the goal of creating a nurturing, safe, and fun environment for new Wikipedia women editors Read more
03 Mar, 2015 Announcing the 2015 Peter Lyman Fellow he Fellowship seeks to support a Ph.D. candidate in the writing of his or her dissertation on a topic related to new media through a summer stipend Read more
18 May, 2014 Advanced Digital Animation in Fall 2014 This year-long course is targeted at students with backgrounds in art, film, or computer science who intend to work in the visual effects, animation, and entertainment industries Read more
01 Apr, 2014 Meet BCNM's Gail De Kosnik and the Fan Data & Net Differences Team These UC Berkeley professors have pioneered new methods of exploring internet cultures 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
07 May, 2012 The Trend of Class, Race, and Ethnicity in Social Media Inequality Read about Jen Schradie's (PhD, Sociology) study Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2023
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2022
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2022
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2021
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2021
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. Spring 2020
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2019
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2019
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2018
.jpg?w=807)
