Berkeley Center for New Media
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The Berkeley Center for New Media is an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives.
BCNM is thrilled to welcome Aaron Fai ("fay") / 費頌倫 as our new Associate Director! Fai will serve as BCNM's chief administrative officer, providing critical leadership and continuity for the Center.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
BCNM is thrilled to welcome Aaron Fai ("fay") / 費頌倫 as our new Associate Director! Fai will serve as BCNM's chief administrative officer, providing critical leadership and continuity for the Center.
BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual presented Traceroute Poems, segundo viaje at cultr_ALH, a site-specific poetic performance linking fiber-optic networks and the Alhambra’s historic flows of light, water, and energy.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual presented Traceroute Poems, segundo viaje at cultr_ALH, a site-specific poetic performance linking fiber-optic networks and the Alhambra’s historic flows of light, water, and energy.
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BCNM's Undergraduate Certificate in New Media introduces students to the changing new media landscape that is transforming the way we think in the fields of art, technology, the humanities, and social sciences. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
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September 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
BCNM's Undergraduate Certificate in New Media introduces students to the changing new media landscape that is transforming the way we think in the fields of art, technology, the humanities, and social sciences. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
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BCNM's Graduate Certificate in New Media provides Master's students with an ensuing competitive edge for some of the most desirable jobs in industry and academia. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
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September 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
BCNM's Graduate Certificate in New Media provides Master's students with an ensuing competitive edge for some of the most desirable jobs in industry and academia. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
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BCNM’s Designated Emphasis (D.E.) program is for selected UC Berkeley Ph.D. students from any Berkeley home department with research interests in new media. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
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September 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
BCNM’s Designated Emphasis (D.E.) program is for selected UC Berkeley Ph.D. students from any Berkeley home department with research interests in new media. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
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We’re proud to share this year’s collection of publications from the BCNM community, spanning July 2024 – June 2025. This round-up showcases the extraordinary breadth of research, creativity, and scholarship produced by our students, alumni, and faculty!
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September 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
We’re proud to share this year’s collection of publications from the BCNM community, spanning July 2024 – June 2025. This round-up showcases the extraordinary breadth of research, creativity, and scholarship produced by our students, alumni, and faculty!
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Alex Saum-Pasucal received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for exploring the material realities and environmental impact of digital infrastructures through an immersive, art-driven AI tour.
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June 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Alex Saum-Pasucal received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for exploring the material realities and environmental impact of digital infrastructures through an immersive, art-driven AI tour.
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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Zina Wang presented on the ceremonial destruction of epidemic-related personal data at the 2025 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in New Orleans.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Zina Wang presented on the ceremonial destruction of epidemic-related personal data at the 2025 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in New Orleans.
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We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions.
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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Lee Crandall presented "Plotting Cryptoeconomic Imaginaries and Counterplotting the Network State" at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Lee Crandall presented "Plotting Cryptoeconomic Imaginaries and Counterplotting the Network State" at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.
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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Yangyang Yang presented her paper on Mobile Augmented Reality Experience at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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May 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Yangyang Yang presented her paper on Mobile Augmented Reality Experience at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Connie Gu presented on Mobile Technology and Teens at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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May 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Connie Gu presented on Mobile Technology and Teens at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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BCNM's Spring 2025 Critical Making course culminated in an inspiring public showcase titled Fashioning Fashionables, challenging students to reimagine wearable technology. Art by Diana Bolanos, Christy Huang, Lydia Millhon, Hailey Pemberton, and Sasha Suggs.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
BCNM's Spring 2025 Critical Making course culminated in an inspiring public showcase titled Fashioning Fashionables, challenging students to reimagine wearable technology. Art by Diana Bolanos, Christy Huang, Lydia Millhon, Hailey Pemberton, and Sasha Suggs.
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The students of Nicole Starosielski's FILM 155 have been tackling digital infrastructure! Join the Internet Explorers to discover more about the digital infrastructure at the heart of our networked lives.
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May 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The students of Nicole Starosielski's FILM 155 have been tackling digital infrastructure! Join the Internet Explorers to discover more about the digital infrastructure at the heart of our networked lives.
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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.
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May 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
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We are proud to announce that BCMM students Tamara Jamil and Alexis Wood have been awarded the 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Scholarship!
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May 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We are proud to announce that BCMM students Tamara Jamil and Alexis Wood have been awarded the 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Scholarship!
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We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! Yuqi Tian worked with Yangyang Yang on a project exploring anthropocentric worldview's contribution to environmental degradation.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! Yuqi Tian worked with Yangyang Yang on a project exploring anthropocentric worldview's contribution to environmental degradation.
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BCNM is excited to support more community engaged projects. Greg Niemeyer and Emma Fraser were awarded a grant of $5,000 a year for three years to fund their work with We the People of Detroit.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
BCNM is excited to support more community engaged projects. Greg Niemeyer and Emma Fraser were awarded a grant of $5,000 a year for three years to fund their work with We the People of Detroit.
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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.
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May 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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.
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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!
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April 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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!
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We're excited to welcome Karen Nakamura, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, to the Berkeley Center for New Media's Executive Committee!
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April 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
We're excited to welcome Karen Nakamura, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, to the Berkeley Center for New Media's Executive Committee!
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BCNM student Lee Crandall is recognized for their groundbreaking work in the field of geography at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers!
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April 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
BCNM student Lee Crandall is recognized for their groundbreaking work in the field of geography at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers!
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BCNM alum Trevor Paglen sits down with writer and performer Gideon Jacobs to explore the evolving role of visual representation in the age of AI!
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April 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
BCNM alum Trevor Paglen sits down with writer and performer Gideon Jacobs to explore the evolving role of visual representation in the age of AI!
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BCNM faculty members Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller speak at Unintended Outcomes: AI in the Artist’s Studio, a panel presented by Gray Area at the San Francisco Art Fair!
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April 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
BCNM faculty members Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller speak at Unintended Outcomes: AI in the Artist’s Studio, a panel presented by Gray Area at the San Francisco Art Fair!
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The Sustainable Internet Lab has received funding from the Student Initiated Projects Fund through the Big C Student Fee Referendum to launch a major Speaker Series: Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure in Fall 2025!
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April 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Sustainable Internet Lab has received funding from the Student Initiated Projects Fund through the Big C Student Fee Referendum to launch a major Speaker Series: Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure in Fall 2025!
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