Berkeley Center for New Media
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The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is a research, teaching, and public events program at
BCNM's spaces are shared between Sutardja Dai Hall and the Moffitt Undergraduate Library.
The BCNM seeks to highlight and critically examine the opportunities and risks associated with new media, and to consider how they can constructively benefit education, political engagement, privacy, and
The BCNM serves as a focal point for unconventional historical and contemporary thinking from a diverse community of over 120 affiliated faculty,
The BCNM catalyzes research and educates future leaders. The BCNM presents courses, symposia and special events for students, researchers, industry, and the public to seek out, consider, and develop innovative theories of contemporary new media. It offers a special program for
Notable faculty
- Nicholas de Monchaux: BCNM Director and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
- Ken Goldberg
- Abigail De Kosnik
Notable alumni
- Trevor Paglen: PhD in Geography - notable space artist
Programs
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- The History and Theory of New Media lecture series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The series promotes new, interdisciplinary approaches to questions about the uses, meanings, causes, and effects of rapid or dramatic shifts in techno-infrastructure, information management, and forms of mediated expression. Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media, these events are free and open to the public.
- The Commons Conversations: Technology and Public Life in Changing Times series is a discussion series on the impact of new media on our current political and public climate.
- Design Futures lecture series has been discontinued