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04/01/2008	Inside the Black Budget Skulls. Black cats. A naked woman riding a killer whale. Grim reapers. Snakes. Swords. Occult symbols. A wizard with a staff that shoots lightning bolts. Moons. Stars. A dragon holding the Earth in its claws. No, this is not the fantasy world of a 12-year-old boy. Berkeley PhD candidate and BCNM Designated Emphasis student Trevor Paglen's book is the subject of this article in the New York Times...
03/30/2008	Reviving Oakland's Jazz and Blues Scene, Virtually The corner of 7th Street in West Oakland, California is bleak and deserted, with a windowless liquor store and a job counseling service on one side of the street. But it wasn't always so rundown; in the 1940s and 50s, the street was home to a thriving music scene, with scores of big blues artists such as Lowel Fulson, Ivory Joe Herner and T-Bone Walker passing through. Now, with the creation of a historical video game, a group of journalism and architecture students at the University of California, Berkeley, is hoping to revive some of 7th Street's faded glory — at least in the virtual world.
02/22/2008	Greg Niemeyer's environmental studies game wins grant from MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation said Thursday it awarded 17 teams a total of $2 million for contest entries to develop technologies for kids' education and digital media. One winner was Greg Niemeyer of the Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. His team, which won $238,000, developed Black Cloud, an environmental studies game that's designed to encourage high school students in Los Angeles and Cairo, Egypt, to interact virtually and physically in their respective cities.
01/23/2008	Craigslist to establish first endowed faculty chair in New Media at BCNM BERKELEY: The University of California, Berkeley, today (Thursday, Jan. 17) announced plans to establish the first endowed faculty chair at the Berkeley Center for New Media with a donation of $1.6 million from craigslist, one of the most popular Web sites in the world. The donation, which will support research, symposia and lectures, will be matched with $1.5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a total of $3.1 million.
01/22/2008	New Media Old Values Berkeley Center for New Media Announces Endowment Last year Craigslist founder Craig Newmark placed a camera that allowed thousands of people, collaboratively controlling it online, to capture images of birds from the deck of his home on the edge of the Sutro Forest in San Francisco. It was project developed by Ken Goldberg, now the Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media and Texas A & M University. The Berkeley Center for New Media has just announced an endowment of $1.6 million from Craigslist, matched by $1.5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a total of $3.1 million.
01/22/2008	Media Center Receives Over $3 Milllion Vincent Quan, Daily Californian, 22 Jan 2008 This donation conveys that new media, as a subject, is analogous to biology, geology ... that it is a timeless, very important and rigorous field.... Craigslist chief executive officer Jim Buckmaster said the campus' technical innovations and history of counterculture motivated him to donate to the center. "It's hard for me to think of any single entity to which Craigslist and the Internet at large, or the Bay Area and the world at large owes more," he said in an e-mail. "Our top public universities are the best things we have for us, and supporting them is always important, but especially so at a time when private universities are using their unprecedented wealth in a predatory manner."
01/21/2008	Local architects offer their visions of S.F. 100 years hence in a competition (01-20) 21:05 PST San Francisco: The jury has spoken - and it wants San Francisco in 2108 to be a place where forests of towers grow algae as well as house people, and where geothermal steam baths sprout atop Twin Peaks. Those elements are part of the proposal by IwamotoScott Architecture, selected Sunday as the winner of an eight-team competition to imagine how San Francisco could change during a century likely to be defined by global warming and the search for new forms of energy.
11/24/2007	The iPod Lecture Circuit: Learning On the Move Prof. Hubert Dreyfus, BCNM Affiliated Faculty Member, featured in LA Times Story on Releasing University Lectures on iTunes
11/01/2007	Feature article on BCNM in California Magazine What's New About New Media? The Center for New Media is less concerned with whiz-bang technologies than with old values—truth, depth, reliablitity, authenticity, aesthetics, and public service...
10/12/2007	UC Berkeley goes face to Facebook in 'Continuous City' workshops BCNM co-sponsored new media theater project featured in SF Chronicle: UC Berkeley goes face to Facebook in 'Continuous City' workshops at Berkeley Art Museum. Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic, SF Chronicle Tuesday, October 2, 2007 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/02/DDH1SGFAT.DTL for details on tickets and Oct 12, 2007 symposium, visit: http://continuouscity.org