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New Center for New Media opening at UC Berkeley New Ideas Initiative funds Center for New Media Founded in 2003 as one of the Chancellor Berdahl's New Ideas Initiative, the Center for New Media (CNM) has defined electronic games, surveillance, and Ubiquitous Computing as its core research themes for 2004-2005. The Center for New Media does not only seize this opportunity for innovative critical studies, but also is ready to produce alternatives to current new media content through its multidisciplinary engagement with the subject: With the joint effort of theorists and practitioners, our Center is poised to generate substantial critical and innovative momentum in an aggressively growing area of cultural production. CNM already demonstrated that it could establish a productive interdisciplinary working process among faculty from Rhetoric, Film Studies Women's Studies, Architecture, EECS, SIMS, IEOR, ME, and even Art Practice. This working process has yielded a major development award from the Chancellors Office, a DE in New Media pending approval, a series of new undergraduate courses, and a partnership with the library to build a New Media Commons in 2004-2005. CNM is also planning to hire two new faculty members, who will work in the areas of History and Theory of New Media and Interactivity. Intel Corporation is one of the early corporate sponsors of the Center.The Center is governed by an Executive Board, the current members are Linda Williams (Director), Alice Agogino, Marc Davis, Whitney Davis, Ken Goldberg, Paul Grabowicz, Gary Handman, Yehuda Kalay and Gregory Niemeyer. Faculty and grad students interested in participating in the Center's development should contact any of the current board members.
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