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ARTSLab is a transdisciplinary research facility and exhibition space serving UNM and the greater New Mexico community.
Our mission is built on five key goals: promoting cross-college collaborations, supporting faculty research, championing inclusivity, providing a public exhibition space, and offering core facility access.
ARTSLab is an incubator for new ideas. It’s a place where artists and other researchers learn new technologies, try out ideas, collaborate, and explore new and exciting forms of artistic expression. We’re dedicated to creating a space where diverse voices are heard by making the lab as accessible as possible.
Lab Notes
Dance Hackathon 2026
Join organizers Madrone Matishak and Sarah Bennett Davidson for an overview of the New Mexico Dance Hackathon, an initiative bringing together dance and new media artists to experiment and create innovative work across performance, installation, and film. This info session offers a look at past projects, insights into the creative process, and details on how to apply for this year’s program, culminating in final presentations at UNM ARTSLab this July.
Unity x ARTSLab Spring 2026 Offerings
ARTSLab is excited to continue its partnership with Unity in Spring 2026 with two free webinars and two free 10-hour courses, open to anyone in the state of New Mexico.
ARTSLab in the News
ARTSLab was recently featured in two articles highlighting its work at the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, including student-led projects and a NASA-funded VR initiative.
CITH Workshop: Moon in My Room
Students will learn how to work with PBR materials in Blender and then how to export a 3D asset from Blender for use in Unity. Using this asset, they will then create a small AR application for Android in Unity 6 that will allow them to place the moon in their...
CITH Workshop: Deploying the Unity Open XR Demo Scene to the HTC Vive Focus
In this inaugural workshop, Ella walks us through the basic mechanics of the HTC VIVE Focus Vision headset, controllers, and hand tracking. We build and deploy the VIVE Open XR Sample Scene from Unity to the headset and cover optimal project and build settings,...
ARTSLab’s Neon Forge at Bands of Enchantment Music Festival
As part of ARTSLab’s Community Immersive Technology Hub (CITH) initiative, graduate student Ella Pigg (MFA, Experimental Art & Technology) and undergraduate student Finn Ellis (Computer Science) designed and developed Neon Forge, a virtual reality experience...