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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
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...
Fall 2025 Unity Webinars and Courses
Beyond Gaming: Unity’s Impact Across Industries Tuesday September 16, 4pm MDT -> Webinar – Register Here <- Explore how Unity is transforming fields far beyond video games. This webinar features real-world case studies demonstrating how Unity is used in...
“i/o” New Mexico Dance Hackathon 2025 Performance
As part of ARTSLab’s New Mexico Dance Hackathon program, dancers and technology artists collaborated over several months to create new works that explored a range of topics, movement styles, and technological tools. The participants were encouraged to take...
Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Artist Talk with Elaine Buckholtz
ARTSLab hosted an illuminating evening with Elaine Buckholtz, a light installation artist whose work transforms architecture and landscape into quiet spectacles of wonder.