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.
Artist Jeanie Finlay in ARTSLab
In September 2023 we had the honor of hosting Jeanie Finlay, a world-renowned artist and documentary filmmaker, here at ARTSLab.
November 16, 2023
Jeanie spent a week in New Mexico, funded by her recent Chicken and Egg award, to further her visual research for her upcoming project that spotlight the marine pollution caused by dredging along the northern English coastline.
ARTSLab Associate Director Stewart Copeland, ARTSLab Manager Valery Estabrook, UNM ART and Ecology MFA Candidate Nancy Dewhurst, and UNM Film student Tyler Sovelove turned the studio into a mad science lab. Armed with a camera, fish tanks, a few lights, and a plethora of common kitchen items, they helped Jeanie explore and invent new ways of and visualizing and capturing this specific kind of water pollution.
Read an interview of Jeanie talking about her last film release “Your Fat Friend,” on which ARTSLab Associate Director also acted as cinematographer!
Chicken & Egg Pictures supports women and non-binary nonfiction filmmakers whose artful and innovative storytelling catalyzes social change.
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,...