ARTSLab is a transdisciplinary research facility and exhibition space serving UNM and the greater New Mexico community. Established in 2005, The UNM ARTSLab (Art, Research, Technology, and Science) is an award-winning interdisciplinary center for emerging media with an emphasis on immersive and interactive technology.
Stewart Copeland is a transdisciplinary artist with a passion for emergent media, new narrative genres, and artistic research. His art often incorporates technology as a means to explore, dissect, and interrogate technological systems themselves. Collaboration across disciplines plays a major role in his practice, particularly in the field of science where he often works with biologists, engineers, ecologists, and wildlife management personnel.
“For 20 years, ARTSLab has fostered innovative collaborations between art and technology, laying the groundwork for interdisciplinary research at UNM. Its new home at the Center for Collaborative Art & Technology feels like a natural culmination for a lab dedicated to supporting cross-disciplinary partnerships,” stated Copeland. “It is an honor and a privilege to build on that foundation and lead our research into the future.”
To honor the 20th anniversary of ARTSLab, UNM alumnus Jim Pinkerton, Computer Science 1995, and Principal Software Engineer at Google, established a Director’s Fund. “I’m pleased to support ARTSLab, and their new Director, Stewart Copeland, by establishing the Director’s Fund for ARTSLab,” Jim said. “It’s been exciting to attend the groundbreaking for CCAT and the new home for ARTSLab. I am happy that the future is bright for research and collaboration between Fine Arts and Computer Science at UNM. Here’s to twenty more years, and beyond.”
To support the new ARTSLab Director’s Fund, please visit https://unmfund.co/ARTSLabDirector
