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Doreen Lorenzo, assistant dean of the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin, interviewed argodesign founder Mark Rolston at BigIdeasATX, a monthly event series hosted by Silicon Hills News.

UT experts help distill five of the most important concepts of artificial intelligence for beginners. Department chairs Kate Canales and Michael Baker weigh in on how AI technologies are affecting higher education and design.

Design Assistant Professor Jiabao Li’s exhibition, Progenitorial Hysteresis, is on view at the Duende Art Museum (DAM) in China from December 12, 2023 until January 3, 2024.

Last spring, students in the College of Fine Arts taking Theatre and Dance faculty member Phillip Owen’s Sound Design course sat behind computer screens, microphones and electronic instruments, ready to showcase their final project – a recreation of Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds.

In this episode of This is a Prototype, recorded in front of a live audience at argodesign in Austin, Texas, host Doug Powell speaks to Doreen Lorenzo and Mbiyimoh Ghogomu.

In September and November 2023, SDCT held the fifth semesterly Career City Limits Speaker Series (CCL). The event included virtual and in-person sessions from top local and major companies, such as Idea Peddler, Bluepoint Games, Iron Galaxy, and Microsoft.

The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin invites nominations and applications for the position of Chair of the Department of Design.

Instructing part time at UT since 2020, Kyle Evans accepted a full-time position in 2023 in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies. In the belly of the University’s expansive Performing Arts Center, he spends time teaching lighting design, video projection and electronic musical instruments.

The Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies (AET) is thrilled to announce the opening of its newest space for innovation and creativity, the Lab for Immersive Media (LIM). The LIM is an interactive and immersive media laboratory that enables novel research and entertainment experiences in virtual and physical spaces.

The Creative Research Award was presented to Professor Kate Catterall for “Drawing the Ring of Steel.” The one-day theatrical event in Belfast commemorated the 30-year ethno-nationalist conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, specifically focusing on the 2.2-mile security cordon of 12-foot-tall steel, concrete and barbed wire barricades that encircled Belfast.