Level UP Student Spotlight: Jackson Gurdak
Learn more about Jackson Gurdak (AET '23) and his animated short, "Time Passing Through."
Level UP Student Spotlight: Hari Jeung
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Hari Jeung and her animated music video for "Dynamite" by K-pop band BTS.
Level UP Student Spotlight: Victor Do
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Victor Do and his unconventional ghost hunter game, Ghost Hunter Hunter.
Level UP Student Spotlight: In My Shoes
Learn more about Team Spacefrogs' original interactive narrative game, In My Shoes.
Level UP Student Spotlight: Nat Briceno
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Nat Briceno and their original video game, Automaton.
Level UP Student Spotlight: Nada Aburayyan
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Nada Aburayyan and her project, "Woodland Digital Pet."
Level UP Student Spotlight: Alex Kong
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Alex Kong and his original video game, Qualified Immunity.
Level UP Student Spotlight: Julia Nguyen
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Julia Nguyen and her original video game, Cosmic Cooking.
Level UP Student Spotlight: Jasper Murphy
Learn more about AET Fall '22 graduate Jasper Murphy and his original 3D projection mapping project.
Level UP Student Spotlight: De'sha Bass-McClellan
Learn more about AET '22 graduate De'sha Bass-McClellan and her original project, Lens of Empathy.
The Making of Evolution in 2022
Evolution is a collaborative design laboratory facilitating interdisciplinary experimentation in dance performance. Concert and event lighting designers from the School of Design and Creative Technologies join with choreographers from the Department of Theatre and Dance and composers from the Butler School of Music and throughout the University to create short dance works for the concert stage.
Level UP Student Spotlight: Jalen Hoyt
Learn more about AET '22 graduate Jalen Hoyt and his original video game, Culling Streets.
Creatives in AET Level UP Innovation at Showcase Event
Watch some of the highlights from Level UP, our first in-person showcase in 3 years! Presented in partnership with the Game Development and Design Program, a collaboration between the Departments of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, Computer Science, and Radio-Television-Film.
New ‘I Voted’ 2022 Election Sticker Designed by UT Design Student Ashwara Pillai
Ashwara Pillai, a B.F.A. Design Senior, won the inaugural Travis County “I Voted” sticker contest with a design featuring a bluebonnet in the shape of a checkmark. The new sticker, inspired by her own annual encounters with the Texas state flower while growing up in Austin, will be available at all Travis County voting locations for the November 8, 2022 election.
AET Student Zane Giordano Wins Gold at MIT Reality Hack 2022
At the MIT Reality Hack 2022, Zane Giordano, University of Texas at Austin student from the School of Design and Creative Technologies, and his team were awarded Overall Gold for Best Project and Winner: Best Use of Microsoft Reality Toolkit (MRTK).
Yes, Playtesting Your Original Game is Required Learning
In Tyler Coleman’s Physical Games course, a new AET offering for Spring 2022, students receive grades for creating, playing, and testing their own games. And like any board game worth the effort of learning the rules, the goal of the class is to stimulate thinking and inspire social interaction while exposing students to the intricacies of game design.
AET Students Help Bring Bee Cave BuzzFest to Life
Students from two Arts and Entertainment Technologies classes put theory into practice at the 2022 Bee Cave BuzzFest, a 3-day immersive music, tech, and art festival in Bee Cave, Texas.
Why M.A. in Design focused on Health? Meet 2021 Graduate Jessica Murray
This 10-month Master's program offered in collaboration between Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin inspires change-makers to reimagine health care through the lens of design.
2021 Animation & Motion Summer Camp Reel
View original work created by high school students during the 2021 Animation & Motion Summer Camp, a virtual offering that helps prepare students for college applications to creative studies.