2019 VR Austin Jam
View photos from the 2019 VR Austin Game Jam. Attendees created original virtual, augmented, and mixed reality content throughout the course of one weekend.
Design + Impact
View the highlights from the Center for Integrated Design's event Design + Impact, held at the School of Design and Creative Technologies on November 14, 2019.
Matt Smith’s Live Event Engineering Class Presentations - Fall 2019
In Matt Smith's AET 348C: Live Event Engineering class, students programmed light and projection shows to a song of their choice. Watch some of the presentations in this compilation video.
Chloe Alviar & Isaac Gonzalez
Meet Chloe Alviar and Isaac Gonzalez, a songwriting duo in the Arts and Entertainment Technologies department.
Alex Iveroth
Meet Alex Iveroth, a senior Arts and Entertainment Technologies major specializing in Game Design.
Q&A with Alyson Beaton, Assistant Professor of Design
Alyson Beaton is an interdisciplinary designer/maker/author and entrepreneur. Her projects range from space, exhibit and objects to graphic design/branding. Get to know Alyson here!
Call for Submissions: Journal of Design and Creative Technologies 2019
SDCT is calling for submissions to our 2019 Journal of Design and Creative Technologies.
Q&A with Gray Garmon, Assistant Professor of Design
Gray Garmon is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Integrated Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas in Austin. Read a Q&A with Garmon here.
Fall 2018 AET Concert
View the highlights from Fall 2018's Arts and Entertainment Technologies end-of-semester concert.
Q&A with Assistant Professor of AET Michael McKellar
Michael McKellar is an Assistant Professor of Practice of Arts and Entertainment Technologies (AET), teaching primarily in the Projection, Lighting, and Interactivity (PLAI) concentration. McKellar recently moved to Austin from Scotland with his wife, Emma.
Q&A with Assistant Professor of Design Jason Wilkins
Jason Wilkins attended the MFA Design program at the University of Texas at Austin but withdrew early to put his theoretical studies into practice. He found his fit at Dyal and Partners, the design studio he joined in 2012, which subsequently became part of Page. Wilkins played a key role in the recent redesign of the University of Texas at Austin's visual identity. He enjoyed working on it because it was first and foremost a strategic effort.
Q&A with Assistant Professor of AET MJ Johns
MJ Johns is a game and experience designer, Unity developer, and founder of Astire Games. MJ previously worked in AAA on COD: Modern Warfare Remastered and Mafia III, and they also worked in VR creating show demos for the Virtuix Omni. As the studio director for Astire Games, MJ develops educational and family-friendly apps and games for mobile, VR, AR, PC, and web. MJ got their start in software and web development before moving into games and entertainment in 2012.
2nd Annual VJ Battle: Audiopixelcollider
View the highlights from UT Austin's second annual VJ Battle: Audiopixelcollider, a collaboration between the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, the Butler School of Music and the Department of Theatre and Dance.
The Inaugural In The Arena Award: Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
Students from the Department of Design, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Jiwon Park, designed and constructed the physical award for the LBJ School of Public Affairs’ new In The Arena award. The inaugural award was presented to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in November.
Q&A with Kevin McDonald
We recently caught up with Kevin McDonald to learn more about his off-campus course at argodesign in South Austin last fall. Find out more about his experience teaching ITD 170: Making Real World Design and partnering with argo.