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 to create short performances.

In spring 2018, students in Sven Ortel & Matthew Smith’s class AET 329: Media Creation for Live Performance designed projection lighting for performances in Ears, Eyes + Feet.

This enclosure retells the origin behind the Chinese Zodiac: a rat betrays a cat in order to deter the cat from finishing the race, with a focus on the specific moment where they choose to cross the river. Everyone can learn more about the Chinese Zodiac from this enclosure story!

Watch the Spring 2021 AET Livestream Event featuring music, animation, gameplay, video & more.

This little stump holds an even tinier mouse friend inside! As a semester-long independent study, Nada Aburayyan set out to create a digital friend/pet toy like the ones from her childhood and the early 2000s. Learn more about AET '22 graduate Nada Aburayyan and her project, "Woodland Digital Pet."

Independent project created with the fundamentals taught Professor Isaac Oster's 3D Materials and Lighting class. All models and textures are optimized and game-ready. Brought to life in Unreal 5 with Blueprints and Niagara particle systems.

Lens of Empathy gives the player a glimpse of what it’s like to have a different identity that shapes the types of privileges you have. The experience provides current statistics on these disadvantages and the player will become cognizant of the privileges they hold and show empathy for those that don’t have those privileges. 

At the MIT Reality Hack 2022, Zane Giordano built ARRR.duino, a cross-platform AR circuit design tool designed to teach younger students how to build basic circuits with Arduino.

View photos of B.F.A. Design senior Hadley Chillura's race car wrap design for Valkyrie Intelligence, which debuted at the Formula 4 Championship race. 

View the Class of 2021 B.F.A. Design Senior Capstone Exhibition, "Asterism." 

After taking Principles of Animation, Hari learned how to rotoscope and reanimated her favorite music video for "Dynamite" by K-pop band BTS with her own vision and style.

As the ghost, you can phase through walls, ceilings, and the floor to navigate your house while possessing objects to scare away ghost hunters. Successfully freaking out the ghost hunters will result in a successful night, while getting documented too much will result in your capture.