Category: ATEC/MAD

Academy Award-winning director and artist Domee Shi brought inspiration, encouragement and excitement to The University of Texas at Dallas campus, where she accepted the 2023 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts. Shi won a 2018 Oscar for the animated short film “Bao” and was nominated for another one this year for Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red,” […]

More than 90 University of Texas at Dallas doctoral and master’s students presented their research on topics ranging from virtual reality and health care to brain function and machine learning during the Graduate Student Poster Competition and Research Showcase on Oct. 25, 2023. Hosted by the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), the event drew […]

The University of Texas at Dallas VAST Lab Virtual Reality Research Lab, in partnership with Professor Jeff Price (RelevantVR) and Professor Bryon Caldwell, earned four prestigious Davey Awards in recognition of its outstanding work in the field of virtual reality innovation. With over 3,000 entries worldwide this year, the Davey Awards, by the Academy of […]

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology School leadership appointed Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley as the new program head of the arts, technology, and emerging communication and of critical media studies.  Dr. Cooley, associate professor at the Bass School, is among four UT Dallas faculty members selected this year to lead […]

Members of the ArtSciLab excelled in a nationwide NASA challenge focused on replicating Martian environments for astronaut training.

Veteran animator, artist, and director Tod Polson hosted two lectures for UT Dallas Animation & Games students on Sept. 28.

Dr. Erika Doss, a historian of American art and culture, has joined The University of Texas at Dallas as a professor of art history in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the Edith O’Donnell Distinguished Chair in the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History.

Members of the UT Dallas community can interact with vintage Apple computers at the latest installment in the ATC Building! The Media Archeology Lab (MAL) invites visitors to experience an iMac G3 system running vintage software from the turn of the century. “I call them the jellybeans because of their bright colors,” said Dr. Anne […]

Therefore: Art, Sound, and Performance Group, led by associate professor Dean Terry, garnered acclaim from local media outlets for their June performances of Poems for Broken Screens. The acclaimed transmedia performance art project, hailed by The Dallas Morning News as one of the series’ finest, staged three performances at Hamon Hall in the Winspear Opera House as […]

The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) awarded a prestigious summer fellowship to a University of Texas at Dallas PhD student. Hamida Khatri, a UT Dallas teaching assistant at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and second-year PhD student pursuing a degree in Arts, Technology, & Emerging Communication, is […]