Category: ATEC

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 […]

This spring, three retired faculty leaders at The University of Texas at Dallas were awarded honorary emeritus titles for their dedicated service and long-lasting influence on the University. Drs. Paul Fishwick, Edward J. Harpham and Allan Dean Sherry joined 90 current retired UT Dallas presidents, deans and professors who have received this lifetime academic appointment. […]

Megan Stewart, a senior at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (the Bass School) at The University of Texas at Dallas, secured a summer internship with video game giant Activision Blizzard. Stewart is expecting to graduate with a BA in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication with a concentration in Animation […]

At The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center in Dallas, groups of vulnerable individuals come together every Tuesday and Thursday evening for an art therapy session led by Gia Kirk, a student at The University of Texas at Dallas.  For the first time in the day, approximately ten men and women at the center put down their […]

Graduate student Grace Denner is on a mission to recast 2D animation as a major entertainment option for audiences online and in theaters. “I miss the 2D animation that used to be prevalent in popular media,” she said. “So I’m hoping to be able to put a little bit more of 2D media into the world, […]

The Omni Dallas Hotel will display more than a dozen animated clips – produced by the University of Texas at Dallas students – on its 23-story LED facade on nights throughout April to celebrate Dallas Art Month. The 16 featured projects are 90-second animations, each produced by a student in the Projection Mapping Lab class […]

University of Texas at Dallas technology experts dispelled misconceptions and highlighted advantages of a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that has stirred growing chatter about its power to change communication, education and the workforce. “Students could potentially use it to get their homework done,” said Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science and one of […]

An animated short film about the Holocaust, produced by University of Texas at Dallas faculty and students, is gaining international attention. “A Lasting Image” is a stop-motion animation project that captures one person’s experience during the Holocaust. The film has been accepted into several festivals – including one in Ukraine — and recently won an […]