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Facilities:

The ARTS Lab facilities include advanced systems for media production and performance. Our

Black Box includes one of the largest green screens in the area as well as an 8 camera Vicon

Motion Capture system. Also in the Black Box are an advanced theatrical lighting package and

immersive sound for performance and multimedia installations and presentations. The facility has

been home to countless video production shoots, presentations, software development jams,

research projects, music, dance and theatrical performances.

The ARTS Labs G-Dome is truly unique. The worlds first fulldome theater for research and pro-

duction purposes at a university, the G-Dome is a 15 diameter hemisphere with 6 projectors for

display of a wide variety of content, and the home to production of the annual (and global) Dome

Fest Fulldome Festival and content for Maya Skies and other fulldome productions. Additionally,

the G-Dome is being used for research on real- time display of immersive content as well as for

student classes and productions. DomeFest has screened in more than 12 countries and 20

US cities. In addition to these facilities, the ARTS Lab includes a media production suite and is co-

located with UNMs Center for Advanced Research Computing.

Laboratory:

The ARTS Lab also serves as both a physical and virtual hub for connecting the different facets

of New Mexicos Media community. As a key partner in New Mexicos Media Industries Strategy

Project (MISP), ARTS Lab has led the global Fulldome community through events like DomeFest,

helped launch the New Mexico chapters of the IGDA (Game Development) and SIGGRAPH (Ad-

vanced Graphics) as well as other organizations like AniMotion NM (Animation, Motion Graphics)

and the New Mexico Post Alliance (Post- Production). Many of these organizations meet regularly

at the ARTS Lab, venues like the annual DomeFest Fulldome Festival and New Mexico Media In-

dustries Conference, and through the MISP listservs and other venues online.


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:: Tales of the Maya Skies :: art

ARTS Lab is world-renowned in fulldome film

production and research. The Labs team

co-produced Maya Skies, a major fulldome

film funded by the National Science Founda-

tion and now in international distribution.

This and other productions have created an

expertise in cultural media education and

training while also bringing federal dollars

into the Lab and the University brand into

theaters world-wide.

Image: An image of a mythology scene (pro-

duced using 2.5D animation techniques)

ARTS Lab for Tales of the Maya Skies.


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T:: SPECTRE Series | Experimental Music :: art

ARTS Lab produces programs to support research, artistic ex-

perimentation and performance to cultivate media innovation.

Image: William F. Cowler and friends stretch the technical and

artistic boundaries of electronic music - and expand the com-

munitys cultural landscape - in the SPECTRE music series.


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T:: Advanced Graphics Systems Research ::

The Lab is a crucible of tools and people instigating and supporting

cutting-edge research into new media technologies and techniques.

Research spans from the College of Engineering to the College of

Fine Arts and eveywhere between.

Image: Professor Pradeep Sen of UNMs College of Engineering ex-plores science visualization and augmented reality using the Labs

Black Box facilities.


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T :: Immersive Media Production ::ARTS Lab provides important educational opportunities for stu-

dents to work in new and alternative displays for media: From

Time Square to Las Vegas to Disney World to future living rooms,

moving images are being applied to many surfaces beyond stan-

dard screens and ARTS Lab is preparing students for this new

industry.

Image: A still image of algorithm-based art created for DomeFest

2009 by renowned New Mexican generative artist Jared Tarbell.


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T T:: BlackBox Production ::Film and media students learn by making. The Labs Black Box

opens discovery and production space to young filmmakers and

media artists through technical support and access to important

tools such as professional-grade greenscreen and soundstage fa-

cilities, a motion capture system and other assets.

Image: Dance students support a film production using the Labs

greenscreen facility.

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Ttechnology:: Fulldome Research and Production ::

The world comes to New Mexico to work with ARTS Labs team

and programs in the rapidly growing industry of large-format im-

mersive digital media (fulldome): More than 1000 people from

about 18 countries have traveled to Albuquerque to participate

in the Labs DomeFest Fulldome Festival. The festivals travel-

ing program has screened in more than a dozen countries and

20 major US cities. Lab staff have also received major external

support to present our programs at conferences and programs

around the US, in the UK, Australia, Germany and elsewhere.

Image: The Labs Hue Walker in the G-Dome with her Our Turn to

Walk fulldome film on screen. Hue is an internationally respected

fulldome fine artist and educator.


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T:: Science Visualization :: scienceScience is based in data but data often arent cogent, or even

understandable to the general public. Visualizing data and ideas

is a powerful way to both explore and explain research. ARTS Lab

works with scientists - and artists - to find ways to tell the stories

of science and invention through powerful pictures that can help

researchers advance their work as well as support educationalprograms to teach the next generations of scientists.

Image: A stylized visualization of a conceptual nanogear. Nano-

technology--creating machines and materials using molecules

as the building-blocks--is one of the most important advances in

science and a place where visualization is a key aspect for both

research and education.


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T:: Science Visualization :: scienceThe speed and power of computers is exposing nature in ways

both compelling and complicated. ARTS Lab works to support the

distilling and presentation data through visualization techniques.

Image: Scientists at New Mexico Tech capture lightning in a digital

bottle. The data includes the 3D position of the energy along with

the time of action. ARTS Lab took that data and visualized it forimmersive media programs. Data courtesy of Ronald J. Thomas,

New Mexico Tech.


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:: ARTS LABTeam:

Andrea Polli

Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media program (IFDM)Director, ARTS Lab

Associate Professor, Fine Arts and Engineering

Tim B. CastilloAssociate Director, ARTS Lab

Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning and Interdisciplinary Film

and Digital Media

David BeiningAssociate Director of Immersive Media

Eric Renz-Whitmore

Program Coordinator

Hue Walker Bumgarner-Kirby

Multimedia Development Specialist

Jonathan Strawn

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:: ARTS Lab Affiliated Faculty

Thomas Preston Caudell

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nick Flor

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program

Miguel Gandert

Professor, Dept. of Communication and Journalism

Eva Hayward

Assistant Professor, Department of Cinematic Arts / Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program

Donna Jewell

Head of Dance

Ramiro Jordan

Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Michael Kamins

Executive Producer, KNME-TV

Joe Kniss

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

William Liotta

Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance

Rita Martinez-Purson

Dean, Department of Continuing Education

Melanie MosesAssistant Professor of Computer Science

Joyce Neimanas

Professor of Art and Art History

Jack Ox

Research Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts

Panaiotis

Research Asst Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Music

Patricia Ann Repar, DMA

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine and Dept. Music / Director, Arts-in-Medicine

Richard Schaefer

Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication and Journalism

Pradeep Sen

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tim Thomas

Deputy Director, Center for High Performance Computing / Research Associate Professor of Physics

Mary Tsiongas

Associate Professor, Electronic Arts, Department of Art and Art History


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TLab:: Community Building ::

The ARTS Lab serves as both a physical and virtual hub for con-

necting the different facets of New Mexicos Media community.

Located on the western edge of main campus, the Lab creates

a nexus between the Universitys faculty and students and the

greater community of younger students and media professionals.

The Labs staff work to promote and support both communities

by building public-private partnerships, co-beneficial programs and

simply as a gathering spot both physically in the Black Box and

virtually through its many Web-based programs.

Image: Another day in the Lab. Local filmmakers collaborate with

UNM students on a low-budget film production.


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TLab:: Promoting New Mexico ::

ARTS Labs unique programs and productions create opportunities to help

promote New Mexicos media industry and the Universitys media-based

educational and research programs. The Lab has spread the word globally

about whats happening locally through presentations at major international

media industry conferences such as SIGGRAPH and Eurographics, to major

festivals like SouthXSouthwest and the Adelaide (Australia) Film Festival, and

to regional gatherings like the Rocky Mountain Planetarium Society and the

Association of Science-Technology Centers.

Image: SIGGRAPH is most important film and digital media conference in the

world. ARTS Lab had the unparalleled opportunity to promote New Mexico

at SIGGRAPH 2005 when the conferences board of directors invited and

funded the Lab to install a temporary dome on the exhibit floor. More than

10,000 industry leaders experienced the Labs work.


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