UNM ARTSLab

🎬 Now Hiring: Multimedia Production Assistant!
Looking for skills in videography, video editing, or cinematography — and an interest in experimental performance + tech.
🎥 $20/hr · 5 hrs/week
🗓️ Nov 2025 – May 2026
📍 On campus
Open only to current undergraduate UNM students.
👉 Apply now at 🌐 unmjobs.unm.edu

Catch ARTSLab at the Bands of Enchantment outdoor music fest next weekend in downtown Albuquerque! Stop by and try out "Neon Forge", our new virtual reality experience where you can design and shape your own glowing neon sign in VR, then email it to yourself to keep or share.

Saturday Sept. 20th
4pm onward
Look for the ARTSlab tent on Central, near 5th street
Downtown ABQ

Created and developed by ARTSLab student assistants Ella Pigg (CITH Graduate Assistant, UNM Experimental Art & Technology) and Finn Ellis (CITH Undergraduate Assistant, UNM Computer Science)

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Free online courses and Webinars happening this fall through ARTSLab! Open to everyone!

ARTSLab has partnered with Unity to offer a series of live webinars and short online courses led by Unity Certified Professionals. The webinars provide short one-hour overviews that demonstrate how Unity can be applied across different disciplines, while the short courses are 10-hour online training programs dedicated to specific topics within the engine. Both require registration: webinars have no attendance cap, but courses are limited to 15-person cohorts, with registration opening dates posted below in the course descriptions.

To register for a webinar or course below visit: https://artslab.unm.edu/fall-2025-unity-webinars-and-courses/

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Webinar:
Beyond Gaming: Unity’s Impact Across Industries
Tuesday September 16, 4pm MDT
Speaker: Nick DePalo
Senior Technical Program Manager, Industry Partnerships

Explore how Unity is transforming fields far beyond video games. This webinar features real-world case studies demonstrating how Unity is used in biology, architecture, medicine, and more. Learn how real-time 3D (RT3D) development is driving innovation across a diverse range of industries.

Nick DePalo brings over a decade of experience in program management and design/development production. Nick’s expertise lies in bridging creativity and execution-delivering impactful solutions that drive growth, innovation, and lasting results.

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10-Hour Course:
Develop RT3D Applications with Unity
Registration Opens 9/1/25 at 9am

This beginner-friendly course introduces participants to real-time 3D development using Unity. Over 10 hours of live instruction, a 15-person cohort will explore how to create real-time 3D (RT3D) applications for simulation, training, and spatial visualization across multiple sectors. Sessions are held live on Zoom and designed to equip newcomers with practical, industry-relevant Unity skills.

Monday Sep 22, 5:00-7:30pm
Tuesday Sep 23, 5:00-7:30pm
Wednesday Sep 24, 5:00-7:30pm
Thursday Sep 25, 5:00-7:30pm

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Webinar:
Creating Immersive Real-time 3D VR Experiences with Unity
Wednesday Nov 5, 5pm MDT
Speaker: Joe Greive
Senior Software Engineer

This technical showcase walks through the process of integrating virtual reality into a real-time 3D environment using Unity’s built-in VR tools. Learn how to add a VR user who can navigate and interact within a virtual space and explore key setup and optimization steps for building immersive VR experiences.”

With nearly 20 years of game development experience, including over a decade focused on Multiplayer XR, Joe Greive is a versatile Unity generalist specializing in networked XR gameplay systems and interactions.

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10-Hour Course:
Unity XR Interaction Toolkit
Registration Opens 10/6/25 at 9am

Designed for intermediate users, this 10-hour course offers a hands-on introduction to Unity’s XR Interaction Toolkit. Participants will learn how to set up XR environments, configure VR camera controllers with multiple locomotion options, implement object and UI interactions, and use tools like the Interaction Debugger and XR Device Simulator. The course is delivered live via Zoom in a 15-person cohort format.

Monday Nov 10, 5:00-7:30pm
Tuesday Nov 11, 5:00-7:30pm
Wednesday Nov 12, 5:00-7:30pm
Thursday Nov 13, 5:00-7:30pm

Come visit the ARTSLab booth at ARTSPLASH 2025. We'll be there with new tech and cool demos.

Details:

ARTSPLASH 2025
When: Wednesday, September 24th 11AM-2PM
Where: East side of the Student Building, on the Cornell Mall

Activities include department booths, prizes, food trucks, and a chance to earn an ARTSSPLASH 2025 t-shirt.

Free Artist Talk at ARTSLab!

Sheida Soleimani
https://edelassanti.com/artists/67-sheida-soleimani/
Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 24, 2024, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE

Sheida Soleimani’s work explores intersections of art and activism, melding sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight critical perspectives on events across the Middle East, unpicking the complex power dynamics between the region and western nations. Soleimani’s work interrogates the dissemination of information in digital contexts, adapting found images from press and social media leaks to exist within alternative scenarios. Her photographs document constructed sets within her studio, in which repeating images carve out trompe l’oeil perspectives in a visual metaphor for the competing political narratives relayed by her source materials.

The Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David Gale and his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. Since the establishment of the David and Sylvia Gale Endowment in 1993, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has thrived, and many students have benefitted from the scholarship. Lectures are free and open to the public.

Free and Open to the Public

Friday August 22, 2025 AT 5PM at ARTSLab

YORICK will perform HESSE MUSIC MASTER along with live strings and drums.
locate the techno layer.
Locate the dance.

strings: viola-soph shampton and violin- camas allison-bunnel

drums: cesar luis santos-lezama

Photos from New Mexico Dance Hackathon’s show “i/o” at ARTSLab on Aug 2, 2025. The performance was incredible! Congrats to all of the participants, performers, and technologists. We’re looking forward to sharing more images and videos in the coming weeks.