Studios & Creative Spaces (EMA)

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Performance Creative Spaces

         

In the Carson Center, the bleeding-edge of emerging media technology is at your fingertips. One of only fifteen facilities in the country designated as an HP-Educause Campus of the Future, we have tools as limitless as your imagination.

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Our new, flagship learning facility incorporates technical and stylistic inspirations from industry-leaders in tech, film, design and fine arts. Learn to build worlds and tell stories through filmmaking, game design, virtual reality, experience design, special effects sensory media, sonic art and data. 

Students sit in the luxurious setting of the Center's study space.
Carson Center building at night.
Students walk around the front hall of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts building.

Motion Capture Studio

A group of people standing on a virtual studio space.

EMA is of the few institutions in the country that houses a full-scale motion capture studio, preparing our students for careers at the cutting-edge of storytelling.

Audio Research Lab

A student sits at a computer working on a project.

Because sound is everything — dive deep into technical and creative aspects of sonic world building.

VR Lab

A student wears a pair of VR goggles while traversing a virtualized interaction.

Learn to design a world from scratch and explore new, evolving possibilities in the virtual reality landscape.

HP Computer Lab

People engage in a lively talk in a well appointed computer lab.

Both for class-based learning and independent use, our computer labs are outfitted with a full suite of programs for video editing, graphic and 3D design, game design and more. 

Meeting Spaces and Collaborative Zones

Students sit in spacious sunlit collaboration spaces in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts building.

Beyond having all the latest in the technology you need, we also give you all the space you need. The Center houses several comfortable spaces to meet and collaborate with peers, as well as ample raw studio space to bend to your vision.

Other Facilities

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

  • Mac Computer Lab
  • Editing Bays
  • Project Spaces
  • Theatres
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on a sunny summer day.

Temple Building

  • Proscenium Theatre
  • Black Box Theatres
  • Studio Spaces
  • Fabrication Spaces
A dancer stand in pose in the center of a dark stage with projected panels surrounding it.