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Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts News

EMA students place in 48-hour entrepreneurship challenge

February 19, 2024

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Kim’s work featured in Kiewit Luminarium ‘Glow’ exhibit

November 21, 2023

The Open Studios event on Dec. 8 features work from multiple classes from students in emerging media arts and theatre-design and technical production. Photo by Laura Cobb.

Carson School Open Studios is Dec. 8

November 20, 2023

Peter Flaherty's "The Dial" will be at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Oct. 27-Dec. 1. A new form of storytelling, "The Dial" combines an interactive narrative with augmented reality and projection mapping.

Flaherty brings interactive ‘The Dial’ to Carson Center

October 13, 2023

A still from the Speculative Devices Lab, a working prototype that shows a combination of photogrammetry, 360 video and 2D archival image within a Real-Time 3D game engine that allows the player to move around the environment with six degrees of freedom and experience in a VR headset or on a computer screen. Image courtesy of Speculative Devices Lab.

Interdisciplinary UNL research team re-imagines decommissioned missile silo through storytelling, emerging technologies

October 5, 2023

Kylie Muller (left), an emerging media arts major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was among four students who taught filmmaking skills to Native youth during a film camp at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in late July and early August. Courtesy photo.

Huskers mentor young filmmakers on the Pine Ridge Reservation

September 29, 2023

Nebraska student and script supervisor Charlie Major listens to comments by producer Jamie Vesay. At left is Richard Endacott and in the middle right is Grace Birkland, Nebraska student and second assistant cameraperson. Photo by Craig Chandler.

Huskers work behind the camera alongside professionals on film set

September 29, 2023

Alijah Mallula, an English and emerging media arts student from Malcolm, Nebraska, interned with Maxis Studios this summer. Courtesy photo.

With Electronic Arts internship, Mallula built worlds through sound

September 29, 2023

Forty-one students have been selected to join the latest cohort of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.

41 students selected for new Carson Center cohort

August 25, 2023

Megan Elliott speaks at the dedication of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts in 2019. Elliott is the inaugural Johnny Carson Endowed Director in Emerging Media Arts. (Justin Mohling/University Communication and Marketing)

Johnny Carson Foundation gives $2.5M to create endowed directorship for Carson Center

October 27, 2022