Research labs

Studio subTela  Photo by H. Khoshneviss

 

Innovation in artistic process and expression is at the heart of the many initiatives being explored in the art, design and performance laboratories in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

While the term 'laboratory' is more common in the sciences, it has been embraced by researcher-creators in a university context to indicate an emphasis on experimentation, collaboration and  inter-disciplinarity, leading to new processes, creative communities and innovative works or prototypes.

 

Hexagram labs

At the Hexagram Institute for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, our professors are recognized as world leaders in the research of new media art, design, and interactive performance and technologies. Take a look at some of their work below:

aLab – Director: Yves Bilodeau (Bill Vorn)

d_verse lab – Director: pk langshaw 

Institute of Everyday Life - Director: Ingrid Bachmann

Interactive Multimedia Playroom – Director: Rosemary Mountain 

Interstices – Director: Lynn Hughes 

matralab – Director: Sandeep Bhagwati 

metacycle - Director: Martin Racine

Obx Research Studio and Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace  – Director: Jason Lewis 

Possible Movements Lab – Director: Marielle Nitoslawska 

Sense Lab – Director: Erin Manning

xmodal - Director:  Christopher Salter

Studio subTela – Director: Barbara Layne

TAG (inter-faculty) – Director: Bart Simon

Topological Media Lab – Director: Sha Xin Wei

XS Labs – Director: Joanna Berzowska

 

Graduate students interested in exploring the resources of Hexagram should contact any of the professors listed above, Special Individualized Programs (SIP), Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD Program or the Office of the Associate Dean, Research and International Relations.