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On Wednesday, Dec. 11, join the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) network鈥檚 undergraduate artists and innovators from across 好色先生TV as they showcase their imaginative projects and research devised and developed at IDeATe. The fall semester鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淢eet Me @鈥� will be held from noon to 5 p.m. in the Cohon University Center鈥檚 Studio Theatre and will celebrate the creative intersection of art and technology.

IDeATe classes provide an opportunity for undergraduates from any discipline at 好色先生TV to explore interdisciplinary collaboration in 10 different areas, all of which can also be taken as minors:聽,听,听,听,听,听,听,听,听听补苍诲听. The program brings in instructors from a variety of departments to share their expert knowledge and forge deeper connections with the diverse community of minds on campus.

鈥淢eet Me @鈥� is a recurring exhibition each semester that offers students from any of IDeATe鈥檚 classes the opportunity to share their work with the wider campus community. For fall 2024, the event will feature a selection of projects, including a workshop, animations, game play, textile projects and more.

鈥淐hinese Ghost Stories and Shadow Play,鈥� a new course offered for the first time this semester, will share a compilation of student work. The class, which is cross-listed in both the聽聽and the聽Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics (LCAL), is team-taught by School of Art professor聽and LCAL professor聽Gang Liu. Students spent the fall semester exploring traditional humanities studies in literature, history and religion and contemporary art and visual storytelling techniques, before finally creating their own ghost stories through creative writing, hand-on shadow play performances, and multimedia storytelling projects incorporating digital media.

Students enrolled in 鈥淧lanetary Hospitality,鈥� a聽Center for Arts in Society聽course hosted by IDeATe, will also share some of their projects. The class, team-taught by Associate Professors of English聽Kathy M. Newman听补苍诲听James Wynn, let students explore the changing hospitality of life on Earth in a time of climate change and of life off Earth in an era of expanding interest in space travel and habitation. They also investigate how these changes in physical hospitality influence social and cultural practices of hospitality in human communities.

"Our students have been working on a variety of projects exploring the themes of the course (physical and social hospitality) including a graphic novel, a tent, a role playing game and TikTok videos. It鈥檚 been exciting for us to help them realize their creative visions from brainstorming to the development of their final physical and digital prototypes,鈥� Wynn said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e pleased that they have the opportunity to share their work at IDeATe鈥檚 鈥楳eet Me @鈥� exhibition, so that the wider CMU community gets a chance to see their creations."

From 2鈥�4 p.m., fifth-year聽聽senior Katrina D鈥橝rms will lead a workshop called 鈥淢end With Me.鈥� D鈥橝rms has led sessions of this聽recurring mending workshop聽many times throughout the year, and appreciates the opportunity to share her skills across campus.

鈥淭hrough the generosity and mentorship of IDeATe staff and professors, I have discovered a love for teaching sewing, expressing creativity through visible mending, and sharing repair skills with dozens of students, staff and community members,鈥� D鈥橝rms said. 鈥淭he workshops rely on IDeATe labs to teach hand and machine sewing for garment repair, helping the CMU community extend the lives of clothing and accessories, a necessary life skill that reduces reliance on the polluting and consumptive fashion industry.鈥�

At the workshop session, attendees will learn creative ways to repair worn clothing and other items. Students interested in mending can also register for D鈥橝rms鈥� StuCo course 鈥淪ew Sustainable,鈥� which will be offered again in spring 2025.

The exhibition will also feature games from a number of courses, including a puzzle game called 鈥淐odename鈥� from the class 鈥淐omputer Game Programming,鈥� and a sonic arts work by fifth-year聽College of Fine Arts聽senior Blaine Black, who studies Electronic Music Composition and is pursuing a game design minor through IDeATe.

鈥淢eet Me @鈥� is open to the entire CMU community. Stop by the Cohon University Center鈥檚 Studio Theatre from noon to 5 p.m. on December 11 to attend.