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The Cube

Unique in the world, the Cube is a four-story-high, state-of-the-art theatre and high tech laboratory that serves multiple platforms of creative practice by faculty, students, and national and international guest artists and researchers.

Honors College students see an exhibit in the Cube

Create studio

Create

Through incorporating new materials, objects, and methods for creativity, the Create Studio hosts the tools to turn ideas into working prototypes. Featuring two 3D printers, laser cutting, basic hand tools, soldering supplies, electronic testing equipment, and more, the Create Studio offers a practical workbench to bring life to the ideas of the ICAT students and faculty.

Experience studio

Experience

The Experience Studio is designed as a flexible space for ICAT researchers to create, explore, and document a variety of still and immersive environments, including video games, augmented reality, motion tracked virtual collaboration, and mixed reality performance. Unique features of this space include a two-story projection wall with green screen and an open grid ceiling for flexible lighting and sound exploration.

Perform studio

Perform

Perform Studio is where arts, technology, and creativity meet human mind and body. Using the state-of-the-art acoustic space with multichannel audio, motion capture system and dynamic lighting, here ICAT researchers study human gesture, emotion, spatialization of audio-visual stimuli, and embodied interaction over great distances, as well as performance in its broadest context.

Learn and Observe studios

Learn and Observe

Exploring transdisciplinary and creativity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.

DAAS

DISIS

Newman 122

Media Building 104

Media Building 104

Media Building 204

Media Building 204

Media Building 206

Media Building 206

Request a Space

ICAT offers our studio space upon request and availability.

ICAT Documentation

Available on GitHub.