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EVENT: ZEROED IN: BETWEEN WORLDS. VIDEO GAMES AND THE PHYSICAL (JANUARY 24 2025, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS)

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22 Jan 2025 — 1 min read

𝔃𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷

Student Final Work from ART 250: Between Worlds, Video Games and the Physical @ University of Illinois Chicago

Friday, January 24, 2025
6:00 PM 9:00 PM
VGA Project Lab 2233 South Throop Street #843
Chicago, IL, 60608 United States

curated by

Jared Kelley-Hudgins, UIC ART 250 Instructor

Eleanor Schichtel, VGA Director of Exhibitions

with works by Avery Chang, Shawnie Higuera, Cristiana Salerno, Dante Moore

Amid hard deadlines for as many as five other college courses, the students featured in this exhibition developed intriguing projects in the feverish context of the late semester crunch. What’s more, these projects stand out in particular for demonstrating genuinely original inspiration from the beginner tutorials they received in creative coding, video game design, and augmented reality. These delightfully weird and unpretentious early works are a testament to experimentation in new media art education.

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