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2008
Digital Game Creation Intensive 2008

This summer we again offered a 3-week intensive on interactive digital game creation in SMALLab.

Overview:

Digital games are pervasive in today’s society and are rapidly growing in cultural influence. The impact of new game interfaces, such as the Nintendo Wii®, illustrates that games are moving beyond the console and to engage players in new interactions. During this intensive, students work in collaborative teams to study and design interactive digital games that use full-body, 3-D movements and gestures within ASU’s innovative mixed-reality environment, SMALLab. Through hands-on activities, students create audio, visual and movement elements that are assembled, through programming, into new immersive games. At the end of the program, students invite family and friends to SMALLab for an evening of interactive-game play and fun with their new creations. The intensive is lead by an interdisciplinary team of digital media experts from ASU’s Arts, Media and Engineering Program.

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SMALLab @ Coronado High School

We continue our partnership with Coronado High School and the Scottsdale Unified School District through the formation of Professional Learning Communities and direct interaction with students for STEM and Language Arts Learning. Click here for more details.
2007
Digital Game Creation Intensive 2007

In 2007 we offered a 2-week game creation intensive

Overview:

Digital games are pervasive in today’s society and are rapidly growing in cultural influence. While much of the commercial gaming industry is exclusively focused on entertainment, game creation and play can also serve as a powerful vehicle for learning, exploration, collaboration and self-expression. During this two-week game-creation intensive, students work in collaborative teams to study, design and create interactive digital games within an innovative mixed-reality environment, SMALLab, that has been developed by researchers at ASU’s Arts, Media and Engineering Program. At the end of the intensive, students invite family and friends to SMALLab for an evening of interactive-game play and fun with their new creations. The intensive is lead by an interdisciplinary team of digital media experts from ASU’s Arts, Media and Engineering Program.
SMALLab @ Metropolitan Arts High School

We collaborated with the ASU Art Museum and the Metropolitan Arts High School in downtown Phoenix to create a suite of interactive media installation works in response to American Master artworks. These creations will be exhibited in the Museum's Interdisciplinary Gallery within the Gallery of the Americas beginning in April 2007.
2006
SMALLab Lite and SMALLab @ Whittier Elementary School

In collaboration with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts [SMOCA], at team of media teaching artists from our group worked with 25 4th and 5th graders in a semester long after school program to create new forms of participatory, interactive storytelling scenes from Peter and the Wolf.
SMALLab @ Herrera Elementary School

In collaboration with dance teacher, Susan Bendix, we deployed SMALLab onsite at Herrera Elementary School in downtown Phoenix for a week long intersession workshop. Students explored topics in movement, expression, and choreography
photo(s) courtesy of David Birchfield, Sarah Hatton, Willi Savenye, and Tim Trumble © 2006