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Awarded: Immersive Environments Lab Fellowship
The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State has announced Megan Young as the inaugural Immersive Environments Lab (IEL) Fellow. Young’s research explores why the everyday items we keep matter so much to us — and why technology still struggles to understand that emotional connection. While contemporary digital technologies can…
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Recursive Bodies
This interdisciplinary collaboration explores new approaches to live performance and production. Directed by John Gibson, Director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music, the project features choreography by Elizabeth Shea and Sarah Wroth performed by Kielyn Bryant, Luke Derksen, Hannah Reiff and Ella Snavely, as well as immersive audio- and motion-responsive visuals developed by…
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New Ghost Stories
In preparation for their upcoming devised performance, Ghosts of Hiram, director Keira Lea McDonald and technical director Bradley Speck hosted Megan Young for a workshop exploring the inherent ephemerality of digital art. As they develop the fall show, students will explore how popular techniques like rear projection and sound design can add dimension to their…
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Digital Weaving
Digital Weaving Lab | Praxis Fiber Workshop Working between emerging technology and social practice, Megan Young explores how computer vision shapes memory. During her residency, she will expand her ongoing “Catchings” series, which draws from personal archives and reimagines computational renderings through craft-based practices. Using digital weaving and other material experiments, the project juxtaposes traditional…
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Open Educational Resources
Indiana University Libraries is excited to announce the 2026 OER Summer Sprint Fellows. Summer Sprint is a hands‑on fellowship that supports instructors in creating more affordable, accessible, and student‑centered course materials. Fellows receive support from librarians and instructional technologists, the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, and funding while redesigning course materials using Open Educational Resources (OER). Megan Young’s project brings together free, open‑access materials from course…
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Continuum Exhibition Opening
Opening Reception: 6-8PM | Grunwald Gallery On View: January 16 – March 20, 2026 Work by over fifty Indiana University artists, architects, and designers comes together in “Continuum: Eskenazi Faculty Exhibition 2026” at the Grunwald Gallery of Art at the Indiana University Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Saluting the Eskenazi School’s first decade…
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Digital Art Exhibition Opening
Opening Reception: 5-8PM | Process Gallery On View: November 20 – March 6 Mimicry and Mirage explores the interplay between visibility and concealment, adaptation and deception, through the lens of extended reality. Drawing inspiration from camouflage in the natural world, the exhibition showcases digital artworks that challenge perceptions and invite viewers to question what is seen,…
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VR Research Presentation
Nicole Condon-Shih hosted the Fluxing Through Realities panel for SECAC 2026 in Cincinnati featuring talks by Meredith Starr, Bei Hu, Dominik Lengyel, and Megan Young. Together, these artists and researchers considered how advancements in extended reality technology provide new (and renewed) avenues for creative exploration. 10/2025 Cincinnati, OH
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Documentary Production Guest Lecture
Cleveland State University’s School of Film and Media Arts hosts Megan Young for a guest lecture in the Documentary Production course. Young shares her work directing the Carry Root Project, focusing on the development of a bespoke AI “StoryCatcher” trained on a series of real-world interviews sharing collective memories, personal histories, and conversations on belonging.…
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Coding Choreography Notation
Megan Young will join a working group exploring methods for devising choreographic scores with p5.js at Virginia Commonwealth University this fall. The research project is directed by Kate Sicchio, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Dance and Media Technologies in the Department of Dance + Choreography; Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at VCU). Sicchio developed p5.score, a…
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Out of Time, In Place
The Furman Department of Art is hosting an exhibition with multimedia artists Atefeh Farajolahzadeh and Megan Young in Thompson Art Gallery of the Roe Art Building. The exhibition features videos, textiles, and experimental animations that explore the personal and communal effects of migration. Drawing from each artist’s distinct migratory experience, the artworks reflect on how…
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Cleveland TouchDesigner Workshop
Join us for a beginner-friendly workshop exploring TouchDesigner as a tool for interactive performance and visual art installation. Designed for artists and creatives new to the software, this hands-on session introduces the basics of real-time visual programming, responsive environments, and integrating sensors or sound. Participants will explore ways of creating dynamic visual outputs and interactive…
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Documenting Carry
Megan Young is collaborating with TuckerGurl productions to develop an experimental short documentary on The Carry Root project. This summer, three of our Cleveland-area core contributors met in Black Valve’s studio to share their experiences with the project. Shown here, Angela Tucker and Duane Prefume work to capture the world of the work. This project…
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Best Experimental Film
Fuzzy Boundaries has been awarded Best Experimental Film by the Art Film Awards Festival. Created by Megan Young with narration by Ephraim Nehemiah, the combines documentation combines games with drones, documentation of protest actions, and aerial renderings of residential spaces with poetic reflections. Emerging from the Sign Stealing initiatives, Fuzzy Boundaries compares technically mediated forms…