Recent Events

During Academic Year 2022-2023


  • All In Your Head
    RECENT EVENT: Duderstadt Center Video Studio Friday, February 9, 2024 6:00 p.m. An interdisciplinary performance presented by NeuroArts Productions. Live stream available. What if we moved beyond the one-size-fits-all treatment system in mental health care? What if we began to bridge the gap between a individual’s unique brain makeup, their life experience, and their treatment? […]

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  • FEAST Project Showcase
    CCA Gallery December 6-11, 2023 Reception: December 6, at 5:30 p.m. ArtsEngine presents the FEAST Project Showcase and reception. This event provides an opportunity for students and faculty participating in UARTS Faculty Engineering /Arts Student Teams (FEAST) to showcase the work they have completed over the past year. UARTS FEAST projects provide an opportunity for students to engage […]

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  • Look What’s Here – Interarts Showcase
    Duderstadt Center Video Studio Dec 8, 6:00 pm (Overflow Viewing, DL2) Get ready for an extraordinary evening of Interarts creativity at our Look What’s Here – Interarts Showcase! Join us in person for an unforgettable night immersed in the magic of art, music, dance, and more. This one-of-a-kind event will feature amazing performances that blend different art forms together, pushing […]

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  • Thank you to all who supported the DC on Giving Tuesday!
    Thank you to all who supported the DC on Giving Tuesday! While Giving Tuesday has passed, you can still support programs in the DC that advance diversity and Inclusion in technology and media-rich disciplines. Make a gift anytime to the standing Duderstadt Center Enrichment Fund to expand student access to media and technology resources unique […]

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  • Halloween Sewing Workshop
    Design Lab 1 October 23, 2023 5:00-8:00 pm Join us on Monday, Oct 23 to get help with sewing basics; tips on making costumes; and tea & treats! Bring your own fabric and ideas, we are here to help. Located in Design Lab 1, first floor of the Duderstadt Center. […]

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  • DUELGBTQ
    RECENT EVENT: Stop by Design Lab 2 throughout the month of September to see an interactive installation by Stamps Alumni and winner of the Stamps Big Idea Award, Pheiv Kurtz. With assistance from staff at the DMC, Pheiv developed “Duelgbtq” – a video game about the power of authentic self-expression in the face of hate. […]

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  • DMC Student Workers Show
    CCA Gallery July 28 – August 18, 2023 A Student exhibition highlighting the talent of the student staff who work in the Duderstadt Center. Multiple styles and media are featured in our Creative Columns Art Gallery. […]

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  • DMC-FEST
    September 6, 2023 3:00 – 6:00 pm Duderstadt Center Hunt for prizes, work with the DMC’s cool technology, and learn about everything you can make here. We’ll be showing off our Audio Studios, Video Studio, 3D printers, sewing machines, club spaces, VR gear and much more! Scan the QR code to RSVP and take a […]

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  • After Unica
    Recent Event: Thursday, August 31 and Friday, September 1 at 7:30 pmDuderstadt Center Video Studio (overflow seating in Design Lab 2) After Unica is a multi-media solo performance. It is a chimeric non-linear surreal autobiography intertwining Tulip’s family experiences and artist Unica Zürn’s life, art and writings. There are references to mental illness, suicide, death and […]

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  • aZn luv luv t0ur
    May 11, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. and May 12, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.  Video Studio, Duderstadt Center. A live, interactive performance, directed and performed by Caroline Yoo and Okyoung Noh*. Free but reservation required – in-theater attendance is limited: https://bit.ly/aznluvluv. This performance “aZn luv luv t0ur” invites audiences to join Noh and Yoo as tour guides […]

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  • Take a break to game in Design Lab 2
    De-Stress in DL2 Sunday, April 233:00-6:00 pm Try the new Meta Quest Pro & Vive XR Elite headsets. Bring your own laptop & controller and plug-in to the 38” ultrawide displays or watch movies on the big screen TV. […]

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  • Some Restless Circus On “Sonny’s Blues” (by James Baldwin) by John Cage
    Recent Event: Duderstadt Center Video Studio Digital Music Ensemble, University of Michigan Performance given in 17 parts all determined textually, sonically, and visually by the score “Circus On” by John Cage (©1979 Peters Edition).  The text chosen for this performance is “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, a short story Baldwin wrote in 1956.   The score indicates ways […]

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  • TVLab TRADE SHOW
    Live streamed to Design Lab 2, Room 1365 Beginning at 9:00 am and running throughout the dayDuderstadt Center TRADE SHOW is a one-day series of free and public lectures, workshops, installations, forums and tech demos focusing on emergent visualization technologies and their spatial applications organized by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Featured […]

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  • Giving Blueday
    The Duderstadt Center is physically located at the heart of north campus and dwells at the intersection of information, engineering, art and design, architecture, music and theater performance. It is a student-centric, technology-rich, interdisciplinary center devoted to developing and providing new ways for students, faculty and staff to collaborate to create, collect, analyze, assimilate, and […]

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  • Don’t toss your old electronics! Donate them to BLUElab for reuse.
    Drop off: Friday, December 9, 1 P.M. to 4 P.M. right here in the DC Connector Hall. Keep your used but unwanted electronic devices out of the landfill! This Friday, December 9, BLUElab Metro’s team will collect your used electronics and repurpose them or recycle them for you. BLUElab Metro is a project team initiated […]

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  • Update: Giving Tuesday at U-M
    November 30: From MaizeRaize (U-M’s official crowdfunding platform). “Yesterday’s Giving Tuesday was a huge success! With the incredible support of our U-M community, we funded more than 32 projects and raised more than $1.1 million from over 4,400 gifts! And for that, we want to say a huge “Thank You!” to everyone who got involved […]

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  • Sonya Belaya: “Cognitive Distortions, Ancestral Patterns” (streaming video)
    Sonya Belaya: “Cognitive Distortions, Ancestral Patterns” Recent streaming performance Thursday, November 3, in the Duderstadt Center Video Studio “Cognitive Distortions, Ancestral Patterns” uses cognitive distortions to understand the experiences of immigrant women artists as it relates to assimilation, segregation, and mental health care. Alongside research of social work practices with immigrant communities, Belaya documents the […]

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  • Ballot Wayfinder/A2 City Clerk’s Office at the DC
    Ann Arbor City Clerk’s Office and Creative Campus Voting Project “Ballot Wayfinder” at the Duderstadt Center October 12 – November 8 Weds-Thurs: 12-6pm  Fridays : 12-4pm Monday, October 24, 12-6pm (last day to register to vote by mail or online in MI) Election Day November 8, 8am-8pm Mon-Friday, 12-6pm for those interested in the accompanying […]

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  • Photo Essay: The DC gives Detroit high school students a glimpse of what their future could hold
    “I can see myself being here.” “I didn’t know you could do this in college.” These were some of the comments made by 21 high school students after their tour of the Duderstadt Center and the advanced digital media technologies managed by the Digital Media Commons staff. This, from many students who had never considered […]

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  • “Unity & Community” Video Studio Fall Film Series
    September 6, 7, and 8. Join us in the Duderstadt Center Video Studio for three feature length, award-winning documentaries by individuals who have dedicated themselves to finding positive responses to our most pressing issues: climate justice, racial injustice and its roots, and the survival of American democracy. Shown on the Video Studio “Big Screen”. Kiss the […]

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