Recent Events

During Academic Year 2022-2023


  • 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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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  • Veils
    Recent Event: Alex Mark Solo Exhibition August 18 – September 6, 2023 Reception: Tuesday, August 29, at 4pm Duderstadt Center Gallery Everything we perceive can be said to contain the past, present and future. In our perception and thought we move from one to the other. Many of these paintings reflect on that. Layers of … Read more […]

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  • Uncovering the Third: Material as Relation
    RECENT EVENT: June 19-30, 2023 Duderstadt Center Gallery Uncovering the Third: Material as Relation (2023), features multimedia work investigating how materials and metaphors can inform and expand the way that we understand our permeable relationships with one another and our larger environments. The contextual history of the various mediums used; clay, fiber, mycelium, carries an … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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  • Canada’s Longest Running Prison Theatre Company: Insights from Kate Rubin, Theatre Artist’s Work with William Head on Stage
    Keynote Presentation of the 27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons 3358 Duderstadt Center, Lower Level. Thursday, March 23, from 7:00-8:30 pm. Join us for an informative and engaging keynote speech with Kate Rubin, an experienced and accomplished theatre artist known for her dynamic leadership and collaborative approach. She has been working with William … Read more […]

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  • DigiPaint Food Zine Gallery
    Duderstadt Center Gallery February 13 – March 12, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2023 4:00 – 6:00p.m. Feeling hungry? DigiPaint’s fall semester zine features student artwork surrounding the theme of food! About DigiPaint DigiPaint, U of M’s first digital art club, nurtures students throughout their digital painting journey by fostering a sense of community … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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  • Voting Day in the DC Gallery
    Hundreds of students filled the halls of the Duderstadt Center prepared to register and vote in the special DC Gallery polling location on Election Day 2022 See a short video of the line of students committed to add their votes! The turnout marks the success of the Creative Campus Voting Project and its Vote 2022 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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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 … Read more […]

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