ACC Creative Co-Labs
ACC Creative Co-Labs
The ACC Creative Collaborator Labs (“Creative Co-labs”) program connects Arts & Digital Media Division (open to other areas too) students and faculty across labs/project-based classes, cultivating collaboration and transdisciplinary skills in preparation for industry. From week-long “one offs” to multi-semester projects intersecting a group of classes and wide-ranging departments to out of class projects, students/faculty/staff can post, search, and discover other collaborators or development tools, as well as take inspiration from the many completed collaborations at Creative Co-labs.
Example Project Profiles:
“Flex Factory” is an ongoing co-production of the Audio Technology & Industry Department’s Live Sound class and Radio-Television-Film Department’s Event Videography class, taped in front of a live audience in collaboration with ACC TV.
For a filmmaking class project, videography and music students collaborated to create a surreal, character-driven music video. The project was profiled in the ACC student newspaper, Accent.
As part of a final portfolio-style class, creative podcasting certificate and art students partnered in the Art Galleries at ACC (TAG) to create American Roulette: A Podcast Series, coinciding with the exhibit at the ACC Highland Campus Creative Digital Media Center.
For a game design portfolio class, students created an immersive virtual reality game, Auragami, collaborating with music students for the score and video production students on behind-the-scenes documentary footage.
Introductory screenwriting and filmmaking classes collaborated on a minimalist creative challenge to write and produce compelling two-minute “contained location” films on campus and without any props. The project has since evolved into a six class multi-level collaboration.
UPCOMING SPRING 2026 PROJECT PROFILE:
A multi-class/department collaboration starting with scriptwriting in an Radio-TV-Film class, an advanced Audio class will work to mix the music and post production effects for select productions from 2D Animation thesis class, and the RTF Filmmaking Portfolio class.