The ACC Creative Collaborator Labs (“Creative Co-labs”) program connects Arts & Digital Media Division (and 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 an ongoing six class multi-level collaboration.

Upcoming Spring 2026 Project Profile:

Collaborating across two semesters, four classes and three departments staring with scriptwriting in an Radio-TV-Film class from last semester, an advanced Audio Technology & Industry audio class will partner to mix music/post-production audio effects on productions in the Game Design 2D Animation thesis class and RTF Filmmaking Portfolio class respectively.