UCLA Game Lab

This is the final week to see CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGIES, the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 exhibition, before it closes May 28! Work featured in video by: Xiner Lan and Sagan Yee Poster by: Sadia Quddus

TOMORROW! Join us at the UCLA Broad Art Center’s New Wight Gallery on May 14 at 5pm for the opening night of CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGIES, a group exhibit featuring new works by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort.

Interviewing Xiner Lan of Eversea Club about creating DisplaceMen, a magic realist ADV nominated for Best Student Game at Independent Games Festival 2025. 🎨 Play as a broke painter collecting strange objects and uncovering the hidden lives of other characters. 🫟 leaf-a.itch.io/displacemen

🎮 Enrollment is open for the UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute! 🎨 A 3-week program for high school students to learn game-making as an artistic practice—no experience needed. 💥 Online OR in-person @ UCLA ✅ 4 UC credits ✅ Portfolio-ready work ✅ Final exhibition Apply now: si.games.ucla.edu

🎮 Enrollment is now open for the UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute! A 3-week program for high school students exploring game-making as an artistic practice. Learn game design, animation, worldbuilding, and programming. Online or on campus sessions ♟️Earn UC credits📚 Apply now!: si.games.ucla.edu

LAYERS UPON LAYERS: A UCLA Design Media Arts Mid Residency Exhibition by Aidan Strong @str0nkyk0ng.itch.io. Disjointed fragments and particulates from eroded forms, each holding only partial memory of its origin, gathered and molded into something new. ⏳👾🏜️

A look at Stone Mill Grinder🎠: A UCLA Design Media Arts Mid Residency Exhibition by Elliot Bear Yu⌨️ Uncover a strange new lexicon in this eccentric, typing-based, rougelike game.

Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and game designer Shing Yin Khor @shing.bsky.social visited the UCLA Game Lab and led a keepsake games workshop. We prototyped short keepsake games that ask players to become makers, crafting a tangible narrative object as they play.

Apply today to the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA, home to the UCLA Game Lab. A space for artists and game makers pushing new forms, systems, and ways of thinking through games. Apply now to develop games as an expressive and experimental practice. Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🎮 dma.ucla.edu/programs/mfa

Applications are now open for the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA, home to the UCLA Game Lab. The Game Lab brings together artists and game makers working across disciplines to explore new forms, systems, and ways of thinking through games. 📆 Deadline: January 4, 2026 🔗 dma.ucla.edu/programs/mfa

October 23rd is the last day to see UNCOMMON INGRESS, an exhibit by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort, at the New Wight Gallery from 10am-5pm! Address: New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center 240 Charles E Young Drive North Los Angeles, CA 90095 More info: uncommoningress.cargo.site

The Game Lab’s own David O’Grady shares his expertise in Episode 2: “Stick It to ’Em,” from Hidden Levels, a new @wbur.org podcast by Endless Thread and @99pi.org exploring how video games have reshaped our world. This episode dives into the evolution of the joystick!🕹️ www.wbur.org/endlessthrea...