iPearl Innovation Studio: Past Exhibits

The Arcade: A Showcase of Student-Made Video Games

The Arcade is a collection of video games made by NC State students, made playable on a custom-built computer kiosk, with new games added regularly.

AI Collaborations on Science Fiction

Students in “Science Fiction: Humans, Machines, and In-Betweens” (ENG 376) created stories and images in collaboration with AI.

Environmental Archaeology: Our Global Past, Present, and Future

Students from ANT 475 share projects on environmental change, their scope spanning the globe and from the ancient world to modern day.

GC 420 Showcase: The Power of Visual Thinking

Students in GC 420 Visual Thinking used their graphic communication skills and a variety of media to explain core visual thinking concepts.

TDE 261 Digital Media Education Commercial Videos

Students in TDE 261 worked in teams, using their video production skills to create 30-second advertisements for narrowly defined audiences.

Imagining Feminist Technologies

A collection of speculative designs of technologies that center and support feminist values and ideas, made by students in WGS/STS 210 Women & Gender in Science & Technology in Fall 2022.

Virtual Space to Enhance Mental Health

This exhibition features the work of students who participated in the (GD 400) Virtual Reality (VR) and Mental Health course at the NC State College of Design.

Esse Quam Videri

This experimental digital humanities project utilizes documentary filmmaking and poetry as tools to contribute one multimodal account that amplifies and celebrates the diversity of the state of North Carolina, and by extension the United States.

Master of Art + Design 2022 Thesis Projects

2022 Master of Art + Design thesis candidates display their final projects, including walkthrough videos created by each designer and behind the scenes images showing the process of creating each project.

Data Physicalization

This exhibit features work created in Jamie Harr's Data Science course "Data Physicalization". A data physicalization (or simply physicalization) is a physical artifact whose materiality encodes data.

Women’s Center 30th Anniversary - Herstory

This year, the NC State Women’s Center celebrates its 30th anniversary! At the heart of this rich and storied history is a group of tenacious students who sought to establish a space dedicated to advancing gender, equity, and social justice on campus.

Out of the Archives: Digital Projects as Early Modern Research Objects

Organized for the Folger Institute Seminar by Paul Broyles, Margaret Simon, and Christopher Crosbie, this exhibit showcases local and regional Digital Humanities projects.

QR Quilt

This exhibit features the story of the critical making of a quilt emblazoned with QR codes by Kelsey Dufresne and her mother, Mary. The QR codes are links to sites that reference or stir memories of the makers’ pasts as they examine the role of digital memories while creating a physical family heirloom.

W.E.B. Du Bois Visualization

NC State students and faculty created data visualizations to accompany visualizations created for the 1900 Paris Exposition by W.E.B. Du Bois and his students.

Color Science Research

This exhibit features current research in the Color Science and Imaging group and includes the examination of human color perception and analysis of sources of variability from physiological, psychological and environmental factors. NCSU Libraries and the Color Science Lab have partnered to raise awareness about color blindness and the ways it hinders learning. For this exhibit, the Libraries have worked with EnChroma to allow their color blind glasses to be available to test in the Innovation Studio and to check out at our Ask Us desk!

Topographical 3D Prints

The Topographical 3D prints exhibit features work by mechanical engineering student Austin Selley. Selley credits his curiosity and perfectionism for this collection of 3D prints, which translate publicly-available GIS data into topographic landscapes of unique geological formations. The eye-popping color gradations are the result of his careful use of a special color-changing filament—a break from the monotony of single-color 3D printing.

The Future of Life

This exhibit explores the future of bees, of wilderness, of microbes living in the deep, of biotechnology and much more.

Understanding Virtual Spaces

Graduate students in graphic design created immersive environments using the Virtual Reality (VR) tools of a new platform called Mozilla Hubs.

Master of Art + Design 2021 Thesis Projects

The Master of Art + Design exhibit features final projects of the 2021 thesis track Master of Art + Design (MAD) candidates.

The 20 Hour Meta-Skill Challenge

The MetaSkill Challenge is a practical task with theoretical implications for how you approach all skill acquisition – metacognitive learning. The focus is on taking important higher-level skills – such as skill acquisition metacognition – and developing them through concrete everyday life.

Art2Wear

Art2Wear is an annual juried fashion exhibition and event organized and hosted by the Art + Design department

State of Sound

State of Sound is a place for all of the members of the NC State sound making community to share their work and hear the work of others.

Reading Machines

The interdisciplinary honors seminar Reading Machines, led by Dr. Paul Fyfe, offers a hands-on learning experience about the history of text technologies. In the spirit of NC State’s commitment to Think and Do, students were challenged in their final projects to create prototype reading machines of their own using a process called critical making.

Holograms for a Public Good

Master of Art + Design Thesis Projects 2020

The Master of Art + Design exhibit features final projects of the 2020 thesis track Master of Art + Design (MAD) candidates. The MAD program focuses on Experimental Media Arts and encourages students to explore the intersection of digital and material technologies to create interactive and engaging experiences that push the boundaries of storytelling, learning and play.

Innovation in the Time of Corona

NC State’s community has risen to the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis with creative responses and necessary innovations. And through the organization and coordination of Cas Saroza, Dispatch from Quarantine, an online zine of artist expression in a virtual reality gallery space was made possible. This exhibit features a selections of works from the zine.

Office of Undergraduate Research Profiles

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) supports and promotes opportunities for undergraduates through mentored experiences with NC State faculty and other professionals. For our profiles exhibit, we are showcasing Katie Brooks, a recent graduate from the Art + Design Department. She was captivated by the ginkgo trees lining the path behind Park Shops on campus and this fascination and appreciation grew to be her main artistic medium.

VR Plants

This exhibit features selected projects from the VR Plants team, which creates video games, exhibits, workshops, and interactive lessons about plant biology. Since 2018, VR Plants has been an active collaboration between the NC State Libraries and the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology.

Zines and Comics

The Zines and Comics exhibit features projects created in Professor Maggie Simon's ENG 305 Maymester Women and Gender in Comics class. These zines and comics deal with feminism, Muslim stereotyping, the pandemic, and more. They take an innovative look at how zines and comics can communicate difficult topics with sincerity and earnestness.

Existence as Resistance

Originally conceived and curated as an exhibition for the Women’s Center, Existence as Resistance: The Magic in Blackness features NC State students, staff, and faculty creatives who have taken an Afrofuturist lens to create radical Black futures for themselves and viewers.