As graduation approaches, Aidan Strong’s educational journey fuels his game design. The fourth-year mathematics student’s ventures into game design date back to his high school days when he said he started coding in the game engine Unity. Read more...

Photo: Game designer Aidan Strong stands in front of an array of books, computer monitors and posters. The fourth-year mathematics student said that although video games are not viewed with the same prestige as other art forms, discovering what the medium can become excites him. (Myka Fromm/Assistant Photo editor)

This post was updated June 13 at 8:17 p.m. Eunice Choi is no longer afraid of getting personal. The graduate student in design media arts incorporates her curiosities into a variety of material projects, including interactive sculptures and performative objects. Read more...

Photo: Dressed in a white button up, Eunice Choi sits on the steps of the Broad Art Center. The graduating design media arts MFA student recently had her work on display as part of the “TOWNHALL” thesis exhibition. (Grace Wilson/Daily Bruin)

This post was updated June 11 at 8:44 p.m. The lines between fantasy and real life blur in Benedict Conran’s theater design thesis. The third-year lighting design MFA student took Ellen McLaughlin’s play “Ajax in Iraq” and merged it with augmented reality technology to create an interactive and symbolic performance about an American soldier fighting in Iraq in the 2000s. Read more...

Photo: A rendered image from Benedict Conran’s thesis project shows audiences interacting with the set of a play on their phones. The third-year lighting design MFA student merged the play “Ajax in Iraq” with AR technology to create an immersive theater experience, he said. (Courtesy of Benedict Conran)