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Welcome to Ronald Rettner Hall for Media Arts and Innovation. This is a great, creative,
fantastic new space where we'll have the Arts bridging Humanities with the Sciences and
Engineering. The building was designed with a very open architecture so that most of the
walls are glass encouraging interaction and collaboration. Here we are in the first floor
in the Engineering fabrication lab. In this space, they will have every tool available
to them for all kinds of hands on work so they can take things apart, put them back
together. We're going to have over here a 3D printer. Anything you can render in 3D
on a screen, you can now print out on a 3D printer. It's called additive manufacturing,
and we think there will be a lot of future for our students working in this area. One
of the great things about how Rettner Hall has been designed is that all of the spaces
are open to one another, so in this space you see here on the second floor in the Digital
Media Studies Lab, all of this is open and glassed in, so all of the work going on in
the fabrication lab on the first floor will be visible to students working in the digital
environment. Here we have a sneak peek into the Digital Media Studies Learning Studio.
This space will be home for the students in the Digital Media Studies Program. Back in
the corner here will be an 8 foot video wall where students can throw up images from their
laptop so everyone can see what students are working on. This space is designed with high
end equipment for video and sound editing for image rendering. So that students in the
Arts and Humanities can work with students in the Sciences and Engineering, and they
will be able to do so 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Rettner Hall houses the new program
in Audio Music Engineering, and this space features a very high end recording studio.
The building was designed so that this space is sitting on a floating slab, and that means
this space is completely sound proof. Right next door to the audio recording studio is
a fully functioning video recording studio. This room is basically a black box, which
makes it very functional adaptable to a and wide variety of video productions. In all
the little spaces, a lot of hard work, you need a little relaxation, recharge those creative
juices. Here we have what we affectionately call the Tree House. Students can kind of
chill out, talk with one another, exchange ideas, and relax before getting back to work.
Digital technology is changing how we do almost everything, and in this space, students from
the Arts and Humanities will come together with students in the Sciences and Engineering,
and they'll be doing two things. They will be doing hands on work producing objects of
digital media and also will be doing intense analytic work, in which they learn to think
and write critically about those things. As Rettner Hall continues to come together, we
look forward for the opportunity to bring together for our students knowledge, creativity,
and technology for the future.