While my project could not be fully polished in time for the IMA show, I had a really good time there and loved a lot of the projects I saw.
What I really enjoyed seeing was Sam’s finished video game project. Sam taught a workshop on Unity a while back, and he used the same basic avatars to teach us how to make video game characters move and animate. His game reminded me a lot of a game I really loved called Ori and the Blind Forest.
What I really appreciated about the IMA show is how it informed a lot more aspects about interactive media arts than simply what was in my class Interaction Lab. While I was doing projects for Interaction Lab a lot of the time the Art aspect of IMA would get lost, so I was blown away by a lot of the projects there. My favorites are below:
Attending the IMA show taught me the diversity of the field, and also showed me the future of art — blending technology through art to accomplish an entirely new form of expression. It was really cool to see realizations of things I would usually only see in museums, and makes me better understand how art will evolve in the future.