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Bret Mann, technical manager and broadcast engineer for ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance, retires on July 1, 2024. He was instrumental in designing the ATLAS Institute’s technical capabilities from the early days and oversaw dozens of technically-complex performances and events in the Black Box Experimental Studio.

High-density speaker arrays use strategically placed speakers throughout a room to create an immersive three-dimensional soundscape. The ATLAS B2 Black Box Experimental Studio features performances that take full advantage of this technology.

2023 was a banner year for the B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance! This unique space is designed to advance and support interdisciplinary experimentation and radical creativity at the intersection of art, technology, media, science and performance. Equipped with an ambisonic sound array, motion capture studios, fully immersive green...

The community is invited to take a walk through Soulé Déesse's magical Afrolandscape, “Hermafrodek: A Suspension of Identity." This interactive exhibit utilizes the highly specialized equipment available in B2, incorporating motion capture, projection mapping and Ambisonic sound technology to create an endlessly shifting soundspace which engages and captivates visitors.

After rebounding from a major flood with vibrant new leadership and a new toolbox of performance technologies, the ATLAS Institute’s B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance now offers more varied and interesting opportunities to artists, engineers, creative technologists and performers than ever before.

A Q&A with Ondine Geary by Shoutout Colorado. "I make dances that are scrappy, unruly and resourceful. They slip themselves into the crevices between genres and insist on using whatever was lost down there–chicken bones, loose wires, half-retrieved memories."

She’s a trapeze artist. He’s a computer scientist. Together, they’re hoping to redefine immersive performance.

Unstable Design Lab researchers Jordan Wirfs-Brock, a PhD candidate, and Mikhaila Friske, a PhD student, both in information science, will present their interactive, hands-on, textile-based experience, Murmuring Yarnscapes, in the ATLAS Black Box, beginning Dec. 2.

The Roser ATLAS B2 Black Box Theater on Friday night will once again be filled with the sound of live music for the first time since a Sept. 2018 flood from a burst pipe, and then the coronavirus, forced the on-campus venue’s closure.