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UCLA Game Lab
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We are an experimental research & development lab that fosters the development of computer games and game-related research at UCLA.
You’re invited to Stone Mill Grinder🎠: A UCLA DMA Mid Residency Exhibition for Elliot Bear Yu ⌨️ Uncover a strange new lexicon in this eccentric, typing-based, rougelike game. 🕹️

Opening:
Tuesday, 01.20.26
5:30 – 8:30 PM

Location:
EDA Graduate Gallery
UCLA Broad Art Center, Room 1250
January 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
You are invited to the ucla_dma Undergraduate Winter Exhibition 2026: ACID REFLUX ⚡️
An exhibition exploring cycles of destruction, rebirth, and transformation in an era of ecological and technological upheaval.🗓 Opening: Jan 15, 5–8pm
📅 Jan 15–29
📍 New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA
January 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Apply today to the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA, home to the UCLA Game Lab. A space for artists and game makers pushing new forms, systems, and ways of thinking through games. Apply now to develop games as an expressive and experimental practice.
Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🎮 dma.ucla.edu/programs/mfa
January 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Applications are now open for the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA, home to the UCLA Game Lab. The Game Lab brings together artists and game makers working across disciplines to explore new forms, systems, and ways of thinking through games.
📆 Deadline: January 4, 2026
🔗 dma.ucla.edu/programs/mfa
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Applications are open for UCLA’s MFA in Design Media Arts. A rigorous 3-year program exploring media, technology, and games with world-renowned faculty, funding opportunities, 24/7 studio access, and fabrication labs. Deadline Jan 4, 2026.
Learn more: mfa.dma.ucla.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
October 23rd is the last day to see UNCOMMON INGRESS, an exhibit by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort, at the New Wight Gallery from 10am-5pm!

Address:
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center
240 Charles E Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095

More info: uncommoningress.cargo.site
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Game Lab’s own David O’Grady shares his expertise in Episode 2: “Stick It to ’Em,” from Hidden Levels, a new @wbur.org podcast by Endless Thread and @99pi.org exploring how video games have reshaped our world. This episode dives into the evolution of the joystick!🕹️ www.wbur.org/endlessthrea...
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Game Lab faculty & UCLA DMA
professor Sahej Rahal speaks with @killscreendotcom.bsky.social
about game engines serving as spaces for collective intelligence. Drawing from Indian philosophical traditions, his practice spans sculpture, performance & simulation. www.killscreen.com/sahej-rahals...
October 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
You’re invited to UNCOMMON INGRESS, an exhibit by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort.
📍 New Wight Gallery, UCLA
🗓 Opening: Thurs Oct 16, 5–8 PM | Runs Oct 16–23
🍷 Free + open to the public, with food & drinks.

Seek refuge via uncommon ingress.
👁️ uncommoningress.cargo.site
October 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM