No, not my wedding. This evening is the inaugural Julius Schwartz Lecture, an event I’ve been helping to plan, produce and otherwise bring into existence for the last year. As a result, and as a reward, today I am the personal handler for Neil Gaiman, a man who’s been a role model for me since I was in junior high. To say that I’m excited (and not a little nervous) would be a major understatement.
For the event I’ve written articles and designed posters, websites, badges, programs, and, a personal first, the MIT homepage. I’ve been the major point of contact for Neil, helped coordinate efforts on the back-end, run tons of errands, and otherwise put my fingerprints all over this baby. And now that it’s all happening, I’m more or less sitting back, going by my extremely granular schedule, and praying that the wheels don’t come off this thing at any point (or that the skies don’t elect to open up and start pouring rain on us all).
Pictures and other accounts of this evening’s chaos to follow. Details at http://cms.mit.edu/juliusschwartz for the interested. Wish us luck!
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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