This weekend I’m in bright, sunny Los Angeles, staying with my friends Talon and Sara and presenting at the SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference, where I’ll be conducting a transmedia storytelling workshop first thing tomorrow morning. I’m having a great time so far – I slept a ton last night between the six hours on the plane and another four or more this morning at Talon and Sara’s while I waited for the clock to catch up, then wrote a short piece on their porch while I waited for them to catch up, and then all three of us went out to breakfast at a little coffeeshop on the pier near their apartment in Redondo Beach. We’re about to head down to the convention center so I can get myself all registered and everything, but the majority of the conference is going down tomorrow.
I’ve never been a big fan of L.A., but it sure is beautiful here, especially compared to the monsoon season that Boston has dared to call a summer this year. I’m starting to see the appeal.
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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