Early in January I announced that I’d been invited to blog occasionally for the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Here’s what I hadn’t told you yet: I’ve also accepted the invitation to join the IAF’s Executive Board.
I’m both honored and excited to be working with the IAF. The group counts among its members a number of true luminaries currently working in the creative arts, and its mission of promoting works that fall outside of traditional genre boundaries is very near and dear to my heart. Keep an eye on this space, as well as over at www.interstitialarts.org, for more information and if your interests also lie along interstitial lines (as many fans of such creators as Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Holly Black, Ellen Kushner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Umberto Eco, Henry Jenkins, JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis, Gregory Frost, Delia Sherman, Weird Tales magazine, Comparative Media Studies, and a billion other interesting things are likely to be), please consider joining me as a friend of the IAF. It’s a brilliant group of people and an incredibly exciting place to be right now consider yourself invited along for the ride!
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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