This last week has been, and the next week will be, absolutely and utterly insane. Today, for instance, I’m driving from Chicago to New York, and then from New York to Boston on Monday. There’s an open house at a grad school program I really like up there, and things have worked out so that I can spend my birthday with three of my closest family – my folks and one of my oldest, dearest friends. Also, in a bizarre twist of fate, this will be the second year in a row that I’ll be spending my birthday in New York City. The world, it conspires against me sometimes.
I have all sorts of things in the queue, all in various stages of launch. For instance, I’ve been reworking the ‘poetry’ section of geoffreylong.com to reflect two new ideas, include seven or more new poems, and include mp3s of me reading each poem. I’m also updating the site to include my involvement with Tohubohu and CollaborationTown, and two new concept essays. Parts of this are live (updated ‘about’ section, concept essays, a handful of poems), and all of it should be ready to roll sometime this week, as well as a couple of sizable client projects. Right now, though, I have to hit the highway. Wish me 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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