Tactile Experiences


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I Was a Ship in Space (WIP)

Propel yourself through a 3D city symphony about the past, present, and future of a Southern California suburb.
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Upgrade Soul

Tread carefully through this chilling, dream-like, musical tale of cloning gone awry. An IndieCade festival finalist.
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Freedom’s Ring

Glide through an animated, annotated mural of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech commissioned by the King Research & Education Institute.
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Breathing Room

Push the wind, pull panels, and dial time forwards and backwards in this gesture-driven interactive comic.
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The Knotted Line

Rip open a massive timeline mural to reveal the history of incarceration in the United States.
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Languish

Pilot words through a surreal world of weaponized language. An IndieCade award winner.
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Strange Rain

Tap and swipe through the rain-soaked musical thoughts of a man in crisis. An IGN Editor's Choice.
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Ruben & Lullaby

Tilt, stroke, and shake to shape the emotions of a couple having their first fight. An Independent Games Festival finalist.
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Critical Sections

Mash up LA's architectural and cinematic history in collages you draw yourself.
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Blue Velvet

Submerge yourself in a poetic wordscape describing the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina.
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Nation on the Move

Pull strands of yarn across a network of gender, art, and commerce in the world of the Persian carpet.
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Swing

Waggle your way through words with the Wiimote.
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The Virtual Window Interactive

Drag to open glowing portals to the history of windows and screens.
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Slavery’s Ephemera

Peruse the ephemera of Louisiana plantations on a journey down the Mississippi river.
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Mobile Figures

Explore historical metaphors and metonyms for the Irish in a virtual potato field.
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The Vector Space

Draw connections between essays in an academic journal using this "intellectual paint program."
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Hollowbound Book

Perform the monologue of a captive book binding as it seeks to escape its confinement.
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Story Problem

Use gestures to unfold the dynamic typography of a poem by Terri Ford.
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Chroma

Use your mouse to enact the private monologues of the characters in this sci-fi serial about race in digital space.
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The Lair of the Marrow Monkey

An experiment in combining motion, interactivity, music and poetry.
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aug 6 1991

An interactive CD-ROM in which users experience a poem from the "inside out."
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The Dark Eye

Caress objects to reveal the memories they trigger in this cult classic graphic adventure through the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Essays


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Timeframing: Temporal Aesthetics in Digital Comics

Comics taught us to write with boxes of time — now boxes of time are everywhere.
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Space Into Game, Time Into Book

Exploring what comics and screens do together.
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Syncopation for Programmers

Why rhythmic play is an essential design tool in the 21st century.
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Resisting the Epic

An interactive essay about how digital creators compromise themselves.
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Creative Tools


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Stepworks

Stepworks turns just about anything into an embeddable digital instrument you can perform with clicks, taps, or keypresses.
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Panoply

Interactive comics tools for the Unity game engine.
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Scalar

Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that’s as easy as blogging.
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Slabtype Algorithm

Fit text in a box in an aesthetically pleasing way.
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Non-Fiction & Digital Humanities


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EXPOSED

Documenting the spread of COVID-19 in prisons through the words of prisoners, their families, and advocates.
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Surfacing

Become a signal traveling across the undersea network.
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Freedom’s Ring

Glide through an animated, annotated mural of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech commissioned by the King Research & Education Institute.
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Scalar

Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that’s as easy as blogging.
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The Knotted Line

Rip open a massive timeline mural to reveal the history of incarceration in the United States.
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Totality for Kids

An annotated comic recounting the birth of the Situationist International.
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Precision Targets

An interactive comic about GPS technology set inside a rotating cube.
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Blood Sugar

An audio archive of conversations recorded with current and former injection drug users.
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Technologies of History

Explore media recreations of the Kennedy assassination.
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Critical Sections

Mash up LA's architectural and cinematic history in collages you draw yourself.
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Image from Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

Submerge yourself in a poetic wordscape describing the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina.
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Nation on the Move

Pull strands of yarn across a network of gender, art, and commerce in the world of the Persian carpet.
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Public Secrets

Audio testimonials from women incarcerated in California.
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The Virtual Window Interactive

Drag to open glowing portals to the history of windows and screens.
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Cast-offs from the Golden Age

Exploring the history of videogaming in New Zealand through an interactive 3D environment.
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Slavery’s Ephemera

Peruse the ephemera of Louisiana plantations on a journey down the Mississippi river.
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Mobile Figures

Explore historical metaphors and metonyms for the Irish in a virtual potato field.
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WiFi.Bedouin

An interactive DIY guide for building mobile WiFi hotspots.
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Narrating Bits

An interactive staging of an essay by N. Katherine Hayles.
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The Unmaking of Markets

Putting animation and simulation to work in exploring the formation of capitalism in 15th century Tuscany.
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The Vector Space

Draw connections between essays in an academic journal using this "intellectual paint program."
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Hollowbound Book

Perform the monologue of a captive book binding as it seeks to escape its confinement.
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Resisting the Epic

An interactive essay about how digital creators compromise themselves.
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