Man, I don’t know if it was the result of kicking my creative brain into overdrive yesterday for all that writing or what, but my dreams last night were whacked. I can usually remember parts of my dreams, but there were two big ones last night that were just weird. Both of them dealt with things that are easily translated into my anxieties these days, with very little analysis required. Both were quietly disturbing.
For someone who places such heavy stock in dreams, my subconscious has been really annoying pretty much all year. Sometimes I wish it would just leave me alone. I mean, really. Either help, or sit down and shut up. Dang subconscious.
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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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