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synonym for a circle

‘synonym for a circle’ is an interactive virtual reality experience that simulates a circle dance through user interaction with a kinetic sculpture.

Tear Shaped Door

Tear Shaped Door is an interactive game installation in which players can lick a boot clean. The fastest lick is recorded and displayed on the secondary screen.

If caring becomes owning, and owning becomes tiring

Examine systems of care in video games that feed on attachment and ownership.

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You are a wandering trash collector sailing down a murky river in your humble boat.

Rules for the Construction
of the Roleplaying Games

Many of the structures of RPGs are derived from wargames, and this military origin can serve as a foundation for interrogating the practice of designing RPGs

A Modern Wargame

Should civilians be present in Donetsk Verdansk? Should players have access to killstreaks, like Predator UAVs or white phosphorus?

Night Running 夜奔

Night Running is a video game about softness, hardness, opaqueness, transparency, sex, violence, love, hate, confusion, and misinterpretation.

Digital Vessel Class
Final Project Reel

A selection of final projects from DESMA 172: Designing Avatars Class.

DIGITAL VESSEL CLASS
Performing Body Project Reel

A selection of avatar filters from DESMA 172: Designing Avatars Class.

For A Love I Can’t Express

“if the train goes at the speed of light…does everything we carry upon just fly into space?” — Alice Zheng

Cut

Cut explores how automobiles have shaped American infrastructure and the culture, and how major corporations have changed the perception of cars in today's world.

Past Era

Past Era focuses on the visualization of outdated information in the virtual world by offering the “old version” of digital technologies.

Myth VR

Myth VR is a speculative mythological experience inspired by Chinese folklore and tradition, sacred architecture, and digital bodies.

The Return

To preserve a world where nothing you’ve seen is worth preserving.

Super Power Hour V3

Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities

Groom

A game installation that centers on an insect with wings who cannot fly.

i

A social media network that consists of only the user.

OK to Ship

Through the lens of airport security, this familiar yet bizarre art installation examines the prevalence of power, control, and authoritarianism.

Game Prostheses

A collection of six game prostheses designed to be worn by an LG VS840 4G LTE phone.

Pixel | Antipixel

Source footage from the 2D arcade game Battle Garegga is rendered as a 3D volume by slicing up the original footage and then layering it on top of itself dozens of times.

Hot Air / Breath Bank

Two players/performers inflate the shared balloon within the box.

Incognito Mode

Incognito Mode is an Alternate Reality Game parodying the battle between hackers, governments and corporations.

Face Exercise Machine

—“Not only your body needs exercise, your face does too!”—

Regurgitating

Regurgitating tells the story of a flower's infinite reproductive cycle.

Mess.life

Messlife is a virtual DIY artspace in the tradition of warehouse art spaces and alternative venues.

Junk

"Junk" is game based on William S. Burrough's essay "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" that compares drug use to capitalism.

F You, I’m Happy With Me: A Game About Selfies and Self-Love

There is no “respectable” selfie that a woman can post without opening herself up to slut shaming, accusations of conceit, insults about her appearance and character, and more.