Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Computational Media

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Center for Computational Experience
Digital Arts and New Media

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies
Fiction
Digital Media
Digital Humanities
Digital Arts
Game Studies
Game Technology
Game Design
Artificial Intelligence
New Media

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
Room 271

Office Hours These are updated here: https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/nwf

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

• Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a technical and cultural research group.  Noah's research areas include new models of storytelling in games, how games express ideas through play, the literary possibilities of computational media, and how cultural software can be preserved, discovered, and cited. Noah has authored or co-edited five books on games and digital media for the MIT Press, including The New Media Reader (2003), a book influential in the development of interdisciplinary digital media curricula. His most recent book, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies was published by MIT in 2009. Noah's collaborative playable media projects, including Screen and Talking Cure, have been presented by the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Krannert Art Museum, Hammer Museum, and a wide variety of festivals and conferences. Noah holds both a PhD (2006) and an MFA (2003) from Brown University, an MA (2000) from the Gallatin School at New York University, and a BA (1994) from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands.

Research Interests

• New models of storytelling in games, software studies, how games express ideas through play, digital literature, how games can help broaden understanding of the power of computation, game and software preservation, discovery, and citation