Noah Wardrip-Fruin

1972–

Noah Wardrip-Fruin (b. 1972; Palo Alto, California) explores new models of storytelling in games, how games express ideas through play, and the literary possibilities of computational media. His collaborative playable media projects, including Screen (2003) and Talking Cure (2002), have been presented in New York by the Guggenheim Museum, and the New Museum; as well as at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and a wide variety of festivals and conferences. He is a professor of computational media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and codirects the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a technical and cultural research group.

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Introduction

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a professor in the Computational Media department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an advisor for the Expressive Intelligence Studio. He is an alumnus of the Literary Arts MFA program and Special Graduate Study PhD program at Brown University. In addition to his research in digital media, computer games, and software studies, he served for 10 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.