Noah Wardrip-Fruin

1972–

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a Creative Writing Fellow at Brown University. He is the lead editor of The New Media Reader (with Nick Montfort) and of First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (with Pat Harrigan), both of which are forthcoming from MIT Press. His past work includes Gray Matters, a collaborative fiction embedded in images of a human body. Its presentation at the Sandra Gering Gallery in 1996 was the first public presentation of a zooming user interface. His work on it was supported by an Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship.

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.

Wikidata identifier

Q7045465

View the full Wikipedia entry

Information from Wikipedia, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License . Accessed March 26, 2025.

On view
Online

First acquired
2003

Date of birth
August 25, 1972

API
artists/8646



artport

See more on artport, the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet and new media art.


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

Learn more about this project

Learn more at whitney.org/artport

On the Hour projects can contain motion and sound. To respect your accessibility settings autoplay is disabled.