games, movies and academia

I teach a design class, called "Experiments in Interactivity" with Tracy Fullerton at USC.

Here she is in an article from today's actual New York Times:

"There are definitely some people in the game industry who wonder why academia is taking an interest in them after all this time," Ms. Fullerton said. "It reminds me that there was a moment when film studies really took off and the guys at the studios were like, 'Who are these Spielbergs and Lucases and Coppolas coming out of these film schools with these crazy ideas?' They'll come around."

I am proud to know her.