Noah Wardrip-Fruin

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.