Mary Flanagan

Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College

PhD, Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London. Inventor, artist, futurist, writer and designer whose games, installations, poetry and critical essays forge a vision of technology, pop culture and avant-garde art. Interests include the ethical and social impact of technology, games for social good, creative disruption. Artwork ranges from game-inspired systems to computer viruses, embodied interfaces to interactive texts exhibit at museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, Tate Britain, and museums in Spain, New Zealand, South Korea and Australia. Former: John Paul Getty Museum Scholar; Senior Scholar in Residence, Cornell Society for the Humanities; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto; Distinguished Visiting Artist, Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College. Founder: Tiltfactor; Resonym. Served on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Academic Consortium on Games for Impact. Author of five scholarly books, over 50 essays and chapters, and a collection of poetry. Also publishes in Salon, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Gamasutra. Recipient of honours and awards, including: American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship; Brown Foundation Fellowship; MacDowell Colony Fellowship; Bogliasco Fellowship. Vanguard, Games for Change (2016).

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