The mini-movie she made with her teammates shows Alanah Cleare falling asleep while studying in the University of Mary Washington’s Hurley Convergence Center. In the AI-assisted dream sequence that follows, she awakens on Campus Walk surrounded by fantastical fruit – talking pineapples and combustible berries that swirl up to the sky and explode in a […]
Zach Whalen has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Electronic Literature Organization, an international organization dedicated to the investigation of literature produced for digital media. This large community of scholars and practitioners working with “born digital” literature hosts an annual convention, maintains a network of scholarly archives and databases, and has published […]
Associate Professor Zach Whalen in the Department of Communication and Digital Studies contributed to a piece titled “The Last of Us: The Musical Transposition in the Series is a Revolution.” Whalen suggested that for both the game world and its characters to be as believable as the cinematic, they need distinct theme music attributed to […]
Associate Professor of Digital Studies Zach Whalen spoke on an encore presentation of With Good Reason Radio titled “The Wide World of Video Games.” On the segment, Whalen told the show’s host Sarah McConnell: “Even the idea of coin-operated amusement devices goes back into the 19th century … One interesting perspective to think about is […]