John T. Murray
@lucidbard
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⟦He/him⟧ Asst. Prof., UCF. Comp. media, XR and interactive digital narratives. Co-Author Flash: Building Interactive Web, Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider
Orlando, FL
Joined October 2008
As it is official today, I'd like to share that I've been awarded tenure in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at UCF. Thank you all for your support!
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RT @edmondchang: #MLA2025 roundtable "#ClosePlaying, Ten Years Later" submitted. last minute, I know. with Timothy Welsh, .@lucidbard,….
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RT @cgingold: Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine is finally coming out this June with MIT Press!. .
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.@immer_starker presents "AI Aesthetics, Generator Technics, and Time to Revisit Stiegler" at #scms24 and addresses generative AI image creation in the context of photographic truth in the advent of digital and now generative image creation, both malicious and hopeful uses.
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Zombie Ants VR is out on Steam! The game presents Ophiocordyceps, a fungus that manipulates behavior. Led by @CharissaB and with support from @NSF , the development was led by @ninedguy, while I consulted after a prototyped was built by my class team #UCF.
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Zombie Ants VR is a short (5-10 minute) experience that takes the player through the life cycle of Ophiocordyceps, a fungus that drives creatures (in this case ants) to change their behavior in order...
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RT @UCFTandT: T&T faculty member @lucidbard and collaborators recently published "ColorBound: Comparing Menu Dynamics in Virtual Reality."….
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Join us next Wednesday (5/24) for the ARDIN social where we discuss everything ICIDS. 9-11a EDT.
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Networking event by ARDIN - Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives on Wednesday, May 24 2023
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Excited to be part of a new major project at @UCF : Leads Development of First Large-scale System for Extended Reality Research
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RT @SCMS_VideoGames: Start your third day of SCMS off right with Session I8 - Dice-y Interventions: Dungeons & Dragons, Identity, and Chall….
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RT @SCMS_VideoGames: Next up is Session J8 - Magic: the Gathering as Transmedia! Come discuss the influential TCG's narrative strategies, f….
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I just want to say, @google could likely have found another name for an AI assistant that isn't very focused on creativity.
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RT @UCFTandT: T&T faculty @lucidbard and @AnaSalter recently published "Mapping the Unmappable: Reimagining Visual Representations of Inter….
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RT @kathiiberens: “There is no utopia in Silicon Valley platforms, even if resistant work can be made in the storyscapes there,” says @AnaS….
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Today was "Electronic literature and the pandemic" #MLA2023 with @nytuan , @designeducator , @ARMoreshead and @AnaSalter , who closed the session with a quote that applies to pandemic academic labor: "The University does not love you" Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book Generous Thinking.
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#MLA23 session on career-minded approaches in the humanities, presided by @jasonrhody. Up first, @kathiiberens discussing creation of a creative industries curriculum in Portland and the pivotal experiential learning taking place as part of the Ooligan Press practicum.
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RT @kathiiberens: “Now is the time when we can make counternarratives. It’s important for us to give more tools to empower creative makers,….
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RT @hkoenitz: #icids2022 Adventures in TwineSpace: An Augmented Reality Story Format for Twine.Ps Berge, Daniel Cox, Jack Murray and Anasta….
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