I just wrote this in an email, and I thought it was too good to keep to myself. I was trying to explain the connection between the work I did in my Imagineering class and experimental uses of technology in theater.
“Disneyland is, after all, the world’s best-known performance installation piece.”
Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001
Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Socialbomb, a social gaming startup in New York City. I recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here
I sometimes work at area/code.
Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners
You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].
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