Celia Pearce

Celia Pearce is a game designer, author, researcher, teacher, curator and artist, specialising in multiplayer gaming and virtual worlds, independent, art and alternative game genres, as well as games and gender. She began designing interactive attractions and exhibitions in 1983 and has held academic appointments since 1998. She received her PhD in 2006 from SMARTLab Centre, then at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech, where she also directs the Experimental Game Lab and the Emergent Game Group. Her game designs include the award-winning virtual reality attraction, Virtual Adventures (for Iwerks and Evans & Sutherland) and the Purple Moon Friendship Adventure Cards for Girls. She is the author or co-author of numerous papers and book chapters, as well as The Interactive Book (Macmillan, 1997). She has curated new media, virtual reality, and game exhibitions and is currently Festival Chair for IndieCade, an international independent games festival and showcase series. She is also a co-founder of the Ludica women's game collective. Her work can be found online at http://cpandfriends.com and her Georgia Tech research in multiplayer games and virtual worlds can be found at http://egg.lcc.gatech.edu.