Scholarly practice:
I am a computer game design scholar with a doctorate in Information from University of Toronto. For my doctoral research, I studied how game developers rendered their first-person mental health narratives into computer games during a game jam (a gameathon). My principal research contributions are to game studies and the medical humanities/disability studies. As a transdisciplinary theorist, I also draw on narratology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art. As a qualitative researcher, I organize maker events to study the creative processes of makers, artists, and designers. I work with grounded theory and arts-informed methodologies (research-creation) for generating creative works (i.e., playable games) as part of research. I also organize and facilitate game jams for community outreach—the last one for OCADU's Inclusive Design Research Centre.
Artistic practice:
My multimedia and documentary filmmaking practice importantly informs my scholarship. I have over 10 years of experience working as an independent documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist. My docu-machinima, Second Bodies, won Best Documentary at the New Media Film Festival in San Francisco and the Gordon F. Keeble Award at Ryerson University. My previous documentaries explored immigrant narratives set within historical and contemporary contexts; Portrait of a Street: The Soul and Spirit of College (funded by the National Film Board of Canada and Toronto Arts Council) and Just Arrived (commissioned by Rogers Communications) were respectively broadcast on PBS and Rogers OMNI Television. I am also a member of Toronto's game development collective Dames Making Games and have an experimental game design practice.
I am a computer game design scholar with a doctorate in Information from University of Toronto. For my doctoral research, I studied how game developers rendered their first-person mental health narratives into computer games during a game jam (a gameathon). My principal research contributions are to game studies and the medical humanities/disability studies. As a transdisciplinary theorist, I also draw on narratology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art. As a qualitative researcher, I organize maker events to study the creative processes of makers, artists, and designers. I work with grounded theory and arts-informed methodologies (research-creation) for generating creative works (i.e., playable games) as part of research. I also organize and facilitate game jams for community outreach—the last one for OCADU's Inclusive Design Research Centre.
Artistic practice:
My multimedia and documentary filmmaking practice importantly informs my scholarship. I have over 10 years of experience working as an independent documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist. My docu-machinima, Second Bodies, won Best Documentary at the New Media Film Festival in San Francisco and the Gordon F. Keeble Award at Ryerson University. My previous documentaries explored immigrant narratives set within historical and contemporary contexts; Portrait of a Street: The Soul and Spirit of College (funded by the National Film Board of Canada and Toronto Arts Council) and Just Arrived (commissioned by Rogers Communications) were respectively broadcast on PBS and Rogers OMNI Television. I am also a member of Toronto's game development collective Dames Making Games and have an experimental game design practice.
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