Speakers

Jason Eppink is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Elmhurst University. He is an artist, curator, and educator, who creates playful, collaborative interventions in online and offline spaces that offer glimpses of a world of expansive possibilities. His core strategy is the use of surprise–a physiological experience that requires an urgent re-evaluation of one's beliefs–to create contexts for participating audiences to imagine radical alternatives and co-create meaningful experiences together. Eppink's transdisciplinary practice manifests across many forms including urban interventions, augmented reality physics puzzlers, escape rooms, text-based interactive fiction, installation games, websites and browser plugins, activist Twitter bots, algorithmic video, and immersive theater. His work has found international acclaim and been presented by such esteemed institutions as New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Come Out and Play Festival. It's also all available online for free at jasoneppink.com. Previously, as the Curator of Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image, Eppink founded two arts commissioning programs and organized events and exhibitions about animated GIFs, video games, and internet cats that garnered major press from Artforum, The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, NPR, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal.

Presenting:

• Exercises that Play in Public: How to Design Collaborative Class Projects that Work Outside the Classroom