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| • Name: Theresa Tanenbaum |
| • Title: Assistant Professor |
| • Affiliation: Department of Informatics, UC Irvine |
| • Website: https://transformativeplay.ics.uci.edu/ |
Theresa Tanenbaum has been a speaker at IndieCade events.
About Theresa Tanenbaum
Dr. Theresa Jean Tanenbaum is a is a game designer, artist, maker, and assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine where she is a founding member of the Transformative Play Lab. Her games explore the intersection between theatrical performance, mixed reality, and interactive storytelling. Her ongoing work on “Transformative Play” draws on techniques from theater practice to create and explore playful experiences that communicate different perspectives on the world, encouraging players to viscerally inhabit new identities and experiences. Her mixed reality witchcraft game Magia Transformo was an official festival selection of IndieCade in 2017.