DiscoCactus

DiscoCactus is a collective of composers, performers, and arrangers. They play video game music. Sort of. They use video game soundtracks as a jumping off point for a party, a nonstop display of kinetic musicianship that blends contemporary art music with dozens of pop styles, steeped in the language of the Internet. Picking up after […]

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vgmtogether

…a 3-day online video game music event made by VGM fans, for VGM fans. Our event will feature musical performances, panels, virtual meetups, and other fun activities for video game music fans to enjoy with one another. vgmtogether gave me the chance to work in simultaneous roles as Design Lead and also Co-VR Lead, responsible […]

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NASA Microlessons

The “Microlessons” web application is a multimedia learning platform, featuring an accessible video player synchronized with transcriptions that make learning easier through fast and efficient searchability.  Paired with a production workflow in collaboration with NASA TV Studio, this platform aims to facilitate a variety of web-based learning initiatives at NASA. This project is currently in […]

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Stellar Door Studios

Stellar Door Studios is my other professional presence, encompassing my colleagues and my creative work including independent game development, independent film production, and local community development and organization.  Together, we have made a number of award-winning “game jam” games, and an award-winning amateur short film. […]

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Mina Loy Scholarly Website

Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde is a scholarly website designed for Davidson College, Duquesne University, and the University of Georgia. True to the avant-garde content it studies, the site captures a variety of media types, and innovates with custom-built features including side-by-side text analysis tools, rearrangeable text interfaces, and metadata for scholarly text and artifacts. […]

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Ghazal Creator

As part of a research project studying the work of the poet Agha Shahid Ali, I created a tool that would help students in Hamilton College’s English Department learn about the “ghazal,” a traditional poetic form of Kashmir.  This tool let users author their own poetry, with the rules of the poetic form — repetition […]

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Democracy Then and Now

Democracy Then and Now is a website built to provide historical audio tours to significant locations on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.  The site collected the essays and recorded audio narrations of a number of students across the campus, each providing historical contexts to locations related to the history of democracy in the United […]

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Comparative Japanese Film Archive

The Comparative Japanese Film Archive transcription tool was an academic research application designed to allow multilingual transcriptions for foreign films.  This tool supported an academic project researching the Japanese benshi tradition, wherein live narrators translated and performed the dialogue of foreign and silent films for Japanese audiences.  As such, this tool allowed for presenting films with […]

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