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Adrian Phillips

Alum
Digital Art and New Media
MFA Class of 2016

Adrian Phillips is a digital media artist and game designer whose work explores the use of procedural rhetoric and the creation of emergent gameplay narratives. He studies the ways in which these methods create meaning within playable media.

He is currently pursuing an MFA in the Digital Arts and New Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with an emphasis in Playable Media. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California, San Diego with a major in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts and a minor in Computer Science. 

Research Interests: 

Procedural Rhetoric

Politics of Simulation

Playable Media

Artificial Intelligence

Augmented Reality

 

Education and Training: 
B.A., Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Selected Exhibitions: 

Dare Protoplay, 2015

UCSC Open Studios, Fall 2014

Project Planetaria Student Showcase, 2013

Fear, Loathing, and the Technicolor Nightmare, 2013

Honors and Awards: 

Arts Division and Plantronics Creativity and Innovation Scholar

Arts Excellence Award

Dare to Be Digital Finalist, 2015