Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30-10:30am and听听/ Whaaat!? Lab and/or remote by request
Matthew Bethancourt develops experimental games and interactions that explore the limits of what a game can be and how games create opportunities for reflection. Much of his work听invites people to do silly or mundane things, which points to deeper themes and often poses unanswered questions. In his work at the Whaaat!?听Lab, Matt works closely with students to create and launch their own games. The Whaaat!? Festival, an annual event open to students and the public, highlights games and experimental interactions.听
He has taught audio production, sound synthesis, sound design, game design and development, web design, physical computing and installation/performance with Max/MSP. He holds a Master听of听Fine Arts听in design and technology from Parsons School for Design.
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Publications
- Peter Gyory,听Perry Y Owens,听Matthew Bethancourt,听Amy Banic,听Clement Zheng,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022.听鈥淏uild Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade,鈥� In听14th ACM conference on听,听听听(June 20-23, 2022鈥擵enice, Italy).
- Jiffer Harriman, Matthew Bethancourt, Abhishek Narula, Michael Theodore, and Mark Gross. 2016. . In听Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(CHI EA '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2504-2510. 听.听(San Jose, California听鈥� May 7 - 12, 2016).听
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