Principal Faculty Participants
Guy Garnett, is a composer and has worked in interactive performance for 15 years. He is the Director of the Cultural Computing Program at the Siebel Center. He sees gaming as the most significant new art form to appear at least since the advent of photography and the moving picture.

Roy Campbell is the principle investigator of the NSF funded Gaia project that built the extensive demonstration of ubiquitous computing that has been exhibited in the Siebel Center since its opening. He also has collaborated on the teaching of game development courses in the computer science undergraduate curriculum. One of the classes produced the "Siebel BFG" multiplayer, location aware, team player game used at the Siebel opening.

Dmitri Williams' dissertation work helped establish the study of online gaming. He has published several peer- reviewed articles on the topic, consults with industry and serves on the industry's censorship advisory board. He has taught "Video Games: Content, Industry and Policy" at the University of Michigan, and will begin offering the course here in the fall. See the article in The Economist.

Gail Hawisher's areas of special interest include new information technologies and their relation to issues of literacy. Her new co-authored book, Literate Lives in the Information Age: Literacy Narratives from the United States (Erlbaum, 2004), traces digital literacies as they have emerged in people's everyday lives over the past 25 years. Currently, she is busy at work on an edited collection, Gaming Lives in the 21st Century: Literate Connections, which presents life history accounts of how people have taken up gaming. The goal of the book is to tell the stories of individual gamers and to offer historical and cultural analyses of their literacy development, practices, and values.

In addition to the PI and Co-PIs, this program will draw on a large pool of faculty and students at UIUC.

These faculty include at least the following:


Stephen Taylor (Music)
Chip Bruce (GSLIS)
David Forsyth (CS)
Daniel Simons (Psychology)
Barrington Edwards (History and Afro-American Studies)
John Hart (CS)
Christian Sandvig (Speech Communication)
Jay Kesan (Law)

Interested faculty should send me email garnett at uiuc.edu