Andrew W. Smith, M.S., is a research professor, game designer, quantum artist, and creative technologist who builds experiences for people to play with ideas. His work uses games, interactive writing, archives, and immersive media to explore memory, Black life, environmental futures, and the worlds we make with technology. His recent projects include LiteraryDJ, a remix platform for music, computational poetry, natural language processing, and quantum computing; Energy, a board game about climate change and energy policy; BlackType, an emerging typography and design project; and Material Condi...

Dr. Marisa Parham is Professor of English & Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, where she serves as director for the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and is the associate director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She also co-directs the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities, which is an independent workgroup for digital and experimental humanities (irLhumanities). Parham’s current teaching and research projects focus on texts and technologies that problematize assumptions about time, space, and bodily materiality. S...