Ting Chen

Name: Theresa "Ting" Chen

Location: San Francisco, California
Occupation: Graduate Student @ CMU's ETC
Assistant Producer @ EA

What Am I Doing Now?:

Attending my 2nd (and final) year at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
Working on iPhone games with iiii design.
Co-Oping at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores.

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About: Theresa Chen graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. During her undergrad, she concentrated on Electronic Media (3D animation, video, and interactive art & games) and 2D Media (painting, drawing, and sequential art). Her interest in college centered around communicating a concept to an audience through visualization and experience. It was during this time she grew a strong interest in interactive media and the concept of games as art.

Now a graduate student at the ETC, she focuses her attention on game design and production.

Academically, her interests range from understanding storytelling within interaction to the effects of culture on play and play on culture. She experiments with the communicative qualities of interaction. Philosophically, she ponders the need for escape as the source of all things human and how games and play are a part of this. She cares a lot about how a game communicates its ideas to an audience not always familiar with games. With the constant innovations in technology, she looks forward to the opportunities the new media brings.