Samara Hayley Steele & Dargan Frierson Interview part 2 – s4, ep.10

We continue our interview with our collaborators on Destination Wedding 2070, recently featured in the ACM Hypertext Climates of Change exhibition! Samara Hayley Steele, MFA, is a PhD student in Cultural Studies and a Graduate Research Fellow with the ModLab, the Humanities Game Lab at UC Davis. She previously collaborated with us and Cathy Podeszwa on Thermophiles in Love. Dargan Frierson is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and the head of the EarthGames group at the University of Washington. He also writes songs about climate science.

Netprovs in this episode:

Destination Wedding 2070

& Thermophiles in Love (created with Cathy Podeszwa) and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference.

In this Episode:

Larping

Smelling like Llamas

Featured Players Cathy Podeszwa & Jean Sramek

Climate Modeling and Weather Forecasting

Elaborate Gendering Ritual

Gender as a Series of Barnum Statements

Tales of a Live Improv of a Netprov

Featuring:

Intern: Tony

Sponsor: Princeton Marine Motor Repair, Princeton, AK