What will you see at the end of the world?
In Umurangi Generation, the answer is aliens, raves, U.N. soldiers, giant robots, a penguin, and lots of graffiti. It is a photography game where players find the best angle and lens to capture the perfect shot and check off a list of required photos for each level. All of these levels are visually stunning, drawing on a minimalist cyberpunk aesthetic grounded in Māori culture and drawing inspiration from Jet Set Radio and its contemporaries. …
Haunt the World with me, when this is all over?
Collapse started as a collage created for Queer Archive Work’s Urgency Reader 2. The publication was released in April 2020 after a 10-day open call asking artists to generate work, urgently, in response to the current moment. We were only a few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic and the pages of Urgency Reader 2 reflect that.
I worked on the Urgency Reader 2 version of Collapse 2020 over the course of a day and developed an animated, interactive version for screen in the 2–3 days after. …
What can we learn about history through the exploration of music lyrics?
The above question motivated my efforts to develop a data exploration and visualization tool focused on a corpus of Hip hop lyrics. I set out with an understanding of Hip hop lyrics as a repository of cultural memory for Black communities across the United States and saw potential for thinking about history in new ways through these lyrics.
My design process started with the concept of the remix, a variant of a song produced by adding to or altering the original track. Remixes are a popular feature of…
Andrew W Smith
designer + developer + writer of games, AR/VR, and archival & interpretive web | irLhumanities | OLC @ Snapchat | https://awwsmith.com
