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Matt Parker
Courses taught:
- Major Studio: Fall
- Designing for Museums: AMNH
- Code Lab 0
- Code Lab 1
- Games 101

Matt Parker is an Associate Professor of the Arts at the NYU Game Center, where he serves as the Area Head for Programming and is the Director of Special Projects. Professor Parker was the founder chair for IndieCade East and Chair for the festival and conference from 2013-2015. He was the lead Curator for the Game For Change conference in 2016 and 2018. In 2018 he co-founded the OpenAir Collective, a global volunteer network that empowers its members to fight climate change by advancing carbon emissions reduction and removal.

Matt is also a game designer and new media artist.  His work has been displayed at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Academy of Music, SIGGRAPH Asia, the NY Hall of Science, Museum of the Moving Image, FILE Games Rio, Sony Wonder Technology Lab, the New Zealand Festival, and many other venues.  His game Lucid was a finalist in Android’s Developer Challenge 2 and his project Lumarca won the “Create the Future” prize at the World Maker Faire.  He created the game Recurse for the inaugural No Quarter exhibition at the NYU Game Center.  Recurse was a finalist for Indiecade 2010 and won the “Play This Now!” award at Come Out and Play 2012. In 2011 Matt was an Eyebeam Resident in 2011 and in 2018 he was selected to participate in the Princeton Atelier. He was a Distinguished International Scholar at the University of Waterloo in 2021. He is the founding chair for the 2023 Carbon Removal Challenge, an international student competition to advance important climate change solutions.