Kate Compton, Researcher & Maker | Tech+Art
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Today we’re speaking with Kate Compton, an inventor, game designer, special effects artist, independent researcher.
She’s also an academic with the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz, which is a group of researchers studying new ways to connect computers and creativity, that includes everything from interactive storytelling to social simulations to laser-cut robots.
Kate has been working on Procedural Content Generation in a variety of contexts for more than ten years.
From research papers like “The Casual Creators”, to generative frameworks like Generominos, to video games, to little games, wild experiments and more.
I definitely recommend checking out her incredible work online at:
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