Ulm has been an emergent media artist, game developer, and professor of interactive media for over 15 years. Their work and practice focus on games for change, the impact of artificial intelligence on new media, and XR development. They have developed a number of game titles, working as both designer and software developer, in the ‘serious’ and experimental games space for pc, mobile, and virtual reality. Their most recent personal art centers on interactive, fictive, live-action installations and intimate AI avatar moments. As a computer science major at Smith College, Ulm began developing their first electronic experiences and upon completing graduate studies in interactive programming at Parsons, the New School, helped launch one of the first undergraduate degrees in game development, consistently recognized in the top five globally. Ulm received their MFA from Lesley University and maintains a studio at a local maker-space [and in the cloud], believing that practice and purpose intersect at the community level.

Terrasa Ulm
Professor of Practice
- About
- Scholarly and creative works
- Awards and grant
Scholarly and creative works
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Monochrome: Between
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Ghost Moth Dreams
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Ghost Moth Dreams: an Interactive Play
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Possible Futures: Visions3
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CMACD Fall/Winter Faculty Exhibition
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To Touch Laser Grass
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Stolen at Sea: A Detective Hunter Mystery
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The Three Strange Sisters: Duende, Kobold, Zashiki-warashi
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Gender Makeup in Embodying Virtual Avatars, an Undergraduate Course
Gender Expansive Live Streaming SymposiumSmith College, Northampton, MA2024Sponsored by GELSS -
The Somnus Tavern & Inn
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The Somnus Tavern & Inn — an interactive play
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Sister Dusk
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Big, Big Bubbles
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Enlighten: A Faculty Show
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Sweetland SlumberParty and the Familiars
Steam -
Boehm Porcelain: A VR Case Study
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To Be an Algorithm Vessel
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Waiting for Obols
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Waiting for Obols
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Storytellers
Awards and grants
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CROSSROADS: Creating Robust Opportunities for Student Success through Real-world, Organized, and Applied Data Science
National Science Foundation
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Critical AI Community Data Lab
Higgins Institute
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Arts & Tech grant
Sherman Fairchild Foundation
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Fulbright Scholar in Residence
Fulbright
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Game Audio Preservation
Grammy Grant
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Critical Thinking Training in Virtual Reality
Clark Academic Innovation Fund
Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022 -
Interactive Theatre
Clark Academic Innovation Fund
Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022 -
Co-Creating Social-Technical Enterprise to Understand/Respond to Intersectional Climate-Water-Food-Health-Livelihoods-Energy-Justice Challenges in Mexico-Lerma-Cutzamala Region
NSF Pire