Terrasa Ulm

Professor of Practice

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.

Affiliated Department

Becker School of Design & Technology

Scholarly and creative works

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    Monochrome: Between

    Ulm
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    Ghost Moth Dreams

    Terrasa Ulm, Amanda L Theinert, Ezra Cove, Jessie Darrell-Jarbadan, T Ulm
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    Ghost Moth Dreams: an Interactive Play

    Terrasa Ulm
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    Possible Futures: Visions3

    Asha S Best, Terrasa Ulm, Amanda L Theinert, James Maurelle
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    CMACD Fall/Winter Faculty Exhibition

    T Ulm, Ezra Cove, Scott T Niemi, Minka T Stoyanova
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    To Touch Laser Grass

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    Stolen at Sea: A Detective Hunter Mystery

    T Ulm, Ilir Mborja, Kat B Andler
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    The Three Strange Sisters: Duende, Kobold, Zashiki-warashi

    Ulm
  • Presentations

    Gender Makeup in Embodying Virtual Avatars, an Undergraduate Course

    Gender Expansive Live Streaming Symposium
    Smith College, Northampton, MA
    2024
    Sponsored by GELSS
    Terrasa Ulm
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    The Somnus Tavern & Inn

    T Ulm, Amanda L Theinert, Ezra Cove, Jessie Darrell-Jarbadan, T Ulm
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    The Somnus Tavern & Inn — an interactive play

    T Ulm
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    Sister Dusk

    Ulm
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    Big, Big Bubbles

    Ulm
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    Enlighten: A Faculty Show

    Terrasa Ulm
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    Sweetland SlumberParty and the Familiars

    Steam
    Terrasa Ulm
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    Boehm Porcelain: A VR Case Study

    Terrasa Ulm
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    To Be an Algorithm Vessel

    Terrasa Ulm
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    Waiting for Obols

    Terrasa Ulm, Amanda L Theinert, Ezra Cove, Jessie Darrell-Jarbadan, Terrasa Ulm
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    Waiting for Obols

    Terrasa Ulm
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    Storytellers

    Ulm Ulm

Awards and grants

  • CROSSROADS: Creating Robust Opportunities for Student Success through Real-world, Organized, and Applied Data Science

    National Science Foundation

  • Critical AI Community Data Lab

    Higgins Institute

  • Arts & Tech grant

    Sherman Fairchild Foundation

  • Fulbright Scholar in Residence

    Fulbright

  • Game Audio Preservation

    Grammy Grant

  • Critical Thinking Training in Virtual Reality

    Clark Academic Innovation Fund

    clock icon Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022
  • Interactive Theatre

    Clark Academic Innovation Fund

    clock icon 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