About the Creator

Susana Ruiz is a film and media artist whose research interests include the intersections between art, journalism, game design, and cinema. While a graduate student at USC's Interactive Media Division, Susana learned a great deal about how narrative, design, and code intermingle, and plans on communicating distress, desire, and hope through user-centric technology.

Social issue-driven games, activist digital art, interactive design, and cinema are Susana's principal interests, and while it is an exciting time with much room for advancement and manifold processes, Susana's commitment lies specifically in the dramatic, the emotional, and the ideological. Games and interactive experiences relatively confine audiences at the moment, but similarly to the vast and varied audiences other, more culturally mature forms of media serve, Susana hopes and believes that games will be about incredibly diverse, profound, and eccentric topics in the near future. Furthermore, the form's unique potential will expand the avenues of production, expression, and social change.

Susana received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in NYC. While at USC, Susana produced "Darfur: Play Your Part," a game project addressing aspects of the current humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan. She also co-produced "Ah-Satan," a database narrative project directed by Ashley York, about six young Kentuckians implicated in a murder and sentenced to eternity in prison.