SciFolk is a digital media production studio cultivating new aesthetics, language, and sensibilities in videogames and interactive media in general. Our work often uses the vernacular of science fiction and folklore as a world building tool to articulate a future in which humanity is emancipated from extractive capitalism, colonialism, and misogyny.

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TEAM:

Xaytun is a Multidisciplinary artist and designer with over a decade of experience designing interactive digital media and videogames. They taught game design at the Design and Technology graduate program at Parsons School for Design and served as a guest critic and lecturer at Parsons and SVA.  Thier work is exhibited internationally and has been covered in The Financial Times, E-flux, Mondoweiss, Ocula,  and 87 Press. She led product design at Al Jazeera Media Network, where she oversaw the redesign of the mobile app, with well over a million downloads.

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Osama is an engineer and programmer with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He is published on IEE and has a wide range of working experience which includes robotics, artificial intelligence, videogames.

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Mattie is an artist and designer working with contemporary social issues through play. She has been a culture worker within the games industry for over a decade as a critic, designer, activist, organizer, curator, and educator. She previously was a Visiting Professor at New York University’s Game Center and an adjunct at Parsons’ Design & Technology program. Her current work focuses on play as activism, speculative methodologies, design bleed, and social relationships of power.

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Freya is an artist, illustrator and desginer with a background in design, education, and filmmaking. She has led product design and research projects at companies like Tumblr, Verizon, and Bloomberg Terminal. She has taught graduate students at Parsons, SVA and NYU.

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Qamar is a programmer and data scientist based in Washington, DC. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Health with a PhD in Biochemistry.