Center for Science and the Imagination | CSI Skill Tree: In Other Waters with Lisa Yin Han and Hilairy Hartnett @imagineASU | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we take a close look at In Other Waters, a 2020 adventure game about searching for a lost scientist in the oceans of an alien planet, and unraveling the xenobiological mysteries of the planet’s aquatic ecosystems. The game was designed by the one-person studio Jump Over the Age, founded by Gareth Damian Martin, a writer, designer, and artist based in London.
About our special guests:
Lisa Yin Han is an assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lisa’s research is informed by her dedication to environmental and social justice as well as a background in media production. She is currently working on a book, “Benthic Media: Underwater Technology and the Taming of the Seafloor,” which examines the socio-technological history of media operations in deep ocean environments. Lisa has also published research in journals such as Configurations, Communication, Culture & Critique, and Contraception. Learn more at https://lisayinhan.wordpress.com.
Hilairy Hartnett is a professor jointly appointed in the Schools of Earth and Space Exploration and Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. She is an oceanographer and organic geochemist whose research focuses on the processes and feedbacks that transfer elements (e.g., C, N, and P) and energy between biological and geochemical systems. Her work investigates reaction mechanisms that operate on time scales from days to millennia. More recently, she is developing ideas and approaches for building consensus among scientists, technologists, governance, and stakeholders around planetary-scale climate intervention. She is fundamentally an “interdisciplinarian” and is often surprised by the things that she now includes among her expertise. Learn more at https://candylab.weebly.com.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we take a close look at In Other Waters, a 2020 adventure game about searching for a lost scientist in the oceans of an alien planet, and unraveling the xenobiological mysteries of the planet’s aquatic ecosystems. The game was designed by the one-person studio Jump Over the Age, founded by Gareth Damian Martin, a writer, designer, and artist based in London.
About our special guests:
Lisa Yin Han is an assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lisa’s research is informed by her dedication to environmental and social justice as well as a background in media production. She is currently working on a book, “Benthic Media: Underwater Technology and the Taming of the Seafloor,” which examines the socio-technological history of media operations in deep ocean environments. Lisa has also published research in journals such as Configurations, Communication, Culture & Critique, and Contraception. Learn more at https://lisayinhan.wordpress.com.
Hilairy Hartnett is a professor jointly appointed in the Schools of Earth and Space Exploration and Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. She is an oceanographer and organic geochemist whose research focuses on the processes and feedbacks that transfer elements (e.g., C, N, and P) and energy between biological and geochemical systems. Her work investigates reaction mechanisms that operate on time scales from days to millennia. More recently, she is developing ideas and approaches for building consensus among scientists, technologists, governance, and stakeholders around planetary-scale climate intervention. She is fundamentally an “interdisciplinarian” and is often surprised by the things that she now includes among her expertise. Learn more at https://candylab.weebly.com.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
