Artists Registry

Gregory P. Garvey designs and programs games and interactive computer-based installations that have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S., Canada, and Europe in venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London or Tech Fest in Mumbai. His projects incorporate custom-built interfaces that employ technologies such as capacitance sensors and camera based motion tracking systems. His installation entitled the Automatic Confession Machine: A Catholic Turing Test has been exhibited in the UK as part of the Centennial Year Celebrating Alan Turing at the Victoria and Albert Museum. His work has been written about in publications as varied as Wired Magazine and the National Geographic Magazine.

He is a tenured Professor of Game Design & Development at Quinnipiac University where he founded the Game Design & Development Program in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts in 2011. He is currently a Fellow of the People’s United Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PUCIE) at Quinnipiac. He has also served as Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor of Interactive Digital Design (now GID), and as Visiting Fellow in the Arts at Quinnipiac (1999-2001). Other appointments include Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University (now the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media). Prior to joining Quinnipiac University, he was Chair of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montrèal and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Montrèal Design Institute. From 1983-85 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Prior to his academic appointments, he worked in the games industry in companies such as Parker Brothers (Beverly, MA) and Spinnaker Software (Cambridge, MA).