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Kimberlee Swisher

Associate Director & Professor, GAME School
Arizona State University — undergraduate programming & curriculum

Kimberlee Swisher is an educator working at the intersection of technology, music, media culture, play, making, and pedagogy. She is broadly interested in the intersections of play, arts, technology, and education.

MY ETHOS
"my ethos is to create meaningful experiences with technology that engage the senses and enchant the imagination – this means playing with code, cameras, musical hardware, open source software, old toys, recyclables, gaming controllers, sharpies, copper tape, cameras, and code to make new fun."
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ZenDen
ImageSTEAM
Creative Code Tutorials
Soundscape
Digital Culture Summer Institute
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Archive
Older & smaller work — 5 items
AI Valentines
Winter Song
Makey Makey Sampler
DDR Dance Pad Instrument
Sonic VR Game
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Kimberlee Swisher
GAME School · Arizona State University

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ZenDen

ZenDen

I.D.E.A Museum, Mesa, AZ · Nov 2019 – Jan 2024

An interactive space that responds with changing meditative sounds to movement — and stillness — of museum visitors inside a geodesic dome. Each bench adds a layer of sound; each layer moves along its own slow, unique path across a 10-speaker surround system, giving the soundscape a sense of movement and life.

Max MSP surround sound 180° camera tracking
ImageSTEAM

ImageSTEAM

NSF DRL-1949384 · Jun 2020 – Jul 2025

An NSF-funded program introducing AI and computer vision concepts to middle schoolers, through teacher professional development, curriculum co-creation, and classroom deployment at the 6th–8th grade level.

curriculum design AI visual media
imagesteam.org →
Creative Code Tutorials

Creative Code YouTube Tutorials

Nov 2017 – ongoing

75+ video tutorials on digital images, creative code, and Max MSP, built primarily for an undergraduate computational-thinking course.

youtube.com/kimberleeswisher →
Soundscape

Soundscape

I.D.E.A Museum, Mesa, AZ · Feb 2014 – Feb 2018

An interactive environment generating sound in response to visitor movement and position, tracked via Kinect inside a geodesic dome.

Kinect Max MSP gestural sound
Digital Culture Summer Institute

Digital Culture Summer Institute

Arizona State University

An interdisciplinary digital media summer program for 7th–12th graders at Arizona State University.

AI Valentines

AI Valentines

2024

A generative AI + image-editing classroom project.

Winter Song

Winter Song

2020

A music video with p5.js-driven visuals — a cover of an Ingrid Michaelson song.

p5.js music video
Makey Makey Sampler

Makey Makey Sampler

2014

A Max-based sampler triggered by a Makey Makey.

Max MSP Makey Makey
DDR Dance Pad Instrument

DDR Dance Pad Instrument

2014

A Max patch turning a DDR pad into a body-performed sampler.

Max MSP DDR pad
Sonic VR Game

"How does your body sound?"

Sonic VR game · NIME paper/poster · 2010

A multiplayer, biosensor-driven soundscape game.

biosensors multiplayer NIME
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