Niki Selken was here

Find Maria Rivera, an IndieCade Festival 2015 Official Award Nominee, will be featured among 110+ of the best indie games of the year at #IndieCade15 this October 23-25. Discover the talks, events, and games at the Festival & get your tickets before they sell out: http://www.indiecade.com/2015/tickets

About Find Maria Rivera by Niki Selken

Find Maria Rivera is a narrative, puzzle-based instillation which follows the story of the disappearance of a water witch from Visalia, CA. Situated between Escape The Room games and Participatory Theater, like Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, Find Maria Rivera explores themes of environmentalism, mythology, and CSI.  The piece leverages responsive objects, web experiences and audio to draw in the participant in a mysterious and emerging story experience. The story takes place in the central valley of California with the backdrop of the looming drought and water crisis. As the user enters the instillation they will be presented with a series of clues and puzzles in a CSI investigation room. The participant will explore the physical objects, text, mobile websites, and audio to unravel the mystery.

Learn more about Find Maria Rivera & Niki Selken: http://www.indiecade.com/games/selected/find-maria-rivera

Ignacio Canales Aracil presses flowers using voluminous molds that shape them into fragile vessels with a colorful, lace-like surface. Even as the seasons change, his process preserves the essence of spring. With their full forms intact, the flowers have a liveliness to them, even as they transform into these manmade shapes. Canales Aracil recently exhibited at Museo Sorolla in Madrid and currently is part of a group show on view through February 28 at Galeria Lucia Mendoza in the Spanish capital, as well.

Don’t let this happen to your internet

The internet belongs to all of us. It’s an open, fair, democratic place that we’ve all helped to create, together. On February 26, the FCC is going to decide whether to leave the internet in our hands…or whether to turn it over to the cable companies.

You don’t want them to pick the cable companies. 

Join everybody on the internet and help the FCC do the right thing.

I conducted User Tests for the Pharmacy Access project. The tests followed the following structure, with of course, room for improvisation.

it is not a compliment.

This project is an immersive street harassment experience for the Oculus Rift. With all the hubub surrounding the 10 Hours Walking in NYC as a Woman video, my final major studio project seems even more timely.

From a lot of the commentary regarding harassment, clearly some people have no idea what it’s like to experience. If I can change that in any way, and spark a bit of empathy, I will have done some good. Because it is not a compliment, and it is a problem.