Tamara Duplantis (she/her) is a Louisiana-born digital media artist, game developer, experimental composer, and arts educator. Her pedagogical specialties include sound design for interactive media, procedural music composition, experimental game design, histories of play, and teaching the practicalities of an interactive media art practice. Outside of games academia, she has also spent much of the past decade teaching other skills in the performing arts, including piano performance and vocal training for musical theatre. Tamara believes it is her purpose in life to help others express themselves artistically to the best of their abilities, both through her teaching practice as well as her own interactive work.
As a practicing independent game developer and composer, her work focuses on reclaiming outdated and neglected forms of technology as new interfaces for musical play, and creating works that express queer Louisianan identity in a time of climate catastrophe. She has toured her experimental music performance games internationally, with installations of her piece Atchafalaya Arcade previously being featured at Indiecade Festival in Los Angeles & Paris, Playtopia in Cape Town, and the Dublin Fringe Festival in Ireland. She has given talks for GDC, Indiecade, Pixelpop Festival, and Dolby Laboratories, and was a 2019 Visiting Artist for ACRE Residency in Steuben, WI. Tamara received her MFA in Electronic Music & Recording Media from the historic Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College.

Email: tduplant@ucsc.edu