VR headset in an old wooden boat with beach and blue sky in background. — Screenshot from *Virtual Nekuomanteia*. ©2024 Stephanie Tripp

Stephanie Tripp

Scholar, Writer, Media Maker.

Photograph of the head and shoulders of someone with long hair. — Headshot by Thomas Cohen ©2020

About Me

I’m a digital media theorist and maker who teaches at the University of Tampa. My work explores place and community identity, technologies of inscription, cultural memory practices, and Derridean hauntology. I live in Tampa with my husband, Thomas Cohen, and our cats, Hermes and Bruno. Before returning to my native Florida in 2009, we lived for six years in Memphis and for two years in Peru, a small farming community in upstate New York.

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Projects

My media work extends from early hypertext projects during my graduate studies at the University of Florida, to interactive multimedia work, to immersive video and virtual reality. Here are examples of more recent work.

Virtual Nekuomanteia (2024)

An experimental essay on the long history of media in the age of virtual reality. Created in the Unreal game engine and optimized for viewing in a VR headset. Learn more.

Screenshot of an old piano harp in a forest. — Screenshot of *Virtual Nekuomanteia*. ©2024 Stephanie Tripp

Screenshot of an immersive video featuring an ornate old teapot on a table under some shrubbery. — Screenshot from “My Tiny World.” ©2022 Stephanie Tripp

My Tiny World (2022 – )

This series of short 360-degree videos reimagines the confined spaces of a backyard garden through fantastical encounters with household objects. (Work in progress)

Home, Unstaged (2021-22)

A 360-degree immersive video that explores the multi-layered processes of grief and commemoration experienced while emptying and vacating one’s childhood home.

Screenshot of animated video of figurines playing within a 360-degree video. — Screen capture of *Home, Unstaged*. ©2022 Stephanie Tripp

Screenshot of Flash-based multimedia project whose interface resembles an old cigar box lid. — Screenshot from *Tampa Tarot* multimedia project. ©2012 Stephanie Tripp

Tampa Tarot (2012, 2016 – )

A multimedia project that generates tarot readings steeped in the City of Tampa’s history and mythology. DVD-ROM gallery installation (2012) and web-based version with augmented reality (work in progress).

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Teaching

Summary of teaching at The University of Tampa and elsewhere.

MA in Social and Emerging Media (UT)

SEM 601 Digital Storytelling

University of Tampa Media Studies

COM 323 Digital Communication and Society
COM 425 Information Technology and Human Values

University of Tampa Media Making

COM 242 Digital Citizenship
COM 346 Writing for Interactive Media
COM 375 Critical Media Practice

Other Teaching Positions

SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, assistant professor
Rhodes College, Memphis, adjunct instructor
University of Florida, graduate assistant

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