Teddy Max Pozo

I'm Teddy Max Pozo, a professor, writer, researcher, and artist living in Los Angeles, CA. I study the sense of touch (haptics) in art and game design. In my research, art, and design, I explore "touchy-feely games," which is what I'm calling the kind of aesthetically and physically haptic video games and game installations I teach about and experiment with making. I am currently a Computer Science professor at Occidental College, and have been teaching a class called Haptic Media since 2021 where students install touch-inspired game works in a physical or virtual space. I'm also writing about trans games and trans game designers creating touchy-feely works and haptic technology, drawing from my background in Media Studies. If you'd like to read some of my academic writing, check out this article talking about the use of physical installations to bring the body into trans personal game design in the mid-late 2010s, this one about the transness of Lara Croft, or this comic I co-wrote about We're All Going to the World's Fair.