Michael Nitsche

Michael Nitsche works as Professor of Digital Media at the School of Literature, Media & Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech, he founded the Digital World & Image Group (DWIG), which is the home for his research projects. This research builds on performance and craft to design new digital media and create novel forms of interaction. Most of his work lives in Human Computer Interaction and media studies but it includes many aspects from art and design.

Nitsche published his first book, Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds, in spring 2009 with The MIT Press and co-edited The Machinima Reader (with Henry Lowood, 2011, MIT Press). His most recent book is Vital Media. Making, Design, and Expressions for Humans and other Materials (2022, MIT Press), in which he argues for a material-inclusive media design. He is co-editor of the Routledge/ Taylor & Francis journal Digital Creativity.

He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and a M.A. from Freie Universität Berlin.

Michael lives with his wife and three children in Atlanta, GA.