Hi, I’m Thomas Walker—an interactive media and experience designer creating research-driven work across installations, games, digital products, and workflow systems.

Selected work (6)

Interactive documentary game2026

The Matthew I Knew

An investigative documentary game that explores the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard through primary source documents, revealing documentary games' potential for educating and evoking empathy.

True-crime gameGraduate thesis
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Key theoretical texts informing the methodology include Ian Bogost's Persuasive Games (2007) on procedural rhetoric in documentary games, Judith Butler's Frames of War (2009) on documentary ethics and representation, and Robyn Frances Higgins' "Speculative Documentarian Practices" (2025) on radial standpoint disclosure and continuous present temporality.

Python / UX Testing / AI Prototyping

Interactive installation2026

Homecoming

An interactive art installation questioning how we memorialize and archive people.

Art installationProjection mapping
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This installation is based on my grandfather's practice of memorializing the attendees of my childhood church. I studied his pencil drawn technique and recreated it digitally. I recreated this analogue approach to memorialization with real-time computer vision and machine learning to interrogate how contemporary memory-making technologies simultaneously honor and erase us—flattening identity while also allowing it to persist beyond our physical presence. Pose in front of this piece to create a numbered group photo, and scan the QR code to save your photo and preserve the record of your visit and the people you shared it with.

TouchDesigner / MediaPipe / Machine learning

Dialogue game2025

Gay For The Stay

An interactive art installation engaging players with the experiences of gay prisoners through a dialouge game based on the life of Oscar Wilde.

Art installationPhysical Computing
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The physical structure is designed to imitate real-life video visitation systems used to facilitate calls between inmates and their visitors. It uses a number pad for all interactions by the user, giving an analog feel. I built an arduino circuit to translate the inputs.

Arduino / Processing / After Effects

Produced and directed by Bahar Rezvanifar, performed by myself and Lily Vengco in collaboration with the SCADpro x BMW Mixed Reality Experience team.

Product design pitch2024

SCADpro x BMW Mixed Reality

A collaboration between SCAD and BMW to imagine how BMW shoppers might meet a car before they buy it with VR.

Virtual realityClient collaborationProduct Pitch
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A team project designing an Apple Vision experience for BMW vehicle shoppers to improve engagement and purchase rates. In my role I developed our prototype in the headset using Unity, and presented our research and development to BMW stakeholders. My team tested Apple Vision Pro interaction methods, networking capabilities, and rendering of assets from the art and design teams. We explored the feasability of various features the research team wanted us to test out through reviewing documentation, developing demos of specific features, and then showing the relevant teams how their concepts looked in the actual app.

Unity / Apple Vision Pro / Xcode

Video created by Vihaan Kumar in collaboration with the SCAD Serve x Massie Heritage Museum team

Exhibit redesign2025

Savannah: An Intelligent Grid

A redesign of an interactive museum exhibit targeting increased visitation and marketability for the Massie Heritage Museum.

Exhibition designProduct PitchProjection Mapping
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We conducted secondary research into exhibits at other heritage centers, museums, and educational institutions that have effectively engaged visitors through historical or urban planning exhibits. Our focus was on identifying effective use of technology, successful spatial layouts, and best practices in visitor engagement. Visitors would click through sequences of engaging historical content that utilize projection mapping and animations to teach about the history of Savannah's city design.

Figma / Photoshop / Pitch Deck

Augmented reality exhibition2023

Out of Order

A mixed-media AR exhibition about queerness and Christianity.

Augmented RealityExhibition design
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Out of Order is a collection of poster prints and mixed media works which feature Augmented Reality (AR) components overlayed on the viewer's smartphone camera screen. The series represents my auto-ethnographic research into my experience as a queer Christian amidst intensified cultural conflicts surrounding identity politics in American life. The pieces utilize AR technology and incorporate visual nods to digital media, offering a unique perspective shaped by my background as a technologist and digital native. Through this innovative medium, Out of Order invites viewers to reflect on the struggles of navigating complex intersectional identities in the digital age.

Unity / Photoshop / Maya

About

I earned my B.S. in Computer Science with a focus on Game Development at Samford University and my M.F.A in Interactive Design at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). I currently work freelance and live in Chattanooga, TN.

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