ERIC ZIMMERMAN Zimmerman is an accomplished game designer, artist and academic exploring the emerging field of game design. His diverse activities made him one of Interview's "30 To Watch" in 1999 and also one of I.D. magazine's "I.D. 40" in 2000. Zimmerman's projects include the computer game BLiX (www.stationblix.com), which was a finalist in the 2000 Independent Games Festival and won a Silver Award in I.D. magazine's 1999 Interactive Design Awards. Current digital projects include SiSSY FiGHT 2000 (www.sissyfight.com) and STRAIN, an artificial life-inspired computer game that premiered at the Rotunda Gallery in New York City in 1999 and will be released on the Internet in 2000. Organism, a cellular autonoma board game, was recently published in ArtByte magazine and will appear in Flesh Eating Technologies, a project of Semiotext(e) Press and Banff Center for the Arts. Life in the Garden, a non-computer interactive book, will be published by Razorfish Studios in 2000. Zimmerman currently holds adjunct professorships at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, Columbia's Center for New Media and Parsons School of Design's Digital Design Program, where he teaches Game Design and Interactive Narrative.