Sound Systems

American orchestras face challenges relative to diversity, equity, relevance, sustainability. How do the embodied and cultural roles of performers and artists – enactors of aesthetic memories and futures – need

Examining and celebrating how video games imagine possible futures, build thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in interpreting stories.

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Zoyander Street, Jason Tashea & Joey Eschrich

The global cataclysm of COVID-19, and the quarantines and social distancing that have accompanied the still-unfolding pandemic, has brought enormous changes to the games industry, the ways we play videogames (and physical games) alone and together, and the meaning and content of games old and new.

Solarpunk Futures podcast

Damien P. Williams, Nilanjana Bhattacharjya & Joey Eschrich

Troy L. Wiggins, Kate Greene & Joey Eschrich

A conversation about art that visualizes the future, creative expression in moments of crisis, and how art can be a path into fictional worlds.

Indrapramit Das, Jessie Rack & Joey Eschrich

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Torie Bosch & Joey Eschrich

Upcoming book project

An anthology of mind-bending science fiction short stories by some of the top authors in the field, drawn from our Future Tense Fiction project. How will living with scientific upheaval and technological transformation change the world–and us?

 Peter Nagy,  Ruth Wylie, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn Science and Engineering Ethics

by Amy Brady, Literary Hub

by Joey Eschrich, ASU Now

A collection of science fiction stories, art, and essays exploring human futures powered by solar energy, with an upbeat, solarpunk twist. What will it be like to live in the photon societies of tomorrow? How will a transition to clean, plentiful energy transform our values, markets, and politics?

A collaborative reading experiment with Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

A collection that brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration, inspired by the literary “dare” that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption. Named one of the top art books of 2019 by the New York Times.

Bioethical Inquiry
Peter Nagy, Ruth Wylie, Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn