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RPI Degree Program: Critical Game Design, Ph.D.
Area of Research / Interest: Labor and Platform Cultures
Undergraduate Studies: BFA, Studio Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Graduate Studies: MFA, Sculpture and Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University
Biography: Alex Goss is an artist, educator, and Ph.D. student in Critical Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His years teaching fabrication, digital skills, and art studio courses, together with his work as a CNC machinist, inform both his artistic practice and his research. He studies how game culture and aesthetics have informed practices of contemporary labor and pedagogy. Through real-time digital experiences, video, installation, and sculpture, he examines how art, games, and industrial tools shape the logics of contemporary labor, where optimization, entrepreneurialism, and self-responsibility are rehearsed and aestheticized.
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Email: gossj4@rpi.edu