Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz is the Chief Executive Officer of the award-winning design studio, RUST LTD., creators of the best-selling virtual reality game, “Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades". He has designed and consulted for clients such as Dave and Buster’s, the Independent Television Service, Nokia, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Toyota, and numerous research labs and universities. He is also the author of AFEELD, the first full-length collection of digital literature ever published under peer-review by an academic press (CDDC at Virginia Tech, 2017).
Adam’s work has appeared in Diagram, Digital America, Hobart, InVisible Culture, Kotaku, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Seneca Review, Word For/Word, and other publications. It has also been exhibited at the Library of Congress, ACM Siggraph, the Game Developers Conference, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), the Curtis R. Priam Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), the Modern Language Convention, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, the Boston Festival of Indie Games, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the UCLA Game Art Festival, and elsewhere. His work has received the People’s Choice Award at GameFest, an &NOW Award for Innovative Writing, an Award for Socially Responsive Communication/Design/Art from the Memefest International Festival, and the Grand Prize in the 2013 Unity3D DirectX11 Competition.
Since 2008, Adam has held academic positions alongside his creative practice, most recently as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Culture at Occidental College. He received a BA from Allegheny College, an MFA from the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, and a PhD from the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. He was born and raised in the Rust Belt, and he currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
