Henry Lowood

Henry Lowood is the Harold C. Hohbach Curator at Stanford University, USA, responsible for history of science & technology collections and film & media collections in the Stanford Libraries. He has combined interests in history, technological innovation and the history of digital games andsimulations to head several long-term projects at Stanford, including How They Got Game: TheHistory and Culture of Interactive Simulations and Videogames in the Stanford Humanities Laband Stanford Libraries,...See more

Henry Lowood is the Harold C. Hohbach Curator at Stanford University, USA, responsible for history of science & technology collections and film & media collections in the Stanford Libraries. He has combined interests in history, technological innovation and the history of digital games andsimulations to head several long-term projects at Stanford, including How They Got Game: TheHistory and Culture of Interactive Simulations and Videogames in the Stanford Humanities Laband Stanford Libraries, the Silicon Valley Archives in the Stanford Libraries, and the Machinima Archives and Archiving Virtual Worlds collections hosted by the Internet Archive. He led Stanford's work on game and virtual world preservation in the Preserving Virtual Worlds project funded by the U.S. Library of Congress and the Institute for Museum and Library services and the Game Citation Project also funded by IMLS. He is also the author of numerous articles and essays on the history of Silicon Valley and the development of digital game technology and culture. With Michael Nitsche, he co-edited The Machinima Reader (2011) and, with Raiford Guins, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon (2016). With Guins, he also co-edits the book series, Game Histories . See less