Marie Foulston Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Creative director, curator and consultant for experiential design, exhibitions, displays and immersive experiences.

London

Designing and leading the creative direction of playful site specific experiences from ideation through to delivery. Working with a range of agencies, museums brands and clients to develop new temporary and permanent exhibitions and immersive visitor experiences from research and ideation through to development and delivery.Recent clients and collaborators.

London

Led festival curation and creative direction for the originally planned onsite exhibition and festival programme followed by a rapid transition to an acclaimed online only festival due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Developed new approaches to ‘digitally site specific’ event programming that included new AR commissions and live interactive tours, workshops and.

London, United Kingdom

Lead curator of the headline exhibition 'Videogames: Design/ Play/ Disrupt' and editor of accompanying exhibition publication.Creative director of multiple major AV and interactive installations showcasing work by brands including Nintendo, PlayStation, Microsoft, Riot Games, and Blizzard. Founder and chair of annual conference on game design and culture.

London, England, United Kingdom

An experimental videogame experience collective. Wild Rumpus projects spanned cult interactive parties to mellow playful exhibitions that showcased the very best of alternative and independent videogames. Events and exhibitions took place across London, Austin, San Francisco and Seattle alongside clients and collaborators including Tumblr, GDC, Fantastic.

A joint research fellowship across the V&A and Cooper Hewitt. Researching radical new approaches to the display and interpretation of videogames within major cultural institutions. Facilitated UK and US research workshops bringing together leading curators and cultural producers working across games and digital design. Participation included.

Lead Digital Producer across a range interactive consumer facing projects spanning websites, social networking sites, games and apps for leading international brands and authors including The Snowman, Roald Dahl and Nick Hornby. Member of the international strategic IP development teams for leading brands including the Roald Dahl estate. Work encompassed.

Project manager for a broad slate of creative technology investments, overseeing projects from initial funding application to launch. Projects included alternative reality games, immersive digital storytelling and independent videogames. Funding levels ranged from early stage project grants (£2-5k) to large scale development grants(£50-250k). Many projects.

Developed and implemented brand and marketing and distribution strategies across emerging digital platforms.Forged digital cross promotional partnerships with Channel 4, YouTube, Evening Standard and Myspace.Supported the maximisation of Soda's film IP catalogue across emerging online distribution and streaming platforms. Managed traditional ATL marketing.