2020-2021

Supported by the Ahmanson Lab and Dornsife’s Humanities in a Digital World, Booksnake is an app for the iPhone and iPad that allows users to import archival materials from digital collections and view them in augmented reality (AR).

Booksnake is currently in beta testing at the University of Southern California.

Wonderland Virtual Gallery: 2020-2021 is a 3D immersive gallery experience, built in Mozilla Hubs, featuring 42 curated submissions from the first 15 years of the USC Libraries Wonderland Award competition. The project was showcased at the Lewis Carroll Society of North America’s virtual spring 2021 conference.

Wonderland Virtual Gallery: 2020-2021 is a 3D immersive gallery experience, built in Mozilla Hubs, featuring 26 student submissions for the USC Libraries Wonderland Award competition. The project was showcased at the Lewis Carroll Society of North America’s virtual spring 2021 conference.

Building off of the previous year's Working Groups that created an open EEG lab, published a bioethics paper, and secured funding from Visions and Voices, this group is creating technologies to stream, process, and visualize brain data in order to expore bioethics and brain-computer interfaces. One project is a cross-platform streaming app for OpenBCI EEG data that empowers users to create and partake in multi-brain experiences—from thought-controlled games to generative art visualizations.

Another facet is to encourage international cooperation for BCI based generative art, VR, and game design through the Brains at Play intitiative. In partnership with a variety of departments on campus, this working group helped produce a worldwide competition and started a Discord community for these topics. View this work at the Brains at Play website

This project seeks to combine technologies for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital humanities, and 3D web apps -- exploring the relationships between physical landscapes and cultural discourse, especially folklore. In other words, how do stories about a place influence our experience of that physical space?

We will endeavor to integrate a folklore corpus with a 3D map of the landscape. Our explorations will begin with the landscape and stories of Hawai'i, though we also hope to discover ways of working that can be used for other humanistic GIS projects. Reach out to Caleb Winebrenner for more information or to get involved winebren@usc.edu

Alice Online: The Works and World of Lewis Carroll is an online exhibition devoted to the works of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson using images from USC’s Cassady Collection of Lewis Carroll materials. The exhibition was built in collaboration with Devin Griffiths, students his Fall 2020 senior English seminar, and Sophie Lesinska, Head, Doheny Memorial Library.

A History of Photography in USC Libraries Collections is an exhibition covering the history of photography using diverse holdings of the USC Digital Library and sources in the public domain. The exhibition was built in collaboration with Megan Luke and her students in History and Theory of Photography (AHIS 373g).

In a Bronze Mirror: Eileen Chang’s Life and Literature was organized by Jenny Lin (USC Roski School of Art and Design) and Tang Li (USC Libraries) and built by Ahmanson Lab staff and a cohort of students in association with the virtual conference titled "Love, Lust, Caution: A Centennial Celebration of the Cross-Cultural Legacies of Eileen Chang" hosted by USC on November 20, 2020.

Together Apart: Freshman Colloquium is a collection of over sixty essays and creative works composed by USC students in their first college semester (Fall 2020). The project was built in collaboration with Mary Traester, Assistant Professor of Writing, with contributions from the project’s faculty organizing committee and panel leaders.

The Los Angeles Riots: Independent and Webster Commissions Collections is a resource highlighting documents from The Los Angeles Riots: Independent and Webster Commissions Collections in the USC Digital Library. The project was built in collaboration with Anne-Marie Maxwell and Suzanne Noruschat, USC Libraries.