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Who is this 3D heritage all for?
Lorna Richardson on twitter linked to the sketchfab blog with this provocative header. For the life of me I don’t recall this discussion at Digital Heritage, VSMM, VAST or any of the other virtual...
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Increasing the Life & Usage of Virtual Heritage Models
Following on rather nicely from my last blog, the below abstract was accepted yesterday so hopefully will be in Beijing at Tsinghua University 7-10 August (then invited to NUS, Singapore 12-14 August)....
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Cultural Presence (a dangerous answer to an unclear question)
Yes I know I wrote about this topic (although not in my latest book in any great detail) but it the term isn’t my ultimatum to archaeology and heritage studies: use and measure cultural presence or...
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Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2014 NOW online
The Proceedings of 2014 are now live!! Finally!! http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/openbook/book/dhc2014 My article:Ludic Literature: Evaluating Skyrim for Humanities Modding Related slides of presentation...
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Remote Education and indigenous games
I co-supervised an honours student, Susannah Emery, who was funded by the NINTI One project. She used the Sims as machinima to show how local indigenous communities could develop their own cultural...
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3DH talk: notes from Geoffrey Rockwell
I don’t think I mentioned that when I was invited to Leiden to present a paper for the Interactive Pasts conference (and if you get the chance go to the next one), I was invited the next day to present...
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Philosophy of Place
Last week at the East-West Centre University of Hawaii was the Philosophers’ Place conference I have not been to a Philosophy conference for around 25 years but it was a warm and inviting conference in...
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New Digital Humanities series ARCHumanities Press
Dymphna Evans, new editor at www.arc-humanities.org (THE APPLIED RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES AND PRESS LTD) informed me they are developing a digital humanities list on digital humanities. I...
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upcoming overseas presentations for 2016
Three conference presentations or panels arriving in next three months, Los Angeles, Beijing and Singapore: Champion, E. (2016). Attending as panellist and critic, NEH Humanities Heritage 3D...
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Part 2 – 3D Reconstruction Literature
Originally posted on Photogrammetry in Archaeology: In this section I would like to go through some projects I have been reading about that I think are very useful for understanding 3D Reconstruction...
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Inside a review of another’s book is the $64 question about digital...
Ingoglia, R. T. (2014). Playing with the past: Digital games and the simulation of history. Choice, 51(8), 1463. Retrieved from...
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3D popups and scholarly books
Scholarly publishers want to produce quality longterm-durable books. I get that. But some of us young digital guerilla turks want to combine 3D and augmented technologies so 3D models can be shared and...
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3D models: Advanced challenges, UCLA
Daisy-O’lice I. Williams, University of Oregon, presents to the insitute on day 1, 20 June 2016, UCLA. I was very fortunate to be invited to the NEH-funded Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in...
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Part 3 – Sources and Paradata
Originally posted on Photogrammetry in Archaeology: Before going into the bulk of how to model an archaeological site and why do it, I would like to spend a moment discussing the research that should...
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CFP: Virtual Reality Games, International Journal of Computer Games Technology
We are currently accepting submissions for our upcoming Special Issue titled “Virtual Reality Games,” which will be published in International Journal of Computer Games Technology in April 2017. The...
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Erik Champion: Digital Culturalist
Originally posted on inspire-Lab: Erik Champion’s WordPress site https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/ displays the form of a true digital humanist. Champion is the current professor of Cultural...
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Digital Humanities, Makerspace and Gnomes
Yesterday at a meeting for digital humanities / 3D makers at https://maker.library.curtin.edu.au/ we were set a project brief to promote the makerspace. We want something thematic to encourage...
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CFPS for July
START *DUE* CONFERENCE THEME LOCATION 05-Dec-16 10-Jul-16 SG2016 Games & Learning Alliance conference-GALA 2016 Utrecht Netherlands 02-Nov-16 15-Jul-16 TEEM Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing...
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UNESCO “Cultural Heritage and Visualisation” AIMS
As it draws closer here is what I need to work on for four years (create a network, build community capacity, recommend archival guidelines, disseminate research, cooperate with UNESCO): The purpose of...
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Counterfactual, Counterfictional, Counterfutural: Games of the Future...
Like Assassin’s Creed but upset over how it could have made history exciting without having to employ and manipulate central historical characters? Love Lara Croft: Tomb Raider if only the tombraiding...
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