AFROFUTURISM ON THE OPEN WEB: BUILDING THE COLORED GIRLS MUSEUM

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[ UUID ] 008eed2b-fec2-430d-a5e4-7019ddc9b378

[ Session Name ] AFROFUTURISM ON THE OPEN WEB: BUILDING THE COLORED GIRLS MUSEUM [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Wendy Levy [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] LaBrina Loving

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Emily Kuester

What will happen in your session?

In this hands-on workshop, participants will become part of an international, co-creative team building the VR Colored Girls Museum. We’ll start analog-style with a story circle, followed by a quickfire presentation of work to date on the Colored Girls Museum VR build, and then in small groups, utilizing A-Frame, Reality and new WebGL graphics interfaces, we’ll collaborate on designing assets for the Colored Girl Museum galleries, including gesture and voice features, a gift shop, and a VR cinema performance space. At the end of the workshop, we’ll get back in the story circle to share challenges, highlights and next steps.

Some background: https://www.slideshare.net/wendylevy980/introducing-the-vr-colored-girls-museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1bQzNytWcE

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The goal of the session is to introduce The Colored Girl Museum VR project to the Mozfest community and open a culturally-generative design and development process to all who might want to participate.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Additional VR Headsets would be helpful, We’ll bring a few (perhaps 5), but would be great to have access to a few more.

Time needed

90 mins

[KadeMorton]

Hi Wendy, LaBrina and Emily, the Decentralisation Zone has an afrofuturism theme you might be interested in interacting with https://github.com/KadeMorton/Xenshana

Tagging Decentralisation's interest in this session.

[Carotejada]

Wendy, Labrina and Emily, thank you for submitting such an interesting proposal.

Quick question: I can see you've requested a travel stipend and you are 3 facilitators. Do you have alternative means to attend MozFest if the three of you don't receive a stipend?