
Field Dreams — The Black American Slave as Subject Matter Expert:
Crafting Impossible Realities in Immersive Experiences
Field Dreams is a research-based graduate Capstone project that merges past literary insight with present immersive practice to position the Black American Slave as Subject Matter Expert (SME) of crafting impossible realities in modern immersive experiences.
Department of Media Arts, Design and Technology | College of Design, North Carolina State University
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Abstract
Deeper study into the Slave Narrative as immersive story reveals how the early Black American’s radical imagination played a significant role in urging early America’s limited imagination to reconsider and expand its violent and narrow definitions of human and citizen.
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Research Paper
Excerpt Dennis, my late father, used to sit at the dinner table, crack pistachios and watch reruns of a movie called Colossus (1970) on his ultra wide-screen television. Spoiler alert: Computer scientist Dr. Charles Forbin develops an intelligent super-computer system that he names “Colossus.” [Link Coming Soon]
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Oral Defense
An interactive presentation for my master’s Oral Defense. Imagined as a low-immersion “tour,” this presentation covers key definitions, the challenge, my proposed solution and the Field Guide teaser. I leveraged multimedia to break down complex topics.
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[ Teaser ] Field Guide
A 360° YouTube VR video inspired by the Great Dismal Swamp Maroons. It invites digital storytellers to challenge dominant narratives of what it means to be human and citizen using Origination, Identification and Narration in digitally-induced immersion.
Bird’s Eye View