2024 ITCH Symposium

 

 

Friday, September 20, 2024

 

9:00 a.m.     Coffee & Pastries

9:30 a.m.     Welcome Remarks

10:00 a.m.     Project: “Recontextualizing Egypt’s Ancient Material Heritage: The ‘Return to the Tomb’ Project”

Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley
Elaine Sullivan, University of California, Santa Cruz

Session Leaders: Bryan Kraemer & Wendy Fok

11:00 a.m.     Project: “Playing with Time: Great Perfection History in Virtual Reality”

Elaine Lai, Stanford University
Aftab Hafeez, Google

Session Leaders: Lori Meeks & Mats Borges

11:45 a.m.     Demos: Return to the Tomb & Playing with Tomb

12:45 p.m.     Lunch

2:00 p.m.     Project: “Exploring Volumetric Video Capture for Humanities Scholarship and Pedagogy”

Zack Lischer-Katz, University of Arizona
Rashida Braggs, Williams College
Bryan Carter, University of Arizona

Session Leaders: Svetlana Ushakova & Sebastian De Cesare

3:00 p.m.     Project: “Tapestry: Enhancing Engagement with Cultural Heritage through Multivocal Spatial Storytelling”

Elizabeth Lee, CyArk
John Ristevski, CyArk

Session Leaders: Eric Heller & Carsten Becker

3:45 p.m.     Demos: Exploring Volumetric Video Capture & Tapestry

Saturday, September 21, 2023

 

9:30 a.m.     Coffee & Pastries

10:00 a.m.    Project: “Facilitating Access to Hidden Collections with 3D Models”

Harper Tooch, Washington University, St. Louis
Sarah Swanz, Washington University, St. Louis

Session Leaders: Sibyl Wickersheimer & Lynn Dodd

11:00 a.m.    Project: “Using 3D Data to Document and Exhibit Cultural Heritage”

Doug Daniels, University of California, Los Angeles
Bianca Badajos, University of California, Los Angeles
Kelly Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles

Session Leaders: Ann Tran & Deb Holmes-Wong

11:45 a.m.     Demos: Facilitating Access to Hidden Collections & Using 3D Data

12:45 p.m.     Lunch

2:00 p.m.     Project: “Digital Innovation for the Historical Reconstruction of the Basin of Mexico”

Edgar Allan Lara Paredes, Museo Virtual Anáhuac
Carlos Francisco López Ramírez, Museo Virtual Anáhuac
Jesús Gerardo Medina Sánchez, Museo Virtual Anáhuac

Session Leaders: Natalia Pérez & Will Young

3:00 p.m.     Project: “‘Slow Viewing’ and Collective Meaning Making in Virtual Angkor: A Workshop and Discussion on Virtual Reality Design and Teaching”

Cindy Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles
Tom Chandler, Monash University

Session Leaders: Sonya Lee & Francesca Albrezzi

3:45 p.m.     Demos: Basin of Mexico & Virtual Angkor

4:45 p.m.     Closing Discussion

Banner image credit: Will Young