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