California Text + Terrain

March 31, 2022 | 2:00pm | Zoom

This project brings five USC students together to design an immersive 3D setting that turns the subtext of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower into literal text that has the power to shape the natural and built environment. The project is directed by Erik Loyer and utilizes his Text + Terrain Toolkit, a new framework for building poetic visualizations from words in Unity.

Introducing the USC Working Group on Scholarly VR, AR, and 3D Modeling, sponsored by the Humanities in a Digital World Program (USC Dornsife) and the Ahmanson Lab at the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study.

This working group presents a year-long works-in-progress series focused on innovative scholarship using virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D modeling, and other visualization/virtualization technologies. This series asks: How can these emerging technologies elevate and enliven scholarship? How can these technologies open us to new possibilities and perspectives? How can they help us engage audiences within and beyond the academy?