https://sudoroom.org/events/18159/ LITERARY DIGITAL CREATOR HACK AFTERNOON (XR / VIRTUAL REALITY / AUGMENTED REALITY) CREATE AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY PIECES WITH INSPIRATION FROM THE ARTS AND LITERARY WORK! *Date/Time* Date(s) - 2024/07/29 *5:00 pm - 6:00 pm* * - Sign up here at https://lu.ma/980wqwdw <https://lu.ma/980wqwdw>An early afternoon jaunt to work on a quick XR (Augmented reality / Virtual Reality) piece inspired by the a literary work.Hopefully at the end of the session we’ll have something we can share across all headsets and phones in augmented or virtual reality (one possibility is webXR which we’ve played around with to showcase Sudoroom here https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me <https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me/> )HIGHLIGHTWe’ll be taking a look at Octavia Butler’s science fiction Eartheed trilogy which was one of the inspirations for Kara Walker’s piece Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) <https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/fortuna-and-the-immortality-garden-machine/>currently on show at the SF Moma museum.“The child in each of us Knows paradise.Paradise is home.Home as it was Or home as it should have been.Paradise is one’s own place,One’s own people,One’s own world,Knowing and known,Perhaps even Loving and loved.Yet every child Is cast from paradise-Into growth and new community,Into vast, ongoingChange.” - Octavia Butler, the Parable of the Sower* ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com