Illuminating Perspectives through Critical Visual Literacy: 56th Annual IVLA Con

This talk will present a variety of recent 3D and immersive reality projects that explore the possibilities of collaborative digital storytelling and worldbuilding. Presented projects take a collage-based approach to building digital audio-visual worlds using Lichtman’s Community Game Development Toolkit (see below). In these projects, stories, worlds and imagined futures are represented by compositions of visual traces of bodies, objects, architectural spaces, exterior spaces, geographical artifacts and other material and immaterial forms.

Projects include Collective Futuring in Nebraska’s Panhandle, produced with members of the Substance Use Disorder community in Rural Nebraska, and Blanket Forts and Other Assemblages, a special issue of the Hyperrhiz Journal of New Media Cultures. In this publication, projects take inspiration from the idea of the houseboat, campsite, terrarium, diorama and other varieties of constructed environments, either real or imagined, that facilitate new modalities of intimacy and collectivity.