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African American Digital & Experimental Humanities
Andrew W. Smith Presents LiteraryDJ at World Quantum Day
At World Quantum Day 2025 at the University of Maryland, AADHum faculty member Andrew W. Smith presented his project LiteraryDJ, an interactive arts installation and digital remixing engine that immerses participants in African American literary and musical heritage. Harnessing natural language processing (NLP) and quantum computing to produce novel tools for composing computational literature, LiteraryDJ opens new gateways for artists, scholars, and students to engage with the traditions of Afr
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Field notes, events, and highlights
On Thurs. 3/27, Curry J. Hackett joins AADHum for workshop & talk!
On March 27th, artist, designer, & educator Curry Hackett joins AADHum and UMD's Dr. Jayson Porter for a...
Join us on Tues. 2/25 @ Busboys Hyattsville for Black Metal!
You are officially invited to the Black Metal Starship Program! On Tuesday, February 25th from 5-7PM, artist and...
Congratulations Caleb + Welcome Cassandra!
Exciting staff updates! Caleb Hurley has been accepted into the MLIS program at the iSchool; Cassandra Hradil joins...
Celebrating the 2024 AADHum Microgrant Awardees!
This year’s cohort embodies creativity, innovation, & a commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices. From original music to abolitionist...
AADHum runs creative computing workshops at Bladensburg and Hyattsville Libraries
This fall, AADHum extended our partnership with the Hyattsville Branch Library and launched our partnership with the Bladensburg...
Design Critique Supports Creative Scholarship
AADHum hosted a design critique of Sankofa’s Cosmic Adansikro, a creative/critical Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist project by Lisa Abena...
AADHum faculty Jeffrey Moro delivers Digital Dialogue
AADHum faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Moro capped off the spring 2024 Digital Dialogues speaker series in MITH with...
Archaeologies of Gaming class curates exhibit for AADHum + MITH
AADHum and MITH interns from MITH388: Archaeologies of Gaming and Electronic Literature organized a public exhibition of rare...
Christin Washington honored with Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective Micro-Grant!
Join us in celebrating our graduate assistant, Christin Washington, as the recipient of the micro-Grant from the Caribbean...
TLTC grant & narraspace announcement
Parham’s project strives to make immersive storytelling technologies—like augmented, virtual and extended reality—accessible across disciplines, using them to...
AADHum GA Christin Washington Awarded the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective Micro-Grant
Join us in celebrating our graduate assistant, Christin Washington, the recipient of a microgrant from the Caribbean Digital...
Kinship & (Be)Longing: Confronting Slavery's Archive through Critical Black DH
In this presentation, Keywords for Black Louisiana will share their experience working with Scholarly Editing to create a...
'Lucid Dreams': An Immersive Augmented Reality Experience by Rashonda Lazar
Lucid Dreams is an immersive interactive installation using mobile WebAR and conductive paint as touch sensors to trigger...