Crafting Matters

Marriot Library, Room 2751 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Join us the first Wednesday of the month during the Fall 2024 semester for our monthly craft circle in Protospace! Bring your lunch, Bring your friends, Bring your crafting projects.

3D Object Scanning & Digitization: Preserving Stories Through Occupying Virtual Space

Marriot Library, Room 2751 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Together, we will work to explore 3D scanning to document and preserve objects that hold personal and artistic significance. In this hands-on workshop, led by Digital Matters Graduate Fellow Pablo Cruz-Ayala (MFA Student, Studio Art), participants will learn to use Polycam, a versatile application tool,...

From Research to Reach: Digital Storytelling for General Audiences

Marriot Library, Room 2751 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

This workshop, led by Digital Matters Graduate Fellow Aly Hill (PhD Candidate, Communication), offers practical strategies to help researchers transform complex academic findings into compelling stories for broader audiences using digital media and AI tools. Participants will learn how to simplify technical language, adapt research...

The Land Beneath Our Feet

Marriot Library, Room 2751 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Dr. Claudio Saunt, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History, Regents' Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia, will present a digital history project that accompanies his book, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road...

Spring 2025 Research Talks 

Digital Matters Graduate Fellows & Faculty Grantees discuss their research projects and progress: “Undocumented Stories Told through Virtual Reality: Virtual Gallery Praxis of Art, Research, and Narrative” - Pablo Cruz-Ayala (MFA Student, Studio Art) “The White Supremacist Next Door: A Digital Ethnography of the Far-Right...