Hidden Fragments: XR technologies as
a critical tool to nullify the phenomenon of spirit-murder, conceptualizes extended reality technology at the intersection of Afrosurrealism and other Black Speculative Arts, as a pathway for Black healing, literacy motivation, art engagement, learning, and developing critical play theory. (This video is the latest draft of Davis' end-of-year presentation for the 2020-21 HNY Public Humanities Fellowship at the Humanities Center).
This work could have not been done without the beautiful collaboration of spirit.
I'd like to especially thank
- The dope kids & staff at The Creative Arts Academy
- Drs.
Camilla Bell, Marcelle Haddix, and James Rolling.
- The staff at the SUART Museum, The Community Folk Art Center, and Light Work.
- Dan
Pacheco, Tamara Chock, and a host of my peers in the XR labs at Newhouse.
- Sonny
Cirasuolo!
- Vivian
May, Aimee Germain, and Adam Capitanio for all of your guidance and assistance during my
Public Humanities Fellowship.
- My loving,
patient partner, Carlton.
- And every Black feminist who has conceptualized this concept of spirit-murder —Patricia Hill Collins, Audre
Lorde,
Maria Lugones,
bell hooks, Bettina
Love, Patricia Williams,
Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Mariana Ortega, Nichole Margarita Garcia—