| HAA-266501-19 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Louisiana State University and A&M College | Interactive VR Simulation of an Eighteenth-Century Paris Fair Theatre: VESPACE | 9/1/2019 - 8/31/2022 | $99,995.00 | Jeffrey | M. | Leichman | | | | Louisiana State University and A&M College | Baton Rouge | LA | 70803-0001 | USA | 2019 | Theater History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 99995 | 0 | 93656 | 0 | The
further development of the VESPACE (Virtual Early modern Spectacles and
Publics, Active and Collaborative Environment) project. This stage would focus
on the development of an interactive prototype suitable for additional user
testing.
The VESPACE (Virtual Early modern Spectacles and Publics, Active and Collaborative Environment) project seeks to model an eighteenth-century Paris Fair theatre through an immersive, playable simulation that allows users to explore the sensory and social worlds of this under-studied early modern cultural space. In order to reconstruct this vibrant facet of public theatre in Enlightenment Europe’s largest city, VESPACE brings together specialists from across the humanities, working in fields including theatre, history, literature, dance, sound studies, and architecture, working alongside computer scientists and engineers in the fields of game design, social interaction simulation, and virtual reality modeling of cultural patrimony. This application is for a LEVEL II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to support work to develop a playable prototype during the two-year grant performance period (September 1, 2019-August 31 2021). |