DFS Week 2 - Activities and Resources

Art Ark - Dr. Mary Stokrocki's Virtual World Educational Space

5/26/20 - 12:00 - 1:00, 3:00 - 4:00
Meeting with Dr. Stokrocki - We discussed my learning plan and talked about her work in Second Life) SL. We visited her memorial gallery dedicated to disenfranchised Arizona artists and her educational spaces where she continues to mentor students in 3D modeling and construction. We visited the gallery of Zinnia Zui, a fabric artist and creator of the Non-Profit Commons in SL. As she works in textiles and virtual world, Dr. Stokrocki would like to introduce us to one another. We will be meeting again on Friday at 9am for the weekly meeting of Non-Profit commons, where I can meet other educators and researchers in virtual learning environments. (VLR) 


Virtual Gallery Show for Harcum College Fashion Students

5/27/30 - 5:00 - 8:00 : I created a virtual gallery exhibit using the Exhibbit app to showcase 2D work by the graduating seniors in the Fashion Design Program



Virtual Exhibition Space for Project in SL: Viridian Gallery



5/27/20 - 6:00 - 10:00: Worked on building an exhibition space for the upcoming project - educational space in a virtual world environment that will explore work by artists in Real Life, Second Life and Immersive VR


Meeting at the Non-Profit Commons



Meeting at Non-Profit Commons in Second Life

5/29/20 - 12:00 - 1:00: Dr. Stokrocki and I attended a meeting of Non-profit Commons in Second Life. There 30 or 40 people in attendance representing a wide range of non-profits and educational environments. This meeting introduced the opening of the Virtual Music Library. There is a strong and vital educator and non-profit presence in Second Life, and weekly meetings with different topics every Friday.



Viridian Gallery Grounds


Viridian Gallery Meeting Space

Meeting with Dr. June Julian to Discuss Collaborative Project

5/30/20 - 12:00 - 2:00: I had a call with Dr. June Julian about the project in Second Life. The concept is to create a show at the gallery space that I created, to explore presence, layers of reality, and relational aesthetic experience in a virtual world. The show was originally planned for NYC before coronavirus. It explores the visualization of data on climate change in the outer Hebrides in Scotland as a growing and evolving tartan pattern. The data was gathered and coded to create a continuously growing digital tartan fabric. As an educational resource, this will explore opportunities to use visual means to help students understand data in a more comprehensive way was discussed.

6/1/20 - 12;00 - 2;00 Meeting in SL to discuss space and exhibition needs. Will send the proposal to Dr. Stokrocki for feedback




Climate Change Digital Tartan

PROJECT PROPOSAL: Digital Climate Crisis Tartan: An Educational Data Visualization in Second Life

Digital Climate Crisis Tartan 

An Educational Data Visualization Project in Second Life 

Dr. June Julian 

Julian Crooks, Rodrick B. MacLennan 

The Climate Crisis Tartan will debut online as an educational pilot project in Second Life in collaboration with Julian Crooks. The objective of the project is to visually present the Climate Crisis research data that was collected by June Julian and Rodrick B. MacLennan, and to create an educational data visualization model for students using Tartan patterns. Combining art and archaeology, the researchers were awarded the prestigious Explorers Club Flag in 2015 and 2017, where they recorded the current status of archaeological sites on the Isles of Vallay and North Uist, Scotland, as impacted by climate change. 

The project will be virtually displayed as a large-scale computer projection in The Viridian Gallery in Second Life, as created by Julian Crooks. The crisscrossed horizontal and vertical bands in the Tartan pattern refer to the erosion impact status upon the archaeology sites using the variables of sea erosion, wind erosion, intertidal status and entirely gone, as vertical and horizontal bar graphs as warp and weft. The distribution of the Tartan’s colored bands in the design will quantitatively reference the qualitative analysis made from the field observations in the researchers’ published reports. The digital tartan will be projected on a virtual large hanging woven fabric (60” by 162”) in the style of The Great Kilt. The project will provide immediate awareness of the threats to worldwide coastal heritage in a non-verbal way and provide a data visualization method for students using Tartans. 

Double Diamond Archaeology http://www.doublediamondarchaeology.org/