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Commence with Crafts at NextNOW Fest

Commence with Crafts at NextNOW Fest

Stop by the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities studio for an afternoon of crafting! Cut, paste, and stitch to infuse your inspiration into embroidery, jewelry, scrapbooks, or quilting. Or use our equipment to design and make stickers, buttons, totes, and lasercut wood objects! Location: a.studio, Taliaferro 1104 Time:

Dimensional Fabrication for DIY Sock Puppets

Dimensional Fabrication for DIY Sock Puppets

Get ready for Henson Week with Soft Souls Foundry @ Sandbox and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities by learning digital fabrication techniques for DIY sock puppets! Learn 3D modeling to create ears, eyes, and other attachments; digitally knit garments and decorations; or design augmented reality stickers to bring

Retro & Small Games Pop-up Arcade at NextNOW Fest

Retro & Small Games Pop-up Arcade at NextNOW Fest

Step back in time with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and Small Games Lab's mini-arcade of retro games from the 1970s ~ 2000s and small games that challenge you to play, pause, and think about small systems that make a big difference. (Mario Kart

Cut-Paste-Portal: Interactive Zine-making

Cut-Paste-Portal: Interactive Zine-making

Join the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and NarraSpaceXR for a hands-on workshop on DIY digital and physical fabrication! Add a new dimension to zine making with some preset 3D objects or one of your own 3D digital designs in augmented reality. No experience required; all

Digital Playground

Digital Playground

Welcome to the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and NarraSpaceXR digital playground! Extend reality by making the wall or the floors a digital portal for play, putting on a headset to encounter the dinosaurs, or documenting some of your favorite dance moves with motion capture technology. No

Student Showcase: Arts, Technology, & Black Life

Student Showcase: Arts, Technology, & Black Life

This gallery showcases creative and experimental work by University of Maryland students supported through AADHum Microgrants and Vital Signs Mini-Grants. Spanning digital media, visual art, performance, archives, interactive experiences, and more, the projects on display reflect a range of approaches to exploring Black life, culture, creativity, and technology. Visitors

Today ⇢ earth.exe arcade | Thurs 4/30 @MITH!

In honor of Earth Day, join us for earth.exe, a videogame + craft arcade exploring ecology, the environment, and the many small ways we relate to the planet. 🐛 Thursday, April 30th 4–6pm at MITH (Hornbake Library 0301, ground floor) The arcade will feature retro and modern video games about

Join us for Maryland Day this Saturday!

Join us for Maryland Day this Saturday!

On Saturday 4/26, join AADHum, NarraSpaceXR, the Lakeland Heritage Project, Soft Souls Foundry, The Small Games Lab, and <desc> lab under the big MITH tent at Maryland Day 2026. You'll find us on Tawes Plaza, where we’ll be hosting a range of interactive experiences!

heart.exe: A Love-Themed Arcade & Creative Gathering

heart.exe: A Love-Themed Arcade & Creative Gathering

This Valentine’s Day, AADHum, NarraSpaceXR, Soft Souls Foundry, and MITH partnered to host heart.exe – a love-themed video game and crafting arcade celebrating connection, creativity, and play. The event transformed our space into an interactive celebration of love in its many forms. A Curated Arcade of Love Curated

re: Presentation ⇢ a collage + identity workshop w/ the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

re: Presentation ⇢ a collage + identity workshop w/ the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Led by Yereni Butcher '26, the workshop guided attendees through the process of building their own collages from a variety of materials.

Ruha Benjamin's Collective Imagination: Freedom and Liberation

Ruha Benjamin's Collective Imagination: Freedom and Liberation

AADHum, Project STAND, UMD Libraries, the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy, UMD’s US Latina/o Studies program, and support from the Mellon Foundation came together to host a keynote address featuring distinguished scholar and public intellectual Ruha Benjamin. Held on September 25, the event brought students, faculty,

Workshop with us @ Next/ Now!

Workshop with us @ Next/ Now!

Three approaches, 3 locations – 3 days of exploration and camaraderie... Join AADHum + NarraSpaceXR & the Soft Souls Foundry for this year's Next / Now festival at UMD. You can find us at NarraSpace (housed at MITH), AADHum in Taliaferro, and SSF at the Sandbox, on the 2nd floor of

Andrew W. Smith Presents LiteraryDJ at World Quantum Day

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

From #BlackTwitter to Blacksky: Rudy Fraser workshops & talk on 4/22-23

From #BlackTwitter to Blacksky: Rudy Fraser workshops & talk on 4/22-23

What would happen if Black Twitter had control over its own algorithms? This week, technologist + community organizer Rudy Fraser joins AADHum with an answer to this and other questions.

On Thurs. 3/27, Curry J. Hackett joins AADHum for workshop & talk!

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 talk about AI, eco-poetics, and Black life.

Join us on Tues. 2/25 @ Busboys Hyattsville for Black Metal!

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 creative technologist Ari Melenciano will join us at Busboys & Poets Hyattsville for a public book talk and interactive event.

Congratulations Caleb + Welcome Cassandra!

Congratulations Caleb + Welcome Cassandra!

Exciting staff updates! Caleb Hurley has been accepted into the MLIS program at the iSchool; Cassandra Hradil joins us as Assistant Director for Teaching + Pedagogy.

An image from Sarah Scriven's research on Pauli Murray's scrapbooking practice.

Celebrating the 2024 AADHum Microgrant Awardees!

This year’s cohort embodies creativity, innovation, & a commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices. From original music to abolitionist podcasts, these projects explore new ways of connecting with history, culture, and community engagement in digital humanities.

AADHum runs creative computing workshops at Bladensburg and Hyattsville Libraries

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 Branch Library, to produce beginner-friendly creative computing workshops.

Design Critique Supports Creative Scholarship

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 Osei.

AADHum faculty Jeffrey Moro delivers Digital Dialogue

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 a talk on environmental humanities.

Archaeologies of Gaming class curates exhibit for AADHum + MITH

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 and archival materials from MITH’s vintage computer and video game collection.

Christin Washington honored with Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective Micro-Grant!

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 Digital Scholarship Collective! The CDSC Microgrant program aims to support projects that enhance Caribbean digital scholarship, spanning various interventions such as online catalogs, digitized collections, apps, digital tools, pedagogical platforms, spatial

TLTC grant & narraspace announcement

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 demonstrate how the experiences of marginalized communities can lead to broader human understanding.

AADHum GA Christin Washington Awarded the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective Micro-Grant

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 Scholarship Collective! The CDSC Microgrant program supports projects that enhance Caribbean digital scholarship...