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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...

Kinship & (Be)Longing: Confronting Slavery's Archive through Critical Black DH

digital-dialogues

Kinship & (Be)Longing: Confronting Slavery's Archive through Critical Black DH

In this presentation, Keywords for Black Louisiana will share their experience working with Scholarly Editing to create a digital edition of fourteen stories centering Black and Black-Native life and humanity, which are derived from Louisiana's colonial archive.

'Lucid Dreams': An Immersive Augmented Reality Experience by Rashonda Lazar

'Lucid Dreams': An Immersive Augmented Reality Experience by Rashonda Lazar

Lucid Dreams is an immersive interactive installation using mobile WebAR and conductive paint as touch sensors to trigger projected media. The installation explores Rashonda Lazar's own experience as a lucid dreamer, from childhood to adulthood, and attempts to recreate the sensation for others.

WILDWOOD BlackDH Adventures in Southside Chicago Worldmaking

digital-dialogues

WILDWOOD BlackDH Adventures in Southside Chicago Worldmaking

Dr. Alexander will be debuting WILDWOOD, a digital game that envisions eco- & techno-cultures on Chicago’s Southside, writing “future visions of Black communities"

2024 Social Media Corps applications are now OPEN!

2024 Social Media Corps applications are now OPEN!

African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) is excited to announce the 2024 Social Media Corps Program! This 4-week program offers space to design humanities-based digital media, featuring hands-on class activities encouraging creative play in a robust & upbeat learning community, and a $525 stipend. This program

Say hey to Seren Sensei's [unhurried] {witness} 🐣

Say hey to Seren Sensei's [unhurried] {witness} 🐣

Today we are so pleased to share the beta of Seren Sensei's [unhurried] {witness}! The project is a space that invites you to slow down and explore play and playfulness of Black life. It also includes a virtual community guestbook, where visitors can leave their own memories and

AADHum Fellows' projects on the horizon!

AADHum Fellows' projects on the horizon!

Over the past year the 2022-23 AADHum fellows have been working on a range of innovative digital projects. In the next quarter we will be sharing those projects with you. Next up? We're launching into the new year with Seren Sensei's [unhurried] {witness}! The beta