<aside> 🌟 Join us for a series of augmented reality (AR) workshops!

Refreshments will be served.

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<aside> ⚙ Please note the following:

• This will be a hands-on workshop: We encourage participants to bring a laptop to follow along!
• We ask participants to **download the latest version of Lens Studio {link}** before the workshop, this will allow us to get started more quickly. </aside>

The Augmented Reality & Lens Studio with AADHum workshop will be held on the following dates:

<aside> 🛠 Tuesday, February 21, 1-3 pm

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<aside> ⚒️ Thursday, March 9, 1-3 pm

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Both workshops are at the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH) located on the basement level of Hornbake Library.

Come to one or both— we’ll do our best to meet you where you are!

Click here to let us know you’re coming! ⇢

Learn Snap Lens Studio with AADHum & MITH!

🔍 About Workshop

At the Augmented Reality & Lens Studio workshops, participants will be introduced to using Snap’s development software. AR is a useful way to offer experiences that amplify elements of physical and digital worlds. Such hybrid experiences are especially important to AADHum’s emphasis on blending digital, environmental, and material cultures.

👀 What is AADHum?

The African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) Initiative is housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, AADHum focuses both on critical digital humanities scholarship on the histories and impacts of digital technologies on Black lifeworlds, as well as on the ideation and production of projects that highlight how Black life bears on such technologies.

Who is Andrew Smith?

Andrew W Smith is Visiting Assistant Research Professor at AADHum and developer, designer, and writer working primarily with digital technologies and materials.

His work brings immersive and interactive technologies such as games, digital storytelling, archival and interpretive websites, AR, VR, and digital collage into conversation with topics such as memory, environmentalism, Afrofuturism, and speculative fiction.

Andrew has held residencies and fellowships with Snap Inc., the University of Maryland, and Amherst College. He is a sometimes hobbyist, sometimes professional photographer and musician.

Learn Snap Lens Studio with AADHum & MITH!

adapted from https://ar.snap.com/en-US/