Exhibits Projects
Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of multiple departments.
King & the Klan: a Visual Experience
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Reynolds Coliseum at NC State University on July 31, 1966. In response to his upcoming visit, the Ku Klux Klan staged an 1,800-person march through downtown Raleigh. In this digital installation crafted by Dr. Margaret Baker and Dr. Jason Miller, students were able to view newly discovered footage of Dr. King and previously undeveloped photographs of the KKK march. This installation has become an integral part of NC State’s new course HSS 201 - Critical…
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Collections & Research Engagement
Voices of the Russell School
A multifaceted project that brought together members of the local community with the Libraries, the College of Education, and DELTA to present the history and voices of the Historic Russell School, a Rosenwald School built in 1926 in Durham County, North Carolina.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Non-Library Faculty, Learning Spaces & Services
PrideFest Exhibit for LGBTQ+ History Month
An immersive exhibit hosted by the NC State University LGBTQ Pride Center and the Libraries celebrating Pride by highlighting LGBTQ+ history, stories, media, advocacy and accomplishments.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement
Aquarium: Ambient Experience for Large Displays
"Aquarium" is a virtual oasis of tranquility designed for the Libraries' numerous immersive media showcase spaces, including the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery and Teaching & Visualization Lab. This demonstration offers visitors a dynamic and soothing environment that transports them to an underwater world full of vibrant marine life. "Aquarium" utilizes the Visualization Gallery Development Kit (visSDK) for presentation in our high-tech spaces.
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Contributing departments: Learning Spaces & Services
Hall of GIFs
Among the most ubiquitous design elements in the early online community Geocities was the animated GIF, which imbued many pages with a frantic (and often comical) dynamism that became a hallmark of early web design. The Hall of GIFs celebrates the creativity and cultural diversity that thrived within these primitive fan and interest websites.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Learning Spaces & Services
Beyond the Barricades, Reimagined
This project offers a reimagined visualization of anti-apartheid photography published during the heights of state brutality in South Africa. Utilizing the Visualization Studio at the Hill Library, viewers may wander in this digital exhibition to see and experience the memory of apartheid through stories of South African resistance.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement
Collatz Conjecture
An immersive exhibit and exploration of the Collatz Conjecture—a simple mathematical sequence that is unsolvable.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Tally Tracker Explorer
Tally Tracker Explorer is a visualization depicting live and archived game data from all players in Tally Saves the Internet, a browser extension that transforms the data that advertisers collect into a multiplayer game. It was designed by Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy of Sneakaway Studio as part of the NC State University Libraries' Immersive Scholar grant, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center, Data Science Services
Tess-Celestial
Tess-Celestial is a visualization project that explores the interplay of art, nature, culture, shape, perspective, and math in our everyday lives.
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services, Open Knowledge Center
Augmented Reality Exhibit Usability Test
In July 2018, we conducted a usability test on ARt: Exhibition in 3D, an augmented reality (AR) art exhibit in the Technology Showcase in Hunt Library.
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services
In the Writing: Personal Letters of African American Leaders from the Mark E. Mitchell Collection
A pop-up exhibit displaying rare, personal letters of African American historical figures revealing their unknown interconnectedness and conveying that their "revolutions" were catalyzed not in solitude but collaboration.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement
eMammal Lite
A publicly available web application and Hunt Library video wall exhibit that allows users to explore and identify animals captured in over 4,000 camera trap images from research projects around the world. eMammal lite was decommissioned in February 2022.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Mobile Exhibits
An initiative to develop a tool set for creating mobile enhancements to exhibits.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project (vMLK)
The Virtual MLK Project is an immersive digital experience of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "A Creative Protest (Fill Up the Jails)" speech which was delivered at White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, NC in February 1960. The project is displayed in virtual reality, large scale video walls, immersive audio, and a simulation experience.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Community Engagement, Information Technology, Learning Spaces & Services, Open Knowledge CenterRed, White & Black
The Red, White & Black website is an online counterpart to the human-guided walking tour about African-American history at NC State.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Code+Art
Code+Art brings together creative and computational thinking to bring digital art to the library’s visualization spaces.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)