Digital storytelling in (PURE)3D: Exploring affordances for media historical imagination

Description

This presentation highlights the 3D scholarly project A Genealogy of Home Cinema, focusing on the affordances of the PURE3D framework and infrastructure for communicating media historical narratives, and on how the platform's storytelling functionalities stimulate audiences' historical imagination (Harkema & Rosendaal, 2020, 73; Collingwood, 1946). The project includes two 3D scholarly editions that reconstruct the history of home cinema through two early-twentieth-century media historical devices: the Kinora (1896-1914) and the Pathé Baby 9.5mm film projector (1922-1932) (cf. Georgiakakis & Van der Heijden, 2024). Creating these editions in PURE3D introduced innovative ways to present, annotate, and contextualize the materiality and functionality of these devices, offering deeper insights into their historical use and stimulating one's imagination of how these media historical devices were used in the past (Fickers & Van den Oever, 2022). Reflecting on the process of developing these editions, and presenting them to students in an online classroom as part of a module on digital storytelling, this presentation highlights how engaging with 3D objects not only enabled new modes of presentation but also added a tacit dimension to 3D scholarship, fostering new approaches to digital media historical inquiry and dissemination.

Period	6 Jun 2025
Event title	DHBenelux 2025
Event type	Conference
Conference number	12
Location	Amsterdam, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International