Revealing the Unseen: How Art & Augmented Reality Expose Hidden Histories

The 2025 Jane Green Endowed Lecture in Visual Culture, Revealing the Unseen: How Art and Augmented Reality Expose Hidden Histories, will be a public conversation between artist Kija Lucas and augmented reality creator Damien McDuffie, moderated by Oakland Museum of California Deputy Director Makeda Best, co-founder of Museums Moving Forward, and esteemed curator and historian of photography. The event will be followed by a catered reception.

The trio will discuss making hidden histories and associated content come to life with art and AR; the intersection of art and STEM; using AR to collaborate with artists, storytellers, and cultural institutions; anti-racist art and museum practices; and equity- and access-driven app development and media tools.

This event is planned in conjunction with the Mills College Art Museum exhibition, Kija Lucas: Hidden Histories, on view from January 11-April 27, 2025. The exhibition features brand new work by the titular artist, augmented with AR experiences by Black Terminus, an Oakland-based AR design firm with a global reach founded by Damien McDuffie.

Co-sponsored by the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences. Register on Eventbrite.