On April 1st, 2015, I was notified by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada that my team won a 5 year grant that will take us to some of the most far-flung places on the globe. We have been funded to create a digital- humanities augmented reality project along similar lines to our highly successful pilot project Mapping Ararat. The three "promised lands" where we will be setting up augmented reality tours are Port Davey, Tasmania, Kimberley Western Australia and Suriname all of which were proposals that the leader of the Freeland League, I.N. Steinberg explored as possible safe havens for the Jews in and around the time of the Holocaust.
Our team consists of myself as primary investigator and lead artist, co-applicant Professor Louis Kaplan who serves as the project's chief historian, collaborator Brian Sutherland who is our augmented reality programmer, Professor Adam Rovner who just published "In The Shadow of Zion" which is the definitive book on the Jewish Territorialist movement.
Our research will begin this July at The Center for Jewish History in New York City at YIVO where the Steinberg archive is held. But we have already begun....
Imaginary Jewish Homelands is a collaborative digital art and humanities project that utilizes the cutting edge technology of virtual reality to image and imagine four proposed sites in modern times for a Jewish homeland around the globe.
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