Imagine.
Du Bois
Does Data.
An immersive experience that brings W.E.B. Du Bois's 1900 Paris Exposition data visualizations into VR, AR, and live installation — 126 years later.
The Cave.
Three rooms. Memorial Cave. Shirley's Alcove. Paris 1900 Hall. Built in React Three Fiber. Deployed. The visitor doesn't watch — they're inside.
The Archive Speaks.
Ask the archive. It answers in Du Bois's words. Every quote sourced. Every claim traceable. RAG pipeline on Supabase pgvector. Gemini embeddings. 800-token chunks, 200-token overlap.
63 plates. 6 books.
Du Bois's visual grammar,
reappraised.
Hand-coded in his style. Sourced to primary data — NCES, Federal Reserve, NSF, CRA Taulbee. Rendered in his font. Each plate seeks its patron.
AR. Lessons.
Training.
8th Wall AR platform. 5 interactive data literacy lessons. Spark workshop curriculum. The work IS the education — participants don't study cultural heritage, they build experiences that honor it.
The Pattern Scales.
Every figure gets a SAM — a Small Archive Model. Open source. Scholar-contributable. The archive speaks in their words.
SAM → LAM → Constellation. The architecture that turns one archive into a network.
Juneteenth at the
Oculus.
June 19–21, 2026. Three-day exhibition at the Oculus, NYC. VR Cave Gallery. Living Archive. Scholar livestream. Paris 1900 Hall world premiere. CUNY co-sponsored.
WTC Oculus · New York, NY
Fund the Reappraisal.
Radical Imagination is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) arts organization. Every contribution is tax-deductible. Your patronage commissions specific plates, keeps the VR infrastructure alive, and funds the next figure's archive.
Each plate seeks
its patron.
Name a plate. Fund a workshop. Sponsor a figure. The Reappraisal is a public work built in the open — patrons are named in the commissioning line of the plates they support.
Acknowledged on the site
Early access to plates
Your name on a plate
501(c)(3) · Tax-deductible · EIN on request
Immerse.
You've seen the proof. Now step inside. The Constellation is a navigable network of Small Archive Models — every star an archive, every archive speaking in the figure's own words.