Excerpt of post originally published on the Carleton College Humanities Center Blog 10/23/2024

This past summer, I worked with a team headed by Austin Mason of the Digital Arts & Humanities program on the Virtual Viking Longship Project—a collaboration between Grinnell College and Carleton College with the goal of recreating Viking Age artifacts and ships in a virtual reality space that would allow viewers to interact with them in a way impossible through normal museums. 

I was one of four students who stayed over the summer to work on the project. My duty was to work on the art aspects of the project…