WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 \u201cMalaysian WWII Oral Histories: A Digital \/ Virtual Art Exhibition\u201d will open on Friday, March 27, with a reception from noon to 2 p.m. in the Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery. Viewers will be transported into a sensory world described by the storytellers through the multi-modal exhibition. The reception is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served. The exhibition runs through May 1.<\/p>\n
Created by Cheryl L. Nicholas<\/a>, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Berks, the exhibition draws directly from her Malaysian WWII Oral Histories Project<\/a>, which opened to a crowd of 3,000 at Perak Museum in Malaysia in 2023. Viewers will walk through a Malaysian house facade into a digital experience, where they can watch videos, listen to interviews, and experience an interactive VR environment, which includes artifacts from family collections.<\/p>\n \u201cThe exhibition was inspired by my father and grandfather, who told me about their experiences during the Japanese occupation when I was very young and did not quite appreciate them in the way I do today,\u201d Nicholas explained in a previous interview. \u201cThese stories provide a historical context for \u2018everyday living\u2019 during that time. These are stories not shared in history books as they were the stories of ordinary people, shared mainly within families. And as the storytellers passed on, so too did their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n In the spring of 2023, Nicholas and Heidi Mau, a professor from Albright College and Nicholas\u2019 spouse, led a team of students on the creation of a virtual reality (VR) \/ digital exhibition at the Perak Museum in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia, which opened on Aug. 15 to a crowd of more than 3,000 attendees.<\/p>\n The Freyberger Gallery is located within the Perkins Student Center, Room 009B. It is open to the public Monday\u2013Friday, 1\u20136 p.m. For more information, contact Abbey Muza, visiting artist, at AZM7325@psu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 \u201cMalaysian WWII Oral Histories: A Digital \/ Virtual Art Exhibition\u201d will open on Friday, March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-148362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}