AIDS Quilt Touch
Twice NEH funded digital heritage project to preserve and augment the AIDS Memorial Quilt through different digital media.
Roles:
– Producer and designer of multiple exhibitions and displays
– Designer of Threads & Tours feature (experience design, curation, video capture, production, and editing. You can see one of the Tours at the National AIDS Memorial website)
– Producer for the Threads & Tours feature
– Producer and experiential designer of the NAMES Foundation Storefront in Atlanta, Georgia.
– Executive Producer of the UT Dallas HIV/AIDS Events from 2016-2019. Events included performances, experiential activations, workshops, displays, and installations.
– Database support for the Touch Table
Participants can use the AIDS Quilt Touch Table to look for Quilt panels of loved ones by name. They can explore an image of all the blocks of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, zooming in to see just one panel, or out to see all of them. This is the only way to see all the Quilt at the same time since it has grown so much it does not fit in any physical space anymore. The Table also offers a feature called “Tours and Threads,” which tell stories often forgotten on the mainstream narratives about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, such as “Women and AIDS,” and “Activism.”
You can access a web-based iteration of the AIDS Quilt Touch here.
Selected Exhibition History
2021 – The Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX, USA.
2019 – UT Dallas HIV/AIDS Day, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
March 2019 – Dedication ceremony at Nelson Tebedo Clinic, a resource center clinic in Dallas, TX, USA.
2018 – UT Dallas HIV/AIDS Day, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
October 2017 – Exhibition “Narrative Threads: The AIDS Memorial Quilt”, at the Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX, USA.
2017 – UT Dallas HIV/AIDS Week, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
2016 – UT Dallas HIV/AIDS Week, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
2015 – SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Letícia Ferreira 