Month: July 2016

Eric Hoyt is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video (University of California Press, 2014), co-director of the Media History Digital Library, and lead developer of Lantern, which received the 2014 SCMS Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award. His new book project, Motion Papers, combines archival research with data analytics to explore the history of the US motion picture trade press. In collaboration with Charles Acland, Hoyt has been leading the development of Project Arclight.

Alex Peer is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pursuing research in the field of virtual reality. He is affiliated with the Computer Science Department and the Living Environments Laboratory at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Peer made a major contribution to Project Arclight by serving as the lead programmer on the final version of the Arclight web app.