Innovation Showcases
Asynchronous Session
The Multicultural Approaches of Recited Verse
Innovation Showcase Omar Miranda
This study explores the multicultural approaches of Recited Verse (RV), a free social media platform that supports an entirely user-generated collection of poetry spoken aloud. We welcome all poetry enthusiasts (poets, students, teachers, scholars, and the general public) and all kinds of poetry (original and published verse of all ages, cultures, and languages). Through our website and iOS and Android apps, users can record and listen to poems they know and have composed at home or on the road. Additional features include generating and following poetry playlists; creating, joining, and interacting in private group forums; maintaining a public profile; following other users; liking readings; and using our commenting and advanced search options.
Fruits of Labor: Agricultural Migration from Okinawa to Hawaii
Innovation Showcase Emily Hanako Momohara
“Fruits of Labor” is a body of visual art which connects colonial structure of Hawaiian agriculture and migration from Asia Pacific. Momohara uses her own family’s 1914 journey from Okinawa to Hawaii pineapple plantations to illustrate nostalgic and respectful attitudes Americans feel toward their immigrant ancestors and the “exotic” islands. The pineapple becomes synonymous for the path her family took from immigrant labors to consumers of luxury goods in today’s United States. Momohara’s artwork blurs the lines between the past and present attitudes toward migration. An antique stereograph holds a digitally made, color image of a golden work glove held high in a fist. She manipulates historical and contemporary mediums such as stereographs and projections to create nuance between the timeline, who labors, their social value, assumptions about products, and exoticism. “Fruits of Labor” can be viewed at https://ehmomohara.com/fruits-of-labor.
