Media interest continues in students' "Route 66" graduate project

• February 15, 2011 1:00am

Ann King and two of her fellow grad students, Tina Lai and Marc Meyer, designed a multimedia experience of Historic Route 66 as their final project for the CSUEB multimedia graduate program. In June 2010, they rolled out a retrofitted 1969 Volkswagen Bug with windshield-mounted computer monitors that let users navigate through 3-D recreations of Route 66 through photos, maps, audio and video clips. The students all graduated in spring '10. Watch final video.

King said that interest in their project continues to this day. She was recently interviewed by Foster Braun, moderator for the Internet Advisor online radio program about their "Mother Road" project.

Rafael Hernandez, chair of the Department of Music and director of the multimedia graduate program, is not surprised, "With a sensitivity to simpler times - times before information was just a second away in the form of the Internet - they are able to spin a yarn about an important part of American culture, Route 66, without letting that which is so markedly different about then and now - the technology - get in the way."

KL