Loci

Overview

Loci is a video-native evidence platform that turns recorded interpretation into durable public records by linking 3D object points, transcript spans, video timestamps, clips, attribution, and citation links.

For African and African diasporic material culture work, Loci gives viewers a way to move from a 3D object into the exact interpretive moment behind a claim. A community interview, museum catalog record, model annotation, transcript excerpt, and clip can sit inside one evidence package, making each interpretation inspectable and shareable.

The current public runtime centers on cultural heritage and object-centered interpretation. It uses a private authoring environment for ingest, editing, annotation, clip generation, and publication decisions, then publishes approved evidence into a read-only public runtime at loci.threedeezy.com.

On this site, Loci functions as the technical infrastructure behind Craig Stevens’s broader immersive material culture practice. It connects fieldwork, museum collaboration, 3D documentation, VR interpretation sessions, and publication workflows into a system where claims can be traced back to source context.