Dick Davis Tours the USC Interactive Media Bldg.

Dick Davis, widely regarded the finest living translator of Persian literature into English, stopped by the Game Innovation Lab to play The Cat and the Coup. Professor Davis is visiting USC as part of the 2013 Visions and Voices program to speak about: Epic, Romance, and Mysticism: The Greatness of Persian Poetry.

Professor Davis is pictured wearing an HMD developed at the MxR lab at ICT. He is experiencing iMaP student’s Nonny de la Pena’s Hunger in Los Angeles immersive journalism project. Special thanks to Alex McDowell’s  World Building team for allowing us to interrupt a work session.

During his visit, I realized the cover art for his translation of My Uncle Napoleon was illusrated by Ardeshir Mohasses, whose work inspired the art-direction for The Cat and the Coup.