Oscar K. Keyes

Oscar K. Keyes, PhD (he/him), is the multimedia teaching and learning librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. His research investigates the emergence of the camera in education and explores how that historical context might help us teach with emerging technologies today. He considers how social issues can be critically scaffolded into technical instruction for various digital tools, such as image-editing software, game engines, and generative artificial intelligence. He has taught (new and old) media arts in various spaces, including higher education, K–12 schools, summer camps, community-based arts organizations, and detention centers. When he’s not busy teaching, Keyes still makes movies with his friends, having worked on award-winning short and feature-length films.