This is a movie about the Place-Hampi project. I saw a presentation about it yesterday at TAG in Stanford. It’s a ground breaking new media art installation that elevates cultural heritage to a new level of experience. It is an embodied theatre of participation. Quite inspirational. Place-Hampi website
Recombinant Prehistory
History is made of fragments from many many sources; this bloglet is a place to bring together some of the fragments that create the senses of place about the past. For a more in-depth exploration of my mind, try visiting:
http://web.mac.com/chimeraspider/Ruth_Tringham/About_Ruth_Tringham.html
Simon Thorne's 'Neanderthal' project »
Good clean - but Haunting - imagined singing and percussion music from 30,000 years ago
“ light, color, rhythm, image, sound; the basis, the data’s for a new performance; we can call it electronic play “
Le Corbusier, in “Le poème électronique”, ed. les Editions de Minuit, 1958.
Le Corbusier, in “Le poème électronique”, ed. les Editions de Minuit, 1958.
“ Enactive Interfaces are not exploited by most of the existing human-computer interface technologies. The traditional interaction ..is based on symbolic or iconic knowledge, not enactive knowledge…..which is ..based on the active use of the hand for apprehension tasks.
— extracted from Enactive network - Enactive Interfaces
Watch the Body Mnemonics movie »
This is one of the Sile O’Modhrain’s teams projects Body Mnemonics. Like many of her projects, this one could have real Cultural Heritage application.
Sile O'Modhrain - Research Projects »
Still on the Senses of Place chapter, I’ve been getting into haptics again today and re-acquainted myself with the work of Sile O’Modhrain, Queens U, Belfast
WMG researchers creating 'virtual cocoon' | News | International Digital Laboratory WMG | University of Warwick »
Is this a route to sharing the senses of place in prehistory? Hmmmm…
Eddie Izzard on Stonehenge: an icon of archaeology
