Recombinant Prehistory

Today the BACH tent which stood on the top of the northern peak...

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:21:08 -0700

Today the BACH tent which stood on the top of the northern peak of Okapi Island in Second Life since 2007 -just as its First Life counterpart did on the East Mound of Çatalhöyük from 1997 to 2004 - was moved! It was moved (see it on the left of the image) to the beach of the island to make way for a brand new and much more convincing tent that is being placed on its correct location. You can see it here floating in the air in the process of construction.

WNYC - Radiolab: Musical Language (September 25, 2007)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:53:00 -0800

WNYC - Radiolab: Musical Language (September 25, 2007):

Here is a link to WNYC’s Radiolab podcast on Musical Language that I mentioned in class today

David Byrne (sonic architect) plays the building. For our...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:40:06 -0800

David Byrne (sonic architect) plays the building. For our acoustic archaeology session. Can buildings sing?

Here he’s writing about it

World Soundscape Project

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:09:00 -0800

World Soundscape Project:

a website by/about the author The Soundscape, R Murray Schafer

Just for fun. How to make an interactive movie - NOT!

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:16:31 -0800

Just for fun. How to make an interactive movie - NOT!

Bonekickers: Series 1, episode 1

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:49:21 -0800

Bonekickers: Series 1, episode 1

Bonekickers cast talk about their characters

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:47:10 -0800

Bonekickers cast talk about their characters

my assignment 2 for Anthro 230 Doing AudioVisual Archaeology....

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:39:00 -0800

my assignment 2 for Anthro 230 Doing AudioVisual Archaeology. “Doing it differently” was the theme and using a different medium from Assignment 1. Last time I made an image collage. This time I chose a video created by stills and video from the BACH excavations at Çatalhöyük and housed it in the skin of the BACH excavation tent. I had ti create it in Keynote and then filmed it with Snap-Z-Pro. This actually comprises a scene in my movie for the SAA 7half festival

These are some of the shelters that have been built in the last...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:00 -0800

These are some of the shelters that have been built in the last fifteen years at the 9000-year old site of Çatalhöyük. They are built to “protect” the excavated areas for future generations to view and gaze at the prehistoric remains. They are built on top of the prehistoric houses and act as “houses” for the current and future generations of archaeologists. They are called shelters which somehow denotes ephemerality but I think they create a permanent marker of NOW and the FUTURE. This is my expression of the statement: “With archaeology we stake our claim to the future by finding the past”

Lost city in Spain possibly linked to Atlantis

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:04:00 -0800

Lost city in Spain possibly linked to Atlantis:

This story was picked up by Examiner.com. Does anyone in Anthro 136j want to make a movie of how a possibility is turned into a probability. It started as a short report in UK’s Antiquity magazine on line. But who is Rainer Kühne? Anyone want tobe an investigative reporter?

prehistoric foot in the mouth

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:51:12 -0800

prehistoric foot in the mouth

stratigraphy in the London Underground

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:27:31 -0800

stratigraphy in the London Underground

This is a movie about the Place-Hampi project. I saw a...

Sun, 03 May 2009 22:33:00 -0700

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

Simon Thorne's 'Neanderthal' project

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:42:00 -0700

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..."

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:44:22 -0700

““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.”

- the shape of sound

"Enactive Interfaces are not exploited by most of the existing human-computer interface technologies...."

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:28:00 -0700

“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

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:04:00 -0700

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

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:49:00 -0700

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

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:25:00 -0700

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

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:23:00 -0700

Eddie Izzard on Stonehenge: an icon of archaeology