Recombinant Prehistory

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