Writings and thoughts fromMichael Shanks

on photography and media.

To accompany Archaeography - the class

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• archaeology and photography - a page explaining my understanding of archaeology and photography and saying why I work in photography

• Archaeologies of the contemporary past - thoughts on archaeography and time, from a collection of papers on the archaeology of the recent past edited by Alain Schnapp and Laurent Olivier

• Digital media, agile design and the politics of archaeological authorship New approaches to the design of information in an heretical empirics. A talk originally given at TAG 2004, Glasgow.

• The archaeological - a glossary of archaeological aspects of modernity

• Archaeography - the collective photoblog

• Photoblogs

• Galleries of some of my photography projects, with an explanation of what I think I am doing

• Archaeology and photography an essay in Brian Molyneaux's book on archaeology's visual culture

• The perfume of garbage - a piece written with Bill Rathje and David Platt on archaeology and modernity. It appeared in the special issue of Modernism/Modernity on "Archaeologies of the modern". and deals with archaeology's place in modernity

• my book Experiencing the Past (1992) has many reflections on matters photographic in archaeology

• entries in archaeolog (my blog) on photography

• Metamedia - a discussion document [link] from the consolidation of the lab in 2003 - originally drafted with Cliff McLucas in Sicily in 1999 - first definition of medium as "mode of engagement"

• Matters of metamedia in contemporary archaeology - a talk

• entries in archaeolog (my blog) on media archaeology

• Media - eigenvectors - defining the design chracteristics of media in the light of information science and technology - a conversation between media architect and now Google guru Sam Schillace and Michael Shanks

• Media archaeology - the beginnings of some summary thoughts

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