Shanks and Webmoor at Sawyer-Mellon Visualizing Knowledge Seminar
Thinking critically about visualizing the past is not something conventionally associated with archaeology.
However, we have a Metamedia lab in our Stanford Archaeology Center. Michael Shanks has worked for many years with a site specific performance arts company - Brith Gof. And there is a collaborative project with the new media artist Lynn Hershman in the online VR world SecondLife - Life Squared. Such work is very unique in the discipline. Why do archaeologists need to think about media? How is visualization implicated?
Michael Shanks and Timothy Webmoor of the Metamedia Lab came together before a seminar representing over 15 departments and colleges (a post-disciplinarity) at Stanford University to answer these question and explain archaeology's relevance to media and to visualizing practices for information rendering generally.
Read more at their wiki for the presentation.