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CONFERENCE THANKS
29 April 2011
The VIA team would like to thank everyone involved with the 2011Conference. We would also like to thank those individuals unable to attend this years conference but who's contributions to the VIA Workshops over the last three years helped to shape the project.
We are currently producing a report which is under review. This will be submitted to our project funders English Heritage (HEEP) in due course. |
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FILM SCREENING
Please Note: 14 April 2011 - Due to unforeseen circumstances the film screening is cancelled.
Tenere: Mapping the Desert
Ed Owles - PostCode Films
The film lyrically portrays the differing attitudes towards the 'cultural landscape' of the Libyan Sahara held by a group of European visitors to the region as well as the Tuareg 'locals' who guide them. Experimentally filmed and edited, it explores the extent to which we can seek to record the natural environment as a scientific domain, and what this means for the people who live there. The film was made within the context of an Oxford University archaeology trip researching the rock art of the area.
Monday, 18 April, 2011 from 12:30 to 13:30 |
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DIGITAL EXHIBITION
OPEN 
Curator: Gareth Beale - University of Southampton
Digital images have found their way into almost every area of our work as archaeologists. Often without thinking, we rely upon the digital image to express complex thoughts, to act as a data container, to communicate interpretation and to act as a record of we he see. Our engagement with digital images is enormously complex and multi-faceted.
Despite the intimacy of our relationship with digital images we often take them for granted, producing them without thought. Sometimes, we even dismiss them as being innately unattractive.
Open  will exhibit a range of digital archaeological imagery, removed from the processes and contexts which generally mediate our impressions of them. The exhibition will seek to give an impression of the diversity of the digital archaeological image and will give us space to ask:
“What do digital images actually look like? What part do they really play in archaeological thought and practice? Can digital archaeologies ever be beautiful?”
Monday, 18 April, 2011 from 18:00 |
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INSTALLATION
Putting the Archaeologist in the Frame
Farès Moussa - University of Edinburgh / École normale supérieure, Paris with photographer
Since the invention of the daguerreotype, people have paused to be objectified through the camera lens. Besides from portraiture, new and hitherto little-known opportunities arose for people to visually juxtapose themselves amidst, against and in relation to people and places among which they would ordinarily simply be ‘getting on’. Since the mid-nineteenth century, photography has been no less utilised than by geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists to record their expeditions and themselves among their discoveries. But does the photo of the archaeologist amid or beside their discoveries represent them simply ‘doing’ what they do? Or is it imbued with nuances of conquest and ownership? Indeed, does the visual record of the archaeologist with his/her ‘discovery’ glorify and enrich the archaeologist? Does the archaeologist alongside local guides and labourers appear in the photo as an equal or an overlord to these people? Or do visual records of the physical proximity of archaeologists to ‘noble savages’, ‘indigenes’ and ‘aboriginals’ - ‘others’ - somehow bring them closer to ever elusive ideals of ‘innocence’ and ‘authenticity’, even ‘valour’ and ‘intrepidity’? The advent of the daguerreotype and photography certainly provided a method for recording archaeologists and their work. However, it arguably also defined the ways archaeologists related to and got-on with other people, places and objects, and the ways in which we as archaeologists continue to perceive and gaze upon ourselves today.
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Installation of a white backdrop photographic studio set-up and a professional photographer offering a selection of ‘photo-types’ (e.g.: 19th century daguerreotype of archaeological site with archaeologist wearing pith helmet with ‘noble savage’ or 1920s style photo of line of archaeologists and manual labourers, etc.). Volunteers, having made their choice, will then be photographed in a given stance in front of the white backdrop, which at post-shoot stage will be edited to include the agreed accompanying background and foreground. Images will be made available on-line for downloading at a given website after the event. A short explanatory poster / board will accompany the installation.
Monday, 18 April, 2011 from 18:00 |
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