| Fractured Media: Challenging the Dimensions of Archaeology’s Typical Visual Modes of Engagement |
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Sara Perry
University of Southampton
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Description:
With a growing number of archaeologists turning to new media technologies to grapple with the challenges of contemporary practice, it now seems imperative to return our attention to the potentials of traditional photographic and pen-and-paper-based media to similarly - if not more successfully - negotiate such challenges. This research questions practitioners’ neglect of the possibilities of typical two-dimensional archaeological images, and aims to articulate a visual approach that not only capitalises on the critical affordances of traditional media, but "enskils" (after Ingold 2000) archaeologists in their application.
Drawing upon the methods of various playwrights, artists, archaeologists, visual and cultural theorists and culture jammers, along with the insights of symmetrical archaeology, I experiment with the manipulation of various 2D visual forms to enable disruptive, critical readings of the archaeological record and its associated outputs. Ultimately, I endeavour to show how such experimentation can highlight the genealogies, mediations and entanglements behind past and present humans and things, and how it can offer archaeologists a low-tech and accessible means for consistently approaching images in reflective, visually-informed ways. |
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| This research was originally conceived as a paper for the 2008 World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland, soon to be published in an upcoming issue of Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. An elaborated version of my research will be presented at the 2008 VIA workshop in Southampton, UK. It has also been extended to consider the visual possibilities of text in a forthcoming essay (This Book has been Defaced: Experimenting with Shanks and Tilley’s Red and Black Texts as Creative Modes of Engagement) to be published by BAR in a volume edited by Jim Dixon (University of the West of England). |
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