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| Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology |
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Andrew Cochrane, Ian Russell
Cardiff University
University College Dublin
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Description:
A series of art pieces that seeks to contest traditional mechanisms for representation and spectatorship by questioning the status that visual images occupy in archaeological discourse. Photomosaics of iconic archaeologists and archaeological objects were constructed through the manufacture of archives and archaeological records of public images available over internet search engines. This digital ‘excavation’ of what is traditionally an unarchived public space marked the beginnings of our digital archaeological practice.Inspired by Joan Fontcuberta’s series of Googlegrams (2005), we call into question the ways in which archaeologists position themselves and their work within broader society. By conflating archaeological figures with a collage of public images, the pieces reveal the manufacture of representations of archaeological identities and of the artefacts and monuments with which they work. In addition, through the use of the world wide web and freeware, they also challenge the role that digital media are playing in the fabrication of collective archaeological visual memory, interpretation, and mediated information.
This work is part of a larger project of interventions compiled under IRAC - critically intervening in the world. |
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| Previous exhibitions of this work include Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego, Cracow, Poland, 19-24 September 2006, European Association of Archaeologists, Bristol University, 10 - 12 November 2006, Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory University of Exeter, 15 - 17 December 2006, Theoretical Archaeology Group, University College Dublin, 29 June - 4 July 2008, World Archaeological Congress. |
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18 August - 04 September 2006 Digital Photomosaic (90 × 110 cm).
This photomosaic depicts Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976), one of the most iconic British archaeologists of the twentieth century. |
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Andrew Cochrane
Cardiff University
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Ian Russell
University College Dublin
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