Maria O’Connell, Texas Tech University maria.oconnell@ttu.edu In the video clip, a team examines an underground structure somewhere in Brazil. The team is preparing for excavation. Bert Hölldobler and his crew are about to examine the abandoned ruins of a colony of Atta laevigata; leaf cutter ants (Hölldobler and Wilson 2009, 460). As Bruno Latour writes,…
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OUTPOST exhibition | Call for contributions
Sara Perry (University of Southampton) s.e.perry@soton.ac.uk Ian Kirkpatrick (University of Southampton) iankirkpatrick@shaw.ca OUTPOST Curators: Ian Kirkpatrick & Sara Perry University of Southampton 18-19 April 2011 Deadline for proposals: 23 March 2011 Poster presentations have become ubiquitous features of archaeological conferences, acting simultaneously as informational, decorative, architectural, and ritual devices. In their supposed succinctness they can…
TAG 2010 Session Review: An Artful Integration? Possible futures for archaeology and creative work.
Mhairi Maxwell (AGES, University of Bradford) m.l.maxwell@brad.ac.uk Patrick Hadley (Enkyad Heritage Media) patrick@enkyadheritagemedia.co.uk This archaeolog reviews the session ‘An Artful Integration: Possible Futures for Archaeology and Creative Work’ which took place at TAG Bristol on December 17th 2010 and brought together archaeologists, artists, performers, composers and digital media creatives. The formal session summary further details…
Call for Papers CHAT 2011: Boston University ‘People and Things in Motion’. November 11 – 13 2011
To mark the first Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference to take place outside of the British Isles, the 2011 conference theme will explore people and things in motion in both the historical and contemporary pasts
Part 3 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
(Potsdamer Platz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-00843,_Berlin,_Verkehrsturm_auf_dem_Potsdamer_Platz.jpg) IN-BETWEENESS and CHIASMA “… it is an aspect of time (as you say), but also boundaries and definitions – things don’t end where we delimit them” (Posted by Brad on Oct 13/2009 11:14AM) “ .. Movement is critical as the glue in connecting … ” (Posted by Oscar on Oct 15/2009 04:17AM)…
Part 2 of Moving on to Mobility: archaeological ambulations on the mobile world
Marey’s chronophotographic gun (1882). OBSERVATION “How does this [materialisation of movement] work for us and contend with moving projects in the way that Latour and Yaneva think about it in ‘Give me a gun and I will make a building move: An ANTs view of architecture’ [(2008)] and Tschumi in Architecture and disjunction [(1996)]: namely…