digital humanities australasia 2014
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March 2014: ” Digital Bread and Circuses: Sensory Prototypes for Different Screens” Digital Humanities Australasia 2014, Perth, Western AustraliaTRANSCRIPT
(Digital) Bread and Circuses
Reframing Roman Spectacle forDifferent Screens
Dr. Anna Foka [email protected] Screens as MaterialHUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden
Summary1. Historical Accuracy?
2. Critical Making: Implications
3. Sound as a Case Study
4. Preliminary Conclusions/Outcomes
Ippolitto Caffi: The Interior of the ColosseumThe entrance of the Colosseum (circa 1840)
Antiquity in 3DUrban Development
Applications of technology in museology
Narratives of digital Heritage
Historical Accuracy?
Experience?
The amphitheatre as an experience of the
Senses‘Total sensory experience of the ludi’ (Toner 2009: 123) How? Participatory (Giaccardi et. al:2012) Gamification of knowledge (Zichermann: 2011, Foka: 2014)Kinaesthetics, Sound, Touchscreens (Betts: 2011)
Critical Making
1. Literature Review
2. Design and Building
3. Iterative reconfiguration + conversation = reflection begins.
(Ratto: 2011)
’Emergence Sense-making’
Conceptual Design, Artistic Practice and HCI
The pyramid of implications for multisensory
conceptual&critical making
1. Raw Data?2. Intangible3. Spatiality4. Temporality.
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Hermeneutics VS Ocularcentrism
Witmore (2004 and 2006)
Howes (2005)
Favro (2006)
Drobnick (2006)
Betts (2011 and 2013)
Lindhé (2013)- Digital Ekphrasis
Making the Intangible-Tangible: Sounds of the Ludi
Acoustic Archaeology
Peripatetic Archaeology
Narratives of Sound>>> Modes of listening >>>sound productionChion (1995)
Modes of listening
Turii et all (2007) 15-7Order of modes- Cognitive abstraction from low to high
Samples of Case Studies
Plutarch Cicero 13: Hissing and applausing
Dionysius Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 7.72. 13: Musicians and Procession
Preliminary conclusions in the making
Critique and Expression
Cultural and Historical Significance
Experience
Database of sounds + Level of Cognitive abstractions?
Screens: Sound + Vision =1
Thank you!
graffiti comes from Pompeii (CIL IV 10237)
Pompeii Graffiti (CIL IV 10237)
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