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(Digital) Bread and Circuses Reframing Roman Spectacle for Different Screens Dr. Anna Foka [email protected] Multiple Screens as Material HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden

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November 2013: ”Sensory Data and Digital Prototypes for the Roman Amphitheatre: a case Study for Sound”, The Empire of The Senses: Methodologies in Sensory Archaeology, The Open University, UK.

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(Digital) Bread and Circuses

Reframing Roman Spectacle forDifferent Screens

Dr. Anna Foka [email protected] Screens as MaterialHUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden

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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)

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Antiquity in 3DUrban Development

Applications of technology in museology

Narratives of digital Heritage

Historical Accuracy?

Experience?

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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)

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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

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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

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Making the Intangible-Tangible: Sounds of the Ludi

Acoustic Archaeology

Peripatetic Archaeology

Narratives of Sound>>> Modes of listening >>>sound productionChion (1995)

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Modes of listening

Turii et all (2007) 15-7Order of modes- Cognitive abstraction from low to high

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Samples of Case Studies

Plutarch Cicero 13: Hissing and applausing

Dionysius Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 7.72. 13: Musicians and Procession

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Preliminary conclusions in the making

Critique and Expression

Cultural and Historical Significance

Experience

Database of sounds + Level of Cognitive abstractions?

Screens: Sound + Vision =1

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Thank you!

graffiti comes from Pompeii (CIL IV 10237)

Pompeii Graffiti (CIL IV 10237)

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