BBC Science/Nature has picked up on the occurrence of red ochre dating back 90k years at Qafzeh cave, Israel (after a recent article in Current Anthropology). Associated with burials, the pigment is taken to indicate symbolic and ritual thought (red=dead). The typical argument then goes that this is a momentous leap in human evolution. And…
the shape of history
The illusions of VR
Lynn Meskell at Stanford telling us about her new technology project with Columbia computer scientists. High resolution laser survey/scanning produces 3D models of archaeological sites. They tried it at Monte Polizzo over the summer. The result – a textured wireframe model of one of the architectural features of this hill top settlement. As excavated by…
Trafalgar Day
Trafalgar Day at Trafalgar Squarestanding on the steps of the National Galleryand walking to the Tate Modern Urban experience is one of layering narrative allegory spectacle intensity assemblage