Fractured Media: Challenging the Dimensions of Archaeology’s Typical Visual Modes of Engagement

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  • Sara Perry
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________________________________________________________________ As new media technologies increasingly populate our toolkits, questions arise about whether archaeologists are yet even competent users of orthodox media. Prior to engaging with emerging tools, this paper takes one step back to probe the subtexts of traditional two-dimensional archaeological images. Of interest is whether the many implications of these images can be made poignant via personally manipulating and imposing upon their form and function. Influenced by the work of various playwrights, artists, anthropologists, cultural theorists, and archaeologists, this paper examines what is legitimate in our practices of picturing the past, and what it means to explicitly—perhaps illicitly—interfere with typical archaeological visuals. Via tentative experiments with assorted maps, photos and illustrations, I endeavour to turn these orthodox modes of engagement into more defiant tools of discovery and critique. Ultimately, my objective is to disrupt convention and prompt archaeologists to confront and respond to themselves (and their responsibilities to others) in their everyday interactions with media. ________________________________________________________________ Résumé: Alors que les nouvelles technologies médiatiques peuplent de plus en plus nos boites à outils, des questions se posent au sujet de la compétence des archéologues à utiliser les médias *orthodoxes*. Avant de s’engager vers les outils émergents, cet article prend du recul pour enquêter sur les sous-entendus des images archéologiques bidimensionnelles traditionnelles. Je suis intéressée si les nombreuses implications de ces images peuvent être poignantes en les manipulant personnellement et imposant sur leur forme et fonction. Influencé par le travail de différents dramaturges, artistes, anthropologues, théoriciens de la culture, et archéologues, cet article examine ce qui est légitime dans nos coutumes d’imager le passé, et ce qui résulte d’interférer clairement—peut-être illicitement—avec les visuels archéologiques typiques. Par des expériences R E S E A R C H A R C H A E O LO G IE S V o lu m e 5 N u m b er 3 D e ce m b e r 2 0 0 9 2009 World Archaeological Congress 389 Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress ( 2009) DOI 10.1007/s11759-009-9114-z

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تاریخ انتشار 2009