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Temporal Frankensteins and legacy images

Temporal Frankensteins and legacy images
Temporal Frankensteins and legacy images
Digital images are produced by humans and autonomous devices everywhere and, increasingly, ‘everywhen’. Legacy image data, like Mary Shelley’s infamous monster, can be stitched together as either smooth and eloquent, or jagged and abominable, supplementary combinations from various times to create a thought-provoking and/or repulsive Frankensteinian assemblage composed, like most archaeological assemblages, of messy temporal components combining, as Gavin Lucas sums it up, as “a mixture of things from different times and with different life histories but which co-exist here and now”. In this paper, we take a subversive Virtual Art/Archaeology approach, adopting Jacques Derrida’s notion of the ‘supplement’, to explore the temporality of archaeological legacy images, introducing the concept of timesheds or temporal brackets within aggregated images. The focus of this temporally blurred, and time-glitched, study is the World Heritage Site of the Neolithic to Common Era henge monument of Avebury, UK (United Kingdom).
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Dawson, Ian
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Minkin, Louisa
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Reilly, Paul
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Jones, Andrew M
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Dawson, Ian
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Reilly, Paul
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Jones, Andrew M
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Dawson, Ian, Minkin, Louisa, Reilly, Paul and Jones, Andrew M (2022) Temporal Frankensteins and legacy images. digital, 2 (2). (doi:10.3390/digital2020015).

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Abstract

Digital images are produced by humans and autonomous devices everywhere and, increasingly, ‘everywhen’. Legacy image data, like Mary Shelley’s infamous monster, can be stitched together as either smooth and eloquent, or jagged and abominable, supplementary combinations from various times to create a thought-provoking and/or repulsive Frankensteinian assemblage composed, like most archaeological assemblages, of messy temporal components combining, as Gavin Lucas sums it up, as “a mixture of things from different times and with different life histories but which co-exist here and now”. In this paper, we take a subversive Virtual Art/Archaeology approach, adopting Jacques Derrida’s notion of the ‘supplement’, to explore the temporality of archaeological legacy images, introducing the concept of timesheds or temporal brackets within aggregated images. The focus of this temporally blurred, and time-glitched, study is the World Heritage Site of the Neolithic to Common Era henge monument of Avebury, UK (United Kingdom).

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 May 2022
Published date: 11 May 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 468440
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/468440
ISSN: 2673-6470
PURE UUID: 53b5b460-3fc8-411d-a40d-949447c641d7
ORCID for Ian Dawson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3695-8582
ORCID for Paul Reilly: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-8991

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Date deposited: 15 Aug 2022 16:47
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:51

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Author: Ian Dawson ORCID iD
Author: Louisa Minkin
Author: Paul Reilly ORCID iD
Author: Andrew M Jones

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