Towards a virtual art archaeology: reinventing the assemblage and its setting
Towards a virtual art archaeology: reinventing the assemblage and its setting
Increasingly, vast blankets of imaging are "recording" the archaeological landscape and museum collections in fine detail on a planetary scale. But who are these industrialised scanning processes aimed at? No human, or even an army of humans, could possibly look at, let alone analyse even a small percentage of the enormous volumes of virtual "image glut" spawned each day. Instead, other machines will analyse these images. What do they see? This paper seeks to inject some diffractive and intentionally disruptive and art/archaeological perspectives into how archaeological artefacts and assemblages are represented, specifically with regards to how the setting and location of their places of discovery are conveyed. The widely available machine intelligence technique of Style Transfer will be harnessed to reconceptualise the presentation of artefacts and assemblages.
Dawson, Ian
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Reilly, Paul
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20 September 2021
Dawson, Ian
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Reilly, Paul
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Dawson, Ian and Reilly, Paul
(2021)
Towards a virtual art archaeology: reinventing the assemblage and its setting.
Virtual Archaeology Krasyonarsk 2021: Revealing the past, Enriching the present and Shaping the Future, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
20 - 21 Sep 2021.
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Increasingly, vast blankets of imaging are "recording" the archaeological landscape and museum collections in fine detail on a planetary scale. But who are these industrialised scanning processes aimed at? No human, or even an army of humans, could possibly look at, let alone analyse even a small percentage of the enormous volumes of virtual "image glut" spawned each day. Instead, other machines will analyse these images. What do they see? This paper seeks to inject some diffractive and intentionally disruptive and art/archaeological perspectives into how archaeological artefacts and assemblages are represented, specifically with regards to how the setting and location of their places of discovery are conveyed. The widely available machine intelligence technique of Style Transfer will be harnessed to reconceptualise the presentation of artefacts and assemblages.
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Virtual Archaeology Krasyonarsk 2021: Revealing the past, Enriching the present and Shaping the Future, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, 2021-09-20 - 2021-09-21
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