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Archaeologist at Stanford
2007-2008 I was the Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center, writing about long-term archaeological perspectives on design history - Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design, and The Design of New Media: An Archaeological Perspective.
Fall 2008 - Stanford Strategy Center is in development.
Research and Projects | Writing | Weblog | Galleries | Photoblogs | Classes | Resumé
Metamedia - my lab at Stanford - design history, media materialities and long-term trends - currently undergoing a shift into more tightly focused projects concerned with social modeling and run through a new paradigm - digitally-enabled research networks
Stanford Humanities Lab - experimental research and development in transdisciplinary arts and humanities - animating cultural archives, building bridges to bigger pictures on matters of common human concern, enabling collaborative co-creation in the new Humanities - I direct SHL with Jeffrey Schnapp and Henry Lowood
Stanford Strategy Center - building transdisciplinary bridges to a bigger picture to enable more informed thinking and decision making around matters of common and pressing human concern - applied humanities
Video as social agent - introduction to three new works commissioned by the Tate Gallery - September 2008
The (digital) future of the university museum - keynote at the UMAC Conference, Manchester UK - September 2008
Designing digital tool kits for the Arts and Humanities - an intervention at "Bamboo" Planning Project, Berkeley April 29 2008 (a project between Berkeley and Chicago to work with the Mellon Foundation in building infrastructures and tool kits for research in the Arts and Humanities)
Figure-ground relationships and the archaeological imagination - Keynote at "Art is History" - graduate symposium, San José State University - April 12 2008
"There's no place like "domus" - California Classical Association Spring Conference, April 5 2008. As Vice-President of CCA I hosted this fascinating panel discussion in the Archaeology Center. David Smith (ex-Stanford Classics), President, did a great job of organizing the speakers - [link]
Archive and memory in virtual worlds - for the Media X Conference, Stanford - discussion with Pat Hanrahan, Vladlen Koltun, Byron Reeves and Jeremy Bailenson - March 2008
Entitled Opinions - with Robert Harrison - a radio talk on KZSU about the origins of agriculture (and much more) - February 5 2008
Artereality - a manifesto for arts education in the US - written with Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford Humanities Lab) for a new collection - What Is Art Education? A 21st-Century Question, edited by Steven Madoff, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008)
TAG 2007 York UK - reworking Shanks and Tilley - a conference session looking back at my work in the 80s with Chris Tilley - December 2007. Now to be a book edited by James Dixon (Bristol)
Collaboration and research networks in the Humanities - Getty Research Institute - November 2007
The future of the museum - discussion with Dominic Willsdon and Rudolf Frieling of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - November 2007
Life Squared - an animated archive - a talk in Manchester - Manchester Whitworth Gallery - November 2007 - A symposium on Lynn Hershman - 
Life-squared-Manchester.mov
Beyond Powerpoint - Google tech talk on presentation software - November 2007
With Lynn Hershman in Seed Magazine - October 2007 - discussing our particular conjuncture of art and science
Symbolic and structural archaeology - the coggies 25 years on - a review of changes in archaeology since the paradigm-shifting book "Symbolic and structural archaeology" (Cambridge 1982) - with Chris Tilley I contributed a paper on the archaeology of the body in prehistoric farming society - Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2007
Life Squared Montreal - September - December 2007 - a manifestation of the mixed reality archive of Lynn's work at the Dante Hotel, San Francisco 1972
KZSU - radio interview on the archaeological imagination - May 2007
Politics of Presence - a colloquium at Stanford, part of the research workshop Critical studies in new media - May 2007
Archive 3.0 - the colloquium - a Stanford humanities Lab brain trust - Stanford Humanities Center - May 2007
Ceramics - the materiality of a medium - new multidisciplinary and experimental research into ceramics - with Ian Hodder, Gail Mahood, Jody Maxmin - starting up January 2008
Anglo-American-antiquarians - an international research network - starting up 2007/2008 - designing the Bibliotheca Universalis Antiquaria and examining the place of the antiquarian tradition in the history of science
Presence - "Performing presence: from the live to the simulated" - an international collaborative project running from 2005-2010 - [link] Main funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK
Life-Squared - the future of the museum explored as we revisit with artist Lynn Hershman a hotel room in 1972 and build an archival experience in a virtual world - [link] - part of the Presence Project and funded by the Langlois Foundation
Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design, and The Design of New Media: An Archaeological Perspective - two closely connected writing projects I am finishing at Stanford Humanities Center 2007/2008. An early draft of ideas - Nine archaeological theses on design
Behind the locked door - an excavation of the storerooms of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center - April 2007 - March 2008
Borderlands - Tyne to Tweed a regional archaeology of the Roman north - as chorography - from 2004
The archaeological imagination - a manifesto for Left Coast Press 2007/2008
A chorography of central Greece - a work in progress with Chris Witmore, the book to be completed in 2008
Archaeology - the discipline of things - a book in progress with Bjørnar Olsen, Tim Webmoor and Chris Witmore, to be completed in 2008 for California University Press
Conversations through archaeology - myself, Bill Rathje and a host of archaeologists in conversation about archaeology - experiences of the discipline, thoughts about what matters and what the future holds. With Sue Alcock, Lewis Binford, Victor Buchli, John Cherry, Meg Conkey, George Cowgill, Ian Hodder, Kristian Kristiansen, Mark Leone, Randall McGuire, Lynn Meskell, Mary and Adrian Praetzellis, Colin Renfrew, Michael Schiffer, Alain Schnapp, Patty Jo Watson, Alison Wylie. Completion 2008.
Full list - Research and Projects
all the following are undergoing major remodeling during my sabbatical this year at Stanford Humanities Center
Weblog - all things archaeological - [link]
Archaeographer - exploring representations of all things archaeological - [link]
Figure and Ground - "at a scene of crime anything might be relevant" - experiments in an archaeological sensibility - [link]
Chorography - deep maps and temporal topographies in the Borders - [link]
Traumwerk - hypermedia and collaborative authoring - experiments in archaeological thinking, writing and imaging
See also
Archaeography - collective photoblogging - where photography meets archaeology - [link]
Archaeolog - collaborative blog on archaeology - [link]
My lab hosts these vital intellectual currents in archaeology
Critical studies in new media - Mellon sponsored graduate workshop run with Fred Turner and also sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center. 2006/2007 we explored the politics of presence [link] - we are currently on sabbatical
Stanford archaeological theory - a reading group at Stanford Archaeology Center devoted simply to thinking about what archaeologists do. It underwent restructuring during 2006/2007 and became Stanford Archaeology Club. Well, actually, the anti-intellectual caucus got the upper hand and decided that thinking about archaeology was a minority interest - so Stanford has lost its lifeblood of "thoughtful archaeology" - apart from here at Metamedia, that is ;-)
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