CHAT-CHAIN-MAIL – a participatory mail art project
I recently contributed to festival CHAT 2020’s CHAT-CHAIN-MAIL project curated by Katy Whitaker and Lara Band. This is a Mail Art project that aims to build ‘a chain of thoughts, …
Creative Archaeology Incubator
Explorations into the intersections of art and archaeology
I recently contributed to festival CHAT 2020’s CHAT-CHAIN-MAIL project curated by Katy Whitaker and Lara Band. This is a Mail Art project that aims to build ‘a chain of thoughts, …
In May 2019 I attended a presentation by Doug Bailey (SFSU) at the Theoretical Archaeology Group USA conference in Syracuse entitled ‘Beyond Interpretation and Explanation in the Archaeology of Art’. …
In an effort to creatively engage with colleagues in the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology Theory group I developed a project for the 2020 virtual conference Festival CHAT. The project I …
In late 2017, I was invited to participate in a small workshop entitled Landscapes of In/Justice, that was designed to celebrate the Landscape Research Group’s 50th anniversary by inviting discussion …
My extended reflection on Lawrence Hargrave’s magic lantern lecture Lope deVega was recently published in an edited volume on magic lantern slides edited by Elisa deCourcy and Martyn Jolly. After …
I have previously mentioned my research visits to the National Library of Australia to view a collection of magic lantern slides and glass plate negatives made by aviation pioneer Lawrence Hargrave. …
While I was in Tasmania, as part of my fieldwork at Triabunna I made use of a Harman pinhole camera. Prior to leaving Canberra I prepared six darkslides with Ilford …
I recently visited the Musée de l’Homme during my research trip to Europe and had the opportunity to see the Néandertal l’Expo currently on show there. It was fascinating to …
Last year I gave a presentation called ‘Multiple Exposures: Encountering heritage meanings through art making and viewing’ at a symposium called irreplaceable, convened by Tracy Ireland and Steve Brown, held …
My colleagues Dr Elisa deCourcy and Dr Martyn Jolly at the ANU recently alerted me to the existence of a collection of magic lantern slides showing rock art in the …