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, …
Releasing the Amphora – a participatory art/archaeology project
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’. …
Landscapes of In/Justice – an interdisciplinary workshop
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 …
Flights of Fancy – reflecting on Lawrence Hargrave’s Lope deVega lantern lecture
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 …
Colourful constructions – revisiting the Lawrence Hargrave collection of slides
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. …
In the Archives – viewing Lawrence Hargrave’s magic lantern slides
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 …
The Makings of an Argument – Hargrave’s magic lantern slides
In an earlier post I wrote about my experience of encountering a set of lantern slides and glass plate negatives in the National Library of Australia’s pictorial collection. With no …