Post on 03-Jul-2015
DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES & REPLICATED ARTIFACTS:
QUESTIONS OF ANALYTICAL & PHENOMENOLOGICAL AUTHENTICITY
& ETHICAL POLICIESIN CYBERARCHAEOLOGY
DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES & REPLICATED ARTIFACTS:
QUESTIONS OF ANALYTICAL & PHENOMENOLOGICAL AUTHENTICITY
& ETHICAL POLICIESIN CYBERARCHAEOLOGY
I’m an Archaeologist who works in the field, in the lab, and with museums and cultural
heritage sites on building pipelines for digital data capture, processing, visualization, and
effective dissemination systems
– I’m looking at the anthropology of the adoption of technological dissemination systems in archaeology
DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES & REPLICATED ARTIFACTS:
QUESTIONS OF ANALYTICAL & PHENOMENOLOGICAL AUTHENTICITY
& ETHICAL POLICIESIN CYBERARCHAEOLOGY
DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES & REPLICATED ARTIFACTS:
QUESTIONS OF ANALYTICAL & PHENOMENOLOGICAL AUTHENTICITY
& ETHICAL POLICIESIN CYBERARCHAEOLOGY
Semantic Debate Qualifying Different AspectsI actually prefer Cultural Heritage Diagnostic Visualization or
Space/Spatial Archaeology if we’re getting specific…
3D Digital Heritage
Ashley M. RichterAnthropological Archaeology
arichter@ucsd.edu
Vid PetrovicComputer Science and Engineering
David VanoniDepartment of Computer Science
Dr. Steven M. ParishDepartment of Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology
Dr. Falko KuesterDepartments of Structural Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Thomas E. LevyDepartment of Anthropology, Anthropological Archaeology
Note the Exciting InterdisciplinarityRepresenting the
Philosophical Confluences
We’re going to Discuss
Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)
University of California, San DiegoQualcomm Institute,
the UCSD branch of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology
UBIQUITOUS DIGITIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Archaeological excavations are the test beds of new diagnostic imaging techniques and
methodologies. The CISA3 Laser Scanners at work in
Jordan & Italy
Museums have become the training grounds for augmented reality systems.
This is ARtifact – the CISA3 Augmented Reality System
which presented its user study results in the poster
hall this morning
UBIQUITOUS DIGITIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Digitization of the past provides new ways to see and think about humanity. But while it heralds a new shiny epoch of data transparency and access, it also represents a series of ethical quandaries which are looming on civilization’s horizon which we ought to be discussing as we evolve
our digital systems.
If something can be perfectly digitally replicated, what need is there to keep the
original?
What role does this intangible digital copy or any tangible physical copies made from it via
techniques like 3D printing mean in comparison to the original?
What does transparent access to digital cultural heritage mean for an engaged
present?
FOR INSTANCE:
Investigative Projects in Florence, Jordan,
Mongolia, Mexico, and back home in San Diego
Balboa ParkPetra & The Sites of the Wadi Faynan, Jordan
Mongolia
Palazzo Vecchio
Projects for the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
CULTURAL HERITAGE AS A PATH TOWARDS ADVANCING
TECHNOLOGY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPACTING LEGAL
AND ETHICAL POLICY DEVELOPMENTBut we need to be
ready for where we’re heading …even if we don’t know exactly
where we’re headed.
We Can’t and Shouldn’t Build blindly
without any blueprints and
without engaging the public further STEM -- STEAM education
Speaking @ IEEE Aerospace 2014 on this
subject
LAYERED REALITIES IN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR VISUALIZATION AT CISA3
Built on a Digital Scaffold
We are refining the way we replicate space & contribute towards humanities indexical
relationship with the past.
What fits where, and how? - Visualization Makes Things Make Sense & Expand our Awareness &
Analytical Potential
– be it in Immersive Realities or Virtual Realities
IN STRENGTHENING THE DIGITAL SCAFFOLD
WITH EXPANDED AND ENHANCED
VISUALIZATION METHODS….
THE CREATION OF REMOVED AUTHENTICITIES
Building hetero-utopias: Do they enhance and make the past accessible? Or threaten
the real space or artifact ? Shifts in phenomenological perception between
authentic and copy?
REPRODUCTION OF ARTIFACTS
If we can have a “perfectly” phenomenological digital copy- do we need
to keep the original?
We absolutely should keep everything if we can…but
there is a storage space limit (physical & digital!)
How do we access both effectively? Who should access and analyze these?Limitations of “trained” people (or will open access change this?)
NEW ERA OF “AUTHENTIC” AND AUTHENTIC COPIES
OF ANTIQUITIES
GAME CHANGER for:
*Antiquities Trade/Collectors
*Looting & Local Economies
*Museum Replication Economics
*Digital Access & Data Collection Quality Policies
Science fiction TV writers guess that the authentic artifacts will continue to
hold prestige
3D PRINTING
Expanding and Augmenting
Perception of the Past- (Auras)
Threatening the Original OR
Allowing Access and Engagement?
3D Printed Artifacts by CISA3 Collaborator
Cosmos Wenman
SCIENCE FICTION
INCREASINGLY
BECOMING
SCIENTIFIC
POSSIBILITY AND
REALITY
Star Trek Holodeck = Phenomenologically
Accurate Spatial Reconstruction CISA3 building up immersive
visualization systems for cultural heritage to make
things like holodeck a reality
Future possibility of Phenomenological Experience of Re-created Time? Questions of Programming Reliability &
Variations?
If and when everyone can experience the past-what does this mean to their sense of self in time?
• Globalism = awareness of space
• Social Media/Internet= awareness of society
• What happens when there is a global awareness of time and one’s place in it?
THE DANGERS OF DATA TRANSPARENCY & (QUALITY) SECURITY
What does this transparency of data mean and how we create navigation systems that mediate bias and political agenda?
Cultural heritage big data should remain a tool for preservation, analysis, and engagement, but not for politics and mis-information.
Past Misuse Present Misuse, Misunderstanding &
Sensationalism
Dangers of the
Augmented Future
STRIKING A BALANCE IN THE MUSEUM
The Digital as Enlightened Augmentation – for scholars and the public alike.
Should augment but not replace
The UCSD Exodus Exhibition & CURII
Presentation
AUTOPUBLICATION
Rapid Access = Publication Issues but also greater expansion of access, engagement, and potentially
citizen science opportunities
A Democratized Past with Open Access-
Challenges the Current Paradigm of Authoritarian Education and Historical Engagement – pushes for positive shifts (STEM -STEAM again)
DEALING WITH THE DATA AVALANCHE
How much information is too much? And how do we find meaning (especially archaeological analytical meaning) from within it?
Technology is rapidly allowing us to efficiently and cheaply do more and more….
Graph: M. Mansour
Conclusion: Constructs need to be meaningful & navigable
Escher WikiCommons
BUT:
THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!
PLEASE COME MAKE FRIENDS-
LARGER NETWORKS OF
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INFORMATION & VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS WILL ONLY
SUSTAINABLY & EFFECTIVELY WORK
THROUGH GLOBAL COLLABORATION