Key Pages
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The camera
http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks [link]
Research and Projects | Writing | Weblog | Galleries | Photoblogs | Classes | Resumé
Stanford Humanities Lab - transdisciplinary experiments - animating cultural archives, building the big picture (based on in-depth expertise), enabling collaborative co-creation in the new humanities - I direct SHL with Jeffrey Schnapp and Henry Lowood - [link]
Metamedia - my lab - media projects in their archaeological materiality [link]
Presence - "Performing presence: from the live to the simulated" - a major international collaborative project running from 2005-2010 - [link]
Co-creating cultural heritage - enabling communities build their own history and heritage using participatory software - funded by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network - from September 2006
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
Behind the locked door - an exploration of the storerooms of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center - 2007
Archaeology Plus engineering, the environment, the fine arts, media, law, international relations ... - a talk-show series exploring archaeology's unique perspective on matters of contemporary common concern - sponsored by Stanford's Aurora Forum - running through 2007
DaimlerChrysler 2015 when archaeology met car design - an ethnography-oriented foresight model of material culture in the vehicle interior of 2015 - June 2005 - February 2006
Weblog - all things archaeological - [link] - currently under reconstruction
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 - [link]
Traumwerk - hypermedia and collaborative authoring - experiments in archaeological thinking, writing and imaging
Seminars
Critical studies in new media - Mellon sponsored graduate workshop within Stanford Humanities Center, this year 2006/2007 exploring the politics of presence
Participatory media - a new discussion group hosted by Howard Rheingold
Stanford archaeological theory - a reading group at Stanford Archaeology Center - undergoing restructuring for this coming year
See also
Archaeography - collective photoblogging - where photography meets archaeology - [link]
Archaeolog - collaborative blog on archaeology - [link]
Though increasingly outdated, my conventional web site site goes back several years and is still available - [link]
