Digital Archaeology and its Public

This strand focuses on theories and practices that archaeologists apply in surveys, remote sensing, spatial analysis, data collection and data management. Participants will engage in digital strategies to analyze the heritage and visualize, share and communicate it to the public. Moreover, taking advantage of the recent Covid-19 lockdown experience, and using archaeological tools and methods, Strand #4 aims to explore how the materiality of representative objects that shaped/are shaping our daily life may be narrated, interpreted, visualized and digitized.

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Monday, 6 July 2020

11:00-11:45 - Welcome, Keynote by Elena Pierazzo (Univ. Tours): What is Digital Humanities? An historical and sociological perspective [plenary, open]

12:00-12.30 - Diego Calaon, Carlo Beltrame, Elisa Corro’ (Ca’ Foscari): Introduction to the Strand [restricted]

12.30 -13.15 - Diego Calaon (Ca’ Foscari): Archaeologies of Materiality: Public, Politics and Ethics [open]

15:00-15:45 - Elisa Corrò (Ca’ Foscari): Maker Culture: when Archaeology meets Digital Creativity. Practices and Community Engagement with Intangible Heritage [open]

16.30-17.30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo and Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown”, Step 1- Introduction (Narratives and Object Biographies; Virtualizing materiality, GIS and 3Ds; Visual Storytelling) [restricted]

Tuesday, 7 July 2020

11:00-12:00 - Elisa Costa, Carlo Beltrame (Ca’ Foscari): Documentation and virtual dive in maritime archaeology [open]

15:00-16:00 - Cristina Barbiani, Carlo Beltrame, Paola Perozzo (Ca’ Foscari): Digital exhibition of the archaeological investigation of the brig Mercurio (1812) [open]

16:30-17:30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown”, Step 2, Data Gathering - Choice and description of the materials [restricted]

Wednesday, 8 July 2020

15:00-16:00 - Dominik Lukas (Univ. of Chicago) Database and mining [open]

16:30-17:30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown”, Step 3, Interpretation, Economic and Social Relationships [restricted]

Thursday, 9 July 2020

15:00-16:00 - Angus Mol (Univ. Leiden): Archaeology and videogames [open]

16:30-17:30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown” - Step 4, Dismantling traditional narratives, Remodeling the Past [restricted]

Friday, 10 July 2020

10:00-11:00 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown” - Step 5, Presentation of the Individual projects [restricted]

15:00-15:45 - Closing keynote by Fabio Vitali (Univ. Bologna): NPOV considered harmful (or: can we make Digital Cultural Heritage more interesting?) [plenary, open]

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