Archive for October, 2006

archeaology and information technology

Today I have looked at two rather different sources on archeaology and information technology.
“Vision, Media, Noise and the Percolation of Time”. Christopher Witmore. Journal of Material Culture. 2006. [postmodern approach, auditory archaeology, localized media, peripatetic media].
Introduction. Thematic Issue – “Archaeological informatics – beyond technology”. Jeremey Huggett and Seamus Ross.  [more traditional but also rather progressive in [...]

café time

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For the first time in a long while I spent a few hours at ‘my’ café. I have done a bit of regular work (emails etc.), but I have also read some of Christopher Witmore’s (the archeologist) work on mediation, archeology and sound (among other things). I have met Chris and I hope I will [...]

flu

I have had the flu (or something like it) for the past 1,5 weeks. I am still not totally recovered – but today I have almost been flu-free. Despite this I was quite busy last week. I gave a talk in Uppsala och IT and the Humanities and I did a presentation for a big [...]

upcoming week

It is a lovely fall day today. Rather warm but crisp, yellow leaves and sun. I am in the process of thinking through the upcoming week (workwise).
Monday: staff meeting, several other meetings
Tuesday: Stockholm trip including visit to/meetings at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Wednesday: Trip to Uppsala. Talk at Uppsala Learning Lab (on IT – challenges and [...]

Södertörn

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On Wednesday I will go to Södertörn (Media Technology) to do a talk and discuss possible collaboration. The title of my talk (in Swedish) is “42 sekunder, 4 megapixlar och -31 grader: mellan humaniora och informationsteknik” (42 seconds, 4 megapixels and -32 degrees: in between the Humanities and Information technology).