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Chapter 15
Augmenting the Archaeological Record
with Art: The Time Maps Project
Dragos Gheorghiu and Livia Stefan
15.1
Introduction: Augmentation as Solution to the Problem
of Representation Versus Evocation
The current chapter is the result of the trans-disciplinary collaboration between
an experimentalist (anthropologist and visual artist) and an IT engineer, aiming
to validate the existence of different levels of augmentation during the process of
recovering and communication of the Past, and to propose an educational use for
these.
As nowadays the science and art conjunction (see Ede
2000
) frequently appears
in the frontline research of complex subjects (see the
Leonardo
journal for instance),
the authors believe it could also be applied to the study of the Past.
The question is how can art and science be successfully merged with archae-
ology? One instance could be the application of the rhetoric process (Huys and
Ve r n a n t
2012
) of augmentation generated by art (Gheorghiu
2012a
), to amplify
with metaphors the meaning of an archaeological site, using land-art, installations
or performances. Such a work of art, which could influence the perception of a place
is not only
site-specific
(for an extended bibliography see Suderburg
2000
: 1 ff), but
also
site-augmentative
.
In the recent ethnographic/anthropologic research (for an extended bibliography
see Pink
2006
), as well as in the archaeological one (see Bonde and Houston
2013
;
Renfrew
2006
), we saw the emergence of art topics such as evocation (Pink
2006
;
