Archaeology, Anthropology and the Visual Arts

Taylor Lynn Haigler
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Film and Mixed Media
Country: Various
Period: Various

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To illustrate the ways in which archaeology, anthropology and the arts converge, this thesis presents particular projects in documentary film and media art that sensually represent the embodied experience of existing in the world in a certain time and place. The theories of archaeologists and anthropologists engaging with the contemporary art practices, primarily Michael Shanks and Jesse Shapins are explored. Projects will be examined such as the film ‘Sweetgrass’ (2009) by Lucien Castaing- Taylor which exemplifies sensual ethnography. The Yellow Arrow project (2006), ‘Mapping Main Street’ (1996) and ‘The Media Archaeology of Boston’ (2010) by Jesse Shapins will demonstrate hypermedia and media archaeology. This dissertation will look at multi-sensory artworks in their representation of individual perceptions of landscape.

Irish Georgian Society

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Archaeology, Anthropology and the Visual Arts