A tutorial on using open source photogrammetry tools with archival video footage

This paper explores some ontological aspects of archaeological voids and enclosures together with their translations and substitutions, and considers the nature of spaces within material archaeological deposits and artefacts. The dematerialized and rematerialized bodies of the victims of Vesuvius in CE 79 are reappraised as a case study. By…[Read more]

This course is an exploratory studio for guerilla digital public history. It involves a whole lot of experimentation and making. Things will break, and will go in directions that you didn’t expect. Part of the learning will involve documenting your practice. I will get you started with three expressive digital media that you can use to explore…[Read more]

Syllabus for HIST3812, Winter 2018 at Carleton University, Department of History, on ‘Critical Digital Making’. “What happens to history as it gets digitized? That is, what does history look like, what happens to our materials, and the stories we tell or the questions we ask, as we abstract further and further away from ‘In Real Life’? What doe…[Read more]

This piece is a response to Colleen Morgan’s Truth and Beauty Bombs: The personal/political/poetics of online communication in #archaeology. Morgan’s piece was a cri-de-coeur, for the web we lost, a manifesto for something better.

A syllabus for the core course in the MA Digital Humanities at Carleton University, Fall 2017, led by Shawn Graham.

Editorial/Introduction to themed issue of Internet Archaeology on Digital Creativity in archaeological practice, with links to contributors