Four-dimensional and multidimensional images : Diffracting archaeological and computational images

• In this paper I critically address the indexical qualities of archaeological reproductions in order to question the ontological stability of ancient imagery. To do this I employ Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology (Barad 2007; 2014) to consider images in a series of differing ways. I begin by considering the interpretative or semiotic character of images in archaeological analysis; the image in motion presented by anthropological approaches; the digital image as produced in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). These series of diffractive moments will then be used to describe images from the Neolithic period of Britain and Ireland, and in turn consider the ontological character of digital images produced by RTI.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

arkeologi

Archaeology

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