[Commlist] CfP: Archaeology and the camera truelle

You are warmly invited to take part in TAG session 39# "Archaeology and 
the /camera truelle/: theorising archaeology through the moving image".

SESSION DETAILS:
By 2022, it is predicted that video will account for 82% of global 
internet provider traffic (CISCO 2019). In other words, the moving image 
is set to become humanity’s dominant form of internet communication. Is 
archaeology ready for this? Archaeologists have embraced film-making as 
a form of recording, reporting, and promoting their work since at least 
the 1910s, and today, social media abounds in archaeologist-made videos 
that promote or report archaeological work and values. But can we use 
film-making practices (including videography and animation) to dig 
deeper than functioning merely as an illustration, record, or PR? 
Artists, documentary filmmakers, anthropologists, and journalists have 
long used the medium of film-making to ask and answer complex questions 
about the world in ways the still image and the written word cannot.

Borrowing Piccini’s concept of the /camera truelle/ (‘camera trowel’, 
based on Astruc’s concept of the /camera-stylo/, Astruc 1948, in Piccini 
2015: 2), we suggest that for archaeology to make the most of video 
communications in the 21st century, archaeologists must learn to ‘write’ 
with the moving image.

This session invites archaeologists and aligned heritage and media 
practitioners to discuss, screen, and share film, video, or animation 
works (completed or in-production) that actively use the medium of the 
moving image to generate and construct archaeological knowledge and 
theories. Speakers are also invited to develop their presentations into 
articles as part of a planned edited volume on the subject.

KEYWORDS
Film, video, animation, recording, drones, underwater filming, 
ethnographic film, CGI, 3D modelling, film archives, online platforms, 
databases, social media, live streaming, research design, film theory, 
media theory, archaeology theory.

FORMAT
Standard paper session: 20-minute papers, plus 5 minutes screening time 
(at any point(s) of your presentation), and 5 minutes discussion time 
per speaker. However, we are open to other formats so please ask.

SUBMIT
Email your title, 250 words abstract, name, & affiliation, to Angela, 
Kate, or Tanya by 6 September 2019.

ORGANISERS
Dr Angela Piccini, University of Bristol
(a.a.piccini /at/ bristol.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.a.piccini /at/ bristol.ac.uk)>
Kate Rogers, University of Southampton
(kate.rogers /at/ soton.ac.uk) <mailto:(kate.rogers /at/ soton.ac.uk)>
Tanya Freke, University of Exeter, Historic England
(ttv252 /at/ exeter.ac.uk) <mailto:(ttv252 /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>

DATES
TAG (the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference) will be held Monday 
16th to Wednesday 18th December 2019, hosted by UCL, London.
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/Find out more here 
https://archdox.wordpress.com/<https://t.co/ObqPCYX94E> & here 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news-events/conferences/tag-2019/

REFERENCES
Cisco Systems Inc. (2019) Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and 
trends, 2017-2022. White paper. Available at: 
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/white-paper-c11-741490.pdf
Piccini, A. (2015) ‘Forum: Media Archaeologies: An invitation’, Journal 
of Contemporary Archaeology, 2 (1), pp. 1-8.

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