New Media Technology in Archaeological Contexts: Potential Applications for Public Interpretation February 8, 2007

Room 5670 - Haven Hall

Douglas Gann
Preservation Archaeologist
Visualization Specialist
Center for Desert Archaeology (Tucson, AZ)

The revolution in digital media production has provided archaeologists and museum designers with a vast array of new tools for sharing archaeological research and interpretation with an interested general public. This presentation will demonstrate applications of interactive multimedia and three-dimensional visualization in public archaeology, museum exhibition design and public urban planning contexts. Specific case studies will include presentations on ancestral Hopi architecture, ancestral Hopi and Zuni material culture, as well as Spanish and Mexican colonial history in the American Southwest.

This event is cosponsored by the Museum of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Kelsey Museum of Classical Archaeology, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, the Virtual Reality Lab at the Duderstadt Center.

Official Website: http://www.umich.edu/~ummsp