Narratives of the Material/Nonmaterial World: Engaging in the Dialogue of Digital Heritage in Virtual Space
Dr. Marnie Feneley, University of New South Wales, Australia
This presentation will examine the possibilities of interdisciplinary historical interpretation of artwork based on the analysis of remnant artifacts of past civilizations. How can digital technology offer solutions to assess and analyse artifacts, sculptures and architecture that have been damaged through the vicissitudes of time? Digital technology also can enhance the accessibility and display of these objects and curatorial research in museums.
Dr. Marnie Feneley will present her research, past and present, which aims to reassess the out-dated Art Historical Analytical System. She will speak about new paradigms which seek to revise traditional methodologies of art historical analysis by using empirical methodology (for example, to analyse a large data set of Asian sculpture). In particular, the use of photogrammetric modeling and high-resolution immersive visualisation systems to address the traditional perceived (visual and verbal descriptive) analysis of art history along the Mercantile Maritime Route from India to China. The objective is to gain a deeper understanding of sculptural tradition, styles, religious affiliations and cultural transmissions in Asia from the 2nd - 14th century CE.
Dr. Marnie Feneley is a lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of NSW. As a post doctoral fellow, she has been researching the transmission of Buddhism from India to Southeast Asia for the "Atlas of Maritime Buddhism,” a world touring exhibition based on the compelling story of the spread of Buddhism through the seaports of Eurasia, supported by the latest archaeological evidence.
Marnie has spent over a decade researching Southeast Asian sculpture and religion. Her doctoral thesis from the University of Sydney, “The West Mebon Viṣṇu: style, hydraulics and political power,” will be published later this year through National University of Singapore press. Her thesis examined the famous bronze sculpture of Viṣṇu found in a water shrine in the middle of the West Baray at Angkor in 1936. She has amalgamated archaeological and art historical research with digital technology by reconstructing this fractured sculpture and its temple in a digital reconstruction. She is considered a pioneer in the field digital archaeology and heritage. She regularly gives invited talks at national and international forums. Adresse Mathematikon Seminar Room C / Ground Floor Im Neuenheimer Feld 205 69120 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung www.mathcomp.uni-heidelberg.de/events Veranstalter Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) Homepage Veranstalter www.mathcomp.uni-heidelberg.de Kontakt HGS MathComp Office |