So how did I come to work on new media?

It's all to do with re-presentation ...

As an archaeologist, I work on what is left of the past. (So do we all.)

So my work involves a fundamental interest in how we connect past and present - the relationships, the forms of mediation.

I think of it as an aspect of a big modernist question of re-presentation (think of all the artistic experiment around how we represent the world) - (think of all the implications of the term re-presenting).

***Projects*** [link]

Here are the projects where I have explored the matter of how we might represent the past.

Archaeological photography - my archaeological fieldwork involved specialization in photography, architectural drawing and database management - these have fed into my interests ever since I was digging up Roman forts and medieval castles at the beginning of my career - so I still take photographs (conventional and digital) of all things archaeological (including a new project - a collaborative photoblog [link]).

ReConstructing Archaeology (1987) and Social Theory and Archaeology (1987) - two books that explored the theoretical foundations for an archaeology that was conscious of itself as creative practice [link].

Experiencing the Past (1991) - a book that explored writing and imagery around various archaeological themes and case studies (perfume jars, castles, megaliths) [link].

Brith Gof - a multimedia arts company that I worked with for ten years from 1993 - experiments in performance, video, scenography, dramaturgy [link].

Theatre/archaeology - "the re-articulation of fragments of the past as real time event" - a series of performed lectures and a book that grew out of my work with Brith Gof [link].

Three Landscapes - a project of "deep mapping" with colleagues from Brith Gof. Ran at Stanford from 2001. [link]

Hypertext - the Traumwerk Project [link] [link] - with support from Stanford Humanities Lab. This has become a project in new kinds of digital content management - wikis and now ...

Blogging - my current obsession - comment, critique, and the diary genre [link] [link]

The New Media Workshop - funded by the Mellon Foundation through Stanford Humanities Center [link]

The Metamedia Lab - pulling all this together with Joe Adler [link]

On hypertext - the wik and blog have got me experimenting with linkage and non-linearity ...

On new media - Cliff McLucas (Brith Gof), Sam Schillace (software architect of Dreamweaver) and I have started thinking of media as modes of engagement ...