We research in an interdisciplinary field, though a common feature is an interest in the location, materiality and temporality of media.
media and people - material culture studies and archaeology.
- Mobile Media 2015 - a major project in material culture studies with DaimlerChrysler as part of our new Industrial Affiliates Program in Stanford Humanities Lab. Topic - media in the car of 2015. The group is currently password protected - see [link]
history of archaeology through media
- Anglo-American Antiquarians - an internationally funded investigation of the Anglo-American antiquarian tradition and early modern science and the pre-disciplinary forerunners to archaeology.
landscape - representing and engaging with place
- chorography - the beginnings of a project in the borderlands of England and Scotland
- topology a different archaeological clock for understanding the polychronic ensemble of landscape.
- Deep mapping - various works from the forest to the geological fault
- Surrey Walk - evocative engagements with memory and place from Joseph Adler
media archaeology
- weblog reflections on media archaeology
material culture
- Garbology online - the detritus, rubbish, and abject materials of the contemporary past.
heritage and material pasts
- material city Dan Hicks and the material pasts of Bath and Bristol
- Ruin Memories An international group of archaeologists working with the materiality, aesthetics and 'thingliness' of modern ruins
- Teotihuacan, Mexico a major research project on the cosmopolis of Teotihuacan as a material nexus of heritage
material presence
- The Presence Project researching presence with leading performance artists and an immersive visual environment (University College london's CAVE)
performance and theatre/archaeology
pedagogy - researching new forms
- Philosophical Stages experimental pedagogy at the intersection of philosophy and drama with both traditional and new media.