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The links below will either take you to a brief description and status report, or directly to the project.

Many are works in progress - so expect buiding sites rather than polished monuments to scholarship!


Anglo-American Antiquarians - an internationally funded investigation of the Anglo-American antiquarian tradition and early modern science. Part of the digitally enabled research network or "cybrary" - the Bibliotheca Universalis Antiquaria

archaeography.com - collaborative archaeological photoblogging and much more - see also - [link]

archaeolog.org - a collaborative blog dealing in all things archaeological

Archaeological Dialogues - closed forum for the editorial of the Cambridge University Press journal

Archaeology|Performance - a collaborative site dedicated to the intersection of archaeology and performance - undergoing revision

Brith Gof- the history of a performance company - an experiment in media archaeology

Burtynsky at Stanford - an interactive web site accompanying the exhibition at Stanford in the summer of 2005 of the work of this great photographer - currently being archived

Classroom - various courses at Stanford run through Metamedia and its social software

chorography.org - temporal topographies and deep mapping in a photoblog - see also - [link]

Christine Finn's biography of Jaquetta Hawkes - archaeo-poet 1910 - 1996

Cinememory - making the Georgia Sea Islands as visual artifact - a multimedia lecture from Paulla Ebron (Stanford Anthropology) exploring how movies shape cultural memory (quite a long download)

Ashish Chadha and experiments in cinematography

Co-creating cultural heritage - enabling communities to build their own history and heritage using participatory software - funded by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network - September 2006 - September 2007

Critical Roman Archaeology Conference - a conference held at Stanford Archaeology Center - 2008

Critical Studies in New Media - a Mellon funded workshop sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center. Topic for 2006-2007 was "The politics of presence".

Cultures of Contact - a conference held at the Stanford Archaeology Center - 2006 (now archived)

Mobile Media 2015 - a major project in material culture studies with DaimlerChrysler as part of the new Industrial Affiliates Program in Stanford Humanities Lab. Topic - media in the car of 2015. The group is currently password protected - see [link]

Epic Memory - epic performance in contemporary Crete (now archived)

Cornelius Holtorf's book - The Portrayal of archaeology in contemporary popular culture

Life squared - the future of the museum explored as we revisit with artist Lynn Hershman a hotel room in 1972 and build an archival experience in a virtual world - part of the Presence Project and funded by the Langlois Foundation

MyGallery - interactive gallery application

Passages - experiments in chronicling a journey

Philosophical Stages - experimental pedagogy at the intersection of philosophy and drama, with both traditional and new media - part of Co-creating cultural heritage

Presence - a major international project tracking engagements with presence in contemporary art and beyond

The Revs Program at Stanford - a major new (from 2011) interdisciplinary program celebrating the automobile - past, present and future

Ruin Memories - a ground-breaking international project working with the materiality, aesthetics and 'thingliness' of modern ruins (2008 - Spring 2013)

Michael Shanks - all things archaeological

Stanford Heritage Ethics - a collaborative group working on heritage issues in archaeology

Symmetrical Archaeology - new thinking in archaeological theory

Theatre/Archaeology - the re-articulation of fragments of the past as real-time event

Three Landscapes - a collaboratory at Stanford Humanities Center in 2000-2001 that explored deep mapping [link] and, under reconstruction Three rooms - archaeology and performance in an experimental katachrestic architecture

Transect - peripatetic engagement with the past - an experiment in how archaeologists (and others) walk the land

Traumwerk - collaborative liquid text and much more - also refer to [link]

Ruin Memories - A ground-breaking international project working with the materiality, aesthetics and 'thingliness' of modern ruins.

Sebastian de Vivo exploring ancient Greek monumentality, experience of war and trauma

Stanford Strategy Center - a collaborative effort in building transdisciplinary bridges to a bigger picture to enable more informed thinking and decision making around matters of common and pressing human concern - applied humanities

Timothy Webmoor - a dissertation on Mediating Archaeology at Teotihuacan, Mexico - PhD awarded December 2007 

Chris Witmore - a dissertation on Multiple Field Approaches in the Mediterranean (now archived) - PhD awarded September 2005

The Vorotan Project (now moved to Brown University) - an archaeological survey in southern Armenia