Here are several projects we are particularly proud of, though we could say the same of all our main projects. A couple of these are still password protected - if you really want to know more please contact us - contact


Anglo-American Antiquarians - an investigation of the Anglo-American antiquarian tradition and early modern science and the pre-disciplinary forerunners to archaeology. A primary goal is the identification, gathering and making digitally available for study approximately 2000 key works in the antiquarian tradition from Britain and the United States. The parent project is the construction of the Bibliotheca Universalis Antiquaria - a digital library and research environment devoted to the antiquarian tradition - September 2007 - December 2010

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

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 - video - part of the Presence Project and funded by the Langlois Foundation - June 2006 - July 2007

The Presence Project - official title - "Performing presence: from the live to the simulated - a major international research project involving 14 of the world's foremost performance artists and asking - What creates a sense of presence? A sense of "being there"? In performance. In a memory. In ruined remains. In an online community. The Presence Project has so far won over $600k of funding [link].

Critical Studies in New Media - a research workshop funded by the Mellon Foundation and sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center. The theme for this year is "The politics of presence".

Digital 'soft' Publications and Digital Dissertations - from scholarly monographs to historical biographies of archaeologists, Metamedia established itself as a unique publishing environment with the goal of accelerating debate and distribution of new ideas and works. We pioneered on-line, wiki platform doctoral dissertations: Witmore's Multiple Fields and Archaeological Practice and Webmoor's Reconfiguring the Archaeological Sensibility - both funded by extramural funding.

Archaeography.org - a collective photoblog exploring our contemporary archaeological sensibility.

Archaeolog - an international venue for e-publication of articles, commentaries, book and conference reviews and new media presentations not possible with traditional journals.

Mobilemedia 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]