1,214
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares

      Studying business & IT? Drive your professional career forwards with BCS books - for a 20% discount click here: shop.bcs.org

      scite_
       
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Conference Proceedings: found
      Is Open Access

      Uncharted Territories: Developing digital experiences for anthropological and archaeological exploration

      Published
      proceedings-article
      , , , , , ,
      Proceedings of EVA London 2021 (EVA 2021)
      AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
      5th July – 9th July 2021
      Interactive experiences, Heritage, Public outreach
      Bookmark

            Abstract

            This paper discusses the development of digital pedagogical and promotional tools for ongoing anthropological and archaeological work in the Darién Region of Panama. The Darién Region has been underexplored by archaeologists for the last century, and is home to the Darién Gap, the only break in the Pan-American Highway, which has, thus far, facilitated Indigenous sovereignty and protected endemic species. The authors have collaborated to share experiences of navigating the Darién Province of Panama through storytelling, adventure, and exploration with digital media. This project resides as a website with a variety of video and game works. Our goal is to have as much media available in both English and Spanish as possible, to be accessible to the local communities in Darién and to international communities, which is crucial to support locally-initiated conservation initiatives. Current projects include videos documenting known populations that have migrated through the area, videos documenting a current anthropologist's explorations of the region, a game depicting a historical anthropologist’s findings of an archaeological expedition from the 1920s, and accessible compilations of research on local flora and fauna.

            Content

            Author and article information

            Contributors
            Conference
            July 2021
            July 2021
            : 52-60
            Affiliations
            [0001]Illinois State University
            [0002]University of California, Berkeley
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.9
            3c29899b-4a3a-4ece-baa2-e82de3f93d4d
            © Carlson et al. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2021, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of EVA London 2021
            EVA 2021
            London
            5th July – 9th July 2021
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
            History
            Product

            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.9
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Interactive experiences,Public outreach,Heritage

            REFERENCES

            1. A Journey Into Time Immemorial. (2019, May 17). Siwal Si’wes Digital Library. https://swswlibrary.com/culture-and-history/a-journey-into-time-immemorial/

            2. . (1883). History of the Pacific States of North America. Vol. 6. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Company, Publishers.

            3. . (2019). “¿Quién: Es Ligia Arreaga?” La Prensa, January 3, 2019, sec. Opinion. https://www.prensa.com/opinion/LigiaArreaga_0_5205979455.html.

            4. , & (2007). Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork (New edition). University of Chicago Press.

            5. . (1959). “Informe Sobre Un Reconocimiento Arqueológico En El Darién (Panamá).”

            6. . (1980). “Cultural Settlement along the Moist Caribbean Slopes of Eastern Panama.” PhD Dissertation, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

            7. (2020, August 12). What migrants face as they journey through the deadly Darién Gap. In PBS NewsHour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-migrants-face-as-they-journey-through-the-deadly-Darién-gap

            8. , , and . (2007). “Report of Reconnaissance of Río Chico and Río Tuirre, Darién.” Panama City.

            9. . (2017). “Place-making With Telepresence: A Navigation Guide to A Journey into Time Immemorial’s Seven Exhibition Spaces”. The International Symposium of Electronic Art.

            10. (2008). Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National Museum of the American Indian. Journal of Material Culture, 13(3), 287–310. [Cross Ref]

            11. . (2011). “Restoration and Reciprocity: The Contributions of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.” In Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration, edited by , , and , 257–76. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. [Cross Ref]

            12. , & (2012). Tristes Tropiques ( & , Trans.; Revised ed. edition). Penguin Classics.

            13. (1929). Darién in the Past: The Archaeology of Eastern Panama and NorthWestern Colombia. Goteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag.

            14. . (1964). “Investigaciones Arqueologicas En Panama: Informes Preliminares Sobre Temporada 1961-1962.” Hombre y Cultura 1(3): 39–55.

            15. , , and . (1971). “Prehistoria Del Distrito de Chepigana, Provincia Del Darién.” Revista Tierra y Dos Mares 54.

            16. , , , , , , , et al. (2016). “Formation of the Isthmus of Panama.” Science Advances 2 (8): e1600883. [Cross Ref]

            17. (2019). A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Illustrated edition). Duke University Press Books.

            18. Physical Keys to Digital Memories: Reflecting on the Role of Tangible Artefacts in “Reminisce” | museuandtheweb.com . (n.d.). Retrieved December 22, 2020, from https://www.museuandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/physical_keys_to_digital_memories_reflecting_o. html

            19. , & (1924). Timbers of tropical America (Vol. 4). Yale University Press.

            20. , , , and . (2006). “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Restoration Practice.” In Restoring the Pacific Northwest: The Art and Science of Ecological Restoration in Canada, edited by and , 35. Washington: Island Press.

            21. Serious Animation. (n.d.). Retrieved March 17, 2021. http://www.seriousanimation.com/

            22. . (2015). “Creating Wild Darién: Centuries of Darién’s Imaginative Geography and Its Lasting Effects.” Journal of Latin American Geography 14 (3): 127–56. [Cross Ref]

            23. (2017). Crafting Wounaan Landscapes: Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama’s Darién. University of Arizona Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/49876

            24. , , & (2020, July 1). Designing Digital Engagements: Approaches to creative practice and adaptable programming for archaeological visualisation. In: , , , and (eds), EVA London 2020 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts) 2020. [Cross Ref]

            Comments

            Comment on this article