CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE NEW MEDIA
  • Archaeology: from ruin to VR

Some of the early experiments in VR were attempts to rebuild ruined buildings: it was not a fragmentary reconstruction but a complete 3D one.

The theory of 'ruins' as an intellectual model is expounded concerning some hypermedia models in other civilisations

the VR model of the ruined Abbey of Cluny

Excavations

  • The aesthetics of fragments or ruins and hypermedia

See the motif of fragmentary glimpses of streets from the 19th century onwards:

See a study of archives as cultural memory in relation to hypertext:

Passagenwerk (on Walter Benjamin, return to our study of cityscapes)

screening the past