Lisa Fischer, the Director of Digital Initiatives at the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, will be presenting in the Bard Graduate Center’s New Media Seminar on Wednesday, September 28 at 6:00 pm. Her talk is entitled “Jamestown and Beyond: Using Digital Technologies to Visualize and Explore the Past.”
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Place: 38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
RSVP: 212.501.3019, academicevents@bgc.bard.edu
http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/events/jamestown-and-beyond.html
Technology is changing the way people interact with each other and the world. Digital techniques are also opening up new avenues for museums and historical sites: advanced mapping methods, augmented reality, interactive gaming, social media, and 3D laser scanning and modeling are just some of the approaches that are transforming how the past is examined, presented, and explored. The Jamestown Rediscovery team has been actively excavating the site of James Fort, the first successful English settlement in North America, for more than twenty years. The archaeological findings are casting doubt on many conventional interpretations of Jamestown’s history and providing new insights into the site’s settlement as well as the interactions between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans, who first came together beginning in the early seventeenth century. New technologies are also helping to revolutionize how the archaeological data is being analyzed, interpreted, and presented. In this talk, Fischer will examine how digital heritage and visualization approaches are helping to reshape our understanding of Jamestown and the wider colonial Chesapeake as well as some of the challenges historical sites face in a digital twenty-first century.
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