Some muddy fieldwork in Orkney!
Alice Watterson is an archaeology PhD candidate at the Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studio. In 2009 Alice graduated from the University of Glasgow with a MA Hons in Archaeology. Having spent much of her extra-curricular time training herself in the specialist techniques of archaeological illustration she expanded her skill set into digital media the following year, achieving an MSc with distinction in Archaeological Computing Virtual Pasts from the University of Southampton in 2010. Her current research interests focus on the use of digital reconstruction as a tool for research and interpretation in archaeology.
Alice’s research is funded in part by Historic Scotland, and she has been the recipient of the Austin Merrill’s Postgraduate Scholarship during 2010/2011, and presently the Helen Cargill-Thomson Postgraduate Scholarship. All of which she is very grateful for!
You can contact me at: digitaldirtvirtualpasts@gmail.com
See my student profile at: http://www.gsa.ac.uk/research/supervisors-plus-students/research-students/w/watterson-alice/
Or find my Academia page: http://gsa.academia.edu/AliceWatterson
The Blog
Just to give an idea of why this blog came about I’ll give you the brief run down of what I’m trying to achieve over the next few years. Through my PhD research I want to investigate how the creative processes involved in the production of archaeological visualizations engage with and develop the interpretive process.
Through a series of case-studies from the Scottish Ten project I hope to provide in-depth and critical narratives of the reconstruction process throughout the stages of data collection in the field, creation of the 3D models and consumption of the resulting visualizations by various audiences. With the aim of understanding how this process of visualisation and the creation of subjective narratives influences the integrity of the captured record, the control of experience and the ways we model uncertainty.
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