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Elizabeth Bartley Executive Director

Elizabeth A. Bartley

Adjunct Research Instructor

Office: Phone: 513-556-4933

 

CERHAS

 

College of Design Architecture Art and Planning

PO Box 210016

University of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016

 

elizabeth.bartley@uc.edu

 

(513) 556-0223

(513) 556-3866

 

 

John Hancock

 

Prof. of Architecture

University of Cincinnati

CERHAS

PO Box 210016

Cincinnati OH

45221-0016 USA

http://www.cerhas.uc.edu

 

John E. Hancock, Co-Founder of CERHAS and Director, EarthWorks and The Dirt on Midea

 

Professor of Architectural History, Associate Dean of Research, University of Cincinnati. A registered architect since 1979, he regularly teaches courses in architectural history and theory, and is the author of many national and international publications and presentations on topics in ancient architectural history and interpretation, including a six-lecture series on “Greece and the Greek Temple” at the New Europe College, a Getty-funded post-doctoral humanities institute in Bucharest, Romania, in 2003. Notable awards include large grants from the Ohio Board of Regents and the National Endowment for the Humanities, three wins at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, and one at the New York Art Directors’ Club.

 

CERHAS

 

College of Design Architecture Art and Planning

PO Box 210016

University of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016

 

john.hancock@uc.edu

elizabeth.bartley@uc.edu

 

(513) 556-0223

(513) 556-3866

 

 

Articles:

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/bios/au_415013226.html

 

http://www.uc.edu/news/vmid.htm

 

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=3817

 

Session presented 3/25/2006 Museums and the Web 2006 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/abstracts/prg_315000693.html

Archives and Informatics

 

A Question of Interactivity: Projects of the Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites, University of Cincinnati

 

Elizabeth Bartley, University of Cincinnati, USA

John Hancock, University of Cincinnati, USA

http://www.cerhas.uc.edu

 

CERHAS has, for many years, been questioning the implicit assumptions behind "interactivity" — a word whose current connotation is tied to a specific type of activity when browsing the Web. This 'habit' of engagement reproduces a limited theoretical view of how electronic media settings can communicate. These limitations are especially severe when another "interactivity" is the content to be delivered; namely, the interactivity of past people with their lifeworld.

 

This demonstration(and our accompanying paper) explores how we have formulated an understanding of what it means to be humans interacting with a world (both past and present) and how this understanding informs our media development. We believe the life-world is an experientially-lived, "interactive" unity. Spaces, places and things are embedded in a meaningful whole, in which a community of people found themselves sharing in struggles, aspirations, interpretations, and meanings. We conceived our on-screen imagery and multi-voiced perspectives to evoke, as much as an artificial medium can, such an immersive, integrated, experiential world. We hope our methods can let these ancient, alien places challenge and confront us with new ways of seeing our own world, and new questions and insights about what it means to live and die as humans.