Multimedia digital rock-art exhibition showing at the SOUTH LECTURE ROOM
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) Downing Street Cambridge CB23DZ from the 7th to 23rd March 2013. Opening hours Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30am to 4:30pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
free admission
“Pitoti” are the figures which are cut into rock rather than painted onto rock. The major single concentration is in the high Alpine valley of Valcamonica, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. The rock-art exists in abundance: at least 350,000 figures in Valcamonica alone. Above all – and this is why Valcamonica rock-art is genuinely unique – the figures present an autobiographical record.
This exhibition is EU funded and is a joint venture between archaeologists from Cambridge University (UK), the local research institute which has been studying Valcamonica figures for 50 years, the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (I), and the digital graphics specialists from the University of Applied Sciences on St Pölten, (A). The show also includes a contribution from Bauhaus University in Weimar (D).
The Pitoti rock-art figures from Valcamonica, in Lombard Alps, are UNESCO world heritage and were conceived between the Copper Age and the Iron Age. They reappeared in the Middle Ages, after a hiatus in hte Roman period. The rock engravings are now being filmed, photographed, animated, and re-presented in the 21st centurywith new digital graphic technologies.
The aim of the exhibition is to explore the boundaries and build bridges between the world of archaeology and the world of film, digital humanities and computer vision.
Source:
maa.cam.ac.uk
More on the project at http://www.pitoti.org and see our guide to the rock art of Valcamonica.
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