Smart informatics &amp; Egyptology: A modern inter-disciplinary forum studying an ancient culture of pre- &amp; proto-scientific logistics &amp; intelligence

Maravelia, Alicia

doi:10.1109/intelcis.2017.8260014

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“…When the camera arrives at the human figure, the latter is intercut by an image of a bright eye (presumably the eye of Horus) that according to Deren symbolises resurrection. In fact, the eye of Horus was a major funerary amulet against darkness and death, an archetype of the victory of light and cosmic order (Maravelia 2017).…”

Section: Conversation With Forgotten Civilisation Through Cinematic Amentioning

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Tombs and Reels of Consciousness: The aesthetics that interlink ancient ritualistic artefacts and digital, augmented and virtual reality

Moore¹

2019

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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In 1945 the filmmaker Maya Deren sent a scenario to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with a proposal to make a 16mm film on the ancient Egyptian tomb of Perneb. In the proposal she emphasises the difficulty, which the topic of ancient Egypt poses to viewers in terms of their ability to identify with a culture whose ideology is so different from their own. Deren devises a strategy akin to racial memory with which to meaningfully reconstruct the life of the tomb's deceased dweller. An analysis of her ideas firstly demonstrates how she plans to utilise the cinematic apparatus in conceptual affinity with the ancient Egyptian belief thereby offering the viewers a participatory and apparitional experience in archaic consciousness of eternal life, whilst following the narrative of the man whose spirit inhabits the tomb. Secondly, Deren explicates that archaic rituals and modern technologies are both time-based and relativistic. Indeed, augmented reality and virtual reality can be employed to manipulate and transfigure our perception of, and position in, space-time. Technoetic sensibility is accordingly applied to theoretically visualise the tomb as a digitally enhanced time-machine and as apparitional, participatory, as well as enlightening, encounter with a remote culture.

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Section: Conversation With Forgotten Civilisation Through Cinematic Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Tombs and Reels of Consciousness: The aesthetics that interlink ancient ritualistic artefacts and digital, augmented and virtual reality

Moore¹

2019

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Application of smart informatics in Egyptology: the Athens Mummy Project as an example of effective interdisciplinarity

Maravelia¹,

Bontozoglou²,

Kalogerakou³

et al. 2019

Shodoznavstvo

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We present the Mummy Project of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology (HIE), in close collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAM) and the Athens Medical Centre (AMC), as a characteristic case of interdisciplinary study and interaction, not only between Smart Informatics (SI)-and to a lesser extent Artificial Intelligence (AI) and (Archaeo-)Medicine, but also with Egyptology and (Archaeo-)Forensics. We discuss some intriguing results of the CT-Scanning for five out of the nine mummies of the Project and emphasize the Informatics used for Computed Tomography (CT) that opens new ways in the study of the conditions, causes of death and other interesting information connected with humans who died in ancient Egypt at least 2,100 years ago, during the Ptolemaic Era. We show clearly that this consists of a characteristic paradigm of interdisciplinary SI application in Medicine and the health of ancient individuals (based on Smart Computing), providing new insights into the egyptological and archaeological consideration of their theocratic society.

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Smart informatics & Egyptology: A modern inter-disciplinary forum studying an ancient culture of pre- & proto-scientific logistics & intelligence

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Tombs and Reels of Consciousness: The aesthetics that interlink ancient ritualistic artefacts and digital, augmented and virtual reality

Tombs and Reels of Consciousness: The aesthetics that interlink ancient ritualistic artefacts and digital, augmented and virtual reality

Application of smart informatics in Egyptology: the Athens Mummy Project as an example of effective interdisciplinarity

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