Session: #158

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The aim of this session is to both take stock and look forward. We reflect on recent advances in the recording and online publishing of databases/corpora of early medieval carved stones – which notably includes the Anglo-Saxon Corpus of Stone Sculpture and the database of Gotlandic Picture Stones – and look ahead to new advances with respect to these and other stone sculpture corpora, as well as additional national and international databases. These include the OG(H)AM project’s digital cataloguing of all ogham inscribed stones and the Digital Atlas of Early Irish Carved Stones, as well as other projects working to establish full digital online databases/catalogues and facilitate a wide range of access and interpretation initiatives, not least in terms of digitising how stone sculptures originally looked (including the application of colour) and the nature of the historic environments they occupied. We are looking to bring together projects from across Europe that have or are working on visualisations and digital manipulations of early medieval sculpture to raise awareness of the material and encourage wider access to it and its historical, social roles. We are interested especially in case studies where visual and digital work are setting and answering new research questions and enabling new directions in knowledge generation about early medieval sculptural outputs and artistic production. Such work is of course inter- and intra-disciplinary, and in response we are also looking to hear from collaborations involving archaeologists, museums, digital/computer specialists, art historians, anthropologists, etc. that bring data together on digital platforms and explore ways in which digital interpretations will and do enhance our understanding of that material and its users.

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