Digital Archaeology, Future Art Ecosystems, Virtual Fire Island

Chance Coughenour, program manager at Google Arts & Culture, joined me on Instagram Live yesterday to talk about his work in digital archaeology. For Project Mosul, Coughenour crowdsourced pictures of destroyed sites in the Middle East and stitched them together into rich digital reconstructions, using photogrammetry to take measurements from the images. For me, this process offers a great metaphor for what archaeologists do: they don’t just dig for fragments, they assemble those fragm