Constructing the Prehistories of a Place in Europe: Visual imagery for a feminist archaeology
Abstract
John Berger recognized that oil painting was the essential medium of visual imagery of early capitalism. Both Berger and Susan Sontag have drawn attention to the power of the photographic visual imagery for modernistic capitalism. My argument in this paper is that computer generated imagery (CGI) is both the ultimate medium for the expression of the visual imagery of later corporate capitalism, and the medium through which some of the concepts of the feminist critique of science (including archaeology) may be expressed, including a celebration of the ambiguity of the archaeological record and the multiplicity of its interpretations, the multiplicity of scales at which prehistory may be written, and the multiplicity of prehistories that are out there.