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EAA 2015

timemap — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:55:43 +0000

Professor Dragoș Gheorghiu participated at the EAA’s 21st Annual Meeting, 2-5 September, 2015, in Glasgow.

Experiments in Mangalia, July 2015

timemap — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:18:29 +0000

Ion Dimcea, Ovidiu Ionescu and Dragoş Gheorghiu built and fired a kiln with platform in the courtyard of Callatis Museum in Mangalia.

Dan Popovici coordinated the building and firing of a glass furnace, with the help of Pantelymon Arnaudov, Alexandru Drăgoi and Stefan Szabo.

A series of re-enactments were prepared with the help of Paula Barbu and Alina Gurguţă, and carried with the help of Mihaela Beţiu and the students Lavinia Stan and Ioana-Maria Vişan. They were filmed by Sever Popescu Petrovici.

Experiments in Belvi, July 2015

timemap — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:02:10 +0000

Between 19-28 July Time Maps team carried experiments in Belvi, Sardinia, in the Open Museum of Contemporary Art, during the ISSEP Summer School.

A kiln with platform was built by Ion Dimcea with the help of Dragoş Gheorghiu and Vlad Basarab.

Experiments with cast metal were carried by Cătălin and Ileana Oancea.

The XI Ibero-American Archaeology meeting, Mação, 17th March 2015

timemap — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:39:19 +0000

Davide Delfino and Dragos Georghiu presented the paper Fortificações, Paisagem, materiais antigos e contemporâneos para públicos de arqueologia: a página de Mação e Abrantes no projecto TimeMap at the XI Ibero-American Archaeology meeting in Mação, 17th March 2015, at Sala de Conferências do Museu de Arte Pré-Histórica de Mação.

CGeo – PROJECT 2015 – 2020

timemap — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:52:15 +0000

http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/ID/Geo/cgeo2015_2020

CGeo is a research focused consortium based on the full commitment of its institutional members:
• the University of Coimbra (UC);
• the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD);
• the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT);
• the Earth and Memory Institute (ITM).

All institutional members, are continuously searching improvement and enhancement of knowledge, creativity, research and technology, contributing decisively to the progress of science, technology and to the enhancement of knowledge as an essential element of people’s lives. The strategic guide lines are: reinforcing the presence in the European research space by developing a research policy centered on the promotion of excellence, investing in quality teaching, intensifying the connections with society and the surrounding environment, and promoting a proactive, rational, responsible and thorough management of resources, based on criteria of economy, efficacy and efficiency.

UC’S, has a strong liaison with Institutes in the fields of applied science and technology transfer, as well as science based enterprise incubation (e.g. BIOCANT, IPN, ADAI, ITECONS). Both universities have a long track of lecturing in earth sciences, offering degrees from BSc to PhD and Post Doc studies. The Polytechnic has a strong dimension in geoarchaeology and in applied geosciences in various domains (conservation, engineering), also offering BSc and MSc degrees. ITM is a purely research driven entity, with a major focus on past technology, landscape survey and management and in bridging earth and humans sciences.

Two major consequences derive from this:
• the team members collaborates as if they belong to the same institution;
• the laboratory facilities are run as an integrated lab resource, avoiding redundancies and maximizing the investment.

All institutions have identified Geosciences as a strategic priority, and do favor a networking structure. Results of CGeo as stated in this report illustrate the advances achieved, and also led to some structural modifications that will render it more effective from 2014 on. One major dimension of this shared commitment has been the collaborative work in international projects with Africa (Ethiopia, Angola, Senegal) and Southern America (Brazil, Colombia).

The management structure derives from this approach, and the strong attractiveness of the offered advance studies degrees is to a large extent also a consequence of these projects. The strategic goals, in line with the 2020 strategy, but also with the regional priorities (namely territorial cohesion) focus on building a three pillars approach: – identification and characterization of resources; – their transformation and use; – and human related adaptive strategies. All the prior main specific objectives have been achieved in the recent past. The CGeo will introduce a few changes in its internal organization, as will be described in the current report and application.

The LAND ART at BARCLODIAD Y GAWRES on the University of Bristol website

timemap — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:43:53 +0000

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2014/june/anglesey-art.html

ART-CHAEOLOGY AT BARCLODIAD Y GAWRES (LAND ART FOR THE GESTART PROJECT) by Professor Dragoş GHEORGHIU (Doctoral School, National University of Arts, Bucharest)

timemap — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:39:52 +0000

I was delighted to be invited to Wales by my friend and co-editor Professor George Nash to participate in the Gestart Project by creating a work of art in relationship with the Barclodiad y Gawres monument. The goal was to propose a new image of the Welsh Neolithic monument, as well as to enhance the archaeological imagination with the experientiality resulted from the artistic intervention.
I believe that art can function as a revelator for the archaeological imagination; this is why I use the art ingredient in the archaeological experiments, under the form of land-art or installations, which brings new information to complement the scientific one. As an art-chaeologist I combine the scientific approach with the metaphorical one produced by art (Gheorghiu 2009).
For Barclodiad y Gawres I proposed one land-art installation to visualize, in a minimalistic way, the “invisible” traits of the funerary monument, i.e. its rituality or its relationship with the landscape. Thus, the land-art was conceived as a line which made visible these unseen cultural traits.
An additional important attribute of the monument that should have been revealed was the art hidden inside the funerary chamber, under the form of incised angular lines and chevrons.
Bearing in mind the monument was placed in a ritual landscape (Nash 2013), I tried to reveal this idea through two artistic and ritual actions. The first art experiment was to separate the shape of the monument from its surroundings, setting apart its round shape from the chaotic forms of the landscape; therefore, viewed from above, the monument was made visible under the shape of a white thin circle, while viewed from ground level, as a horizontal white line, similar to the one produced by the white quartz at Avebury. George experienced the perception of this land art creation from the other side of the gulf near the monument.
A second experiment and land-art was created to evoke a (hypothetical) ritual road that would have linked the entrance of the monument to the most important visual attractor in the area, Holy Head. The road was materialized as a 100 m long white line, which linked the monument to the valley, and George experienced the rite of approaching the monument on this abrupt road.
The third land-art was intended to reveal the hidden art inside the monument, by designing a linear pattern resulted from the intersection of parallel white lines across the monument, in order to evoke and made visible to the world the lozenges and the other linear patterns found within the funerary chamber.
All the grandeur of the land-art and of the monument was captured with the help of a video camera positioned on a drone piloted by Andrew Beardsley. I was helped to position the land-art on the ground by George Nash, Bill Swan, and Andrew Beardsley, while the photos and video films were done by Andrew Beardsley, to whom my thanks go. Moreover, it seems that the Neolithic gods were smiling upon us on the 21st May, as we enjoyed a sunny day with clear skies that one usually only sees on the Mediterranean coast.
The art-chaeological experiment from Barclodiad y Gawres, (i.e. the three land-art works and their theoretical support) constitutes the subject of several scientific and art papers to be published in the next few months, about the uses of art for enhancing the archaeological imagination. Images of my work in Barclodiad y Gawres can also be seen on Gestart Project site (www.gestartproject.com).
For a better understanding of the uses of the art-chaeolgical concept to reveal prehistoric and ancient monuments I invite the interested reader to see my previous work in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Gheorghiu 2013), World Art (Gheorghiu 2012), Artchaeology (Gheorghiu 2009), Time Maps (http://timemaps.net/timemap/velho_da_zimbreira/), and the images posted on Panoramio.

Dragos-Gheorghiu-and-Andrew-Beardsley_21st-May-2014_Barclodiad-Y-Gawres_photo-Andy-Beardsley

Dragos-Andy-and-George_21st-may-2014_Barclodiad-Y-Gawres_photo-Bill-Swann

Entrance-in-the-Neolithic-tomb_Barclodiad-Y-Gawres_photo-DG

Landart-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_-21st-May-2014-at-ByG_GestART-Project_photo-Andy-Beardsley

Dragos-Gheorghiu-and-Andrew-Beardsley_21st-May-2014_Barclodiad-Y-Gawres_photo-Andy-Beardsley

Landart-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_-21st-May-2014-at-ByG_GestART-Project_photo-Andy-Beardsley

Landart-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_21st-May-2014-at-ByG_GestART_photo-George-Nash

Landart-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_21st-May-2014-at-ByG_GestART-Project_photo-George-Nash

Landart-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_Barclodiad-Y-Gawres_GestART-Project_21-May-2014_photo-DG

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Revealing-the-incised-pattern-on-a-stone-Installation-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_Gest-Art-Project_21-May-2010_photo-DG

Revealing-the-patterns-inside-the-funerary-chamber_land-art-by-Dragos-Gheorghiu_Barclodiad-y-Gawres_GestART-Project_21-May-2014_photo-DG

Bibliography
Dragos Gheorghiu, 2013, Not here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac 19 (1), pp. 54-60.
Dragos Gheorghiu, 2012, eARTh Vision (Art-chaeology and digital mapping), World Art,
2:2, 211-217.
Gheorghiu, D., 2009, Artchaeology. A sensorial approach to the past, Bucharest, Unarte.
George Nash, 2013, Aspect, Architecture and Art: The Passage Grave tradition of Northwest Britain, Time and Mind 6 (2), pp.199-210.

Photos by Dragos Gheorghiu and George Nash. Aerial photos by Andy Beardsley.

The Gestart Project

timemap — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:43:39 +0000

http://pacadnetwork.com/gestart/

Journal of Abrantes (Jornal de Abrantes)

timemap — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:28:45 +0000

Jornal de Abrantes, Portugal, published on its blog an announcement on an intercultural dialogue between Dr. Manuel Fernandes School, Portugal, and the Vadastra School, Romania, within the framework of the Time Maps project.
The posting can be read accessing the following link: http://www.antenalivre.pt/?p=6307

Long-term collaboration

timemap — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:55:04 +0000

The Time Maps team wishes to extend its warmest thanks to all Portuguese colleagues and friends for organizing this event, as it now makes preparations for an effective and long-term collaboration.