Join a seminar which looks at witness testimony and human rights violations

Moving on from the navigable photographic space of visual forensics, this seminar looks at ways in which witness testimony, material and media evidence might combine and entangle into a rich evidence assemblage that could be archived, stored and cross-referenced in spatial models. The workshop considers methods from immersive reconstruction, situated or object-based testimony to architectural simulation in which memory is enhanced and recomposed. What are the legal challenges involved in technologically enhanced memory? What would a new, digital ‘era of the witness’ look like?

The seminar will discuss the ritualistic and research dimensions of re-enactment, covering techniques such, ‘situated testimony’ ‘real-scale simulation’, the use of architectural and aural simulations in virtual and augmented reality, the ‘archiving’ and disseminating of human rights violations.