Tag: Palmyra

• Digital Palmyra: Resources for Researching the Ancient City

  

  Yesterday on the Forbes blog, I discussed recent attempts to reconstruct the ancient busts of Palmyra damaged by ISIS and repatriate them back to Syria. As I suggested in the post, such efforts highlight the import of digital methodologies such as 3D printing and photogrammetry, but also underscore art as an umbilical cord that allows us […]

  sarahemilybond

  July 6, 2017

  Art and Graphics, color, diversity, Forbes, maps, open access, reading, text, Uncategorized, women

  3D modeling, digital humanities, getty, Louvre, museums, Palmyra, Roman History, syrian civil war

• Does NYC’s New 3D Printed Palmyra Arch Celebrate Syria Or Just Engage In ‘Digital Colonialism’?

  

  Over on the Forbes Blog, I discuss the ethics of 3D printing antiquities and the developing practice of “digital colonialism.” These issues have come up yet again with the unveiling of the 3D replica of the Palmyra Arch newly erected in New York City. The problem is with the signage, the lack of methodological transparency, and absence […]

  sarahemilybond

  September 22, 2016

  Art and Graphics, Forbes, text, Uncategorized

  3D printing, ancient history, Arch, cultural heritage, digital archaeology, eric kansa, Palmyra, Septimius Severus, Syria