Archaeological Museum of Ioannina
The media intervention focuses on the relief on the front of a Roman sarcophagus (or coffin), depicting scenes of the Trojan War narrated in Homer’s Iliad. The sarcophagus, made of marble, dates from the second century CE and is displayed in the Roman Gallery of the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina.
The digital intervention invites visitors to look closer and hear in a purposeful way, seeking to create what Falk and Dierking describe as an ‘educationally enjoyable experience’.
The aim is not to add meaning in the archaeological sense but to enhance and prolong the viewing experience and to reveal something relevant in the scene that visitors might otherwise have missed, either by accentuating what already exists, or by adding something to the object to extend the story of the scene carved in relief. Through the media projection, the synchronic understanding of the relief representation is temporally transformed to a diachronic understanding (presenting the development of the mythological episodes in time). To these two ‘objective’ forms of time, of the relief representation and the digital narrative, is added a third one, visitor lived time.
Collaborations
MUSIC
Sofia Alexandrou
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF IOANNINA
The work is realised in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina and the participation of: Dr Varvara Papadopoulou, Dr Paraskevi Yiouni, Christos Tsakoumis, Dr Eleni Kotjabopoulou and Angeliki Panatsi, MSc.
WARM THANKS TO:
Eftihia– Maria Kontogeogopoulou
Vasilis Maniatis
Maria Vourloumi
Eleni Efthymiou
Museum guards and technicians of the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina
