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.