Digitality and immaterial culture: What did Viking women think?. (25th November 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thomas, Maureen
• Is Part Of: International journal of digital culture and electronic tourism. Volume 1:Number 2/3(2008)
• Page Start: 177
• Page End: 191
• Publication Date: 2008-11-25
• Subjects: chance -- choice -- digital interactive narrativity -- digitally enhanced museums -- edutainment -- interactive installations -- immaterial culture -- oral composition techniques -- recombinant video -- smartphone -- Viking women -- digital media -- digital culture -- Vikings -- cultural heritage -- sung verse -- spoken verse -- female voices; Digital communications -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Information society -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 303.483405
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-5212

Abstract

The digital interactive audiovisual work, RuneCast, designed for installation-projection to supplement artefacts on display, suggests how digital media can be used to extend the museum visit. The oral composition techniques of the Viking age are adapted for computational narrativity, and authentic sung and spoken verse is interpreted through associative, kaleidoscopically reconfiguring, layered video and animation – evoking rather than documenting the ethos of the period it illuminates. Like its inspiration, the Eddaic poem, Voluspaa (Songs of the Seeress), RuneCast's voices are female, not only invoking the world of men, but also expressing and communicating that of Viking women.