Making an Animation as a Means of Dissemination and as a Tool for Research into Historical Sites: The Case Study of San Julián de Samos. Issue 1 (October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Salas, Estefanía López
• Is Part Of: International journal of humanities and arts computing. Volume 15:Issue 1/2(2021)
• Page Start: 133
• Page End: 151
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Subjects: digital art and architectural history -- digital visualization -- animation -- spatiotemporal changes -- dissemination -- Spanish monastic architecture; Humanities -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Arts -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 001.30285
• DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2021.0266
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-8548

Abstract

Abstract : In this article we will examine how and why the animation 'Creating the monastic site: from its origins to the nineteenth century' allowed us to expand the digital art and architectural project 'Digital Samos. A digital approach to the Monastery of San Julián de Samos'. On the one hand, by making the animation, we were able to create an easy-to-read and more effective visual product to disseminate our research results about the evolving nature of the monastic site of San Julián de Samos in north-western Spain, far beyond static computer-aided design reconstructions. On the other hand, we will see that the animation became a research tool that forced us as scholars to tackle the visualization of relational past realms in their entirety and on a short-term time basis, without compromising the rigour with which computer-based visualization methods and outputs should be used in the communication of and research into cultural heritage.