Abstract
Martindale Hall is a Georgian stately home in the mid-north of South Australia, built on Ngadjuri land in the 1850s and owned by two prominent colonial families – the Bowmans and the Mortlocks. The house was gifted to the University of Adelaide and then to the Government of South Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, with extant collections of objects and furniture, an eclectic international collection in what has become known as ‘the Smoking Room’: a highly gendered masculine space that functioned as both office and library. This chapter discusses the process of capturing the building using three different mechanisms, including geophysics and photogrammetry, to digitise the building, its contents, and its surrounds and render them in The Void, the virtual production facility at Flinders University, Adelaide. This process creates immersive environments for research purposes to better understand the relationality of materials in and around the house, enhanced pathways for virtual object biographies, and for preservation purposes given the ongoing uncertainty concerning the building and its future. Digital network maps of objects, lands, and peoples, which are being collected and created by the research project team using ‘slow digitisation’ methodology, build a rich picture of the politics and contested postcolonial landscapes over time.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Beyond Virtual Production |
Subtitle of host publication | Integrating Production Technologies |
Editors | Tully Barnett, Jason Bevan, Cameron Mackness, Zoë Wallin |
Place of Publication | Abingdon, Oxon |
Publisher | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Chapter | 14 |
Pages | 166-181 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003449492 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781032582931, 9781032582924 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Keywords
- Martindale Hall
- photogrammetry
- geophysics
- archaeological research
- historical research
- immersive environments
- virtual objects
- digital network maps