Abstract

Once documents exist outside physical archives in high-resolution digital forms, researcher-artists may interact with them in previously impossible or forbidden ways – spinning them around in three dimensions, zooming in to their tiniest details, or tearing them apart. Commonly used by visual and spatial designers, digital 3D modeling, animation, and image-editing tools make possible affective and intimate encounters with historical documents. Through these encounters, researcher-artists may uncover insights about the events, environments, and ways of understanding the built and natural worlds that those documents represent.

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