• P • I • T • O • T • I •

Author: Dr Christopher Chippindale (curator at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Dr Frederick Baker (Co-Director of the Cambridge University Prehistoric Picture Project,G uest Lecturer, Cambridge University Screen Media and Cult
Publisher: Skira
• P • I • T • O • T • I • presents the fascinating results of the meeting of new digital arts with ancient rock-art images, known as pitoti in the dialect of Valcamonica. The prehistoric pictures, with which the Alpine valley abounds, become like film stills in a vast cinema auditorium. Their peck-marks, pexils, hammered in the rock have been transformed in the pixels of digital imagery. A dazzling array of new technologies bring still images to life: advanced photography, animations, time-lapse, 3-D laser scanning, echoing sounds, panoramas, an all-surrounding "Ambient Cinema", even a video game and performance art.
• P • I • T • O • T • I •, an international joint venture between archaeology and digital arts, is a pioneering collaboration, opening unprecedented new insights for both disciplines.