Digital tools offer new possibilities for visual research, and such tools can provide methods for revitalising our understanding of the field of culture. Despite the importance of the visual as an element of culture, it is only in the last decade that the visual as a phenomenon of seeing has been a major feature of theoretical and methodological approaches to Southeast Asia. The long traditions of art history, anthropology and related fields in Southeast Asian studies have hitherto been focused on empirical documentation. In studying one aspect of the visual archive created by the polymath Gregory Bateson during his partnership with Margaret Mead, I will draw on methodologies that have their origins in Bateson's writings. These methodologies find fresh conditions in digital environments, in ways that allow us to bring into play a variety of theories of the visible.

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视觉方法和巴厘岛艺术收藏品的研究

数字工具为视觉研究提供了新的可能性，这些工具可以提供方法来振兴我们对文化领域的理解。尽管视觉作为文化元素的重要性，但直到最近十年，视觉作为一种观看现象才成为东南亚理论和方法论方法的主要特征。迄今为止，东南亚研究中艺术史、人类学和相关领域的悠久传统一直集中在经验文献上。在研究博学家 Gregory Bateson 在与 Margaret Mead 合作期间创建的视觉档案的一个方面时，我将借鉴源自 Bateson 著作的方法论。这些方法在数字环境中找到了新的条件，