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==Institutes==
* [[Media Archaeological Fundus]] of Humboldt University, Berlin, founded in c2003. Collection supervisor: [[Wolfgang Ernst]], curators: Stefan Höltgen, Thomas Fecker, David Friedrich.
* [[IMA Institute of Media Archeology]], Hainburg, founded in 2005. Head: [[Elisabeth Schimana]].
* [[Media Archaeology Lab]], Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2009. Director: [[Lori Emerson]].
* [http://pamal.org/ Preservation & Art – Media Archaeology Lab] (PAMAL), Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, founded 2014. Head: Emmanuel Guez.

==Educational programs==
*[[Media_Culture_FM_Bauhaus_Weimar|Medienkultur, Fakultät Medien, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar]]
; Courses
* [http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia Media Archaeology course (with Dead Media Archive wiki)], Dept of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU, led by [[Alexander R. Galloway]], Spring ([http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/2010spring-Media_Archaeology_syllabus_v6.pdf syllabus]) and Fall 2010.
* [http://mediaexploration.wordpress.com/ Media Technology and Exploration] course by [[Nicole Starosielski]], Winter 2011.
* [http://is.muni.cz/predmet/phil/jaro2012/FAVBPa05 Pojmy z teorie a dějin médií II] & [https://is.muni.cz/predmet/phil/jaro2015/FAVBKa05 Mediální archeologie] courses by [[Lucie Česálková]], Masaryk University, Brno, Spring 2012 and Spring 2015.
* [http://www.wordsinspace.net/course_material/Mattern_UrbanMediaArchaeology_Fall2012.pdf Urban Media Archaeology] course by [[Shannon Mattern]], Fall 2012.
* [http://gebseng.com/media_archeology/ Gebhard Sengmüller's lectures on media archaeology], UFG Linz.
* [http://www.medientheorie.com/veranstaltungen/12_ws_archaeologie.html Medienarchäologie] seminar by [[Claus Pias]], Leuphana, 2012/2013.
* [http://mediarchaeology.wordpress.com/ Media Archaeology and Media Poetics] course by [[Lori Emerson]], U Colorado, Boulder, Spring 2014.
* [https://mla.hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:14798/datastreams/CONTENT/content Languages, Text, and Technology], course by [[Roger Whitson]], Washington State U, Fall 2017.

==Events==
* [[Excavating the Future|Excavating the Future - An Archeology and Future of Moving Pictures]] symposium, Prague, 2-5 December 2001. Initiated by [[Jaroslav Anděl]], collaboration: [[Miloš Vojtěchovský]], [[Michael de la Fontaine]], [[Michael Bielický]].
* [[An Archaeology of Imaginary Media]], mini-festival, De Balie, Amsterdam, 5-8 February 2004. Initiated by [[Eric Kluitenberg]]. [[#Kluitenberg2006|Publication]].
* [http://variantology.com/ Variantology: On Deep Time Relations of the Arts, Sciences and Technologies] workshops, Cologne/Berlin/Naples, 2005-2011. Initiated by [[Siegfried Zielinski]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variantology#Workshops_and_Publications Publications].
* [http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$8146 Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer: Symposion in memoriam Friedrich Kittler], ZKM Karlsruhe, 19-20 October 2012.
* [http://networkarchaeology.wordpress.com Network Archaeology] conference, Miami University, 19-21 April 2012. Convened by [[Cris Cheek]] and [[Nicole Starosielski]]. [http://amodern.net/issues/amodern-2-network-archaeology/ Publication].
* [http://genealogy-of-media-thinking.net Forum on the Genealogy of MediaThinking], University of the Arts Berlin, October 2012-June 2013. Facilitated by [[Siegfried Zielinski]].
* [[Lichtklangphonogramm]] exhibition, Ethnological Museum in Berlin, 13 March-26 May 2013. 
* [http://nymusikk.no/en/hva-skjer/only-connect-2013-machine-dreams Only Connect Festival of Sound: Machine Dreams], Oslo, 5-8 June 2013.
* [http://mediaarchdebris.wix.com/matd Media Archaeology & Technological Debris], postgraduate workshop and conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-21 June 2013. Organised by [[Stefania Charitou]], [[Gabriel Menotti]], and [[Corey Kai Nelson Schultz]].
* [http://mediaarcheologiesinstitute.info Media Archeologies Institute] lecture series, Film, Video, New Media, Animation department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October-November 2013. [http://www.facebook.com/mediaarcheologiesinstitute]
* [https://dema.uni.lu/conference-doing-experimental-media-archaeology-practice-theory/ Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory], conference, Esch-sur-Alzette and Differdange, 7-9 Sep 2022.

==Artists, theorists, initiatives==
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==Publications==

===Monographs===

[[Image:Kittler_Friedrich_Discourse_Networks_1800_1900.jpg|thumb|350px|Friedrich Kittler, ''Discourse Networks 1800 / 1900'', [1985] 1990, [[Media:Kittler_Friedrich_Discourse_Networks_1800_1900.pdf|PDF]].]]

[[Image:Kittler_Friedrich_Gramophone_Film_Typewriter.jpg|thumb|350px|Friedrich Kittler, ''Gramophone Film Typewriter'', [1986] 1999, [[Media:Kittler_Friedrich_Gramophone_Film_Typewriter.pdf|PDF]].]]

[[Image:Zielinski_Siegfried_Audiovisions_Cinema_and_Television_as_Entractes_in_History.png|thumb|350px|Siegfried Zielinski, ''Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History'', [1989] 1999, [http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=340252 PDF].]]

[[Image:Gitelman_Lisa_Scripts_Grooves_and_Writing_Machines_Representing_Technology_in_the_Edison_Era.jpg|thumb|350px|Lisa Gitelman, ''Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era'', 1999, [http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9BF2B15FF88CF61860E834F59F0EAB43 PDF].]]

[[Image:Vismann_Cornelia_Files_Law_and_Media_Technology.jpg|thumb|350px|Cornelia Vismann, ''Files: Law and Media Technology'', [2000] 2008, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7139 Log].]]

[[Image:Gitelman_Lisa_Pingree_Geoffrey_B_eds_New_Media_1740-1915.jpg|thumb|350px|Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree (eds.): ''New Media, 1740-1915'', 2003, [http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D9FB5E782EE01081C7B7531CBD91AD09 PDF].]]

[[Image:Huhtamo_Erkki_Parikka_Jussi_eds_Media_Archaeology.jpg|thumb|350px|Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (eds.), ''Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications'', 2011, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6933 Log].]]

* Jacques Perriault, ''Mémoires de l’ombre et du son. Une archéologie de l’audiovisuel'', Paris: Flammarion, 1981. {{fr}}

* Friedrich A. Kittler, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5979 ''Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900''], Munich: Fink, 1985; 2nd ed., 1987; 3rd ed., rev, 1995, 524 pp. {{de}}
** [[Kittler#1985|translations]]

* Friedrich A. Kittler, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=503 Grammophon Film Typewriter]'', Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1986, 427 pp. {{de}}
** [[Kittler#1985|translations]]

* Siegfried Zielinski, ''[[Media:Zielinski_Siegfried_Zur_Geschichte_des_Videorecorders_1986.pdf|Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders]]'', Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Spiess, 1986, 408 pp; new ed., Potsdam: Polzer Media Group, 2010. {{de}} 

* Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer (eds.), ''Materialität der Kommunikation'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988. [https://d-nb.info/881245844/04 TOC]. {{de}}
** ''[[Media:Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich Pfeiffer Karl Ludwig eds Materialities of Communication 1994.pdf|Materialities of Communication]]'', trans. William Whobrey, Stanford University Press, 1994, 447 pp. {{en}}

* Carolyn Marvin, ''[[Media:Marvin_Carolyn_When_Old_Technologies_Were_New_Thinking_About_Electric_Communication_in_the_Late_Nineteenth_Century_1988.pdf|When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century]]'', New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

* Siegfried Zielinski,  ''Audiovisionen: Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele in der Geschichte'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989. {{de}}
** [[Zielinski#1989|translations]]

* Peter Klier, Jean-Luc Evard (eds.), ''Mediendämmerung: zur Archäologie der Medien'', Berlin: Tiamat, 1989, 153 pp. {{de}}

* Lynn Spigel, ''Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America'', Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

* Bernhard Siegert, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4074 ''Relais: Geschicke der Literatur als Epoche der Post, 1751-1913''], Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1993. {{de}} 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4074 Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System]'', trans. Kevin Repp, Stanford University Press, 1999, 340 pp.

* Ellen Lupton, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1598 ''Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office''], Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

* Lisa Cartwright, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E28F14EE2834B25088BCA96899F6F162 Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture]'', University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

* Terry Castle, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6116 The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny]'', Oxford University Press, 1995.

* Stephen Herbert, Luke McKernan (eds.), ''Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey'', London: British Film Institute, 1996. [http://victorian-cinema.net Online version].

* Rachel P. Maines, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2339 ''The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction''], Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

* Lisa Gitelman, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/a1a4a1e1-d7e6-45a6-8bfc-04f8db113941 Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era]'', Stanford University Press, 1999, 282 pp, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4662 Log].

* Cornelia Vismann, ''Akten. Medientechnik und Recht'', Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2000. {{de}}
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7139 ''Files: Law and Media Technology''], Stanford University Press, 2008.

* Donald F McLean, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9286 Restoring Baird's Image]'', Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2000, 295 pp. [http://www.tvdawn.com/rbi.htm] 

* Jeffrey Sconce, ''[[Media:Sconce Jeffrey Haunted Media Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television 2000.pdf|Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television]]'', Duke University Press, 2000, 272 pp. [[Media:Sconce_Jeffrey_Haunted_Media_ch_1.pdf|Chapter 1]].

* Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7214C38F5A3BE26A6CC21775531178B4 Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition]'', New York: Routledge, 2001.

* Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. [http://ssl.einsnull.com/paymate/dbfiles/pdf/resource/358.pdf Review], [http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/kunsttexte/download/bwt/Kuehl.PDF Review]. {{de}}
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 ''Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929''], MIT Press, 2011. 

* Giuliana Bruno, ''Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film'', London: Verso, 2002. [http://faculty.arch.utah.edu/benham/readings/atlas.pdf Chapter 1], [http://faculty.arch.utah.edu/benham/readings/Moving%20Image.pdf Chapter 2].

* Friedrich Kittler, ''Optische Medien / Berliner Vorlesung 1999'', Berlin: Merve, 2002. {{de}}
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7557 ''Optical Media. Berlin Lectures 1999''], trans. Anthony Enns, Polity, 2009.

* Siegfried Zielinski, ''Archäologie der Medien: Zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens'', Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 2002. [http://d-nb.info/965253627/04 TOC], [http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/archaeologie/zielinski_archaeologie.pdf Introduction]. {{de}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13148 Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means]'', intro. Timothy Druckrey, trans. Gloria Custance, MIT Press, 2006, [https://archive.org/details/deeptimeofmediat0000ziel IA]. 
** [[Zielinski#Zielinski2002|more translations]]

* P.J.H. Kockelkoren, ''Technology: Art, Fairground and Theatre'', Rotterdam: NAI Publishers (Fascinations), 2003, 111 pp. 
** ''Techniek: Kunst, Kermis en Theater'', Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2003, 111 pp. [http://www.naipublishers.nl/art/techniekkunst_e.html] {{nl}}

* Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree (eds.), ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4f7ced75-d45b-494f-95a9-48a06388df87 New Media, 1740-1915]'', MIT Press, 2003, 271 pp, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2027 Log].

* Wolfgang Ernst, ''[https://doi.org/10.18452/1675 Medienwissen(schaft), zeitkritisch. Ein Programm aus der Sophienstraße. Antrittsvorlesung v. 21. Oktober 2003]'', Berlin: Humboldt University, 2004, 31 pp. {{de}}

* Wolfgang Lefèvre (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=689 Picturing Machines 1400-1700]'', MIT Press, 2004, 347 pp.

* Bernard Finn (ed.), ''Presenting Pictures'', Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2004. [http://www.artefactsconsortium.org/Publications/Contents4F.html] [http://www.artefactsconsortium.org/Publications/Intro4F.html]

* Lisa Parks, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11667 Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual]'', Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

* Erich Hörl, ''Die heiligen Kanäle. Über die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation'', Zürich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2005. {{de}}
** ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7976A976C48B23A4B1D1A86A2422B619 Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication]'', pref. Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. Nils F. Schott, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Recursions), 2018, 342 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5c6da63b9ff37c36c1622bd0 ARG]. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647702/sacred-channels Publisher]. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcj3048] 

* Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia M. Wagnermaier (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606ebd059ff37c4eec2e81e5 Variantology 1: On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2005, [https://archive.org/details/variantologyonde0000unse IA]. [http://flusserstream.khm.de/variantology/publications/] [http://variantology.com/] 

* Charles R. Acland (ed.), ''Residual Media'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. [https://sterneworks.org/OutwiththeTrash.pdf Chapter 2].

* Laurent Mannoni, Werner Nekes, Marina Warner, ''Eyes, Lies and Illusions: Drawn from the Werner Nekes Collection'', ACMI, 2006. [http://www.acmi.net.au/89BA7F8025E14704AD1C48ED2697CD14.htm Publisher].

* Pierre Levie, ''Montreurs et Vues d' Optique'', Sofidoc, 2006. {{fr}}

* Timothy C. Campbell, ''Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

* Lisa Gitelman, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/5edeffae-c343-4e07-8e08-271791feb9dc Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture]'', MIT Press, 2006, xiii+205 pp, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=669 Log]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/always-already-new Publisher].

* Bernhard J. Dotzler, ''Diskurs und Medium. Zur Archäologie der Computerkultur'', Munich: Fink, 2006, 233 pp. {{de}}

* Siegfried Zielinski, David Link (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606e17799ff37c7ad32e81d5 Variantology 2: On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2006, [https://archive.org/details/variantologyonde0000unse_q8n9 IA]. [http://variantology.com/] [http://books.google.com/books?id=hFPENAAACAAJ]

* James Lyons, John Plunkett, ''Multimedia Histories: From Magic Lanterns to Internet'', University of Exeter Press, 2007. [http://www.exeterpress.co.uk/en/Book/447/Multimedia_Histories.html]

*{{a|Kluitenberg2006}}Eric Kluitenberg (ed.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22226 Book of Imaginary Media: Excavating the Dream of the Ultimate Communication Medium]'', Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, with Amsterdam: De Balie, 2006, 296 pp. With DVD. 
** ''Boek van de imaginaire Media: over de droom van het ultieme communicatiemedium'', Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, with Amsterdam: De Balie, 2006, 320 pp. [http://web.archive.org/web/20091221194654/http://www.naipublishers.nl/kunst/ima_media_nl.html] {{nl}}
** ''Imagināro mediju grāmata. Vispatiesākā komunikācijas medija sapņa meklējumos'', trans. Daina Siliņa, Riga: RIXC, 2011, 280 pp. [http://www.rixc.lv/projects/imaginarie_mediji/b/img_atverumi.pdf Preview]. [http://rixc.lv/projects/imaginarie_mediji/index.html] {{lv}}

* Wolfgang Ernst, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5237422a307888133300002d Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts)]'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2007. [http://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/buch/das-gesetz-des-gedaechtnisses.html Publisher]. Review: [http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=10743&view=pdf Zierold] (H-Net). {{de}}

* Jussi Parikka, ''Digital Contagions: A Media Archeology of Computer Viruses'', New York: Peter Lang, 2007; [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2DC27962EAB3DECE4549FFDC0BEBA1BF 2nd ed.], 2016. [http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/archaeologie/parikka_digital%20contagions.pdf Conclusions]. [http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=46484&concordeid=68837]

* José Roca, ''Phantasmagoria - Specters of Absence'', Independent Curators International, 2007. 

* Chris Funkhouser, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=179 ''Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995''], University of Alabama Press, 2007.

* Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DA188EE3926BB74E899490E9DE6C9177 Variantology 3: On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2008, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606ebca09ff37c4eec2e81e2 ARG], [https://archive.org/details/variantologyonde0003unse IA]. [http://variantology.com/]  

* Nike Bätzner, Werner Nekes, Eva Schmidt (eds.), ''Blickmaschinen, oder wie Bilder entstehen'', DuMont, 2008. Catalogue. [http://www.blickmaschinen.de/katalog.php?id=31] {{de}}

* Marina Warner, ''Phantasmagoria - Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media'', Oxford University Press, 2008. [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/MythologyFolklore/?view=usa&ci=9780199239238]

* Lynda Nead, ''The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography and Film around 1900'', Yale University Press, 2008. [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300112917]

* Deac Rossel, ''Laterna Magica - Magic Lantern Vol I'', Füsslin, 2008. [http://www.fuesslin.de/Magic_Lantern.136.0.html?&L=2] {{de}}/{{en}} 

* Dieter Daniels, Barbara U. Schmidt (eds.), ''Artists as Inventors-Inventors as Artists'', Hatje Cantz, 2008, 240 pp.

* Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, ''The Graphic Sound. An Archeology of Sound, Technology and Knowledge at 1900'', ProQuest, 2008, 555 pp.

* Kazys Varnelis (ed.), ''The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in LA'', New York: Actar, The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and The Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University, 2009. [http://tocs.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/207367159.pdf Contents].

* Dominique Willoughby, ''Le Cinéma graphique: Une histoire des dessins animés, des jouets d’optique au cinéma numérique'', Les editions textuel, 2009. [http://www.editionstextuel.com/index.php?cat=020371&id=448] {{fr}}

* Solveig Jülich, Patrik Lundell, Pelle Snickars (eds.), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140422185002/http://www.kb.se/dokument/Aktuellt/audiovisuellt/Mediernas_kulturhistoria.pdf Mediernas kulturhistoria]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/Mediernas-kulturhistoria/] {{sw}}

* Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Pelle Snickars (eds.), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140422183433/http://www.kb.se/dokument/Aktuellt/audiovisuellt/1897/1897.pdf 1897 – Mediehistorier kring Stockholmsutställningen]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/1897---Mediehistorier-kring-Stockholmsutstallningen/] {{sw}}

* Jonas Harvard, Patrik Lundell (eds.), ''[http://www.kb.se/dokument/Aktuellt/audiovisuellt/1800-talets%20mediesystem/1800-talets_mediesystem.pdf.pdf 1800-talets mediesystem]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/1800-talets-mediesystem/] {{sw}}

* Lars Björk, Jānis Krēsliņš, Matts Lindström  (eds.), ''[https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/3028972/4144914.pdf The Story of Storage I. Kompendium]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/The-Story-of-Storage/] {{sw}}

* Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606eb4db9ff37c280a2e81c8 Variantology 4: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010. [http://variantology.com/]

* Peter Morris, Klaus Staubermann (eds.), ''Illuminating Instruments'', Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010. [http://www.artefactsconsortium.org/Publications/Contents7F.html] [http://www.artefactsconsortium.org/Publications/Intro7F.html]

* Jussi Parikka, [http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=FC63B9B2EF00638A1D1F1D919F456C54 ''Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology''], Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press (Posthumanities), 2010, xxxv+281 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/insect-media Publisher].
** ''Owady i media'', trans. Mateusz Borowski and Małgorzata Sugiera, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2017, 375 pp. {{pl}}

* Pasi Väliaho, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=1665 Mapping the Moving Image: Gesture, Thought and Cinema Circa 1900]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Film Culture in Transition), 2010, 256 pp.

* Paul DeMarinis, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606ddab09ff37c6a502e81c0 Buried in Noise]'', eds. Ingrid Beirer, Sabine Himmelsbach, and Carsten Seiffarth, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2010, 280 pp. [https://www.kehrerverlag.com/en/paul-demarinis-buried-in-noise-978-3-86828-141-5 Publisher]. {{en}}/{{de}}

* Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6933 Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications]'', Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011, x+356 pp.
** ''Mei jie kao gu xue: fang fa.lu jing yu yi han'' [媒介考古学: 方法.路径与意涵], Shanghai: Fu dan da xue chu ban she, 2018, 342 pp. {{cn}}

* Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürus (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606eb4d69ff37c4eec2e81dc Variantology 5: Neapolitan Affairs]'', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2011. [http://variantology.com/] 

* Florian Cramer, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5936 ''Exe.cut(up)able statements: Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts''], Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011. {{de}}

* Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell (eds.), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140422183908/http://www.kb.se/dokument/Aktuellt/audiovisuellt/Fr%C3%A5n%20pressarkivet/Fran_pressarkivet.pdf Från pressarkivet 1800-1899. En källsamling]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2012. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/Fran-pressarkivet-1800-1899-En-kallsamling/] {{sw}}

* Alexandra Hui, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=f2a214b0320f9f8efb650775a121d047 The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910]'', MIT Press, 2012. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/psychophysical-ear-0 Publisher].

* Jussi Parikka, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2f2a3190395185b7caa41459989dedf3 What is Media Archaeology?]'', Polity, 2012.
** ''Medya Arkeolojisi Nedir?'', trans. Ebru Kılıç, ed. Ferit Burak Aydar, Istanbul: Koç Üniversitesi, 2017, 264 pp. [https://press.ku.edu.tr/kitap/medya-arkeolojisi-nedir/ Publisher]. {{tr}}
** ''Qu'est-ce que l'archéologie des médias?'', pref. Emmanuel Guez, trans. Christophe Degoutin, Grenoble: UGA Editions, 2018, 323 pp. [https://www.uga-editions.com/menu-principal/collections-et-revues/toutes-nos-collections/savoirs-litteraires-et-imaginaires-scientifiques/qu-est-ce-que-l-archeologie-des-media--282025.kjsp Publisher]. Review: [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01954550/document Sevin] (Lectures). {{fr}}
** ''Archeologia dei media: nuove prospettive per la storia e la teoria della comunicazione'', pref. Ruggero Eugeni, postf. Simone Venturini, Rome: Carocci, 2019, 282 pp. {{it}}

* John Tresch, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=54c307c59d6b2d732f2c88d60399b601 The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon]'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, 472 pp. [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo12645421.html Publisher].

* Jonathan Sterne, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6984 MP3: The Meaning of a Format]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press (Sign, Storage, Transmission), 2012, 341 pp.

* Karla Jasso, Daniel Garza Usabiaga (eds.): ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18406 (Ready) Media: Hacia una arqueología de los medios y la invención en México]'', Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2012, 519 pp. {{es}}

* Wolfgang Ernst, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=14030 Digital Memory and the Archive]'', ed. & intro. Jussi Parikka, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 265 pp. Reviews: [http://reviewsinculture.com/2013/09/15/under-the-hood-of-wolfgang-ernsts-media-archaeology/ Young] (RiC), [http://www.infoculturejournal.org/book_reviews/ernst_ward_2014 Ward] (I&C). 

* Wolfgang Ernst, ''Chronopoetik. Zeitweisen und Zeitgaben technischer Medien'', Berlin: Kadmos (Berliner Programm einer Medienwissenschaft), 2013, 428 pp. [http://d-nb.info/1021565679/04 TOC]. [http://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/buch/chronopoetik.html Publisher]. Review: [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/german_studies_review/v037/37.2.powell.html Powell] (GSR, EN). {{de}}
** ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e24f2f39-b923-43a4-8c79-64c898c93d82 Chronopoetics: The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media]'', Rowman & Littlefield (Media Philosophy), 2016, 288 pp. Trans. of abridged version. [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783485710/ Publisher].

* Shintaro Miyazaki, ''Algorhythmisiert: eine Medienarchäologie digitaler Signale und (un)erhörter Zeiteffekte'',  Berlin: Kadmos (Berliner Programm einer Medienwissenschaft), 2013, 281 pp. [http://www.academia.edu/3641556/ Introduction]. [https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/buch/algorhythmisiert.html Publisher]. [http://ssl.einsnull.com/paymate/search.php?vid=5&aid=3414] {{de}}

* Frode Weium, Tim Boon (eds.), ''Material Culture and Electronic Sound'', Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (Artefacts), 2013, 312 pp. [https://scholarlypress.si.edu/store/museum-studies-art/material-culture-electronic-sound/ Publisher].

* Erkki Huhtamo, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=750EAEC680AB48F8E9642E0C5B21CFFB Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles]'', MIT Press (Leonardo), 2013, 464 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/illusions-motion Publisher].

* Karla Jasso, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12723 Arte-tecnología. Arqueología, dialéctica, mediación]'', México D.F.: self-published, 2013, 329 pp. {{es}}

* Lisa Gitelman, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=11855 Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press (Sign, Storage, Transmission), 2014, 210 pp.
** ''Zhi zhi shi: Guan yu wen dang de mei jie li shi'' [纸知识 : 关于文档的媒介历史], trans. Yun Wang, Shanghai: Fu dan da xue chu ban she you xian gong si, 2020, 194 pp. {{cn}}
 
* Marie Cronqvist, Patrik Lundell, Pelle Snickars (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=13674 Återkopplingar]'', Lund University, 2014, 416 pp. {{sw}}

* Siegfried Zielinski, Peter Weibel (eds.), ''Allah's Automata: Artifacts of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200)'', Hatje Cantz, 2016. Catalogue. [https://zkm.de/en/publication/allahs-automata Exhibition]. [https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/17849-allahs-automata Publisher].

* Wolfgang Ernst, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/63e3203b-a063-4198-a07a-3ea719b68115 Sonic Time Machines: Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity]'', forew. Liam Cole Young, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Recursions), 2016, 160 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089649492/sonic-time-machines Publisher]. Reviews: [http://www.theoryculturesociety.org/review-wolgang-ernsts-sonic-time-machines-stephen-cornford/ Cornford] (TCS), [https://www.leonardo.info/review/2016/11/review-of-sonic-time-machines-explicit-sound-sirenic-voices-and-implicit-sonicity Harle] (Leonardo). 

* Sebastian Giessmann, ''Die Verbundenheit der Dinge: eine Kulturgeschichte der Netze und Netzwerke'', Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016. [https://netzeundnetzwerke.de/] {{de}}
** ''[https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001 The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832]'', trans. Steven Lindberg, MIT Press, 2024, 429 pp, [[Media:Giessmann_Sebastian The_Connectivity_of_Things_Network_Cultures_since_1832_2024.pdf|PDF]].

* Thomas Elsaesser, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=823EDFB9DB5852E87D06782AF7C31CCC Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Film Culture in Transition), 2016, 414 pp. Collected essays. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2016.1146858 Epilogue]. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462980570/film-history-as-media-archaeology Publisher].

* Roger Whitson, ''Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories'', Routledge, 2016, 244 pp. [https://www.routledge.com/Steampunk-and-Nineteenth-Century-Digital-Humanities-Literary-Retrofuturisms/Whitson/p/book/9781138859500 Publisher].

* Liam Cole Young, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A891302B961E1C76714829AA008E1D1C List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Recursions), 2017, 196 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462981102/list-cultures Publisher].

* Thor Magnusson, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21494 Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions]'', New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, xiv+290 pp.

* Moritz Hiller, Stefan Höltgen (eds.), ''Archäographien. Aspekte einer radikalen Medienarchäologie. Festschrift für Wolfgang Ernst'', Basel: Schwabe, 2019, 354 pp. [https://issuu.com/schwabeverlag/docs/lp_9783757400217 TOC & Foreword]. {{de}},{{en}}

* Siegfried Zielinski, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21823 Variations on Media Thinking]'', University of Minnesota Press (Posthumanities), 2019, xxv+426 pp. Selected essays.

* Ben Roberts, Mark Goodall (eds.), ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E997C97E97579058781E618D045A3025 New Media Archaeologies]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Recursions), 2019, 238 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462982161/new-media-archaeologies Publisher].

* Knut Ebeling, Annette Maechtel, Heimo Lattner (eds.), ''Never Mind the Nineties: eine Medienarchäologie des Kunststandorts Berlin'', Berlin: Eeclectic, 2019. [https://eeclectic.de/produkt/never-mind-the-nineties/ Publisher]. {{de}}

* Doron Galili, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C4EF47BD1FC987FD151975E0E34A6368 Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press (Sign, Storage, Transmission), 2020, 264 pp. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/seeing-by-electricity Publisher].

* Bernhard Rieder, ''[[Media:Rieder_Bernhard_Engines_of_Order_A_Mechanology_of_Algorithmic_Techniques_2020.pdf|Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques]]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Recursions), 2020, 353 pp. [https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39371 OAPEN]. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462986190/engines-of-order Publisher].

* Jane Birkin, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=73A3DAC5D48A19953920EE26A2FC9453 Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Recursions), 2021, 218 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463729642/archive-photography-and-the-language-of-administration Publisher].

* Jacob Gaboury, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=992D65EDBAA98603D8E790BF5C0C85F2 Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics]'', MIT Press, 2021, 312 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/image-objects Publisher].

* Wolfgang Ernst, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3C9C11D29EDE3E3833BA4974F1B54E9D Techno''lógos'' in Being: Radical Media Archaeology and the Computational Machine]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 211 pp. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technol%C3%B3gos-in-being-9781501362293 Publisher]. 

* [http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=media-archeology Publications on media archaeology at Monoskop Log]

===Journal issues and Special sections===
* ''Grey Room'' 43: "Audio/Visual", Spring 2011. [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/grey/-/43]
* [http://amodern.net/issues/amodern-2-network-archaeology/ ''Amodern'' 2 "Network Archaeology"], 2013.
* [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e9/Tiszataj_69_4_2015.pdf#page=59 ''Tiszatáj'' 69(4): "Médiumok magánélete: A hardver mikro eseményeiről"], Szeged, Apr 2015, pp 57-103, [http://tiszatajonline.hu/?tag=a-medium-szot-ker-a-hardver-mikroesemenyeirol HTML]. {{hu}}
* [http://journals.equinoxpub.com/JCA/issue/view/2120/showToc ''Journal of Contemporary Archaeology'' 2(1): "Media-Archaeologies"], ed. Angela A. Piccini, 2015.
* ''Twentieth-Century Music'' 14(1): "Tape", eds. Andrea F. Bohlman and Peter McMurray, Feb 2017. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/issue/B2DDE3A0EE830D5719148839FC6CCAEA]
* [https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol7/iss1/ ''communication +1'' 7(1): "Intersectionalities and Media Archaeologies"], eds. Zachary J. McDowell and Nathanael Bassett, 2018.
* [https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol7/iss2/ ''communication +1'' 7(2): "Intersectionalities and Media Archaeologies"], eds. Zachary J. McDowell and Nathanael Bassett, 2018.

===Book chapters, Papers, Articles===
* Erkki Huhtamo, [http://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Erkki_Huhtamo-Kaleidoscomaniac_to_Cybernerd.pdf "From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd: Towards an Archeology of the Media"], ''Leonardo'', 3, 1997, pp 221-224.
* Wolfgang Ernst, "Medienarchäologie. Eine Provokation der Kommunikationsgeschichte", in Habbo Knoch, Daniel Morat (eds.), ''Kommunikation als Beobachtung. Medienwandel und Gesellschaftsbilder 1880–1960'', Munich: Fink 2003, pp 37–56. {{de}}
* Thomas Elsaesser, [http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/archaeologie/elsaesser_new%20film%20history%20as%20media%20archeology.pdf "The New Film History as Media Archaeology"], ''Cinémas'', Vol. 14, No. 2-3, 2004, pp 75-117.
* Wolfgang Ernst, "[http://www.medienwissenschaft.hu-berlin.de/medientheorien/downloads/publikationen/ernst-let-there-be-irony.pdf Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines]", ''Art History'' 28, November 2005, pp 582-603.
* Shannon Mattern, [http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/07/20/from-fire-alarms-to-copy-machines-local-primary-materials-on-urban-media-history/ "From Post Offices to Radiograms: Local Primary Resources on Urban Media History"], ''Words In Space'' blog, 20 July 2010.
* Garnet Hertz, Jussi Parikka, [http://www.academia.edu/1182981/Zombie_Media_Circuit_Bending_Media_Archaeology_into_an_Art_Method "Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art Method"], ''Leonardo'', 2012.
* Roger Whitson, [http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=roger-whitson-the-difference-engine "The Difference Engine: 1832, 1855, 1876, 1991, 2002, 2008″], "BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History", 2017.
* Shannon Mattern, [http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2012/07/20/infrastructural-tourism/ "Infrastructural Tourism"], ''Words in Space'' blog, 20 July 2012. 
* Petra Löffler, "[http://www.necsus-ejms.org/towards-a-new-media-archaeology-a-report-on-some-books-and-tendencies/ Towards a new media archaeology? A report on some books and tendencies]", ''NECSUS / European Journal of Media Studies'' 1 (Spring 2012).
* Bonnie Mak, "[http://courseweb.lis.illinois.edu/~bmak/Mak-Archaeology-JASIST.pdf Archaeology of a Digitization]", ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'', 2013. 
* Sanne Krogh Groth, "Provoking, disturbing, hacking: Media archaeology as a framework to the understanding of contemporary DIY composers’ instruments and ideas", ''Organised Sound'' 18:3 (December 2013), pp 266-273. [http://rucforsk.ruc.dk/site/da/publications/provoking-disturbing-hacking(c2c8c058-cc44-4ada-a8e7-d971c23d800f).html] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S135577181300023X]
* Morten Riis, "The Media Archaeological Repairman", ''Organised Sound'' 18:3 (December 2013), pp 255-265. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355771813000228]
* Georgii Pocheptsov (Георгий Почепцов), [http://gefter.ru/archive/14491 "Lozh Odisseya, kotoruyu otkryla novaya nauka media-archeologiya. Vvedenie v novuyu nauku: vlast obrazov nad syuzhetami"] [Ложь Одиссея, которую открыла новая наука медиа-археология. Введение в новую науку: власть образов над сюжетами], ''Gefter'', 11 Mar 2015. {{ru}}
* Jacob Gaboury, [http://sci-hub.st/10.1162/GREY_a_00233 "The Random-Access Image: Memory and the History of the Computer Screen"], ''Grey Room'' 70, Winter 2018, pp 24-53.
* [http://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/ more], [http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/archaeologie/ more]

===Theses===
* Jentery Sayers, ''How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Cultures'', University of Washington, 2011. [http://www.jenterysayers.com/2011/dissertation/]
* Kristoffer Gansing, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8084 Transversal Media Practices: Media Archaeology, Art and Technological Development]'', Malmö: Malmö University, 2013. PhD dissertation.

===Primary references===
* Michel Foucault, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8485 ''The Archaeology of Knowledge''], 1969–.

==Research, Resources==
* [http://vimeo.com/30642376 Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors], documentary film by Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood, 2011.
* [http://www.visual-media.be/ Early Visual Media], A Historical Window to Early Vintage Visual Media Archaeology, maintained by [[Thomas Weynants]].
* [http://www.firstsounds.org/ First Sounds], an initiative founded by Patrick Feaster, David Giovannoni, Richard Martin, and Meagan Hennessey.
* [http://www.cylinder.de/ The Cylinder Archive], cylinder phonograph recordings. Maintained by Norman Bruderhofer.
* [http://www.edisontinfoil.com/ René Rondeau's Antique Phonograph, Fan, and Photography Site]
* [http://mediaarchaeologyofplace.org/ Media Archaeology of Place], a project initiated by a collaborative course at Harvard University, Fall 2010.
* [http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/ Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities' Vintage Computers], dir. [[Matthew Kirschenbaum]].
* [[Institute for Algorhythmics]], an ongoing research project investigating the algorhythmic structures in contemporary culture. Started in 2008 by [[Shintaro Miyazaki]].
* [http://gebseng.com/media_archeology/media_archeology_links.html Gebhard Sengmüller's links collection]
* [http://www.renesys.com/tech/presentations/index.shtml Renesys presentations and reports]
* [https://dema.uni.lu/ Doing Experimental Media Archaeology], research project, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, Sep 2019-Jan 2022. Led by Andreas Fickers. [https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/projects/doing-experimental-media-archaeology-dema-practice-theory]

==See also==
* [[Cultural techniques]]


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