Media Archaeological Fundus

The Media Archaeological Fundus (Medienarchäologischer Fundus, MAF) is a collection of various electromechanical and mechanical artefacts as they developed throughout time. Its aim is to provide a perspective that may inspire modern thinking about technology and media within its epistemological implications beyond bare historiography. Students, researchers and interested people are welcome to visit but also examine the so called Dead Media technologies.

It is based at Humboldt University, Berlin, and was founded in c2003. Collection supervisor: Wolfgang Ernst, curator: Shintaro Miyazaki. Past curators: Sebastian Döring, Ines Liszko, Stefan Höltgen, Thomas Fecker, David Friedrich. (2025)

Publications

• Wolfgang Ernst, "Arsenals of Memory: The Archi(ve)texture of the Museum", Mediamatic 8:1, 1994. [1] (English)/(Dutch)

• Lori Emerson, "Archives, Materiality and the 'Agency of the Machine': An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst", National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation, Feb 2013.

See also

• Media archaeology

Links

• Website
• Photographs
• Inventory (wiki)
• Catalogue
• YouTube channel
• Wolfgang Ernst erläutert Sinn und Zweck des medienarchäologischen Fundus, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, video, 37 min. (German)