Media archaeology

Institutes

• Media Archaeology Lab, Boulder, Colorado. Director: Lori Emerson.
• Medienarchäologischer Fundus of Humboldt University, Berlin, curated by Ines Liszko.

Events

• Excavating the Future - An Archeology and Future of Moving Pictures symposium, Prague, 2-5 December 2001.
• An Archaeology of Imaginary Media, mini-festival, De Balie, Amsterdam, 5-8 February 2004.
• Variantology workshops, Cologne/Berlin/Naples, 2005-2011. [1]
• Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer: Symposion in memoriam Friedrich Kittler, ZKM Karlsruhe, 19-20 October 2012.
• Network Archaeology conference, Miami University, 19-21 April 2012.
• Forum on the Genealogy of MediaThinking, University of the Arts Berlin, October 2012-June 2013.
• Lichtklangphonogramm exhibition, Ethnological Museum in Berlin, 13 March-26 May 2013.
• Media Archaeology & Technological Debris, Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-21 June 2013.

Educational programmes

• Medienkultur, Fakultät Medien, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Courses

• Media Archaeology course by Alexander R. Galloway, Spring 2010.
• Media Technology and Exploration course by Nicole Starosielski, Winter 2011.
• Urban Media Archaeology course by Shannon Mattern, Fall 2012.
• Gebhard Sengmüller's lectures on media archaeology, UFG Linz.

Theorists and initiatives

• Zoe Beloff
• John M. Bowers
• Lucie Česálková
• Paul DeMarinis
• Bernhard Dotzler
• Timothy Druckrey
• Tomáš Dvořák
• Lori Emerson
• Wolfgang Ernst
• Lisa Gitelman
• Michael Goddard
• Erkki Huhtamo
• Alexandra Hui
• Francis Hunger
• IMA Institute of Media Archeology
• Gunnar Iversen
• Jonathan Kemp
• Friedrich Kittler
• Aleksander Kolkowski
• Markus Krajewski
• Julia Kursell
• Petra Löffler
• Patrik Lundell
• Irene Lusztig
• Thor Magnusson
• Bonnie Mak
• Shannon Mattern
• Media Archaeology Lab
• Shintaro Miyazaki
• Alberto Novello
• Jussi Parikka
• Lisa Parks
• Miklós Peternák
• Claus Pias
• Georgii Pocheptsov
• Joost Rekveld
• Axel Roch
• Wolfgang Schäffner
• Gebhard Sengmüller
• Bernhard Siegert
• Pelle Snickars
• Nicole Starosielski
• Jonathan Sterne
• Kateřina Svatoňová
• Tjebbe van Tijen
• John Tresch
• Pasi Väliaho
• Cornelia Vismann
• Thomas Weynants
• Siegfried Zielinski

Bibliography

Books

Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800 / 1900, 1985/1990. Download (Foreword), Download (Part 2).

Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone Film Typewriter, 1986/1999. Download.

Siegfried Zielinski, Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History, 1989/1999. Download.

Cornelia Vismann, Files: Law and Media Technology, 2000/2008. Download.

Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree (eds.): New Media, 1740-1915, 2003. Download.

Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (eds.), Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, 2011. Download.

• Jacques Perriault, Mémoires de l’ombre et du son. Une archéologie de l’audiovisuel, Paris: Flammarion, 1981. (in French)
• Friedrich A. Kittler, Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1985. (in German)
  • Discourse Networks 1800/1900, Stanford University Press, 1990.
• Friedrich A. Kittler, Grammophon Film Typewriter, Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1986. (in German)
  • Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Stanford University Press, 1999.
• Siegfried Zielinski, Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders, Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, 1986. (in German)
• Siegfried Zielinski, Audiovisionen: Kino und Fernsehen als Zwischenspiele in der Geschichte, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989. (in German)
  • Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History, Amsterdam University Press, 1999.
• Peter Klier, Dietmar Kamper (eds.), Mediendämmerung: zur Archäologie der Medien, Berlin Edition: Tiamat, 1989. (in German)
• Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Bernhard Siegert, Relais: Geschicke der Literatur als Epoche der Post, 1751-1913, Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, 1993. (in German) Introduction to the English edition.
• Ellen Lupton, Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office, Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
• Lisa Cartwright, Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
• Terry Castle, 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. Online version.
• Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
• Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era, Stanford University Press, 1999.
• Cornelia Vismann, Akten. Medientechnik und Recht, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2000. (in German)
  • Files: Law and Media Technology, Stanford University Press, 2008.
• Donald F McLean, Restoring Baird's Image, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2000. [2]
• Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Console-ing Passions), Duke University Press, 2000, 272 pp.
• Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin, (eds.), Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition, New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Markus Krajewski, ZettelWirtschaft, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2002. (in German)
  • Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929, MIT Press, 2011.
• Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, Verso, 2002.
• P.J.H. Kockelkoren, Technology: Art, Fairground and Theatre, Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 111 pp.
  • Techniek: Kunst, Kermis en Theater, Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2003, 111 pp. (Dutch) [3]
• Friedrich Kittler, Optische Medien / Berliner Vorlesung 1999, Berlin: Merve, 2002.
  • 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. (in German)
  • Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, MIT Press, 2006.
• Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree (eds.), New Media, 1740-1915, MIT Press, 2003.
• Wolfgang Lefèvre (ed.), Picturing Machines 1400-1700, MIT Press, 2004.
• Bernard Finn (ed.), Presenting Pictures, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2004. [4] [5]
• Lisa Parks, Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Charles R. Acland (ed.), Residual Media, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
• Laurent Mannoni, Werner Nekes, Marina Warner, Eyes, Lies and Illusions: Drawn from the Werner Nekes Collection, ACMI, 2006. [6]
• Pierre Levie, Montreurs et Vues d' Optique, Editions Sofidoc, 2006. (in French)
• Timothy C. Campbell, Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
• Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, MIT Press, 2006.
• James Lyons, John Plunkett, Multimedia Histories: From Magic Lanterns to Internet, University of Exeter Press, 2007. [7]
• Eric Kluitenberg (ed.), Book of Imaginary Media: Excavating the Dream of the Ultimate Communication Medium, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, with Amsterdam: De Balie, 2007, 292 pp. With DVD. [8]
• Wolfgang Ernst, Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses: Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts), Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2007. (in German)
• Christian Holtorf, Claus Pias (eds.), Escape!: Computerspiele als Kulturtechnik, Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. (in German)
• Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia M. Wagnermaier (eds.), Variantology – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2007.
• Siegfried Zielinski, David Link (eds.), Variantology 2 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2007.
• Jussi Parikka, Digital Contagions (Digital Formations), Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.
• José Roca, Phantasmagoria - Specters of Absence, Independent Curators International, 2007.
• Chris Funkhouser, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995, University of Alabama Press, 2007.
• Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürus (eds.), Variantology 3 – On Deep Time Relations Of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2008.
• Nike Bätzner, Werner Nekes, Eva Schmidt (eds.), Blickmaschinen, oder wie Bilder entstehen, DuMont, 2008. Catalogue. (in German) [9]
• Marina Warner, Phantasmagoria - Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media, Oxford University Press, 2008. [10]
• Lynda Nead, The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography and Film around 1900, Yale University Press, 2008. [11]
• Deac Rossel, Laterna Magica - Magic Lantern Vol I, Füsslin, 2008. (in German/English) [12]
• Dieter Daniels, Barbara U. Schmidt (eds.), Artists as Inventors-Inventors as Artists, Hatje Cantz, 2008, 240 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.
• Dominique Willoughby, Le Cinéma graphique: Une histoire des dessins animés, des jouets d’optique au cinéma numérique, Les editions textuel, 2009. (in French) [13]
• Solveig Jülich, Patrik Lundell, Pelle Snickars (eds.), Mediernas kulturhistoria, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (in Swedish) [14]
• Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Pelle Snickars (eds.), 1897 – Mediehistorier kring Stockholmsutställningen, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (in Swedish) [15]
• Jonas Harvard, Patrik Lundell (eds.), 1800-talets mediesystem, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. (in Swedish) [16]
• Lars Björk, Jānis Krēsliņš och Matts Lindström (eds.), The Story of Storage I. Kompendium, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. (in Swedish) [17]
• Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürus (eds.), 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.
• Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures, MIT Press, 2010.
• Peter Morris, Klaus Staubermann (eds.), Illuminating Instruments, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010. [18] [19]
• Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
• Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (eds.), Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, University of California Press, 2011. [20]
• Paul DeMarinis, Buried in Noise, Kehrer, 2011. (German/English) [21]
• Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürus (eds.), Variantology 5: Neapolitan Affairs, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 2011.
• Florian Cramer, Exe.cut(up)able statements: Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011. (in German)
• Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell (eds.), Från pressarkivet 1800-1899. En källsamling, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2012. (in Swedish) [22]
• Alexandra Hui, The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910, The MIT Press, 2012. [23]
• Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archaeology?, Polity, 2012.
• John Tresch, The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon, University of Chicago Press, 2012. [24]
• Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive, University of Minnesota Press, 2012. [25]
• Shintaro Miyazaki, Algorhythmisiert: Eine Medienarchäologie digitaler Signale und (un)erhörter Zeiteffekte, Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2013, 281 pp. (in German) [26]
• Frode Weium, Tim Boon (eds.), Material Culture and Electronic Sound, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013, 312 pp. [27]
• Erkki Huhtamo, Illusions In Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles, MIT Press, 2013. [28]
• Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, University of California Press, 2013, 344 pp. [29]
• Publications on media archaeology at Monoskop Log

Journal issues and Special sections

• Grey Room 43, Spring 2011, Special issue: "Audio/Visual". [30]

Theses

• Kristoffer Gansing, Transversal Media Practices: Media Archaeology, Art and Technological Development, PhD thesis, Malmö: Malmö University, 2013.

Book chapters, Papers, Articles

• Erkki Huhtamo, "From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd: Towards an Archeology of the Media", Leonardo, 3, 1997, pp 221-224.
• Wolfgang Ernst, "Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines", Art History 28, November 2005, pp 582-603.
• Shannon Mattern, "From Post Offices to Radiograms: Local Primary Resources on Urban Media History", Words In Space blog, 20 July 2010.
• Garnet Hertz, Jussi Parikka, "Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art Method", Leonardo, 2012.
• Shannon Mattern, "Infrastructural Tourism", Words in Space blog, 20 July 2012.
• more, more

Resources

• Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors, documentary film by Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood, 2011.
• Early Visual Media, A Historical Window to Early Vintage Visual Media Archaeology, maintained by Thomas Weynants.
• First Sounds, an initiative founded by Patrick Feaster, David Giovannoni, Richard Martin, and Meagan Hennessey.
• René Rondeau's Antique Phonograph, Fan, and Photography Site
• Media Archaeology of Place, a project initiated by a collaborative course at Harvard University, Fall 2010.
• Gebhard Sengmüller's links collection
• Renesys presentations and reports

See also

• Cultural techniques

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