Sites of Media Archaeology
Producing the Contemporary as a Shared Topic
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.27110Keywords:
art practice, Michel Foucault, Wolfgang Ernst, Friedrich Kittler, media archaeology, media archaeology labAbstract
This short text addresses media archaeology as a material methodology of investigation of the cultural layers of technology. This materiality of course relates it to the older discipline of archaeology, even if in many cases the archaeology in media archaeology is more conceptual. Having said that, the article proceeds to briefly introduce the emerging practices of media archaeology labs through two examples in Germany and the US as ways to offer institutional spaces for a hands-on extension of the theoretical, historical and conceptual methodologies. It is possible that through such spaces as well as other sorts of disciplinary bordercrossings the multiple archaeologies find joint projects.
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Huhtamo, E. and J. Parikka, eds. 2011. Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications and Implications. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Parks, L. 2007. “Falling Apart: Electronics Salvaging and the Global Media Economy.” In Residual Media, edited by C. R. Acland, 32–47. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Rathje, W. 2001 “Integrated Archaeology: A Garbage Paradigm.” In Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past, edited by V. Buchli and G. Lucas, 63–76. London: Routledge.
Siegert, B. 2008. “Cacography or Communication? Cultural Techniques in German Media Studies.” Translated by G. Winthrop-Young. Grey Room 29: 26–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/grey.2007.1.29.26
Thomas, J. 2009 “Sigmund Freud’s Archaeological Metaphor and Archaeology’s Self-Understanding.” In Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now, edited by C. Holtorf and A. Piccini, 33–45. London: Peter Lang.
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Parikka, J. (2015). Sites of Media Archaeology: Producing the Contemporary as a Shared Topic. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), 8-14. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.27110
