My (German) essay on #HomeComputer photographies from the #80s:
http://www.simulationsraum.de/wir-alle-haben-fotos-wie-dieses/
(First published in "Digital Talk" No. 115)
#mediaarchaeology — Public Fediverse posts
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Light on the Back of an Eye
https://uneasy.in/0fb9921 #InternetArchive #MediaArchaeology #Memory
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Very excited to be speaking about early hacking tools today at #NaClCon
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Hack & Play: Retro Computing trifft Digital Humanities
Wie sah digitale Kultur vor Internet und KI aus? Unsere hybride Vortragsreihe im Sommersemester 2026 führt uns zurück in die 1980er, mit Themen von Game Studies über Heimcomputermusik bis zu Andy Warhols Computergrafiken.
📍 Universität Würzburg (vor Ort und online)
🕓 Mittwochs, 16-18 Uhr
📅 Start: 22. April
🎟️ Eintritt frei, keine AnmeldungProgramm & Teilnahme: https://hacknplay2026.rtrlb.de
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Just published: "Glaswelten", edited by Margarete Vöhringer and Christof Windgätter - a book on the materiality of glass in culture, history, art, and science:
https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/glaswelten
I contributed a chapter about glass as a medium within media used in elektronics - from silicon to silicon dioxide to quartz glass.
#MediaArchaeology #MediaGeology #MicroElectronics #semiconductors #chemistry #physics
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Just published as book and #OpenAccess PDF:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7115-5/computerwohnen/
... with a chapter from me about the question "What is a home computer?".
#MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerHistory #MediaStudies
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Very timely arrival of what must be the bible on the history and materiality of capacitors, surprisingly rare, over 500 pages with more than 2000 references, published in 1927 when capacitors were high-tech. With many pictures of workers in the mica mines in India and the ladies back home who manufactured all those capacitors that kept the empire running.
#PhilipCoursey #Condensers #Capacitors #MediaArchaeology #79 #SystemsThatMatter
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Someone visited the @mediaarchaeologylab yesterday who happened to have a photo on their phone of their ancestors who literally rode the Oregon Trail in covered wagons in the 19th century, and I asked to photograph the picture in front of the startup screen for Oregon Trail. Honestly looks like a great 8-bit rendering of the scene on the monochrome Apple IIc.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oregontrail #history #HistoryColorado #appleii #apple #MediaArchaeology
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Simulation isn’t just about escapist fantasies like The Matrix or Baudrillard’s hyperreality—it’s a technological process shaping our daily lives.
In the workshop SIMULATION: PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION, we’ll be joined by Inge Hinterwaldner (@KIT_Karlsruhe), Selena Savic (@jazoza), Orit Halpern (@tudresden), filmmaker Christina Zimmermann for interdisciplinary perspectives on simulation’s role today.
#ArtHistory #MediaStudies #DigitalCultures #MediaArchaeology #Workshop #Luzern #Academia #AI
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This afternoon (4pm-6pm) I will give a (German) talk about #ComputerGames as epistemic objects as a part of the University Bonn #Game Week. 45 min of talk followed by a hands-on session on our ten #C64 computers.
Uni Bonn, Medienwissenschaft, Lennéstraße 1, 53113 Bonn, 3rd floor, room 3.010
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The "Liberate the Machines!" book is starting to be available so I made a page for it even if it hasn't had a launch moment yet.
https://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2781
#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #AnalogComputing #MediaArchaeology
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Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it.
#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena
copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.
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Today, the copies of the second edition of the first volume of the textbook series "Media Technology Knowledge" that I edited have finally been delivered:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111036540/html
#MediaArchaeology #Logic #Archaeology #InformationTheory #Memory
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Algorithm, Image, Art by @machine_agency
An essential and critical inquiry into how algorithmic media reshape visual culture—from ancient optics to generative AI.Lee draws on art history and media archaeology to make sense of the aesthetics and epistemology of machine-generated images.
#AIArt #MediaArchaeology #VisualCulture #MachineLearning #DigitalArtHistory #AlgorithmicMedia #ArtTheory
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An essential and critical inquiry into how algorithmic media reshape visual culture—from ancient optics to generative AI. Draws on art history and media archaeology to make sense of the aesthetics and epistemology of machine-generated images. #MediaArchaeology #VisualCulture #ArtTheory
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"Rock Music - a Misuse of Army Equipment" is a classic essay by Friedrich Kittler from 1988, but until today I had never actually read it.
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Hey there, fellow retro-tech nerds! The @mediaarchaeologylab has posted its open call for practitioners-in-residence in the lab for the next season, which begins in September. Submit your proposal by May 15!
Please boost for reach.
https://mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/practitioner-in-residence-open-call/
The theme for the 2025/2026 residency is Counter Computing: Alternative Imaginaries.
Lab director Lori Emerson describes it this way: "We are interested in any form of artistic and/or scholarly practice that engages counter-computational practices, such as glitching, hacking, tinkering, queering, subverting, (un)making and (re)imagining. Through such experimentation, we encourage you to explore how our relation to (and imagination of) technology can be remade to envision alternative pasts, presents and futures."
The lab is asking interested parties to submit a proposal for an up-to-4-week residency that includes full access to the lab and its resources, and logistical support. Residents are expected to produce a public lecture, demo, video, performance, or exhibition as part of the residency. Examples of previous technical reports can be seen at https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/projects
Get to it, my peeps! We'll see you in the lab starting in the fall.
#retrocomputing #retrotechnology #AppleII #C64 #TRS80 #Amiga #retro #obsolete #MediaArchaeology #ComputerHistory #history #networking #glitching #hacking #tinkering #subvert #internet #experimental
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#OregonTrail #AppleII #retrocomputer #retrocomputing #MediaArchaeology
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It's done! I have just given print approval for "Medientechnisches Wissen Vol. 1", 2nd edition. The book, originally published on 2017, grew from 306 to 428 pages - mostly because of an additional chapter on #archaeology.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111036540/html
#MediaScience #MediaArchaeology #Logics #InformationTheory #Cybernetics
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Today I gave a PLASMA talk at SUNY Buffalo, but before I got to play around a bit with their Eric Siegel "Processing Chrominance Synthesizer", a colorizer from around 1975. I was very tempted to open it up but I managed to stay reasonable..
#EricSiegel #Colorizer #MediaArchaeology #DialoguesWithMachines #SUNYBuffalo
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Prepartion for the "Game Circuit Lab" exhibition at MLU Halle Media Studies Department.
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Contributing a chapter to Christoph Ernsts, Katerina Krtilovas, Jens Schröters, and Andreas Sudmanns forthcoming essay collection "Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert" about #UncoventionalComputing:
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Save the date: On March 19th there will be a "#RetroGame Workshop" at the Department for Communication and #MediaStudies" at Uni Halle. Starting 16:30 you can examine #games hands-on from the departments #CicuitLab, "Haus der Computerspiele" and others:
https://circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/
(For more details see the attached poster.)
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Save the Date & Spread the Word:
Next week the last session of my lecture series "The World of Game Labs" will introduce the #GameLab "Circuit Lab" (https://circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/) of the MuK of Uni Halle. The lab, that is focused on #MediaArchaeology, #RetroGaming, and #RetroComputing will be introduced by Prof. Dr. Patrick Vonderau and his assistant Sara Bashir.
The introduction and tour can be joined online at:
https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
Tuesday, 28.01.25, starting: 16:15
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I may be bringing (digital) gear to enable the performance of live visuals.
It would be awesome if the (entirely accidental) alphabetical order could be maintained, but that may be too much to ask. Suggestions very welcome via pm !
