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Media Archaeology

This dossier on Media Archaeology provides further reading around the mini-festival An Archaeology of Imaginary Media, which was held at De Balie, February 5 - 8, 2004. The dossier contains a number of key-texts on Media Archaeology, a relatively new approach to writing media history. The dossier also provides links to key-thinkers in the field, most of whom participated in our project on imaginary media.

Video registrations of all lectures can be found in this dossier.

Currently the Book of Imaginary Media (and DVD) is in preparation, which will be published by mid November 2006 by NAi Publishers and De Balie. Updates on the publication and the launch of the book on Monday December 4, 2006 will be made available here.
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I shall now launch a few probes into the strata of stories that we can conceive of as the history of the media in order to pick up signals from the butterfly effect, in a few localities at least, regarding both: the hardware and the software of the audio-visual. I name this approach media archaeology, which in a pragmatic perspective means to dig out secret paths in history, which might help us to find our way into the future...

Siegfried Zielinski



I would like to make a few preliminary remarks about an approach I call "media archeology". While I share with (..other) historians an interest in synthetic multi-perspective cultural approach and historical discourse analysis, I see the aims of media archeology somewhat differently. I would like to propose it as a way of studying such recurring cyclical phenomena which (re)appear and disappear and reappear over and over again in media history and somehow seem to transcend specific historical contexts.

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debalie terugkijken: De avond van de imaginaire media

Nu op debalie terugkijken te zien:

Op maandag 4 december 2006 werden het Boek van de imaginaire media en de bijbehorende DVD in De Balie gepresenteerd. Rondom de presentatie was een avondprogramma samengesteld met een lezing van onderzoeker Richard Barbrook over de imaginaire toekomst van artificiële intelligentie en een live performance van de kunstenaar / musicus Peter Blegvad. Ook werd een preview vertoond van de DVD met nieuw werk van ondermeer Peter Blegvad zelf.

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The Evening of Imaginary Media


In conjunction with the publication of the “Book & DVD of Imaginary Media” by De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, in collaboration with NAi Publishers (Rotterdam), De Balie presents an intimate yet spectacular program around the concept of ‘imaginary media’. For centuries mankind has dreamt about the ultimate communication medium, which should once and for all eradicate the ubiquitous human misunderstanding - however, miscommunication still prevails today as a seemingly inextinguishable feature of human experience...

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De Avond van de Imaginaire Media

Een avond ter gelegenheid van het verschijnen van het "Boek van de Imaginaire Media".

Naar aanleiding van het verschijnen van het door De Balie samengestelde Boek & DVD van de Imaginaire Media bij NAi Uitgevers in Rotterdam, pakt De Balie nog één keer uit met een intiem maar spectaculair programma rondom het concept van de ‘imaginaire media’. Al eeuwen dromen mensen over het ultieme communicatiemedium dat het voortdurende alomtegenwoordige menselijke misverstand voor eens en altijd uit de wereld moet helpen - maar de miscommunicatie lijkt nog steeds onuitroeibaar....

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Een archeologie van de imaginaire media

Graven in de menshiedsdroom van ultieme communicatie
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On Imaginary Media

Een filosofisch theater van Peter Blegvad
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Imaginaire media on-line

Archiverings-manie bij De Balie
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Dossier Media Archeologie

Alle lezingen on-line beschikbaar
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De Avond van de Imaginaire Media

Boekpresentatie van het "Boek van de Imaginaire Media" en avondprogramma met Richard Barbrook, Peter Blegvad, preview DVD of Imaginary Media, maandag 4 december 2006
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The Evening of Imaginary Media

Book presentation, lecture by Richard Barbrook, DVD of Imaginary Media preview, and live performance by Peter Blegvad, Monday december 4, 2006.
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Media Archaeology

Essay by Siegfried Zielinski, originally published in 1996, which delineated the new field of study of media archaeology
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From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd

Towards an Archaeology of the Media
Essay by Erkki Huhtamo, which similarly to Zielinski's essay on Media Archaeolgy outlines his methodological approach to the field (1996).
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The DEAD MEDIA Project

A Modest Proposal and a Public Appeal - the founding text of the Dead Media Project, by Bruce Sterling.
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New York Prophecies

The Future Is What It Used To Be - essay by Richard Barbrook on the imaginary futures of technology, illustrated by the New York World's Fair of 1964.
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Black to the Future

Essay by Mark Dery, first appeared in 1994 and later included in his book Flame Wars (1995), which was one of the starting points for the discourse of Afrofuturism.
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Connection Machines

Essay by Eric Kluitenberg for the forthcoming "Book of Imaginary Media" (September 2005), which extends the "First Introduction to an Archaeology of Imaginary Media", also included in this dossier.


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debalie terugkijken: De avond van de imaginaire media

Now available in the video archive of De Balie at www.debalie.nl/terugkijken and in this dossier (see the right-hand column).

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Imaginary Futures

Essay by Timothy Druckrey that examines the archaeological approach towards imaginary media resident in the works of a number of prominent (media-)artists.
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An Archeology of a Computer Screen

Essay by Lev Manovich, originally published in 1995, explores the pre-history of contemporary human <> machine (computer) interfaces.
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An Anarchaeology of Hearing and Seeing Through Technical Means

 Essay by Siegfried Zielinski
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Written on the Wind

Essay by Stewart Brand that highlights the background of the Long Now Foundation's projects that aim to foster long-term thinking, especially in relation to current technological developments.
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An Archaeology of Imaginary Media

Announcement of the mini-festival An Archaeology of Imaginary Media, February 5 - 8, 2004.
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First Introduction to an Archaeology of Imaginary Media

Introduction to the reader for An Archaeology of Imaginary Media
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