tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185241624690833781.post6273475271142218389..comments2022-09-22T03:10:57.701-07:00Comments on Cartographies of Media Archaeology: What is Media Archaeology? - beta definition 0.8Jussi Parikkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238564048913933403noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185241624690833781.post-70016423162842805712010-10-03T09:09:36.429-07:002010-10-03T09:09:36.429-07:00Hi,
I think there are some connections, on a coupl...Hi,<br />I think there are some connections, on a couple of levels; on the one hand, what makes both exciting is that they represent in a way *new* approaches to media studies, and hence post-representational ones at best. <br /><br />I have an article forthcoming in Fibreculture where I talk even more of media ecology and media archaeology as complementing approaches; there, the focus will be concretely on nature -- through the ex-Mongrel people Harwood-Yokokoji-Wright Ecomedia project (using and seeing nature as media and communication) and Garnet Hertz's dead media -- a good exmaple of media ecology combined with media arch; Hertz illustrates how the DIY practices of reusing, remixing, opening up, etc. tap both into the concrete information technology wastelands and how we can at the same time see this as a media archeaological task; to take the garbage as "storehouses" for future innovation.<br /><br />For me, both are exemplary in opening up the concept of "media" to a much wider field of mediations than the normal broadcasting check-list (or even new media) that is found on curricula; instead, it focuses on a range of ways how media are about "bending" time and space in a Latourian fashion. Media as a process. Naturally media archaeology has a more emphasized relation to time and history, and hence shares a slightly different agenda from e.g. Matthew Fuller-type media ecology. One interesting field where these are being connected is the way Wolfgang Ernst and the Berlin Humboldt "school" of media archaeology understands it as not only excavation of past media, but opening up current media - concretely like with circuit bending, hardware hacking -- and understanding how it recirculates what they call "micro temporality"...Jussi Parikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238564048913933403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185241624690833781.post-21093938933215141612010-10-03T05:25:48.743-07:002010-10-03T05:25:48.743-07:00I think this gives a useful definition of what you...I think this gives a useful definition of what you mean by media archeology.<br /><br />I was wondering if you could briefly outline what you see as some of the similarities and differences between an archeological approach to media and the practices of media ecology you describe in Digital ContagionsSyhttp://mediaecologies.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com