Mariana Sanson:
I have to admit that I struggle a lot with understanding how software and hardware work. I’m highly visual and the process in which software and hardware work are extremely complicated to me, so […]

In Jussi Parikka’s introduction to What is Media Archaeology? he briefly mentions the wave of past media formats which suddenly came back into vouge during the late 00’s, early 10’s. Gameboys, Walkman, porta […]

I found very interesting and relevant the four readings. I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of some of the concepts or ideas exposed, and what I liked the most was that I questioned myself and my media p […]

What is my focus and can it align with a focus to reducing the demand for technology? Through media, I want to explore present realities to gain insight into the history of black people. I am focused on using […]

Sharon Matterns Code and Clay, Data and Dirt led me on a visual  journey  into understanding media archaeology ​and the role of reconstructing the anthropological/humanist through the material centered.
It rem […]

The preconceived idea that a medium is better or worst than, is one that is shaped in the interest of capitalism.  The brief outline of the eight users (Imagined, configured, experts, amateur, r […]

The readings for this week posed questions about how it is that research is conducted, and knowledge is created, by examining the space in which these actions take place: the laboratory. The space of the […]

Mattern’s Code and Clay continues to question the “myth of progress” discussed in other readings on Media Archeology. Part of the myth of progress in an extractive capitalist society is the repetition of gro […]

Tina Campt’s “Quiet Soundings” elegantly evokes the sonic registers that remain in the excess of archive. From a media archaeological lens, Campt’s text provides an aural methodology to photographic archive […]

Hi Morrison, I wasn’t familiar with John Edmonds’ work, and I love its expressive quietness. Its affect and stillness remind me of Campt’s description of the “tense” of a black feminist future: “often humble and […]

 
Syllabus Fall 2020
 

Dates: Friday, May 8, 2015
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Room B500

Re/Joice: A Re/Lab Showcase and Re/Ception presenting the work of Re/Lab Fellows.

Dates: April 21, 2017
How can design shift our perception of environmental systems and lifeforms? How can our technological interfaces be reconceived to acknowledge more-than-only human perspectives and […]

Dates: March 12–14, 2020

Melissa Friedling and Amir Husak were invited to present their workshop, Re-Lens:  Old Glass for New Eyes, as part of Re-Fest 2020, which took place March 12–14, 2020. Fe-Fest is orga […]