Media Archaeology

Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2011
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-26274-4 (ISBN)

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Introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. This book helps us understand how the media that predate interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday.

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today's interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting 'old' or even 'dead' media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding 'new' media in their complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture.

Erkki Huhtamo is Professor of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Jussi Parikka is Reader at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton, UK) and the author of Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses and Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Part I: Engines of/in the Imaginary 2. Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study Erkki Huhtamo 3. On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media Eric Kluitenberg 4. On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine Jeffrey Sconce 5. Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of the Wunderblock Thomas Elsaesser Part II: (Inter)facing Media 6. The "Baby Talkie," Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern Machiko Kusahara 7. The Observer's Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch Wanda Strauven 8. The Game Player's Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports Claus Pias 9. The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Part III: Between Analogue and Digital 10. Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your Head for a Preservation Paul DeMarinis 11. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media Wolfgang Ernst 12. Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities, Interception, and Disturbance Jussi Parikka 13. Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium Casey Alt 14. Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes Noah Wardrip-Fruin 15. Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the Past Vivian Sobchack Contributors Selected Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.7.2011
Zusatzinfo	14 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-26274-3 / 0520262743
ISBN-13	978-0-520-26274-4 / 9780520262744
Zustand	Neuware