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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology

Theory
  • Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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About this book

This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use into account in the writing of the histories of media and technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching.

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.

Author / Editor information

Andreas Fickers, Director of the C2DH Luxembourg; Annie van den Oever, Faculty of Arts, Arts Culture and Media, University Groningen.

Reviews

"For anyone – curator, researcher, visitor - who ever wondered how now mute museum objects mattered in their past, here is a compelling means to find out." – Tim Boon, Head of Research & Public History, Science Museum Group UK

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“A really fantastic, stimulating, thought-provoking book. Convincing, with a broad scope, clearly supported by personal experience (and experiments), collective as well as personal. The very emphasis on the relation between teaching and research is as refreshing as it is crucial for the argument.” – Benoît Turquety, Associate Professor for Film Studies at Lausanne University

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 31, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110799774
Hardcover published on:
December 31, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110795806
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
12
Main content:
155
Coloured Illustrations:
21
Tables:
1
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