Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory - Hardcover

by Andreas Fickers (Author), Annie Oever (Author)

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.

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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 Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.

Andreas Fickers is the Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and Professor of Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg.

Annie van den Oever is the Director of the Film Archive at the University of Groningen and Extraordinary Professor of Film and Visual Media at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

"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

Author Biography

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