Media Archeology

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students are acquainted with the history of media-archeology research: They receive an overview of key methods, understand the importance of research and the history of media in a societal context including so called forgotten concepts in the sense of parallel histories of media.

Mode of study:

Lecture, readings, discussion

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Course contents:

This course offers a glimpse into the history, theory and practical aspects related to the interdisciplinary field of; archeology of audio-visual media. Part of the course will be an acquaintance with the genealogy of this field of research including its social, techological and artistic research context in Czech and internatioanl context. The course reflects current changes related to the digitalization and convergence processes of media, including questions of archiving and restoration of media artefacts. It guides the students in the terminology, methodologies and historical issues of various area interpretations of this relatively recent and quickly developing area. This course focuses on the history and contemporary field of audio-visuality. Individual lectures cover the rise and fall of various forms of the technical image (photography, film, video), archeology of capturing technology, transmission of signal, creation of sound (audio recordings, networks, codes, signals with a view to current issues of archiving, restoration, migration and distribution.

In contrast to a linear concept of the classical concept of the history of (media) art, the archeology of media offers potential use through cross discussion, use of free methods and exact and humanities studies and inspires the frequent creation of new media artists (Paul de Marinis, Paul Panhuysen, Jeffrey Shaw, Werner Nekes, Gustav Deutsch, Petre Forgacs, Martin Howse, Zoe Beloff, Gerhard Sengmueller, Andrej Smirnov). Part of Media archaeology research focuses, as well, on issues of inter-textuality, remediation and the ecology of post-media society, or the genealogy of narrative samples, migrating across time and areas of the written word, graphic depiction, history of research, technique, philosophy or anthropology.

Curriculum:

Archaeology of media - history of the discipline

Key concepts

Methods of media archaeology research

Case Studies (multi-media works (Woody Vasulka), a film piece and its archiving, an audio-visual piece and its remediation, devices and software programs and their emulations)

February:

13.2 cancelled

20.2. Miloš Vojtěchovský introduction

27.2. Miloš Vojtěchovský: Time Machines

March

6.3. Lucie Česálková

13.3. Robert Horvitz

20.3. Matěj Strnad

27.3. Kateřina Svatoňová

April

3.4. Tomáš Dvořák

10.4. Karel Piorecký

24.4. Milan Guštar

May

10.5. Verena Kuni, eng

15.5. Jussi Parikka, eng

17. 5. Bernd Herzogenrath: Decasia - Matter that ‘Images’, eng

May lectures for OPEN EYE on Wednesday evening

http://cas.famu.cz/wiki/index.php/Archeologie_m%C3%A9di%C3%AD_koncept

Recommended or required reading:

Basic bibliography:

Jussi Parikka: What is Media Archaeology? London, Polity Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780745650265

http://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/courses_readings/colt607/parikka_what-is-media-archaeology.pdf

Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, Getty Foundation

Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (eds.): Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, UC press 2011

Friedrich A. Kittler, Optical media. Berlin Lectures 1999. Cambridge: Polity Press 2010.

Addl. bibliography (selection)

Barbara Büscher – Jana Horáková, Imaginary Spaces. Raum/Prostor - Medien/Média -

Performance/Performance. Praha: KLP 2008.

Tomáš Dvořák, Sběrné suroviny. Texty, obrazy a zvuky nedávné minulosti. Praha: Filosofia 2009.

Thomas Elsaesser, The New Film History as Media Archeology. CiNéMAS, roč. 14, 2004, č. 2-3., s.75-117.

Oliver Grau, MediaArtHistories. Massachusetts: New The MIT Press 2007.

Alison Griffithsová, „Pohyblivé obrazy nebes“. Pohroužení do vesmírného divadla planetária. Iluminace roč. 20, 2008, č. 3 (71), s. 68-106.

Erkki Huhtamo, „Od kybernetizace k interakci: příspěvek k archeologii interaktivity“. Teorie vědy, roč.

26, 2004, č. 2, s. 81-92.

Friedrich A. Kittler, „Gramofon, film, psací stroj“, Teorie vědy, trans. Silvia Vedrödiová, No. 2, Vol. 11, pp 33-55. Translation of the Introduction. Reprinted in Kapitoly z dějin a teorie umění, ed. Tomáš Dvořák, 2010, pp 51-68.

Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800 / 1900, trans. Michael Metteer with Chris Cullens, Stanford University Press, 1990.

Eric Kluitenberg (ed.), Book of imaginary Media: excavating the dream of the ultimate communication medium. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers 2006.

Jussi Parikka, Digital Contagions: A Media Archeology of Computer Viruses, New York: Peter Lang, 2007

Dieter Daniels, Barbara U. Schmidt (eds.), Artists as Inventors-Inventors as Artists, Hatje Cantz, 2008

http://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Dieter_Daniels-Artists_as_Inventors_and_Invention_as_Art.pdf

Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New. Thinking About Electric Communication in the

Late Nineteenth Century. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988.

Avital Ronell, The Telephone Book. Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1989

William Uricchio, Media, Simultaneity, Convergence. Culture and Technology in an Age of Intermediality. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht 1997

Wolfgang Ernst, „Let there be irony. Cultural history and media archaeology in parallel lines". Art History, roč. 28, 2005, 5, s. 582-603.

Wolfgang Ernst, „Medienarchäologie. Eine Provokation der Kommunikationsgeschichte“. In: Habbo Knoch – Daniel Morat (Hg.), Kommunikation als Beobachtung. Medienwandel und Gesellschaftsbilder 1880-1960. München: Fink 2003. s. 37-56.

Siegfried Zielinski, The Deep Time of the Media. Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means. Cambridge: The MIT Press 2006.

http://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Zielinsky-deep_time_of_the_media.pdf

Siegfried Zielinski – Silvia M. Wagnermaier (eds.). Variantology I. On Deep Time Relations of Art, Science and Technologies. Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2005.

Siegfried Zielinski – David Link (eds.). Variantology II. On Deep Time Relations of Art, Science and Technologies. Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2006

Siefried Zielinski, Audiovisons. Cinema and Television as Entr’Actes in History. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 1999

Paul DeMarinis, Buried in Noise, Kehrer, 2011

Bruce Sterling: Dead_Media_Notebook

Assessment methods and criteria:

Oral exam. Checking the knowledged of the presented material and required study material

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Informace o lektorech:

Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D (FAMU)

History and theory of media archeologz

https://cas-cz.academia.edu/tomasdvorak

Eric Rosenzveig

Mgr. Miloš Vojtěchovský

Time Machines: art, archeology, dead media and the concept of deep time

Guests

PhDr. Jaroslav Anděl

Archeology of thought and transdisciplinarianism

http://resite.cz/en/conference/jaroslavandel

Ing. Milan Guštar, Ph.D (HAMU)

Archeology of electronic devices

PhDr. Kateřina Svatoňová, Ph.D. FFUK

Archeology of media in the Bohemia. (history of virtual reality, archeology of media, audio-visual alternatives, history of optical media)

http://film.ff.cuni.cz/htm/svatonova.htm

Doc.Lucie Česálková Ph.D.

Archeology of immersion or Archeology of interactivity

NFU oddělení výzkumu lucie.cesalkova@nfa.cz Tel: 778 522 713

archeology of the moving image and audio-visual media

Mgr. Matěj Strnad, NFA

Encyklopedia, libraries, archives and education (comments on the history and practice of archiving)

Methods of archiving and restoration of media content

http://eea.nfa.cz/cz/tym/matej-strnad/

Robert Horvitz

Non-linear history and signal phenomenology

http://mujweb.cz/horvitz/index.html

Prof. Dr. Verena Kuni M.A.

[AN] ALCHEMY OF OUR TIME

Visual Culture at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

Dr. Hanna Rose Shell

Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

hrshell (at) mit.edu

http://web.mit.edu/~hrshell/www/

Jussi Parikka

Technological Culture & Aesthetics at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).

https://jussiparikka.net/

Mercedes Bunz

Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, London, Multimedia Journalism and Social Media

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/bunz-mercedes

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