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Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena

copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.

Hey there, fellow retro-tech nerds! The @mediaarchaeologylab has posted its open call for practitioners-in-residence in the lab for the next season, which begins in September. Submit your proposal by May 15!

Please boost for reach.

mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/p

The theme for the 2025/2026 residency is Counter Computing: Alternative Imaginaries.

Lab director Lori Emerson describes it this way: "We are interested in any form of artistic and/or scholarly practice that engages counter-computational practices, such as glitching, hacking, tinkering, queering, subverting, (un)making and (re)imagining. Through such experimentation, we encourage you to explore how our relation to (and imagination of) technology can be remade to envision alternative pasts, presents and futures."

The lab is asking interested parties to submit a proposal for an up-to-4-week residency that includes full access to the lab and its resources, and logistical support. Residents are expected to produce a public lecture, demo, video, performance, or exhibition as part of the residency. Examples of previous technical reports can be seen at mediaarchaeologylab.com/projec

Get to it, my peeps! We'll see you in the lab starting in the fall.

mediaarchaeologylab · Practitioner-In-Residence Open CallWe forgot about March & so feel less bad about sending out a second bulletin, especially because it is to announce that APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2025/2026 PRACTITIONER-IN-RESIDENCE COHORT ARE NOW OPEN! The theme for our 2025/2026 residency is Counter Computing: Alternative Imaginaries. We would like to see your interpretation

Tomorrow Wednesday we are hosting a Screen Walk with Hortense Boulaise-Ifrène exploring semiabandoned online worlds. She will be focusing on Chris Marker’s Ouvroir in Second Life and the now-defunct world of Microsoft AltSpaceVR, looking at how these strangely preserved yet abandoned spaces are suspended in an eerie limbo.

Hortense is a PhD candidate at Paris 8 University working on a practice-based thesis titled “Virtual Worlds in Ruins: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Media Archaeology”.

Free booking and more details here: thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Save the Date & Spread the Word:

Next week the last session of my lecture series "The World of Game Labs" will introduce the #GameLab "Circuit Lab" (circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-hall) of the MuK of Uni Halle. The lab, that is focused on #MediaArchaeology, #RetroGaming, and #RetroComputing will be introduced by Prof. Dr. Patrick Vonderau and his assistant Sara Bashir.

The introduction and tour can be joined online at:

mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2

Tuesday, 28.01.25, starting: 16:15

Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.

The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).

The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.

You can attend online here: mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2