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Below is the text of a short piece I wrote on the Media Archaeology Lab for the most recent issue of the German magazine Retro: Computer | Spiele | Kultur. Stefan Höltgen kindly invited me to contribute and translated my piece into German; you can read “Das Media Archaeology Lab” here. Founded in 2009 and currently part […]
Read More…As far as I know – and I know there are others like Marvin Sackner who do in fact know more – Julius Nelson was an instructor of “Secretarial Science” at Windber High School in Windber, Pennsylvania. In 1939, he published a how-to guide called ARTYPING in the form of a pad of paper that […]
Read More…Starting tomorrow I get to teach, for the first time, a graduate seminar on Media Archaeology alongside what I call “media poetics,” or the writerly practice of exploring the limits and possibilities of given reading/writing technologies. While we will do conventional reading writing in a seminar setting, our class will also do hands-on experiments in […]
Read More…I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Natalie Baur for the Spanish-language Latin American libraries blog Infotecarios on the Media Archaeology Lab. Natalie translated all my answers into Spanish here and below are my original answers in English. * 1) Briefly, what is the MAL and what kinds of work do you do there? Why/How is it an “archaeological” […]
Read More…On Tuesday October 1st, I was fortunate enough to have the chance to talk about Reading Writing Interfaces (coming out from University of Minnesota Press in June 2014) as well as my work with the Media Archaeology Lab live on the radio with Marcus Smith on BYU Radio. This was my first experience with what […]
Read More…[reblogged from the Media Archaeology Lab] As a result of a number of recent researcher visits to the MAL, the question we’ve been mulling over lately is whether, or how, works of digital literature can be said to have “manuscript versions.” Here is the background to this question: on 7 June 2012, I blogged about the 5.25″ […]
Read More…I’m thrilled the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has decided to hire a Digital Archivist, hopefully one who will work with the Media Archaeology Lab. Please apply or pass on this job description to any qualified individuals. The job posting is available below and here. * Digital Archivist The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries […]
Read More…This has been reposted from the website for the Media Archaeology Lab. * I’m fascinated so far by the posts by James Ascher, Eric Izant, and Kyle Bickoff – all members of our Media Archaeology Lab working group dedicated to thinking through how to catalog the MAL’s holdings. All three propose similar but also slightly different approaches to cataloging […]
Read More…It’s an honor indeed to announce that Judy Malloy, a true pioneer of hypertext and electronic literature broadly, has donated a set of floppies as well as documentation to the Media Archaeology Lab. To give you a sense of her contributions to the field, I’ve excerpted the following from her longer, more fascinating biography, on […]
Read More…At the invitation of MAL curator Mél Hogan, on Monday February 11th conceptual artist Joel Swanson gave a talk about the art project he’s working on in and for the lab on the history of computer keyboards and what symbolic or cultural meaning there might be in the presence or absence of certain keys. (In fact, […]
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