Doing experimental media archaeology

C²DH Innovating & Sharing History

The DEMA (“Doing Experimental Media Archaeology”) project studies the potential of hands-on experimentation as a means of better understanding and experiencing the materiality and use practices of old media technologies.
Musician Aleksander Kolkowski, media historian Tim van der Heijden and C²DH Director Andreas Fickers spoke to Hanna Siemaszko, the producer of the SciLux podcast on science in Luxembourg, about their experiences and their thoughts on experimental media archaeology as a practical and sensorial approach to media historiography.
This podcast was recorded in connection with the 2022 Annual Report of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), a University of Luxembourg research centre.

Want to find out more?

• DEMA website: https://dema.uni.lu
• C²DH: https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/
• University of Luxembourg: https://wwwen.uni.lu
• SciLux: https://scilux.buzzsprout.com/

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Hoofdstukken

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Why do experimental media archaeology? (00:02:14)

3. Cartavox, a sound postcard record of the 1950s (00:05:58)

4. Hands-on exploration of historical objects (00:18:37)

5. Investigating past visual media usages (00:21:59)

6. Kinora, an early motion photography technology (00:23:16)

7. Designing and implementing experimental types and settings (00:29:00)

8. Interconnection between theory and practice (00:34:04)

9. Learning by reusing and comparing technologies (00:35:18)

10. HMV 2300H portable disc recorder (00:38:48)

11. C²DH media collection for new experiments and education (00:46:31)

12. Documenting, sharing and teaching media archaeology (00:46:45)

13. What led you to the C²DH? (00:49:03)