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hey we are trying out a new thing starting next Wednesday it's CYBERDECKCLUB.
bring your lunch & your deck in progress or your ideas for one, come hang in the lab, work on things with other people.
1pm Wednesdays starting next week til we say otherwise!
we have acquired a fabulous 8mm / super8 projector - Kodak Movie Deck
oh the things we find when we're organizing...
On Thursday April 9 at 5pm our current resident Clemens Schöll (@neopostmodern@tldr.nettime.org) will share his Instagram automaton, “Artist at Work 4.0.”
Clemens' sculptural-bot will be installed in the MAL pop-up space (CASE W250).
Please join us as Clemens will deliver an artist talk on his creative process during his MAL residency. Clemens will also position “Artist at work 4.0” in relation to his broader practice-based research in counter-automation.
Clemens’ talk will also be live-streamed on Twitch (https://twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology) at 5pm MST / UTC -6.
just know that if you steal an iPod from the lab you will be haunted by the ghost of Steve Jobs forever
It is still fall fundraising time!
Donations go towards stipends for practitioners in residence and visiting artists, and to purchasing interesting pieces of tech to fill out gaps in the collection.
All U.S.-based donations over $7 will receive a thank you sticker pack (including our new limited-run heart shaped one, ooooo) and U.S.-based donations over $20 will also receive a limited-run print made with our newly refurbished mimeograph.
all April, no fools - guess the song that's playing and you'll win... well, nothing, but we'll be very impressed
yesterday we had errands that took us by the best-named road in the area
important info for Colorado folks: https://infosec.exchange/@threatresearch/116477454960438426i
happy birthday fifth element
April newsletter is up, on the first day of the month no less! https://mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/all-april-no-fools/
Monday! 12:30 PM, UMC Aspen Rooms!
CU Cinema Studies hosts Laura U. Marks to talk about the Small File Media Festival! https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/small-files-for-a-small-world-a-talismanic-practice
We've kicked off our Practitioner in Residence series with a bang (or a boo?) - Dr. Katherine Guiness is in the lab for the next little while and has a number of events planned...
Katherine says: Want to learn about the long history of media, technology, and spiritualism? Are you currently being haunted and need some advice? Want to learn how to hunt ghosts yourself? Do you think YOU might be a ghost? (There’s a high probability that you are!)
Come to a free consultation at the Media Archaeology Lab with Dr. Katherine Guinness, ghost (and art) theorist from the University of Maryland during the MAL open hours, except when she hosts office hours at the CASE W250 pop-up space on Tuesday March 3 at 12:00 PM (all times are Boulder time, GMT -07:00) or is otherwise conducting one of the following events, livestreamed on our Twitch or in-person at the MAL:
March 2, 11 AM: Creative Misuse of Media & Intro to Ghost Hunting Lecture
March 2, 2 PM: Dream Incubation Practice (Creating our Ghost Bodies)
March 4, 2 PM: Tech Time with Ian McDermott
March 4, 4 PM: Ghost Help Hotline
March 5, 11 AM: Making Music for and with Ghosts
March 5, 5 - 8 PM: Live-stream Séance
March 5, 8 PM: Ghost Hunting Live at MAL
a little from our current practitioner in residence @neopostmodern@tldr.nettime.org:
During his residency Berlin-based media artist Clemens Schöll is developing his project "Artist at work 4.0". Clemens is upcycling an old 3D printer into an autonomous Instagram-operating robot. Fitted with a copper-tipped silicone replica of his hand it will scroll and interact on his behalf. The kinetic installation is a counter-automation approach of self-defense against hostile yet seemingly necessary platforms. It empowers to renegotiate the terms of online and social interaction: should individuals be allowed to automate activity against the platforms' will? What legitimacy does automation have in social interaction in face of the artifical sociality of "social" media?
ever noticed that we've got a hard time sharing our hours in a coherent way? well... we're trying something new. all the hours postings, events, and calendars in one place. thanks, neocities.org, for existing. you're the best.
there's a ton happening the first week of March so we managed to get our newsletter out early - https://mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/something-about-march-and-lambs/
Events! Next week (3/31) and Thursday (4/2)!
Folk Machinery is a performance by artist-researcher Niamh O'Brien. Taking inspiration from the work of the Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1970) Niamh has recorded with a number of Boulder-based Irish traditional musicians. This performance will bring together the sounds and stories she collected, live harp music and song, and reflections on the role of the collector and the machines of her trade.
Niamh is a harp player, singer, composer and artist from Ireland. She is a Fulbright-Creative Ireland Fellow 2025-6 hosted by the Media Archaeology Lab at CU Boulder.
An incomplete MAL wishlist:
- Any and all accessibility tech (speech synthesizers, braille displays, etc.)
- Any and all non-English or non-QWERTY keyboards or typing devices
- Casio Loopy Mouse
- Casio Loopy Magical Shop
- Cybiko
- Fairchild Channel F
- Famicom Disk System
- Microbee
- Selectavision Player
- Sidekick
- SNES controllers
- Unitron Mac 512
- VideoNow discs
- VirtualBoy
(we'll keep this pinned & update it as we think of stuff. if you have something on the list you'd like to send our way, please DM for details. Unless specified, we're only able to take things in working condition.)
oh hi we're doing t-shirts again, here's the pre-order info: https://open.substack.com/pub/mediaarchaeologylab/p/happy-december
We have two more Twitch streams with Practitioner in Residence Dr. Katherine Guinness today!
First up, Ghost Tech Talk with Two Ians at 2PM (GMT-7)
Followed by the Ghost Help Hotline at 4PM (GMT-7)
Join us if you can! (and, both of Katherine's previous streams are still up on the channel as well!)
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/116139432922534524
Slight correction, what was listed as tomorrow at 2PM is actually TODAY at 2PM:
March 2, 2 PM: Dream Incubation Practice (Creating our Ghost Bodies)
We'll be live with Katherine Guinness's Creative Misuse of Media & Intro to Ghost Hunting Lecture on Twitch at 11 (15 minutes!) https://www.twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/116279881218247046
Reminder!! This is tomorrow & again on Thursday - we'll also be making an attempt to livestream both evenings on our twitch (https://twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology)
Today's events with Practitioner in Residence Dr. Katherine Guinness:
(all times GMT-7)
11 AM - Making Music For and With Ghosts (Twitch)
5 - 8 PM: Live-stream Séance (on Twitch and in-person!)
8 PM: Ghost Hunting Live at MAL (on Twitch and in-person!)
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/116177680474974784
today's first event is in 45 minutes!
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/116160835407912784
Our next livestream event is at 2pm - Dream Incubation Practice (Creating our Ghost Bodies)
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/116177690315544040
if you've missed Katherine's livestreams so far, they are temporarily archived on twitch, and linked from here: https://mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
we'll host them more permanently once we've got the whole set