4 Oct
2013
4 Oct
'13
11:15 a.m.
thanks Lawrence for the thoughts/feedback - I think we're having especially
good luck with opening the lab up to artists with our artist residency
we're calling MALpractice; despite the fact that we can't offer any
stipends or funding of any sort - only a performance or exhibit at a local
gallery - we've lined up nearly a dozen artists through May 2014 to work
directly with the hardware/software in the lab.
Anyways, it'd be a delight to show you the MAL one day---
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Lawrence Wilkinson <cctech at ljw.me.uk> wrote:
On 02/10/13 23:55, Lori Emerson wrote:
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Lori Emerson
Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab
Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226
loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com
The MAL is an open space for hands-on,
experimental research and teaching
actively using now-obsolete hardware and software. While the MAL does
concern itself with trying to maintain access to dead media (or zombie
media as nearly everything in the lab still functions) at the same as it
tries to preserve early works of digital art/literature created for these
dead media, it's still mostly preservation for the sake of active doing,
not to create yet another museum. Or if it is a museum, it's a museum
turned inside-out.
I am sure most of us on the list would regard software as a way of
bringing hardware to life, but reading this it's actually the other way
around.
I know that TNMOC here like to encourage use of computers where possible,
but I think that is more to allow visitors to find out what it was like
"back in the day" rather than recreating a particular experience.
Very good; hopefully I will make it to that part of the world one day.
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Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence at ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360