Technostalgia, Obsolescence, and Media Practices

As part of the Patnum seminar (CNRS Internet and Society Research Group), in collaboration with the CD-Hist project at the C²DH, we will have the pleasure of discussing, during a session in English on Friday, 5 June, from 10.00 am to noon, the following theme: “Technostalgia, Obsolescence, and Media Practices”.

We will hear from:

• Cássia Hosni (Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil; Postdoctoral research fellow at C2DH, University of Luxembourg), Eduardo Kac’s Reabracadabra, Forty Years Later
• Patryk Wasiak (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Retro Demoscene: Appropriation of Vintage Computers for Digital Art Production
• Krzysztof Olszamowski, Krzysztof Mroczek and Anna Kożuch (AGH University of Krakow, Poland), Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
• Claudia Ferrando Paulo (Universitat Jaume I, Spain), Capturing the Past to Survive the Present: The Use of Obsolete Captation Devices as an Escapist Technique among Generation Z

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