{"id":7121,"date":"2022-09-16T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/doing-experimental-media-archaeology-practice-theory-conference-report\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:08:22","slug":"doing-experimental-media-archaeology-practice-theory-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/doing-experimental-media-archaeology-practice-theory-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory Conference – Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Report of the international conference that took place on 8 & 9 September in the Science Center, Differdange.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 8 and 9 September 2022 the \u2018Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory\u2019 conference took place at the Science Center in Differdange, organised within the framework of the Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) research project<\/a>, and funded by the FNR. This project aims to study the potential of hands-on experimentation in order to better understand and experience the materiality of old media technologies and their practices of use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday evening September 7, DEMA project members Aleksander Kolkowski and Tim van der Heijden, as well as project associates Karin and Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (illuminago) opened the conference with an inspiring F<\/a>orum Z<\/a> event at the Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event called \u2018Re-do, re-make and re-imagine\u2019 introduced both conference guests as well as the general public to the exciting objects that the DEMA project is working and experimenting on, including improved phantasmagoria lanterns, an original and replica Kinora and air-assisted gramophones with a giant newly built, 3D printed exponential horn.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n Impression of Forum Z \u2018Re-do, re-make and re-imagine\u2019 <\/p>\n <\/figure>\n\n\n

After a stimulating keynote on the value of flexibility in doing experimental media archaeology by Lori Emerson (University of Colorado Boulder) on Thursday morning, the conference continued with a series of panels that included contributions by musicologists, research technicians and media historians. This created a fascinating mix of topics along the panels, which ranged from the challenges encountered while recreating elements of Stockhausen\u2019s Sirius on a restored EMS Synthi 100 by Sean Williams (Open University) to a dissection of Analogue Camera YouTube Channels by Liri Chapelan (National Film and Theater Art School, Bucharest).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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