{"id":7521,"date":"2020-07-16T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/images-of-invisible-traces-documenting-and-re-enacting-an-18th-century-experiment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:10:01","slug":"images-of-invisible-traces-documenting-and-re-enacting-an-18th-century-experiment","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/images-of-invisible-traces-documenting-and-re-enacting-an-18th-century-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of invisible traces: documenting and re-enacting an 18th century experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On 17-18 December 2019, the first workshop of the DEMA project – Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory – project took place at the C\u00b2DH. For this workshop, specialists from the fields of media history, art history and the history of science were invited to share best practices and experiences in documenting hands-on and experimental research.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What approaches, methods and techniques are there for documenting historical re-enactments and experiments? Which best practices and \u201cartful failures\u201d can we distinguish? What documentation tools can we use, what are their affordances and limitations? How can we learn from other disciplines in documenting hands-on experiments? By addressing these fundamental questions, the DEMA project team organized a two-day workshop to reflect on, share and exercise documentation practices in hands-on experimental research. One of the aims of the workshop was to contribute to the development of a best practice guide and protocol that we can use for documenting our media archaeological experiments in the DEMA research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from the DEMA team – Andreas Fickers, Stefan Krebs, Aleksander Kolkowski and Tim van der Heijden – participants were the project\u2019s advisory board members John Ellis (Royal Holloway University of London), Lori Emerson (University of Colorado, Boulder), Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA), and Annie van den Oever (University of Groningen) as well as invited guests Falk Rie\u00df (University of Oldenburg), Wolfgang Engels (Histex GmbH \/ University of Oldenburg), Leslie Carlyle (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Julia Kursell (University of Amsterdam), Beno\u00eet Turquety (University of Lausanne), Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (Philips Universit\u00e4t Marburg), Karin Bienek (Illuminago, Frankfurt), and Tim Boon (Science Museum London).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full report of the workshop on documentation practices in media archaeological experiments, including lessons learned by the DEMA advisory board members, presentations by the invited specialists, discussions and reflections on historical experiments, can be read at the DEMA website here: https:\/\/dema.uni.lu\/documenting-media-archaeological-experiments-report\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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