Tag: archive
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The Web That Was
The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections. A 3-day Conference and Exhibition hosted by the University of Amsterdam, June 2019. Details, followed by exhibition photos and Marina’s report >>> Keynote speakers Megan Ankerson, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, University of MichiganWendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair, Simon Fraser UniversityFlorian Cramer, Professor of Applied Research, Rotterdam University of Applied…
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Dreamlands
“Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.” Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016-2017. An exhibition “embracing a wide range of moving image techniques, from hand-painted film to the latest digital technologies” Visit the exhibition page on Whitney’s website:
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Immemory
Immemory by Chris Marker, 1997, CD-ROM Marker’s multimedia memoir traversing the world through photographs, film clips, music and text Read more about the CD-ROM at Criterion Collection: In Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983), often considered the essay film, we meet the wildcat video game designer Hayao Yamaneko, who imports scenes from his life into his memory machine. The machine…
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Troubles With Sex, Theory,and History
Troubles with Sex, Theory & History by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid in collaboration with Steffen Ruyl Cramer, 1997, CD-ROM Visit artist Marina Gržinić’s website for her take on “Troubles with Sex, Theory and History (1997),” grzinic-smid.si, February 13, 2013: Slovenian artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid’s CD-ROM Troubles with Sex, Theory & History (1997,…
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Museum of Jurassic Technology
Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) High-resolution images courtesy of The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT). In this collection, you can find the Proustian Memory Model exhibit referenced in my book. For more on the Museum of Jurassic Technology, see Matthew W. Roth’s “The Museum of Jurassic Technology,” Technology and Culture 43, no. 1 (2002): 102–109.…
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Centre Pompidou
“Les Immateriaux (1985)” Exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris An exhibition focusing mostly on computational collections Curated by philosopher Jean-François Lyotard and design theorist Thierry Chaput, accompanied by a team of scientific consultants, “Les Immatériaux” was presented in the Grande Galerie on level 6 of the Centre Pompidou in 1985. The curators preferred to use the…
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Never Alone
“Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design” Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022–23 An exhibition focusing on digital interfaces as interactive designs that influence the perception of space, time, and relationships The interfaces we use to access digital words—from Zoom to FaceTime, WhatsApp to Discord, Roblox to Fortnite—are visual and tactile…
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Digital Cities
The Digital City (De Digitale Stad, DDS) by Waag (2004-2014) The Digital City (De Digitale Stad, DDS) started on 15 January 1994 as a freenet initiative of cultural center De Balie and Hack-Tic (what later became internet provider XS4ALL) in Amsterdam. For the first time, internet access was available for a large group of citizens…
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Méliès Museum
The Méliès museum (Musée Méliès) located in the Cinémathèque Française Visit the Museum Website:
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Net Art
“The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics” Exhibition at the New Museum, New York, 2019. “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics” features sixteen works from throughout net art history, showcasing a wide range of forms—websites, software, sculpture, graphics, books, and merchandise—while offering a space for considering the internet as social process, material…
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Database Narrative USC
A University of South California Projects Showcase: Special retrospective on Marsha Kinder’s collaborative USC Labyrinth Project & other pioneering interactive narrative works Organized and curated by Marina Hassapopoulou, for Transformations I: Cinema & Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools symposium, New York University, April 16, 2016. Watch the entire Transformations symposium on the Cinema…
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Jan Bot
Jan Bot by Bram Loogman and Pablo Núñez Palma (2017-2023) A filmmaking bot that combined archival footage and algorithms to generate experimental videos that connect found footage to today’s trending topics The found footage came from automatically parsed media from Bits & Pieces, the EYE Filmmuseum’s collection of found footage. Jan Bot then pulled the…
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Killer.Berlin.doc
Killer.Berlin.doc by Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann (1999) An experimental film with the technology and aesthetic intersecting documentary, fiction, and game. Synopsis Read student essays on Killer.Berlin.doc: Below: Info about the film and WTF is Killer?!?!?! Below: Choose your player – interactive menu Want to do an even deeper dive? More screenshots below! Media archeology…
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Seances
Seances by Guy Maddin (2016) with Alicia Smith, Dana Dansereau, David Christensen, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Loc Dao. Interactive installation and data-driven web-based story generator, paying tribute to ephemerality and loss in cinema history and digital culture. You can generate and watch your own ephemeral film here: Images courtesy of Dana Dansereau (National Film…
