Media Archaeology & Technological Debris Conference - June 21, Goldsmiths
  This  workshop aims to bring established academics, PhD students, and early  career researchers together to discuss emerging research projects on the  field of media studies. It means to combine the thriving approach of  media archaeology with the growing environmental concerns about  technological debris, emphasizing the complementary character of these  topics in the construction of a material understanding of media  practices’ past, present and future. We expect to gather a number of  emerging investigations that can shed new light over the  socio-political, economic, cultural, technological, material and  aesthetic dimensions of the continuous phenomena of novelty and  obsolescence of media systems. In doing so, we also hope to create  conditions to examine the systems of relationship formulated around  these topics, paying particular attention to the regimes of value that  define media objects either as museum artifacts or as rubbish in  different global/local contexts (such as ...