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 ...
