DEMA theory & practice books published!
The dual book set Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory has been published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg in Open Access!
The dual book set Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory has been published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg in Open Access!
The article "Thinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, histories and (re)use of 9.5mm film", written by DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden in collaboration with film archivist Mirco Santi, has been published in the latest issue of NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies.
The article “‘Live Forever in the Kinora’: Motion Photography in between Pre- and Early Cinema”, written by DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden, has been published in the volume Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema: Devices, Aesthetics and Audiences, edited by Ángel Quintana en Jordi Pons. The volume is a collection of papers, presented at the conference "Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema", organized by the Museu del Cinema and Universitat de Girona from 20 to 21 October, 2021.
Report of the international conference 'Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory' that took place on 8 & 9 September in the Science Center, Differdange, Luxembourg.
The conference 'Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory' will take place from 7 to 9 September 2022 in Esch-sur-Alzette and Differdange. The programme includes an inspiring variety of presentations, hands-on demonstrations, and art installations from scholars, museum professionals, artists and more.
The 16/9.5mm cutting and perforation machine of Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern in Switzerland. This device was created by the Swiss amateur filmmaker Paul Goy in the early 1970s.
Call for Papers for the international conference "Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory", organised by the DEMA project on 7-9 September 2022.
The article "Replicating the Kinora: 3D modelling and printing as heuristics in digital media history" has been published in Open Access in the new issue of the Journal of Digital History. The article is the result of a fruitful collaboration between DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden and engineer Claude Wolf from the Department of Engineering of the University of Luxembourg within the context of the DEMA project.
Demonstration of the hand-driven Pathé Baby 9.5mm film projector in use, showing a Felix the Cat film. Recorded in the Media Lab of the University of Luxembourg.
DEMA researcher Aleks Kolkowski was interviewed by journalist Jeff Palms for Delano in the Autumn last year about his use of historical sound recording technologies.
The Kinora viewer in use, demonstrated by DEMA researcher Tim van der Heijden in the Media Lab of the University of Luxembourg.
Making and playback of a cylinder recording on the Edison 'Fireside' Phonograph (ca. 1909), demonstrated by DEMA researcher Aleksander Kolkowski at the Media Lab of the University of Luxembourg in August 2021.
Sound recording of a Gamelan Orchestra from 1938 with the HMV 2300H Portable Disc Recorder.
The Stentorphone was developed between 1910 and 1920 by Harry Alfred Gaydon. Stentor was a character in Greek mythology who had a very loud voice. The difference between…
First tests of an original Stentorphone sounbox which had not been used in over 100 years. The aim of these tests is to compare the performance and the sound quality between the original and the polymer replica.
A report of the second international workshop of the DEMA project, held online on 18 December 2020. For this workshop, participants from various fields, including media history, art history, musicology, history of science, sensorial ethnography, contemporary composition and sound art were invited to share experiences on how to perform historical re-enactments and how experimental research can serve or operate in artistic practice.
Sound recording made with a Wilcox-Gay 'Recordio' 1C10 portable tape and disc recorder (ca. 1950). The recording, made by sound artist Aleksander Kolkowski, is a homage to Alvin Lucier's seminal electro-acoustic composition "I am Sitting in a Room" (1969).
Media-archaeological experiments with 'Improved Phantasmagoria Lanterns' (1820-1880). Video documentation of a series of historical re-enactments, performed by Karin Bienek and Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, illuminago, Frankfurt am Main, 2020.
This second DEMA workshop, taking place on Friday 18 December 2020, aims to reflect on best practices in documenting hands on and experimental research.
Re-enactment of making a sound postcard recording with the Cartavox, recorded by Aleksander Kolkowski in the Contemporary History Lab, Esch-sur-Alzette, October 2020.
Demonstration of the replica Kinora reel, produced within the DEMA project in collaboration with the Department of Engineering of the University of Luxembourg.
A hands-on demonstration of the Kinora Viewer Replica. This public online event shows the fruits of a recent successful collaboration between the C2DH and the Department of Engineering.…
Demonstration of the replica Kinora viewer, produced within the DEMA project in collaboration with the Department of Engineering of the University of Luxembourg.
A report of the first international workshop that was organized within the DEMA project, held at the C2DH on 17-18 December 2019. 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.
A hands-on workshop and demonstration of direct-to-disc recording on lacquer and vinyl discs, using C²DH’s newly restored disc-recording apparatus from 1948 – the HMV 2300H.
In January 2020, I had the opportunity to meet and visit IJsbrand Rogge, a 91-year old filmmaker and collector based in Amsterdam. Mr. Rogge owns an original Kinora…
In November 2019, I visited Bert Cremers, a film collector based in Horst, the Netherlands. Mr. Cremers owns a wonderful collection of 9.5mm and 16mm films, cameras and…
In November 2019, I was in Berlin and visited the famous analogue film and photography shop Click & Surr, founded by Jürgen Lossau in October 2017. Besides Mr.…
This first DEMA workshop, taking place on 17 and 18 December 2019, aims to reflect on best practices in documenting hands on and experimental research.
In this blog post, I present my post-doctoral research within the DEMA project in which I examine the genealogy of home cinema and amateur moviemaking as early-twentieth century practices by means of an experimental media archaeological approach.
In September 2019, C²DH launches the DEMA project which will provide a systematic reflection on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a practical and sensorial approach to media historiography.