Aleksander Kolkowski – Doing Experimental Media Archaeology

Author: Aleksander Kolkowski

Performing Media Archaeological Experiments (report)

by Aleksander Kolkowski and Tim van der Heijden

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.

23 May 2021

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Documenting Media Archaeological Experiments (report)

by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski

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.

15 July 2020

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His Master’s Vintage Voice: Experiments in Instantaneous Disc-Recording

by Aleksander Kolkowski

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.

25 February 2020

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