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.
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.…
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.
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.…
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.
