No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

The aim of this chapter is to outline experimental media archaeology as an alternative method to a sense and object-oriented technology and media historiography. The epistemological potential of an object and sense-oriented experimental access to the fijield of the history of media and technology will be discussed here on the basis of experiences in the history of science and historically informed music performances. The heart of the chapter is formed by a discussion of a series of media archaeological experiments executed by the authors in search for alternative ways to draft historical statements on past media practices. In these experiments, they focus on the materiality of past-media devices, beyond their function as 1 This chapter follows up on our 2013 article 'Experimental Media Archaeology: A Plea for New Directions', which appeared in Technē / Technology. Expanded and amended versions of this plea were written by Andreas Fickers in 2015 in 'Hands-on. Plädoyer für eine experimentelle Medienarchäologie, in Technikgeschichte 82. Annie van den Oever expanded on the plea with further reflections on hands-on experiments with devices in the fijilm archive in her book with Giovanna Fossati , Exposing the Film Apparatus. The Film Archive as a Research Lab. We would like to thank Dr. Jo Wachelder, Dr. Susan Aasman , Tim van der Heijden, and Tom Slootweg for the fruitful discussions that were held on the type of experimental media archaeology in the context of the project 'Changing Platforms of Ritualised Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies', funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientifijic Research (known by the Dutch initials NWO), in which Andreas Fickers was involved. We would also like to thank the members of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology (NEMA) for their contributions to discussions on the topic, in particular Prof. Giovanna Fossati , Head Curator of Eye Film Institute the Netherlands in Amsterdam; and Prof. Benoît Turquety of the University of Lausanne, for sharing his expertise on the complex history of fijilm technologies with us, and Bernd Warnders and André Rosendaal of the pilot project on Curating Media Heritage at the University of Groningen.