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Texts and Notes on Media Archaeology ["TEXTS AND NOTES ON MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY"] I MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AS SCIENCE / OPERATIVE MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY (nearly edited) HANDS ON / OFF. (RE-)ENACTING TECHNOLOGY Performative diagrammatics Media archaeology and cybernetics: Beyond anthropocentrism in the "hands on" approach a) Type-writing and digitality Telegraphic handicraft, "manipulation" and technology Type-writing: The de-coupled relation of the hand to writing Techné and keyboard Digitality instead of the whole "hand": fingers and numbers Between manual and digital painting b) Hands on the artifactual past "Hands-on-time": time axis manipulation Manual experimentation of time with machines Symbolical re-enactment of machines: From YUGO back to Babbage Circuit bending [Media materialism and Circuit bending] WHICH KIND OF PHILOSOPHY IN / FOR TIMES OF COMPUTATION? Rooting the "post-computational": radical media archaeology [The limits of computation as its chance] "Ready-to-hand": techné with Heidegger and "Object-Oriented Ontology" Re-turn from phenomenology to processual ontology Close to mathematics: combinatorial reasoning Materialist philosophy: Is dialectics computable? Man becoming inhuman in the calculating state Re/thinking computation in philosophical terms: cybernetic reasoning "Treat time as discrete": Towards a computational epistemology of tempor(e)alities TECHNOMATHEMATICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS A focus on time-critical signal processing in humans and machines Mico-tempor(e)alities: Vibrating nerves, vibrating strings [Guslari on wire] [Reenacting radio] [Analysis of hearing provides an example] The acoustic experience of the computer as (physical) body Statement: A vote for disembodied studies of implementations OPERATIVE MEDIA (ART) PRESERVATION Preserving the signal: Media theory in support of media art preservation Operative media museology Materiality matters: electronic media art (esp. video) Un/intended video noise Sustaining images from signals and as data The "two bodies" of computer-based art The different quality of computational media art MACHINICALLY INFORMED MUSIC FROM THE PAST "Challenging histories" vs. "escaping history" A mechanism for sonic time travel: the piano roll Sonic analytics Chrono-vibrational resonance: Experiencing the (Mono)chord Audio-technically induced (transduced) "archiving" of deferred presence Undoing musical historicity: phonographic signal "re-presencing" Sound-automatic invariance: Baroque music machines Phono-graphical analysis vs. hermeneutic interpretation MICRO-DRAMATURGICAL TEMPORALITIES OF MEDIA THEATRE Lasting signals, storage media remains Manual experimentation of time with sonic machines Flexible access to the audio-visual past The Presence of “Historical” Media in implementation Anatomy of Kittler's modular sound synthesizer and Historical Performance Practice in Electronic Music What remains: sonic "ghosts" from MP3 compression True Computer-Archaeological Reenactment: Emulation A final vote for algorithmic reenactment THE NON-NARRATIVE CHALLENGE. A TIME-CRITICAL REMARK The anachronism of story-telling Digital story-telling in the moving image The cybernetics of feed-back Telling by numbers Turing tests Non-historical media temporalities Re-entry of the alphabet: media archivology MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY: A CRITIQUE OF NARRATIVE MEMORY Media materialism: Cultural technologies and Nietzsche´s typewriter Vocal machines Siren songs and Musurgia Voice signal recording Sound archaeology Media archaeology - against media anthropology? Karsakov 1832 Data anthropometrics The punched card Images from data The cold (media-)archaeological gaze versus warm historical imagination? Farocki versus Cameron Archive, culture, memory, entropy, Internet, storage-to-transfer Storage versus transfer? Different data cultures "Counting by numbers" (instead of narrative): media archaeology Mediated memories and cultural records REFRESHING MCLUHAN "Media ecology" with McLuhan McLuhan at unease with media arts McLuhan's impact (on occasion of the 50th anniversary of UM) DISRUPTIONS. MEDIA STUDIES (BERLIN STYLE) Two waves of German media studies close to technology German "media theory" avant la lettre The Berlin model: Kulturwissenschaft and Media Studies in critical alliance "Understanding media" with ears The different meanings of "communication" in (German) Media Theory Message or noise? The logos of the machine: Non-human communication Message, massage: McLuhan's difference to Communication Studies By-passing the human-machine interface MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AS SPECIFIC METHOD Introducing media archaeology Further definitions of media archaeology What kind of "archaeology"? Media materialism Micro-research Soft media archaeology Different from history and narrative: archaeography Media archaeology's affinity to mathematics CONFRONTING ARTEFACTUAL TEMPOR(E)ALITIES: RADICAL MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeologizing the present: Digital compression and micro-processor ageing In between materiality and logical diagram: Paper machines "Post-digital" nostalgia for archaeological materiality? What kind of archéologie? Toward a re-definition of the "material artefact": the focus on Object-oriented programming, on operativity rather than matter Anatomy of Kittler's modular sound synthesizer Rethinking computing with Heidegger Arché and logos The affinity between media archaeology and pre-historical archaeology The alliance of "processual" archaeologies Radical media archaeology instead of "dead media" research "E. T." as topic of computer (game) archaeology [Really "forensic" media archivology: Reading a ROM] [Media-archaeological insight: the Janus-faced interface (Fry's deconstructulator)] Really "forensic" media archivology: Reading a ROM MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AS METHOD OF RESEARCH IN PARALLEL LINES (MEDIA ART, ACADEMIC MEDIA THEORY) In/compatible? Media Art and academic research Research as method A new kind of media historiography? Media archaeology as method a) in academic research, b) in artistic practice and c) as active media operations The a posteriori of media art? In/compatible media tempor(e)alities Obscuring media technologies: Online communication and "cloud computing" as challenge to Media Archaeology RADICAL MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY (its epistemology, aesthetics and case studies) Radical media archaeology against the soft archaeological metaphor Computer archaeology: case E. T. "Dead media" archaeology as artistic research II ON MEDIA ARCHAELOGY (notes): "Cultural techniques" vs. techno-mathematical operations On transmission as "bridging" Media, mathematics, archaeology Answers of Media Archaeology to Cultural Techniques Studies Modelling electric circuit diagrams Cultural techniques vs. technological idiochronicity Technological media processes within/-out Cultural History Media-temporal processes and their break from cultural history The Autonomisation of Culture and History: The Micro-Time of Technical Media How Not to Write Media History? Annales Sangallenses Computational Archaeology (proper) Techno-culture studies and/or "cultural techniques" Signal analysis and dis-embodiment Implementations Measuring "embodiment" with technological devices Gaming with the Pin Ball machine Experimenting media-temporality Against reduction to discursive effects Applying the media-archaeological method Looking versus listening at the monochord Re-experiencing Baird's television Sound and vision as radio and light waves (Heinrich Hertz) Technological addressing of human being (in time) The genealogy of mass media from measuring (experimental) media The time-critical dimension as a genuine form of media experimentation Experimental time versus history of knowledge Media-eventuality Beyond experimentation Artistic experimentation as metaphor? Media-archaeological experimentation Media Archaeology Lab / MAF The non-human meaning of "media archaeology" Displacing narrative media history: diagrammatic media archaeography Operational media archaeology Operative diagrammatics The cybernetic a priori Symbolical notation as (re-)construction of a machine: From YUGO back to Babbage The "post-computational" has been the pre-computational: analog computing Analog computing for / as simulation Simulation by numbers Computational "society" with Tarde and Latour Computing and its "musicality" Algorithmic sociology Discrete methods: writing the past retroactively Er/zählen: narrative versus calculation Computers avant la lettre? Writing media history as media archaeology Streaming: The digitization of records from the past Programming (back) into counting Still human? Counting with fingers Human and / or media-archaeological moments: computing Archaeology, computing Both discursive and nondiscursive: "Media archaeology of the stack" Algorithmic hermeneutics "Toward an Archaeology of Algorithmic Architectures from Within" "The gesture of programming" (with Flusser) Digitality instead of the whole "hand" Not hands, but fingers: the "digital" Hand-writing versus type-writer Maschine-writing The inhuman / machine within / defining the "human" The operative presence of technological artefacts from the past Re-enacting logicial machines The ahistoricity of computer architecture How to exhibit computational machines? Operative "dead" media collections The temporal challenge of Internet art Towards the dynamic "archive"? Rhizome ArtBase (since 1999) Archival need for re-operative hardware (or its emulation): U.S. Census files Really "forensic" media archaeology of an "archive" (the ROM) Re-enactment of The Speaking Clock The digital temporalization versus the material endurance of architecture
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