Hands-on Media History: Between the Analogue and the Digital

Description

How can we document analogue media technologies, like historical film technologies, and the tacit knowledge involved in their practices of use? What role can digital technologies – like 3D and 360-degree photography – play in preserving media heritage? My presentation discusses these questions while reflecting on the production of the CRAFTED-DEMA dataset, which was recently published on the Europeana platform of digital cultural heritage. This dataset includes a range of materials produced within the research project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) from the University of Luxembourg. The presentation will zoom in on the value of 3D digitization and documentation for doing handson media history in the digital age. Specifically, it will highlight research on the Kinora viewer (ca. 1907) and Pathé Baby 9.5mm film projector (ca. 1924) as early twentieth century home cinema devices and attempts to “re-animate” these media historical objects, their functionality and user practices in virtual yet multi-sensorial ways.

Period	26 May 2024
Event title	Eye International Conference 2024: Presenting Audiovisual Collections: Experiments and Explorations
Event type	Conference
Location	Amsterdam, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International