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Personal profile
Research interests
Dr. Tim van der Heijden is a media historian with a special interest in the history of amateur media technologies and practices. He holds a Ph.D in media history from Maastricht University, an M.A. in media studies (research-master) from the University of Amsterdam, and a B.A. in cultural studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His dissertation Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895-2005 explores the home movie as a twentieth-century family memory practice from a long-term historical perspective. Specifically, it investigates how changes in technologies of memory (from film via video to digital media) have shaped new forms of home movie making and screening. It was written in the context of the research project Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies (2012-2016), funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
In April 2017, he started working for the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg as a post-doctoral researcher and coordinator of the Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) Digital History and Hermeneutics, an interdisciplinary digital history project funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). From September 2019 until July 2021 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher within the FNR-funded project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice and Theory (DEMA).
In July 2021, he started a position as assistant professor of Media Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the Open University in the Netherlands.
His research interests are at the intersection of media history, digital technology and cultural heritage, specifically:
- History of amateur media: technologies, discourses and practices
- Experimental media archaeology: theory and practice
- Digital film historiography: concepts, tools and practices
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice
van der Heijden, T. & Kolkowski, A., 31 Dec 2022, De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 211 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic › peer-review
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Thinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, Histories and (Re)use of 9.5mm film
van der Heijden, T. & Santi, M., 12 Dec 2022, In: Necsus. European Journal for Media Studies. Autumn 2022Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Technologies de la mémoire: Supports de stockage amateurs et pratiques du film de famille sur « la longue durée »
van der Heijden, T., 9 Dec 2022, In: Temps des Medias. 39, 2, p. 141-159 19 p.Translated title of the contribution :Technologies of Memory: Amateur Storage Media and Home Movie Practices in the Longue Durée Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Replicating the Kinora: 3D Modelling and Printing as Heuristics in Digital Media History
van der Heijden, T. & Wolf, C., 14 Apr 2022, In: Journal of Digital History. 2022, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Amateur filmmaking technologies
van der Heijden, T., 21 Sept 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products › Popular
Open Access
Datasets
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Europeana CRAFTED-DEMA dataset
van der Heijden, T. (Creator), Europeana, 5 Sept 2023
https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?query=edm_datasetName%3A987_%2A
Dataset
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Kinora Replica 3D Model [Data set]
Wolf, C. (Creator) & van der Heijden, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 6 Apr 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6417747
Dataset
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Virtual Viewing Experiences (Application) [Data set]
Georgiakakis, T. (Creator) & van der Heijden, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 6 Jun 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8011420
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Prizes
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OU Wetenschapsprijs 2023
van der Heijden, Tim (Recipient), 21 Sept 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards) › Academic
Activities
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Understanding through Experimentation: Re-enacting a 16mm Home Movie
Tim van der Heijden (Speaker)
9 Sept 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference contribution (without a publication) › Academic
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Documentary and the Amateur Media Swarming (Seminar)
Andrea Mariani (Panel chair), Annamaria Motrescu- Mayes (Speaker), Charles Tepperman (Speaker), Tze-lan Deborah Sang (Speaker), Alyssa Grossman (Speaker), Chambers Ciara (Speaker), Tim van der Heijden (Speaker) & Ming Yu-Lee (Speaker)
8 Sept 2023 → 9 Sept 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference contribution (without a publication) › Academic
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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology
Christianne Blijleven (Organiser), Tim van der Heijden (Organiser), Kolkowski Aleksander (Organiser), Andreas Fickers (Organiser) & Stefan Krebs (Organiser)
7 Sept 2022 → 9 Sept 2022Activity: Attending or organising an event types › Organising an event › Academic
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Hoe maakte je vroeger een filmpje?
Tim van der Heijden (Speaker)
3 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Talk or presentation (not at a conference) › Popular
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Intermediality: Twentieth-Century Amateur Media as Technologies of Memory
Tim van der Heijden (Speaker)
9 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Talk or presentation (not at a conference) › Academic
Press/Media
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Podcast 'Doing Experimental Media Archaeology'
Andreas Fickers, Tim van der Heijden & Aleksander Kolkowski
29/06/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media › Popular
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Pathé Baby Centenary (1922-2022)
1/04/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities › Popular
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