Hack & Play: Retro Computing trifft Digital Humanities

Wie sah digitale Kultur vor Internet und KI aus? Unsere hybride Vortragsreihe im Sommersemester 2026 führt uns zurück in die 1980er, mit Themen von Game Studies über Heimcomputermusik bis zu Andy Warhols Computergrafiken.

📍 Universität Würzburg (vor Ort und online)
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Programm & Teilnahme: https://hacknplay2026.rtrlb.de

#RetroComputing #DigitalHumanities #MediaArchaeology

Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3334

#neuralarchive #neuralmag #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #mediaarchaeology #digitalpioneers #digitalheritage #obsoletetech #deadmedia #digitalpreservation #mediainstallation #timebasedart #newmediaart #mediaart #mediaarts #audiovisualart #audiovisuals #interactiveinstallation #interactiveart #digitalart #informationart #transmedia #softwareart #artsciencetechnology #netart #internetart #digitalcultures #analoganddigital #analoguedigital

Just published: "Glaswelten", edited by Margarete Vöhringer and Christof Windgätter - a book on the materiality of glass in culture, history, art, and science:

https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/glaswelten

I contributed a chapter about glass as a medium within media used in elektronics - from silicon to silicon dioxide to quartz glass.

#MediaArchaeology #MediaGeology #MicroElectronics #semiconductors #chemistry #physics

Just published as book and #OpenAccess PDF:

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7115-5/computerwohnen/

... with a chapter from me about the question "What is a home computer?".

#MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerHistory #MediaStudies

Venerdì 21 Novembre sarò a Roma alla Rimessa FAB, in via delle zoccolette 28, alle 19:00 dove presenterò insieme a Valentina Tanni la nuova edizione di Post-Digital Print in italiano.
Sabato 22 Novembre, invece sarò a Napoli, alla Libreria Tamu, in via Santa Chiara 10h, alle 18:00, dove la presentazione sarà fatta insieme a Corrado Melluso e Greg Olla.
Spero di vedervi lì!

On Friday 21 November, I will be in Rome at Rimessa FAB, in via delle zoccolette 28, at 7:00 pm where I will present the new edition of Post-Digital Print in Italian, together with Valentina Tanni.
On Saturday 22 November, I will be in Naples, at the Libreria Tamu, in via Santa Chiara 10h, at 6:00 pm, where the presentation will be made together with Corrado Melluso and Greg Olla.
I hope to see you there!

#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint

This Saturday in Leeds I am giving a short talk on my research at The Synthesizer Research Network (SyReN) Symposium titled: Someone Else’s Patch, Notes on Xenorganology and Early Video Synthesizers.
synthresearch.org/symposium

#mediaarchaeology #organology #mediaarthistory #computerarthistory

Very timely arrival of what must be the bible on the history and materiality of capacitors, surprisingly rare, over 500 pages with more than 2000 references, published in 1927 when capacitors were high-tech. With many pictures of workers in the mica mines in India and the ladies back home who manufactured all those capacitors that kept the empire running.

#PhilipCoursey #Condensers #Capacitors #MediaArchaeology #79 #SystemsThatMatter

I found a cool resource on a composer for The Weather Channel: https://twcclassics.com/information/trammell-starks.html

I first learned about him when Fire-Toolz shared some music that inspires her (https://fire-toolz.tumblr.com/post/183966509639/this-nonlocal-forecast-mix-offers-smooth-jazz-fit), and was reminded recently when she did a cover with some added metal elements: https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/track/life

I've really come to appreciate “cheesy” muzak, as well as old/lost media in general, and I added this to my links page (https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/links/)

#LostMedia #OldMedia #MediaArchaeology #TV #Vaporwave #Retro

Someone visited the @mediaarchaeologylab yesterday who happened to have a photo on their phone of their ancestors who literally rode the Oregon Trail in covered wagons in the 19th century, and I asked to photograph the picture in front of the startup screen for Oregon Trail. Honestly looks like a great 8-bit rendering of the scene on the monochrome Apple IIc.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oregontrail #history #HistoryColorado #appleii #apple #MediaArchaeology