Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 9
2005: An Introduction 11
Dissertation Year 0 11
1 Concerns, Questions, Aims 15
Structure of the Dissertation 23
2 Media Theory and Media Archaeology:
HIstory, Materiality, PracticE 28
Medium/Media Theory: A dispute over materiality? 33
The Materiality of Network Culture 42
The Historical Turn of (New) Media Theory 54
Laws of Media 55
Transitions between the old and the new 57
Media archaeology 61
The New, the Old and the Dead 61
Deep Time and Topoi of Media 62
From Dead to Undead 65
Archives: Discursive and Technical 67
Media Archaeology and Technological Development 68
From Negative to Transversal Ontology 78
3 Contexts and Methods 87
The Alternative Media Context 87
The Media Art Context 90
A Practice-based Approach 92
Practice-based and Artistic-Research 95
Media- and Communications Research at the Crossroads 100
Cultural Production and Practice-based Research 104
4 The World’s Last television Studio 111
Introduction to Case Study I 112
Structure of the case-study chapter 114
Case methodology 116
Excavation 118
TV-Stop 123
Institutionalised and Dissolutionised Dissent 126
“Everyone can make tv- tv” – a manifesto and its (counter-) publics 129
From The World’s Last to the World’s Largest: 139
Everyone Can Make TV (About Bush) and Four More Years 139
What is to be done? Dilemmas of a TV Station 151
Discussion: The Vanishing Point of tv-tv 160
Intervention: TV-Hacknight - Eventualising analogue Switch-Offs and Digital Turn-Ons 167
Smart encoders and dumb decoders 169
“Adieu monde analogue, et Bonjour Monde Digitale!” 175
Convergence from Below: From The to Your New TV-Signal 183
5 The Art of the Overhead 197
Do’s and Don’ts : An Introduction to Case Study II 198
Case Methodology 201
Excavation: Uses and Counter-Uses - A Geneaology of The Overhead Projector 203
Uses: From Standardisation to Institutionalisation 207
Counter-uses: Light-Shows and Expanded Cinema 222
Intervention: The Art of the Overhead Festival 234
Call for Overheads! 238
Works produced within and/or presented at The Art of the Overhead 2005-09 247
Coda to The Art of the Overhead: 262
Imaginary, Residual, Renewable 262
6 The Media-archaeological generic? 268
To Take Some Distance of it All 268
Cybernetics and the doing and un-doing of History 271
From Generic to Generative 276
7Transversal media practices: Emerging concepts 280
Excavation: Imaginary, Residual, Renewable 282
Intervention: Eventualisation and Reverse-Remediation 290
8 Changing the changes: a summary and set
of tools 298
Sammanfattning 306
Ansats 306
Kapitel 1: ”Sammanhang, Frågor, Syften” 307
Kapitel 2: ”Medieteori och Mediearkeologi: Historia, Materialitet, Praktik” 309
Kapitel 3: ”Sammanhang och Metoder” 312
Kapitel 4: “The World’s Last Television Studio” 313
Kapitel 5: “The Art of the Overhead” 315
Kapitel 6: “Mediearkeologins ‘generiskhet’?” 317
Kapitel 7 och 8: ”Tvärgående mediepraktiker: Framträdande koncept” och ”Förändring av förändringarna: Sammanfattning och en samling verktyg” 318
References 322
Acknowledgements
2005: An Introduction
Dissertation Year 0
1 Concerns, Questions, Aims
Structure of the Dissertation
2 Media Theory and Media Archaeology: History, Materiality, Practice
Chapter Overview
Medium/Media Theory: A dispute over materiality?
The Materiality of Network Culture
Convergence and Divergence
Media Ecologies
Protocols
Heterogeneity
The Historical Turn of (New) Media Theory
Laws of Media
Transitions between the old and the new
Media archaeology
The New, the Old and the Dead
Deep Time and Topoi of Media
From Dead to Undead
Archives: Discursive and Technical
Media Archaeology and Technological Development
Non-linear histories and microtemporalities
The Problematic of Technological Development
Linear and Mono-Medial Appoaches
Evolutionary Approaches
Planned Obsolescence
From Negative to Transversal Ontology
3 Contexts and Methods
The Alternative Media Context
Alternative Media Rhizomes
The Media Art Context
A Practice-based Approach
Practice-based and Artistic-Research
Practice-based Research
Artistic Research
Media- and Communications Research at the Crossroads
Cultural Production and Practice-based Research
A Practice of Cultural Production
Case Studies and Cultural Analysis
4 The World’s Last television Studio
Introduction to Case Study I
Structure of the case-study chapter
Case methodology
Excavation
TV-Stop
Institutionalised and Dissolutionised Dissent
“Everyone can make tv- tv” – a manifesto and its (counter-) publics
Publics and Counter-Publics
Tensions between open and closed
From The World’s Last to the World’s Largest:
Everyone Can Make TV (About Bush) and Four More Years
The “Other” tv-tv (TVTV)
Different Tele-visions
What is to be done? Dilemmas of a TV Station
The Tuesday Meeting and its Discontents
Discussion: The Vanishing Point of tv-tv
Intervention: TV-Hacknight - Eventualising analogue Switch-Offs and Digital Turn-Ons
Smart encoders and dumb decoders
“Adieu monde analogue, et Bonjour Monde Digitale!”38F
Convergence from Below: From The to Your New TV-Signal
Reclaiming the Black Screen
5 The Art of the Overhead
Do’s and Don’ts : An Introduction to Case Study II
Case Methodology
Excavation: Uses and Counter-Uses - A Geneaology of The Overhead Projector
Uses: From Standardisation to Institutionalisation
Proto-overheads
Leisure Overheads
Educational Overheads
Counter-uses: Light-Shows and Expanded Cinema
Intervention: The Art of the Overhead Festival
Project Outline
Works produced within and/or presented at The Art of the Overhead 2005-09
Variations on a Standard: The OHP as an institutional medium
Random Hit
The Writings on the Wall (Copy their Faith)
The OHP in a Performative Context
Around by 170cm
Coda to The Art of the Overhead:
Imaginary, Residual, Renewable
Call for Overheads!
6 The Media archaeological generic?
To Take Some Distance of it All
Cybernetics and the doing and un-doing of History
From Generic to Generative
7 Transversal media practices: Emerging concepts
Excavation: Imaginary, Residual, Renewable
Imaginary
Residual
Renewable
Intervention: Eventualisation and Reverse-Remediation
Eventualisation
Reverse-remediation
8 Changing the changes: a summary and set of tools
Sammanfattning
Ansats
Kapitel 1: ”Sammanhang, Frågor, Syften”
Kapitel 2: ”Medieteori och Mediearkeologi: Historia, Materialitet, Praktik”
Kapitel 3: ”Sammanhang och Metoder”
Kapitel 4: “The World’s Last Television Studio”
Kapitel 5: “The Art of the Overhead”
Kapitel 6: “Mediearkeologins ‘generiskhet’?”
Kapitel 7 och 8: ”Tvärgående mediepraktiker: Framträdande koncept” och ”Förändring av förändringarna: Sammanfattning och en samling verktyg”
References
