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The Lab Book

Situated Practices in Media Studies

by Darren WershlerLori EmersonJussi Parikka

Despite their sudden visibility due to the burgeoning of the digital humanities, media labs have a surprisingly long history. As part of the historical avant-gardes, media arts labs were the sites where the new materials and aesthetics of technical modernity were developed. They often share a common ideology, tied not just to the neoliberal drive to privatize, innovate and disrupt, but to long-standing modernist ideas about creative destruction, quantification and the value of scientificity. The Lab Book will thoroughly document and explicate this significant cultural force.

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Draft IntroductionDraft Ch. 1: SpaceDraft Ch. 2: ApparatusDraft Ch. 3: InfrastructureDraft Ch. 4: PeopleDraft Ch. 5: ImaginariesDraft Ch. 6: Techniques
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Draft Chapters

  • Introduction: Everything is a Lab

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Interviews

  • An Interview with Garnet Hertz

    by Lori Emerson
    Added May 2020
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  • ACTLAB, or, Make Stuff! An Interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated September 2019
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  • An Interview with Lara Kirby Pardo of RAP Lab

    by Erin Armstrong
    Updated May 2019
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  • An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Professor Mareis and Dr. Allen, Critical Media Lab

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Stefan Höltgen of the Signal Lab

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Neal White of the Office of Experiments

    by Jussi Parikka
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Andreas Treske of Bilkent Media Archaeology Lab

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • The Media Lab as Space for “Play and Process”

    by Hilary Bergen
    Updated April 2018
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  • Jesper Olsson on The Media Archaelogy Lab

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Edward Kim of HICapacity

    by Laurel Carlson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Andrew Quitmeyer of Digitial Naturalism

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Bernard Perron, Guillaume Roux-Girard, and Carl Therrien

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Mark Algee-Hewitt of the Stanford Literary Lab

    by Hillary Susz
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Marcel O’Gorman of Critical Media Lab

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • Hackerspace Culture

    by Georgie Archibald
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Piotr Marecki of UBU Lab

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Dr. Diego Cavallotti

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Professor Bo Reimer

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • Humanities Infrastructure, Inflection and Imagination

    by Lori Emerson
    Updated April 2018
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  • An Interview with Matthew Jockers

    by Mitch Ingraham
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview with Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum

    by Jaime Kirtz
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview with Lily Diaz and Philip Dean

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview with Erandy Vergara

    by Maya Livio
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview with Robert Emmons

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview With Sydney Shep

    by Elana Friedland
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview with Caroline Bassett and Sally-Jane Norman

    by Niki Tulk
    Updated June 2018
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  • An Interview with Jake Harries

    by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson
    Updated June 2018
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Resources

Single Resources

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    ACTLab Interior

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    ACTLab Creation

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    1974 Computer

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    Höltgen in the Signal Lab

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    The front entryway for the Studio for Critical Making

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    The front room of the Studio for Critical Making

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    Office and classroom space and library of books for the Studio for Critical Making

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    Another view of the office and classroom space for the Studio for Critical Making

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    Office and classroom space for the Studio for Critical Making

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    Einstein's Dreams (2013)

19 Total Resources

Metadata

  • isbn
    978-1-4529-5840-8
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
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