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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 1h

thank you! it's such a great piece

media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 3h

we're (virtually) looking at among other things maps and technology and art with a class from Concordia today and so you should all read this essay from @stephencass.bsky.social because it's poignant and lovely

Stephen Cass @stephencass.bsky.social · Jun 4

I just wanted to add this to the map discourse: an essay I wrote for EmpherMAL, the zine from @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social — it's about the glory days of personal cartography in the 80s; text, flip-screen, and FPS games; Discworld books; and D&D then and now (p10): archive.org/details/ephe...

ephemerMAL volume 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

First issue of the Media Archaeology Lab ephemera zine

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 1d

our October newsletter is live! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/happy-october/

Happy October!

it's MAL-o-ween season 🎃... Hi folks! We're well into the fall now and so much is happening... 1. Maya Buffet-Davis' exhibition Books Are Machines has an opening reception from 2-5 PM Saturday Octo...

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Camila Galaz @camilagalaz.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so happy to be a resident this week at @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social !! 🌈 I’ll be working on an upcoming project about computers and roses 🌹

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 8d

also, the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's Victrola not only works it BLASTS music!

Victor Victrola plays a Johann Strauss disc. it sits on a white table against a window with rainbow vinyl horizontal stripes. beside the Victrola are other discs as well as a small pamphlet titled "How to get the most out of your Victrola"

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 15d

Lightweight, portable, and reliable, the UNIS tbm de Luxe from the former Yugoslavia was the most popular typewriter in the socialist and Soviet blocs in the 1970s and 80s. Peep that Cyrillic keyboard!

This burnt-red beauty is available for you to explore in the MAL pop-up in CASE W250.

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 20d

Come witness the splendor of the CompuVend Love Tester! For 25¢, you, too, can measure your passion!

The MAL pop-up is open Monday through Friday in CASE W250

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22d

Come visit the MAL pop-up in CASE W250

This exhibition showcases automata, magic lantern and pre-cinema optical toys, early A.I. experiments, spirit duplication & mimeograph, and much more - including special installations from artists Maya Buffet-Davis and Allison Radomski.

Open daily, Mon-Fri

Featuring media technologies that are precursors to today's mediated world, this exhibition showcases automata, magic lantern and pre-cinema optical toys, early A.I. experiments, spirit duplication & mimeograph, and much more - including special installations from artists Maya Buffet-Davis and Allison Radomski.

Watch the calendar for special events & workshops, or visit during open house hours!

Open daily, Monday thru Friday, for independent exploration, research, and play!

Come visit the MAL pop-up in CASE W250 and explore a wide array of functional tech spanning three centuries.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 26d

one of the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's very talented artist in residence is hosting a "Mundane Magic Lantern Spectacular" every Monday this semester 5-7pm in the MAL pop up on campus (CASE W250). come play with magic lanterns and even learn how to make your own slides!

MUNDANE MAGIC LANTERN SPECTACULAR
CASE W250, Fall 2025
5pm-7pm, every Monday
INFO: mediaarchaeology@colorado.edu

MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY LAB POP-UP
What are we really buying into when
we purchase the products of the future?

Allison Radomski (filmmaker and
MFA candidate) invites you to
explorethe tangled intersections of
technology, marketing, and history
through the Magic Lantern!

Come learn more about the
Magic Lantern, play with
antique slides, and help
design new slides for
the installation

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 29d

our september newsletter is up... puns kept to a minimum this time <3 mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/september/

September

though not quite so late as the 21st night... We feel a little like we hit the ground before we were ready to be running this fall semester, but we're getting our feet and happy to share some news wi...

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 5

our open house hours for the semester have (mostly) solidified, though we may be adding a few additional slots... and we're really pleased to say that Mondays we're open a little ways into the evening! find the full calendar here: calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...

MAL Open House Schedule

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · Sep 5

also, finally, what could possibly be better than having 20 nineteen year olds check out the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social for the first time and hear them mutter repeatedly to each other across a row of typewriters and ancient cell phones, "nice. this place is dope."

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · Jun 30

still amazed the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social‬ now has a functioning Apple Lisa...it's really something! and a bit of writing from someone in 2007 who took some pains to write a long doc about how they were only going to write on the Lisa from that point on 💚

front view of an Apple Lisa computer from 198e. yellowing beige keyboard and mouse. front panel of monitor has been removed. CRT screen shows a page of writing in Lisa Write.

close up of document written in Lisa Write.file name is "Using a Lisa for real work 3/30/07." includes a graphic that's an outline of the front of an Apple Lisa with "LisaWrite" appearing in the center of the screen.

photograph (taken from the top of the machine) of the insides of the Apple Lisa.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · Jun 28

Star Wars in ASCII, as it was meant to be seen. At the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social

ASCII representations of C3PO and R2D2 on an IBM PC 5150

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 25

visiting artist Jazmyn Crosby will be performing Bug Radio tomorrow (Thursday June 26) on our wonderful and amazing campus radio station!

show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!

a ring of small antennas around an ant hill

Jazmyn records into a telephone handset microphone in the back room of the MAL

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 25

visiting artist Jazmyn Crosby will be performing Bug Radio tomorrow (Thursday June 26) on our wonderful and amazing campus radio station!

show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 6

🫠 sorryyyyy we have come up with a workaround for that finally. we will add your name to the list of folks we request they stop contacting... sometimes it works...

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 6

oooh we were the sticker of the day! didn't know @sticker-guy.bsky.social was on here!

Sticker Guy! @sticker-guy.bsky.social · Jun 3

Sticker of the Day! MAL! 2” Die-Cut Circle! Full-Color on Clear Vinyl! Digital-Print!

NEW - Full Color on Clear!!! 🌈

Only available with BULK quantity orders. Minimum of 1k quantity, pricing as low as $517 plus shipping for 3” Squares or 2.5” Circles

*Order by email only*

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Stephen Cass @stephencass.bsky.social · Jun 4

I just wanted to add this to the map discourse: an essay I wrote for EmpherMAL, the zine from @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social — it's about the glory days of personal cartography in the 80s; text, flip-screen, and FPS games; Discworld books; and D&D then and now (p10): archive.org/details/ephe...

ephemerMAL volume 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

First issue of the Media Archaeology Lab ephemera zine

archive.org

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 3

these somewhat pricey additions to our collection - grateful for donations and also grateful if you'd help us spread the word! othernetworks.net/2025/06/03/f... 2/2

fundraising for Media Before Media exhibit

Our big news for the summer… It’s a shame that “we are excited to announce” has become such an online cliché – especially since we are actually excited that the pop-up…

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 3

we are shifting the theme of our pop-up space on campus to "Media Before Media". it'll include artifacts from the long history of A.I. (automatons! early chat-bots!) plus 19th century optical toys, magic lanterns, wire recorders, etc. we're putting on a little fundraiser to help us purchase 1/2

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 2

happy June, have a newsletter! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/june-is-here/

June is here!

Hello friends! We're settling in to our summer and things are a little more relaxed around the lab, but we do still have open house hours on Tuesday afternoons (1:30-4:30) and most of the day Friday (...

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · May 30

I might actually like this write up my college just published on #othernetworks and the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social‬ 😋 www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/road...

The roads net taken

By Joe ArneyPhotos by Kimberly Coffin (CritMedia, StratComm’18)Robert Frost once wrote of two roads diverging in a yellow wood, and imagining his narrator

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · May 9

don't forget: our call for applications to the 2025/26 practitioner-in-residence cohort is open! apply here: forms.gle/D5gZLUi564hw...

Practitioner in Residence Application

Full text of the open call available here

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · May 9

don't forget: our call for applications to the 2025/26 practitioner-in-residence cohort is open! apply here: forms.gle/D5gZLUi564hw...

Practitioner in Residence Application

Full text of the open call available here

forms.gle

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