Dead Media Research Studio

Catalog description

Explores early and obsolete media technologies. Students in this course learn methods for restoring media artifacts to their deep social, cultural, and personal context through, including, but not limited to, media archaeology; word, image, and sound archives; and hands-on repair and maintenance. Media archaeology is best undertaken, like any archaeological project, collaboratively, and so this class follows a hands-on research studio model commonly used in disciplines such as architecture or design.