media archaeology lab
@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
open house hours: post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/109677062460615838
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open house hours: post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/109677062460615838
(account monitored by all lab staff)
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By the way you can see that VT-125 int his annotated photo: www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
It now resides at the Media Archeology Lab in Boulder, CO @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
It now resides at the Media Archeology Lab in Boulder, CO @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
Anatomy of a Young Collector’s Room
Late last year I found this classic (for me, anyway) picture lurking in my files and scanned it. It's a Polaroid photograph of one corner of my then [...]
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November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
By the way you can see that VT-125 int his annotated photo: www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
It now resides at the Media Archeology Lab in Boulder, CO @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
It now resides at the Media Archeology Lab in Boulder, CO @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
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mechanically reproduced documentation of students, friends, colleagues gathering in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social to learn how to build their own mini FM transmitters 😍 #othernetworks #radiofutures
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
mechanically reproduced documentation of students, friends, colleagues gathering in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social to learn how to build their own mini FM transmitters 😍 #othernetworks #radiofutures
heyyyy we have special limited edition stickers for our fall fundraiser and they're PRETTY and SEASONALLY INAPPROPRIATE for Halloween but that is OK. details for getting one are in the newsletter... mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/happy-october/
October 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
heyyyy we have special limited edition stickers for our fall fundraiser and they're PRETTY and SEASONALLY INAPPROPRIATE for Halloween but that is OK. details for getting one are in the newsletter... mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/happy-october/
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
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
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
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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October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
our October newsletter is live! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/happy-october/
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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 🌹
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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also, the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's Victrola not only works it BLASTS music!
September 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
also, the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's Victrola not only works it BLASTS music!
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.
This burnt-red beauty is available for you to explore in the MAL pop-up in CASE W250.
September 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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.
This burnt-red beauty is available for you to explore in the MAL pop-up in CASE W250.
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
The MAL pop-up is open Monday through Friday in CASE W250
September 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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
The MAL pop-up is open Monday through Friday in CASE W250
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
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
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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
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
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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!
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
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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September 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
our september newsletter is up... puns kept to a minimum this time <3 mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/september/
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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September 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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...
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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."
September 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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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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 💚
June 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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 💚
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Star Wars in ASCII, as it was meant to be seen. At the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Star Wars in ASCII, as it was meant to be seen. At the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
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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!
show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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!
show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!
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!
show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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!
show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!
oooh we were the sticker of the day! didn't know @sticker-guy.bsky.social was on here!
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*
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*
June 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
oooh we were the sticker of the day! didn't know @sticker-guy.bsky.social was on here!
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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
June 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
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
June 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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
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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June 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
happy June, have a newsletter! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/june-is-here/
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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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May 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I might actually like this write up my college just published on #othernetworks and the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social 😋 www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/road...
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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
May 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
don't forget: our call for applications to the 2025/26 practitioner-in-residence cohort is open! apply here: forms.gle/D5gZLUi564hw...
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
May 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
don't forget: our call for applications to the 2025/26 practitioner-in-residence cohort is open! apply here: forms.gle/D5gZLUi564hw...