Toward a Public Media Archaeology: Museums, Media, and Historiography

Keidl, Philipp Dominik

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“…Despite this reach and the increasing number of works published under the term 'media archaeology', answering the question of what media archaeology is remains somewhat elusive. There continues to be disagreement about whether it is an approach, a model, a project, an exercise, a perspective, or a discipline and, for some, it has remained an undefinable research approach with inconsistent features (Strauven 2013;Keidl 2017). Indeed, Michael Goddard (2018: 22) contends that these debates, contestations and evasions render any 'stable delimitation of the field at the very least problematic'.…”

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Material Media Sonification: Sounding the visibly present artefact

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The fields of media archaeology and data sonification have not been without contestation regarding means and methods. However, in combination, these fields present an opportunity for a novel approach to the creation of media archaeologically informed sound-based art. This article discusses the artistic use of data sonification techniques and the need to balance the musification of data while maintaining a sense of the underlying data. The use of data sonification techniques within media archaeology to facilitate the organisation of sound is briefly discussed. A framework is presented for utilising data sonification to facilitate the organisation of sound within the lens of media archaeology inquiry. Such an approach provides a novel method in media archaeologically informed sound-based art that utilises the sound of the artefact as a method of expression between genealogically related forms of media. A sound installation developed by the authors is presented that critically examines the use of, and gives concrete form to, the framework and the ideas established in this article.

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“…A deformance through a media archaeological convergence of obsolete and current media technologies and the re-presentation of data from one medium to another, both physically and sensually, is an approach used throughout this research's works to defamiliarise common historical narrative. [34] Supported by the sonic rendering of data, the presence of traces, residues, or resonances of the past can be established through connections between existing means of expression and/or material. Scaletti's own reflection on her previous statement (see section 2.6) is that if the sound is data-driven, it is "not sufficient justification for calling it sonification; it must also have been done with the intent of understanding or communicating something about the original domain."…”

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“…There continues to be disagreement about whether it is an approach, a model, a project, an exercise, a perspective or a discipline and, for some, it has remained an undefinable research approach with inconsistent features. [34][22] Indeed, Michael Goddard contends that these debates, contestations and evasions render any "stable delimitation of the field at the very least problematic." [36]…”

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“…However, Philipp Keidl suggests that rather than replacing established narratives with the production of alternative histories, it may be better for media archaeology to describe a defamiliarisation of established historical knowledge. [34] Thomas Elsaesser asserts that while this excavation for alternative itineraries can challenge conventional chronologies, unsettle accepted historical narratives, and question binary categorisations (old/new, analogue/digital, useful/obsolete), an "initial impulse of media archaeology was to make the past strange again rather than all too familiar." [35]…”

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Re-hearing the Past in the Age of Digital Re-Production A Sonification of Media Artefacts

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The objective of this research is to reinterpret historic relationships between different forms of obsolete and contemporary media expressed through a series of sound-based art works. The research brings related artefacts, taken from different moments in time, into dialogue with each other by employing approaches and techniques drawn from media archaeology and data sonification. With sound no longer manipulated and rendered solely through digital audio software, each work expresses itself in each historically related artefact’s ‘voice’ through indexical relationships and the re-presentation of data. The primary contribution of this thesis provides a novel approach for methods of inquiry within a media archaeological idiom to the representation of historical media relationships expressed through sound. Following an investigation and critique of media archaeological approaches, its use in sound-based art and methods of representation, the research’s creative output focuses on the expressive materiality of the objects under inquiry. Such a transdisciplinary inquiry provides a new perspective for the re-presentation and representation of information. Each work explores the musicality of numeric sequences in space and time through rhythmic and spatialised patterns created by the absence and presence of data. As sound-basic music, the application of several access tools facilitated by data sonification are used to enhance audience perception and reception of the works. The works show that sonically interesting results can be obtained by creating abstract relationships between source data and the sounding object. The research establishes a framework in which the method of inquiry realises different outcomes. The framework utilises data sonification to defamiliarise one communication medium, the visual, before refamiliarising it within another medium, sound. Organising sound by using data sonification techniques as a media archaeological method facilitates the creative shaping of an historical narrative. As an approach to sonification within the field of auditory display, the works employ each artefact’s ‘voice’, or elements of it. Thus, the alternative representation of data as a media archaeological method of inquiry is used to achieve different outcomes unique in this research’s diversity of inquiry and intent.

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Toward a Public Media Archaeology: Museums, Media, and Historiography

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Material Media Sonification: Sounding the visibly present artefact

Material Media Sonification: Sounding the visibly present artefact

Re-hearing the Past in the Age of Digital Re-Production A Sonification of Media Artefacts

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