An ARCDigital guest talk by Professor Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2009
Time: 5pm
Venue: Helmore 302, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge

Media archaeology is both a research method in media studies and an aesthetics in media arts. Furthermore it is a non-human procedure as well. Media archaeology does not look at media on the level of their surface effect on humans (interfaces), but rather (in a vaguely Heideggerian sense) tries to uncover the hidden agenda of technomathematical artefacts, or better: artefactuality. Media archaeology is concerned with media not only on their structural but on their operative level.

Wolfgang Ernst is professor of media theories at Humboldt-University, Berlin. Studied history, classics, and archaeology; PhD thesis 1989 on historicism and museology. His current research fields include time-based and time-critical media and the "sonic" dimension of techno-mathematics.

The event is sponsored by the Cultures of Digital Economy institute at Anglia Ruskin University.

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