Tag: Embodiment

Purity and Security: A Cultural History of Plexiglass

Post author By Shannon Mattern
Post date November 12, 2020
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Invited Speaker, “Purity and Security: A Cultural History of Plexiglass,” “The City as Environmental Mediation,” Material and Visual Culture Seminar, Centre for Digital Anthropology, University College London (virtual), November 2, 2020

Tags borders, Embodiment, glass, light, media architecture, Sensation

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Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects (on Zoe Beloff)

“Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects,” Volume 49 (September 2016).

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Recover Lost File: I Wrote About Ben Fino-Radin and Lori Emerson on Preserving Obsolete Media for Nautilus Magazine

Post author By Shannon Mattern
Post date November 22, 2013
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Cover Image: “XFR STN” Test Pattern, created by DuArt. Courtesy DuArt Restoration

Last Friday Ben Fino-Radin, digital repository manager at the Museum of Modern Art; and Lori Emerson, assistant professor of English and director of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, convened at NYU ostensibly to discuss “New | Media Archives.” I was invited to write about their discussion for the lovely and exciting Nautilus, a new-ish science magazine, which I highly recommend. You can read my post, which was assigned the rather prolix headline, “Preserving Yesterday’s Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today’s,” here.

Tags Archives, Embodiment, materiality, preservation, Writing