Zombie media: Circuit bending media archaeology into an art method

Leonardo

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 424-430

  Hertz, Garnet ^a   Parikka, Jussi ^b  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84857220699     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/LEON_a_00438     Document Type: Article

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7. For example, Apple's iPod personal audio players and similar devices are manufactured with no userserviceable parts inside, including its battery. After approximately 3 years of use, the lithium-polymer battery will no longer work and the device will need to be either professionally serviced or discarded.
8. Diane Waldman, Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1992) 17.
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10. On media art historical writing concerning the early avant garde, see for example Erkki Huhtamo, "Twin-Touch-Test-Redux: Media Archaeological Approach to Art, Interactivity, and Tactility" in Mediaarthistories, edited by Oliver Grau (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2007), 71-101
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15. Erkki Huhtamo: "Thinkering with Media: On the Art of Paul DeMarinis, " in Paul DeMarinis/Buried in Noise, ed. Beirer, Himmelsbach and Seiffarth (Berlin: Kehrer, 2010), 33-46.
16. The notion of the tinkerer is here apt in terms of its roots in a longer cultural history of nomadism. See Mary Burke, 'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
17. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven Rendall (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002) xiv.
18. In 1995 Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron coined the phrase "The Californian Ideology" in an essay by the same title that provided a genealogy of the concept of the Internet as a placeless and universalizing utopia, with information technologies as emancipatory, limitless and beyond geography. See .
19. Cf. Charles R. Acland, "Introduction. Residual Media. " In: Residual Media, edited by Charles R. Acland (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), xx.
20. Wolfgang Ernst, "Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines. " Art History, Vol. 28, No. 5, November 2005, 582-603.
21. See Eric Kluitenberg, ed. The Book of Imaginary Media (Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2006).
22. CF. Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999).
23. Michel Callon, "Techno-Economic Networks and Irreversibility, " in J. Law (ed.), A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination (London: Routledge, 1991) p. 153.
24. For more information, see Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.)
25. See also Eugene Thacker, "Introduction" to Alex Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), xiii.
26. Albert Borgmann, Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 176.
27. Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.) p. 185.
28. Wolfgang Ernst, personal correspondence with Garnet Hertz, 20 October 2009.
29. Erkki Huhtamo, "Time-Traveling in the Gallery: An Archaeological Approach in Media Art. " In Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, edited by Mary Ann Moser with Douglas McLeod (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996), 243.
30. Erkki Huhtamo: "Thinkering with Media: On the Art of Paul DeMarinis, " in Paul DeMarinis/Buried in Noise, ed. Beirer, Himmelsbach and Seiffarth (Berlin: Kehrer, 2010), 33-46.
31. Gutta-percha is a natural latex rubber made from tropical trees native to Southeast Asia and northern Australasia. Columbite-tantalite, or "coltan, " is a dull black metallic ore, primarily from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose export has been cited as helping to finance the present-day conflict in the Congo.
32. Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies. Trans. Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton (London and New Brunswick, NJ: Athlone Press, 2000).
33. Sean Cubitt interviewed by Simon Mills, Framed, online at .
34. Such hidden, partly abstract but completely real and material "epistemologies of everyday life" are investigated in a media archaeological vein by Institute for Algorhytmics, .
35. Cf. Manuel DeLanda, A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History (New York: Zone Books, 1997).
36. For more information on Gartner Group's Hype Cycle theory, see Jackie Fenn and Mark Raskino, Understanding Gartner's Hype Cycles, 2009. Gartner Group.