Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/23-01-2014 -Event 4

Outside event: Erkki Huhtamo, Up and Down the Shaft of Time: An Archaeology of Verticality time: 19:00 location: Lantaren Venster 4, Otto Reuchlinweg 996, 3072 MD

Traditional cultural forms have normally emphasised horizontality. Verticality on the other hand, closely linked with urban and industrial developments, has become ever more important. This lecture presents a tentative archaeology of verticality, excavating its manifestations within technological and mediatized realms.

Professor Erkki Huhtamo is a media archaeologist, author, and exhibition curator. At DMA his areas are the history and theory of media culture and media arts. He is known internationally as a pioneer of an emerging approach called media archaeology. It excavates forgotten, neglected and suppressed media-cultural phenomena, helping us to penetrate beyond canonized “grand narratives” of media culture. Professor Huhtamo pays particular attention to the “life” of topoi, or clichéd elements that emerge over and over again in media history and provide “molds” for experiences.

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