I’m so happy to be a resident this week at @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social !! 🌈 I’ll be working on an upcoming project about computers and roses 🌹

also, the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's Victrola not only works it BLASTS music!

Lightweight, portable, and reliable, the UNIS tbm de Luxe from the former Yugoslavia was the most popular typewriter in the socialist and Soviet blocs in the 1970s and 80s. Peep that Cyrillic keyboard! This burnt-red beauty is available for you to explore in the MAL pop-up in CASE W250.

Come witness the splendor of the CompuVend Love Tester! For 25¢, you, too, can measure your passion! The MAL pop-up is open Monday through Friday in CASE W250

Come visit the MAL pop-up in CASE W250 This exhibition showcases automata, magic lantern and pre-cinema optical toys, early A.I. experiments, spirit duplication & mimeograph, and much more - including special installations from artists Maya Buffet-Davis and Allison Radomski. Open daily, Mon-Fri

one of the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's very talented artist in residence is hosting a "Mundane Magic Lantern Spectacular" every Monday this semester 5-7pm in the MAL pop up on campus (CASE W250). come play with magic lanterns and even learn how to make your own slides!

our september newsletter is up... puns kept to a minimum this time <3 mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/september/

our open house hours for the semester have (mostly) solidified, though we may be adding a few additional slots... and we're really pleased to say that Mondays we're open a little ways into the evening! find the full calendar here: calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...

also, finally, what could possibly be better than having 20 nineteen year olds check out the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social for the first time and hear them mutter repeatedly to each other across a row of typewriters and ancient cell phones, "nice. this place is dope."

still amazed the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social‬ now has a functioning Apple Lisa...it's really something! and a bit of writing from someone in 2007 who took some pains to write a long doc about how they were only going to write on the Lisa from that point on 💚

Star Wars in ASCII, as it was meant to be seen. At the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social

visiting artist Jazmyn Crosby will be performing Bug Radio tomorrow (Thursday June 26) on our wonderful and amazing campus radio station! show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!

visiting artist Jazmyn Crosby will be performing Bug Radio tomorrow (Thursday June 26) on our wonderful and amazing campus radio station! show goes live at 5 PM (UTC-6) at 1190 AM (Boulder), 92.9 FM (Denver) and online at 1190.radio!

oooh we were the sticker of the day! didn't know @sticker-guy.bsky.social was on here!

I just wanted to add this to the map discourse: an essay I wrote for EmpherMAL, the zine from @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social — it's about the glory days of personal cartography in the 80s; text, flip-screen, and FPS games; Discworld books; and D&D then and now (p10): archive.org/details/ephe...

we are shifting the theme of our pop-up space on campus to "Media Before Media". it'll include artifacts from the long history of A.I. (automatons! early chat-bots!) plus 19th century optical toys, magic lanterns, wire recorders, etc. we're putting on a little fundraiser to help us purchase 1/2

happy June, have a newsletter! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/june-is-here/

I might actually like this write up my college just published on #othernetworks and the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social‬ 😋 www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/road...

don't forget: our call for applications to the 2025/26 practitioner-in-residence cohort is open! apply here: forms.gle/D5gZLUi564hw...

don't forget: our call for applications to the 2025/26 practitioner-in-residence cohort is open! apply here: forms.gle/D5gZLUi564hw...

oh hey, it's May - time for our semi-annual reminder that we have a support fund! our support fund helps us to do things like fill gaps in the collection, support graduate student research & creative projects, and run our practitioner residency. giveto.colorado.edu/campaigns/50...

Like a boss. Rockin’ my newly arrived MAL-pal (@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social) tee!

evidence of a brilliant MFA student here (Allison Radomski) working on a magic lantern show with kaleidoscope slides 😍 (magic lantern from the 1930s thanks to the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social)

Pretty excited about my new @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social t-shirt!

tell everyone you know who might be interested - and don't hesitate to reach out with questions!

Hey, we've opened applications for the practitioner-in-residence program for 2025/2026 - give it a look, and feel free to email with any questions! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/practitioner-in-residence-open-call/

we are SUPER excited to be sponsoring a screening of the documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon followed by a Q&A session with one of the filmmakers! When: Wednesday, April 9, 4PM Where: ATLAS building on CU Boulder central campus, Room 102

Our April newsletter is live! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/well-we-forg...

we are SUPER excited to be sponsoring a screening of the documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon followed by a Q&A session with one of the filmmakers! When: Wednesday, April 9, 4PM Where: ATLAS building on CU Boulder central campus, Room 102

starting 3/31 we'll be hosting a weekly "low-tech lunch" meetup in the MAL pop-up space. Mondays from 12-2pm. no stakes, just a friendly space to hang out, build other networks projects, play with tech at human scales, talk about low-tech, minimal & perma-computing, &tc. join us if you can!

what a spectacular thread

starting 3/31 we'll be hosting a weekly "low-tech lunch" meetup in the MAL pop-up space. Mondays from 12-2pm. no stakes, just a friendly space to hang out, build other networks projects, play with tech at human scales, talk about low-tech, minimal & perma-computing, &tc. join us if you can!

thanks to one of our lovely volunteers, our copy of the DEVO CD-ROM game Adventures of the Smart Patrol is now signed by Mark Mothersbaugh

ok so after some repair work the HEROjr is doing stuff. some of it is a little... ominous though

last day for t-shirt orders!

a tiny bit of reminiscing today: remembering when Alan Kay visited the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social in 2019 and found our copy of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines...big before-times energy

It was a DAY, as they say. But in between the chaos, a cute lil’ robot showed up at the @mediaarchaeologylab as did the most perfect #othernetworks Lite Brite display at the MAL pop up! I sure do love our MALpals ❤️💙💜💗💛💚

we got a new buddy

Welcome all new followers of Pirate.ie 🎙️📻 We're building an open archive of Irish pirate radio from the 1970s-1990s with the help of large donations by collectors in Ireland and the UK. You can search our growing collection by year, station, county, genre, DJ name and category. pirate.ie/archive/

we have a new emergency phone, for emergencies

Thank you @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social for a super fun Open Social Skillshare today!

if you live in the Boulder/Denver area, stop by for an open skillshare on how to break up with Big Social!

our first event is happening Friday, February 14: Breaking up with Big Social - an Open Social skillshare. Drop in from 11 am - 1 pm and ask (or answer!) questions about alternative social media platforms.

February newsletter! Please excuse any hiccups as we move from Substack to Ghost mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/february/

our Other Networks pop-up exhibition will be running throughout the Spring '25 semester in room W250 of the CASE building on the central CU Boulder campus. come by and see us during open hours, come back and see what new things we've gotten running! calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...

stop by our #othernetworks pop up in CASE W250 on the CU Boulder campus! details on open house hours here along with info on the first workshop we'll be offering on breaking up with corporate social media 🖤 othernetworks.net/2025/02/01/o...

what a delightful day playing around in the new @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social pop up themed around #othernetworks - we played with videophones, Minitels, telephones, radios, mesh networks, and of course "ecco the dolphin". grateful to everyone who stopped by! @explodingthephone.bsky.social

I just used a Minitel for the first time! The keyboard is glorious! Thank you @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social Also check out the @driscoll.bsky.social book.