MALfunction #2, and other news from the lab!
MALfunction #2: Democratization
Thursday, October 20 @ 6:30pm @
the Museum of Natural History, CU Boulder - FREE
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Researcher: Nathan Schneider
An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy
Artist: JP Merz
Lecture & Performance - Playing with Technology: The Politics of Electro-Acoustic Music
Nathan Schneider
The disappointments of the sharing economy—for instance, monopolistic conglomerates and systemic labor abuses—stem from its failures to meaningfully share ownership and governance. Under the banner of “platform cooperativism,” an emerging network of cooperative developers, tech entrepreneurs, labor organizers, and scholars are developing a business ecosystem that aligns the ownership and governance of companies and products with the people whose lives are most affected by them. This represents a radical critique of the existing online economy, but it’s also a field of experimentation for healthier ownership design. http://nathanschneider.info/ @ntnsndr
JP Merz
Introducing and contextualizing the tradition of performing music with technology, this hybrid lecture/performance will consider how institutions of electro-acoustic music create hierarchies by shaping aesthetic and cultural values, and will propose potential methods for democratizing sound and sound practices. jpmerz.com
MALfunction: A series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet. Each MALfunction features one researcher and one artist whose projects examine a similar technological theme.
Presented by the Media Archaeology Lab and hosted at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Co-sponsored by the College of Media, Communication and Information and the Department of English. Curated by Maya Livio.
Our
MALware Technical reports are LIVE!
Check out James Hodge's examination of Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror, one of the many software works that the lab preserves - and maybe more important, provides a way to access. More reports coming very soon!
The NES works!!!
...but the zappers are still causing problems - our apologies to those who really want to play Duck Hunt.
This article does some explaining of the difficulties posed by the Nintendo Zapper.
The Media Aesthetics course from CMCI visited the lab and the students were each tasked with creating a 1-minute documentary about a piece of technology in the lab. Keep an eye on the student engagement section of the website for the videos!