Hello friends!
It’s been April for a while now, but we wanted to wait to send this until we were ready to say…
We have exciting news -
Our residency program is open for applicants again!
We are accepting proposals for residencies of up to 4 weeks over the course of the 2023/2024 academic school year, beginning September 1st 2023 and running until June 30th 2024.
Past projects can be seen on our website, and please reach out if you have questions!
Check out the full PDF text of the call at: tinyurl.com/MALResidency and fill out the application at: tinyurl.com/MALapp2023.
Deadline: June 1st
Notification of Acceptance: July 1st
A few other updates from the busy past month:
Our director Lori Emerson and the MAL got a shout out in a piece published in Wired, “Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die”, also republished in Ars Technica. Lori also gave a keynote presentation for the University of Arizona’s School of Information titled "Excavating Future Histories of Technology, From Gadgets to Networks.”
MAL Pal Spike helped a visiting researcher to do some forensic disk imaging of the thing.net BBS hardware in our collection.
MAL Pal Devon organized and hosted a retro gaming night (including an N64 MarioKart Tournament) for graduate students here at CU.
Lab manager libi rose striegl gave a short talk titled “Practicalities of Media Archaeology” in a panel on Media Archaeologies organized by the Toronto Film & Media Seminar.