how is October 2 weeks ago already?
(news from the MAL)
In October, Tilt West Magazine published a gratifying write up about the Media Archaeology Lab and Managing Director libi striegl’s artistic and research practice. We thought “oh they really get us!”
We also were included in a piece “Floppy Disks Survive - Thanks to One 73-Year-Old’s Business,” featuring a discussion of floppy disk seller Tom Persky. Persky has gained more media attention recently partly because of the publication of Floppy Disk Fever which includes an incredible interview with him. Journalist David Cassel interviewed MAL Director Lori Emerson about why she thinks floppy disks might be seeing a resurgence: “Emerson stresses that [floppies] are vehicles to rethink what’s pragmatically and philosophically possible. What difference would it make to our pace and quality of life if we intentionally embraced small and slow computing? What if the constraints offered by floppy disks allowed us to rethink the amount of energy and electronics we normally consume? And what if floppy disks reminded us of a kind of surveillance-free mode of file sharing?”
libi striegl also traveled to Seattle to give a presentation titled “The art of Un-forgetting” for 1000 or so people (!!) at the American Institute of Graphic Arts conference on her work both in the lab and personally. Congratulations, libi!
And somehow, in the midst of all this, libi led a baker’s dozen in person and virtual tours for classes across the CU Boulder campus and classes from universities across the country.
Finally, we hosted a little MALOWEEN get-together for all the MALpals and ended up just playing around with scientology e-meters and measuring our thetan levels.
