🎃OCTOBER incometh🎃
Hello friends!
We have some upcoming events for you! And some other updates! And it’s fall!
Before anything else, we have to give our sincerest thanks to the Stewart Family Foundation. Their generous donation to our operating fund will go towards the lab manager salary in the next fiscal year, and also will support our continuing efforts to get students and others involved in amateur radio.
Lab Project Roundup
We’ve had a lot of fun in the last few weeks getting a bunch of little things going, thanks as always to our fabulous volunteers. Some highlights:
We’ve got a working Mastodon client for Apple IIc! The software and proxy were put together by Colin Leroy-Mira, and you can read about his process on his blog.
Our Wii console is back in action thanks to our high school volunteers!
We have a working mult-boot Windows desktop tower so we can finally play all those Sims games we’ve been hoarding.
and
Our IBM PC 5150 now has an ethernet connection and a Compact Flash expansion, making its storage capacity now hilariously large when expressed in bytes…
Next up, EVENTS!
We have a bunch of events happening at the lab and elsewhere throughout the month - this list is just a brief overview, and more might be added!
Ongoing until Oct. 25th: Raquel Meyers solo exhibition titled “Keys of Fury. Type In Beyond the Scrolling Horizon”. At the Esther and John Clay Fine Art Gallery, Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Laramie, Wyoming.
Ongoing until Oct. 28th: Raquel Meyers work is part of the Open Art Festival / MÁS QUE HUMANOS: NATURALEZA, BIOLOGÍA Y SOSTENIBILIDAD EN EL ARTE. At the Centro Cultural las Cigarreras in Alicante, Spain.
Tuesday, Oct. 3 from 4:30 - 6 PM: Raquel Meyers presents “todo está mal”, a Commodore 64/PETSCII workshop. At the MAL in Boulder, CO.
Thursday, Oct. 12 - January 14, 2024
Opening reception Thursday Oct. 12 at 5 PM: Raquel Meyers work will be part of the MediaLive Festival / Technology as Healing. At Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, CO.
Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 5 PM: Rick Prelinger of the Prelinger Archive will give a talk titled “Exploring the Other Spectrum: Useful Radio” at CU in The Bruce Curtis Building Museum Collections, Room W100.
Thursday, Oct. 19 at 10 AM: Rick will also be facilitating a workshop on listening to useful radio at the MAL, 1320 Grandview Ave.. Space is limited, so if you’d like to join please RSVP with this form.
Thursday, Oct. 19 at 12:30 PM: Rick will *also* be giving a talk titled ”Quiet Archives and Noisy Audiences: Building a Future for Film” at CU in the ATLAS Center, Room 102.
Saturday, Oct. 28: MAL will be reprising our appearance as “That Kid In Your Neighborhood’s Basement” in the Whaaat?! Festival arcade in the ATLAS Center, details and tickets at whaaat.io.
The deadline
for our next issue of the ephemerMAL zine has been extended to October 7! Please, share your words & art inspired by this issue’s visual prompt from our friends at the Our Friend The Computer podcast. They also offer: "what in your daily life are some myths of how technology can better your material well-being?" and "how do you challenge those myths".
If you’d like to contribute: using the image below and the prompts as inspiration, send us any genre of writing (1000 words or less) or 2-D visual art (ideally sized to fit on folded letter/A4 paper). Send your submissions to mediaarchaeology@colorado.edu.
Finally,
our next practitioner-in-residence Alice Yuan Zhang 张元 will join us soon! She is a media artist, cultural organizer, and first-generation Chinese American migrant living in Los Angeles. She works to bring technology down to earth by devising collective experiments in ancestral remembering, interspecies pedagogy, and networked solidarity. Her research process into public practice through artworks, talks, performances, gatherings, writing, and teaching.
Alice co-founded virtual care lab and teaches Solidarity Infrastructures at the School for Poetic Computation. Her current research project titled "Becoming Infrastructure" has been supported by the Processing Foundation and 0x Salon. She has exhibited work and taught across cultural institutions including CultureHub, Goethe-Institute, Gray Area, Oyoun, Iowa PS1, and MAK Center, universities including CalArts, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, NYU, HFBK, and University of Toronto, and independent initiatives like Trust, NAVEL, Tiny Tech Zines, and Mehringplatz 20. Her writing has been published by Outland, Are.na, Eohippus Labs, and Awham Magazine.
She’ll be at the lab all month, so watch for events and projects from her, coming your way soon!
We appreciate you all so much!
More soon,
MAL