Something about March and lambs...

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Hi friends! We are early! Somehow! And we have some news-bytes for you!

First up, Lori Emerson was interviewed by Samuel Arbesman for The Orthogonal Bet podcast; she had the chance to talk about her new book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, as well as her work both in media archaeology and running the Media Archaeology Lab.

MAL events!


We've kicked off our Practitioner in Residence series with a bang (or a boo?) - Dr. Katherine Guiness is in the lab for the next little while and has a number of events planned...

Katherine says: Want to learn about the long history of media, technology, and spiritualism? Are you currently being haunted and need some advice? Want to learn how to hunt ghosts yourself? Do you think YOU might be a ghost? (There’s a high probability that you are!)

Come to a free consultation at the Media Archaeology Lab with Dr. Katherine Guinness, ghost (and art) theorist from the University of Maryland during the MAL open hours, except when she hosts office hours at the CASE W250 pop-up space on Tuesday March 3 at 3:30 PM (all times are Boulder time, GMT -07:00) or is otherwise conducting one of the following events, livestreamed on our Twitch or in-person at the MAL:

  • March 2, 11 AM Creative Misuse of Media & Intro to Ghost Hunting Lecture
  • March 3, 2 PM Dream Incubation Practice (Creating our Ghost Bodies)
  • March 4, 2 PM Tech Time with Ian McDermott 
  • March 4, 4 PM Ghost Help Hotline
  • March 5, 11 AM Making Music for and with Ghosts
  • March 5, 5 - 8 PM Live-stream SΓ©ance
  • March 5, 8 PM Ghost Hunting Live at MAL

We'll also be hosting Halim Madi as a visiting artist the week of March 9 - Halim will be installed in the pop-up space during business hours to perform an iteration of works called "Singulars". More information about live performance hours will be posted on the calendar as we have it, but in the meantime read more about past works on Halim's website.

Our second resident, Clemens SchΓΆll, joins us starting the last week of March and will be around for most of April, so watch for more details about associated public events in the April newsletter.

Finally, our "free garage sale" event was a great success - so much so that we'll be trying a similar thing again in April. Keep an eye out for dates on that too!

Non-MAL events in the next week!

Sunday March 1 (in Los Angeles) -

πŸ™πŸš - 𝟝:πŸ›πŸ˜ ℙ𝕄 - 𝔻𝔼𝔸𝔻 𝕄𝔼𝔻𝕀𝔸 ℂℍ𝔸𝕋 ℝ𝕆𝕆𝕄 π•’π•Ÿ 𝕀ℝ𝕃 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕒π•ͺ 𝕀π•ͺπ•žπ•‘π• π•€π•šπ•¦π•ž 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦π•₯ π•’π•£π•”π•™π•’π•šπ•” π•₯π•–π•”π•™π•Ÿπ• π•π• π•˜π•šπ•–π•€ π•’π•Ÿπ•• π•₯𝕙𝕖 π•Ÿπ•–π•¨ π•£π•šπ•₯𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕀 π•₯𝕠 π•£π•–π•§π•šπ•§π•– π•₯π•™π•–π•ž. ℂ𝕠-π•‘π•£π•–π•€π•–π•Ÿπ•₯𝕖𝕕 π•¨π•šπ•₯𝕙 π•Žπ•šπ•π•€π•™π•šπ•£π•– π•†π•Ÿπ•π•šπ•Ÿπ•–, β„‚π•π•’π•šπ•£π•– 𝕃. π”Όπ•§π•’π•Ÿπ•€, π•’π•Ÿπ•• 𝕋.𝔸.β„™.𝔼., ℙ𝕒𝕣π•₯ 𝕠𝕗 π•’π•Ÿ 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕒π•ͺ 𝔼𝕩𝕑𝕠 𝕒π•₯ π• π•Ÿ π•₯𝕙𝕖 πŸžπŸ™πŸ˜πŸ˜ π•Žπ•šπ•π•€π•™π•šπ•£π•– π•“π•π• π•”π•œ

π•π• π•šπ•Ÿ 𝕦𝕀 π•’π•Ÿπ•• 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕 π•žπ•–π••π•šπ•’ π•“π• π•˜ π•™π•¦π•Ÿπ•₯𝕖𝕣𝕀, π•’π•£π•”π•™π•–π• π•π• π•˜π•šπ•€π•₯𝕀, π•’π•Ÿπ•• π•Ÿπ•–π•”π•£π• π•žπ•’π•Ÿπ•”π•–π•£π•€ 𝕒π•₯ π•Žπ•šπ•π•€π•™π•šπ•£π•– π•†π•Ÿπ•π•šπ•Ÿπ•– (πŸžπŸ™πŸ›πŸ π•Žπ•šπ•π•€π•™π•šπ•£π•– 𝔹𝕝𝕧𝕕). (More info on the TAPE Los Angeles instagram)

Tuesday March 3, 4– 5:30 PM (CU Boulder campus & online) -

Teach-in on AI. CU’S CHATGPT DEAL, THE PLANET, AND YOU (CU logo x OpenAI logo) MARCH 3 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:30 PM CTL CASE E390 - FOR ZOOM LINK VISIT (QR CODE) TOPICS: ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY / INHERENT BIASES & CIVIL RIGHTS / SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE / SURVEILLANCE & MILITARIZATION / LABOUR & SOCIETY/ IMPACT ON LEARNING & SCHOLARSHIP/ ALTERNATIVES

Wednesday March 4, 5 PM (Downtown Boulder) -

Rodrigo RΓ­os Zunino presents
Radio is a Virus from Outer Space
(RSVP Required - details linked below)
KGNU Studio Building
(Part of the VAST: Visiting Artist & Scholar Talks in CU's Dept. of Critical Media Practices) > more info at https://vast.colorado.edu/tsonami_radio/

Also, if you happen to be in Philly, make sure to check out the events at Iffy Books. They're always doing workshops we wish we could attend...

And that seems like enough for now - we'll be back!

MAL 🌈