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Zombie Media Workshop: Circuit Bending as Media Archaeology

Start:
04.02.2011 - 10:00
End:
04.02.2011 - 14:00
Festival location:
hkw, HacKaWay (exhibition hall)
Event type:
workshop event

With their essay Zombie Media, Garnet  Hertz and Jussi Parikka approach media archaeology with the aim of  making it into an art methodology. Following a presentation of their ideas, the Vilém Flusser Theory Award nominees invite participants to enact the process of circuit bending: Participants will disassemble battery powered devices such as toys to subsequently perform with their customised instruments.

 

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Participants: 
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Jussi Parikka is a new media theorist, writer and Reader in Media &...
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Garnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar and contemporary artist whose work...
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