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Deep Time of the Media by Siegfried Zielinski - ISBN: 9780262740326
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A quest to find something new by excavating the “deep time” of media’s development—not by simply looking at new media’s historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated.

Deep Time of the Media

Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means

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    389 pages

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    15 February 2008

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A quest to find something new by excavating the “deep time” of media’s development-not by simply looking at new media’s historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated.Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development-dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Si…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262740326
ISBN-10:026274032X
Author:Siegfried Zielinski, Gloria Custance, Timothy Druckrey
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:389
Release Date:15 February 2008
Weight:612g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 17mm
Series:Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice
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Critics Review

Siegfried Zielinski has combed the technical history of the media from cave painting to the World Wide Web and arrived at some surprising new insights… A brilliant study on the subtext of European history of technology and science.

—Frank Hartmann Falter

About The Author

Siegfried Zielinski

Siegfried Zielinski, a founder of the new field of media archaeology, is Founding Director of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where he is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and is developing a workshop for a variantology of the media. He has published more than a dozen books and many articles. Deep Time of the Media is the second of his books to appear in English.Timothy Druckrey is an independent curator and writer and editor of Ars Electronica- Facing the Future (MIT Press, 1999). He lectures internationally on the social impact of digital media, the transformations of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments.

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