The Media Archaeology Lab was founded by Dr. Lori Emerson as a place for cross-disciplinary, experimental research, teaching, and creative practice. Yet while nearly all digital media labs are conceived of as a place for experimental research using the most up-to-date, cutting-edge tools available, the MAL uses still functioning media from the past. The MAL […]

“Disinformation” emerged from the Soviet intelligence bureaucracy during the Cold War as a tactic for managing perception and consensus through the media. Rather than refuting or suppressing ideas that undermined the state agenda, false information and simulated events were disseminated to destabilize the positive character of truth itself. In the decades following the collapse of […]

We’re excited to be taking part in this year’s Catalyst 2020 and will curate a film selection and discussion on March 3rd and 5th, 4:30 PM, Rapson Hall 100. Come join us and the rest of the events in this wonderful series.

Friday, January 31, 2020 at 4 PM – 6 PM Nicholson Hall Room 135(216 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis MN 55455) “The Horrors of Insulated Selfhood”: Psychedelic Culture, Governance, and Intoxicated Spectatorship 1966, the year that psychedelic art stormed American mainstream culture, brought a cavalcade of explosive media experiences, often inspired by Marshall McLuhan, to the […]

With Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7 PM – 9:30 PM Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis2820 E 33rd St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 Join us for a night of throwback psychedelic cinema from 1966 at the fringes of low and high culture. Richard Fleisher’s mindblowing eye candy Fantastic Voyage boasts an array of spectacular […]

a MIMSGG talk with Professor Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) Thursday, November 7th at 4:30PM 135 Nicholson Hall Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. He arrived at Middlebury in 2002 after two years teaching at Georgia State University. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. […]

Incremental Love Eugenie Brinkema (MIT), IAS Thursdays Talk October 24th, 3:30 PM Crosby Seminar Room, 240 Northrop Free and open to the public Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012) is set in a single restricted location, the Parisian apartment in which a dying, suffering woman is being cared for by her husband. The film plots an obsessive formal language of spatial […]

Presentations and a panel discussion focussed on the long lives of dead media including featured guests Jill Vuchetich(Head of Archives Walker Art Center), John Moret(Programmer and Projectionist Trylon Cinema), Sam Hoolihan(Visual Artist and Educator), and Show & Tell with Super-8 & 16 mm film presentations, rare 9.5 mm film stock (and digital migration), and a […]

Since his introduction to an “unprepared world” on September 24, 2018, Gritty, the mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers, has experienced an unlikely rise. He threatened Iceburgh the Pittsburgh Penguin, fell spectacularly, came in like a wrecking ball. A Philadephia city resolution declared Gritty a “ghastly empty-eyed muppet” and “an acid trip of a mascot,” before […]