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  Burn, Baby, Burn

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  August 05, 2013

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  materiality of the records exploded that night, and it’s those fragments that I’m most intrigued by here. In ... the possibility of a politics of media archeology by way of extreme specificity—an archeology not of ...
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  Created by Warren Robinett

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  Zach Whalen University of Mary Washington

  August 09, 2013

  3 comments

  Created by Warren Robinett video game text media archaeology easter egg atari Curator's Note In 1978, Warren Robinett programmed the Atari game "Adventure," and in protest of Atari's policy of excluding programmer's names, Robinet ...
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  The Errant Pixel

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  Genevieve Yue Eugene Lang College, The New School

  August 08, 2013

  3 comments

  The Errant Pixel television poor image pixel Palestine media archaeology Israel home movies Hito Steyerl Digital Media compression Basma Alsharif Curator's Note We have become accustomed to the glitches that appear when we stream media online or watc ...
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  Hipster Archaeology

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  August 26, 2012

  11 comments

  Hipster Archaeology video games Media Nostalgia media archeology media archaeology gaming history atari Curator's Note The Atari video game burial is a central urban legend of video gaming culture. Popular belief has it that in September 1983, faced ...