Dead Media Project

The Dead Media Project was initially proposed by science fiction writer

After articulated in the manifesto "The Dead Media Project — A Modest Proposal and a Public Appeal,"^[1] The Dead Media Project began as a number of persons collecting their notes and the spreading of the archive through a mailing list, moderated by Tom Jennings. This resulted in a large collective of "field notes" about obsolete communication technologies, about 600 in total archived online. The project lost momentum in 2001 and the mailing list died.

The project archive includes a wide variety of notes from

In 2009, artist Garnet Hertz published a bookwork project titled "A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of the Dead Media Handbook)"^[2] which strived to fulfill some of Bruce Sterling's vision for a handbook of obsolete media technologies. In the book, Hertz presents images of many of the media technologies compiled through the Dead Media mailing list and invites readers to submit their sketches and ideas of a Dead Media Handbook.

See also

• Media studies
• Riepl's law

References

External links

• The Dead Media Project, "official" homepage
• The Dead Media Project - A Modest Proposal and a Public Appeal, Dead Media Manifesto by Bruce Sterling
• New Genre: Dead Media, Nettime post containing list by Bruce Sterling
• Vancouver Film School Dead Media Page (requires
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• "The Life and Death of Media" Speech by Bruce Sterling, at the Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal Sept 19 1995
• Neural Magazine - Bruce Sterling: the Dead Media interview by Alessandro Ludovico, September 1998
• CTheory Dead Media Project - An Interview with Bruce Sterling by Arpad Bak, March 1999
• A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of the Dead Media Handbook) bookwork project by Garnet Hertz, 2009
• Technodrom.cz The largest collection of obsolete storage technologies in the world (permanent physical exhibition) located in Czech Republic.