Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
21 May 2014 to 5 October 2014
Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
Join us on the opening day of Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines for a round-table discussion with curator Greg Lynn and some of the featured architects of the exhibition: Karl Chu (Metaxy), Lars Spuybroek (NOX), Kas Oosterhuis (ONL), Marc Goulthorpe (dECOi Architects), Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid (Asymptote).
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 May 2014 , 6pm
In conversation with the architects Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Join us on the opening day of Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines for a round-table discussion with curator Greg Lynn and some of the featured architects of the exhibition: Karl Chu (Metaxy), Lars Spuybroek (NOX), Kas Oosterhuis (ONL), Marc Goulthorpe (dECOi Architects), Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid (Asymptote).
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
articles
Origins of the digital
Archaeology of the Digital, Archéologie du numérique, Environnements virtuels objets interactifs, Media and Machines, Wolfgang Ernst
14 July 2009
Origins of the digital
Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 September 2014 , 6pm
Digital Media Archaeology: Archive, Museum and Sonicity
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Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
video
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1 streaming video file (37 min., 3 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]
Greg Lynn in conversation with the architects of Media and machines.
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1 streaming video file (37 min., 3 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]
books
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xv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm.
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Shivers down your spine : cinema, museums, and the immersive view / Alison Griffiths.
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xv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm.
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New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
drawings
AP173.S1.1997.D1.037
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Group consists of 5 drawings (3 drawings and 2 reprographic copies) and an aerial photographs of H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans, Netherlands, selected for the exhibition of the Canadian Centre for Architecture "Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines / Archéologie du numérique : Environnements virtuels, objets interactifs" in 2014.
between 1993 and 1997
Drawings for the H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans, Netherlands selected for an exhibition of the Canadian Center for Architecture
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AP173.S1.1997.D1.037
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Group consists of 5 drawings (3 drawings and 2 reprographic copies) and an aerial photographs of H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans, Netherlands, selected for the exhibition of the Canadian Centre for Architecture "Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines / Archéologie du numérique : Environnements virtuels, objets interactifs" in 2014.
drawings
between 1993 and 1997