Floppy Disk Fever (Paperback)
Lori Emerson
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Add to basketPaperback. Floppy Disk Fever explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-first century by interviewing those involved with the medium today.The book reflects on notions of obsolescence, media preservation and nostalgia, and challenges these by showing the endurance and versatility of this familiar piece of technology. From floppy filmmakers to floppy painters and beyond; what drives people to continue working with the medium that is typically deemed obsolete? What challenges and affordances does it provide? And what does the future hold in store for the familiar black square? By looking at the current presence of past technology we can assess our present-day situation and speculate on the future developments of our media minded landscape. After all, the technology of the past is also part of our future!Includes a preface by Lori Emerson (Media Archeology Lab) and interviews with Jason Scott (archive. org), Tom Persky (floppydisk. com), Florian Cramer, Jason Curtis (Museum of Obsolete Media), Adam Frankiewicz (Pionierska Records), Foone Turing, Clint Basinger (Lazy Game Reviews), Nick Gentry, Joerg Droege and AJ Heller (Scene World) and Bart van den Akker (HelmondComputerMuseum). EditorsNiek Hilkmann (NL) is a Rotterdam based artist, musician, and researcher with a background in Art History, Media Design and Visual Culture. He has a particular interest in the abstruse technological condition we are currently living in and the insufficient intellectual methodologies that seek to justify, or explain it. Besides being resposible for various floppy-centered events under the moniker of Floppy Totaal, he is also a member of Varia, the center of everyday technology. Thomas Walskaar (NO) is a graphic designer and researcher. He has a Masters in Media Design and Communication from The PietZwart Institute in Rotterdam and a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Ravensbourne in London. His personal interests revolve around frailty of storage technology and the importance of the individual to store with caution. One of his better known projects is My Hard-Drive Died Along With My Heart.Contributors Lori Emerson (CA/US) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Intermedia Arts, Writing and Performance Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is also the Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. Emerson writes about media poetics and the history of computing, media archaeology, media theory, and digital humanities. Jason Scott (US) is a free-spirited archivist, filmmaker, performer, and historian of technology. He is known under the online pseudonyms Sketch, SketchCow, and the Slipped Disk, and has been called a figurehead of the digital archiving world. He works for Internet Archive and has given numerous presentations at technology related conferences on the topics of digital history, software, and website preservation.Tom Persky (US) is the last man standing in the floppy disk business. He is the founder of floppydisk. com, a US-based company, dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy disks. Other services the company provides include disk transfers, a recycling program, and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists worldwide. All this makes floppydisk. com a key player in the contemporary floppy scene.Florian Cramer (NL) is a practice-oriented research professor in 21st Century Visual Culture at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since 2009, he has developed a habit for creating and distributing films using floppy disks and has conducted multiple workshops on the subject. By employing extreme measures of compression he is able to squeeze entire movies onto the 1. 44 MB provided by the medium. The floppy disk also stood at the center of several of his collaborative film projects as a vehicle for collective constrai Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Floppy Disk Fever explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-first century by interviewing those involved with the medium today.
The book reflects on notions of obsolescence, media preservation and nostalgia, and challenges these by showing the endurance and versatility of this familiar piece of technology. From floppy filmmakers to floppy painters and beyond; what drives people to continue working with the medium that is typically deemed obsolete? What challenges and affordances does it provide? And what does the future hold in store for the familiar black square? By looking at the current presence of past technology we can assess our present-day situation and speculate on the future developments of our media minded landscape. After all, the technology of the past is also part of our future!
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