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Retro-Engineering and Alternative Histories: Possible Roads Toward Media Archaeological Reconstruction
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 50, Number 2, 2017
- pp. 192-193
- Article
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Abstract:
This article gives insight into research on media archaeological reconstruction of media and digital artworks. This experimental approach, illustrated by two practical cases, results in a duplication of the artworks within their original machines and languages. Based on retro-engineering, this approach is becoming a way to investigate the known, unknown and alternative stories by and for the machines, the goal being to produce archives, witnesses of the machines' related history and inherent imaginary.