This project addresses a number of questions dealing with the complex interrelationship between technology, specific user generations and spaces or places of cultural memory production in home movie making and screening. More concretely we are interested in the question how changing technologies of cultural production (film, video or digital camera) have shaped new practices and …
Project member Susan Aasman has written together with Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes the book Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures: Film, Video, and Digital Media, published by Routledge. Description of the book “Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to delineate the boundary line between today’s amateur media practice and the canons of professional media and film practice. Identifying various feasible … Continue reading
Project members Susan Aasman and Tim van der Heijden have been interviewed about Home Movie Day and their research on the cultural and historical value of home movies and amateur film and video for the Dutch newspaper Trouw. The newspaper article (written in Dutch) is called “Home-video’s: de zijstraten van de geschiedenis“. It is written … Continue reading
Home Movie Day at Eye Filmmuseum is an international tribute to the amateur film. This year, Home Movie Day highlights the history of amateur film which spans more than 100 years: from film strips to selfies. How has the making and screening of amateur films and home movies changed in the past century? Who was filming? … Continue reading
Project members Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers and Joseph Wachelder have edited the book Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs, published by Bloomsbury Academics. About Materializing Memories A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and moments with family, friends, and even strangers. Memory practices such as home movies, which originated … Continue reading
Project member Tim van der Heijden was interviewed by journalist Clemens Panagl for the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten about the current ‘retor-trend’, in which Vinyl, cassette tapes, photo filter-apps with ‘nostalgic’ 1970s look have become increasingly popular. Read the interview (in German) here: https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/ein-trend-spult-die-zeit-zurueck-28301230 Continue reading
Project members Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg recently published a blog post on the EUscreen blog. In the post, they explore how their recently finished dissertations provide a complementary perspective on studying and historicizing home movies as family memory practices. You can read the full blog post here: http://blog.euscreen.eu/2018/05/historicizing-home-movie-practices-two-complementary-perspectives/ Continue reading
Resistance, Disruption and Belonging: Electronic Video in Three Amateur Modes Date: Monday, April 9, 2018, 16:15 Venue: Aula of the Academy Building (University of Groningen), Broerstraat 5, Groningen Promoters: Prof. H.B.M. Wijfjes and Dr. S.I. Aasman On Monday April 9, 2018 at 16:15, Tom Slootweg will defend his doctoral thesis Resistance, Disruption and Belonging. The thesis returns to … Continue reading
Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dyamics of Home Movies, 1895-2005 Date: Thursday, 18 January, 2018, 16:00 Venue: Aula of Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht Promoters: Prof. M.J.H. Meijer, Prof. A. Fickers and Dr. J.C.M. Wachelder On Thursday 18 January 2018 at 16:00h, project member Tim van der Heijden will defend his PhD dissertation Hybrid Histories: Technologies … Continue reading
Project members Susan Aasman and Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen) edited a special ‘video dossier’ for TMG—Journal for Media History. In the editorial to the video dossier, ‘A very short video history,’ the authors invite Dutch media historians to delve deeper into the history of video. Whereas media historians abroad tend to acknowledge its multifaceted … Continue reading
Project member Tim van der Heijden was interviewed on Austrian radio to reflect on the topic of ‘technostalgia’: the revival of analogue technologies in the digital age. The weekly radio show on computer and technology called Matrix was aired on Sunday 8 January by Österreich 1 (Austria 1), which is one of the four nationwide … Continue reading
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