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Our big news for the summer…

It’s a shame that “we are excited to announce” has become such an online cliché – especially since we are actually excited that the pop-up space for the Media Archaeology Lab (in CASE W250 on the CU Boulder campus) will be shifting from the “Other Networks” exhibit we curated for spring semester to a new exhibit titled “Media Before Media” for fall semester! This exhibit will still include some other networks like radio and telegraph and it will also explore a wide range of early devices including mechanical calculators, robot toys and automata, pre-cinema visual toys, early computational art making devices, past examples of attempts at artificial intelligence, and more.

To help facilitate the purchase of some new devices for the exhibit, we’re running a small fundraiser. Some of the pieces we’re hoping to purchase include: a wind-up automaton, a magnetic wire recorder, wire recordings and blank wire, a stereoscope viewer, and a miniature phenakistiscope. If you’d like to contribute to the fund we’re using to purchase, you can do so through our paypal pool. We’ll be putting together a little thank-you pack including stickers and limited-edition postcards of images from the MAL collection for donations over $15, so please make sure to include a good contact email address so we can reach out to you for shipping info.