Erkki huhtamo wikipedia

  • Erkki Huhtamo (born 1958) is a media archaeologist, exhibition curator, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Departments of.
  • The theories and concepts of media archaeology have been primarily elaborated by the scholars and cultural critics Thomas Elsaesser, Erkki Huhtamo, Siegfried.
  • He holds a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland.

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    Erkki Huhtamo

    Erkki Huhtamo (born 1958) is a media archaeologist, exhibition curator, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Departments of Design Media Arts and bio, Television, and Digital Media.

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    Huhtamo was born in Helsinki, land i norden, and has a PhD in cultural history from the University of Turku. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1999 to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles, Huhtamo had been a professor of media studies at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland (1994–1996), and worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Art and Design (UIAH, Helsinki, now part of Aalto University).[1] Huhtamo published extensively in Finnish, most notably Virtuaalisuuden arkeologia ("The Archaeology of Virtuality," The University of Lapland Press, 1995) and Elävän kuvan arkeologia ("The Archaeology of the Moving Image," YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company Publishing, 1996).

    These books signaled Huhtamo

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    Media archaeology

    Sub-discipline of archaeology

    For the archaeology of the Media region, see Medes § Archaeology.

    Media archaeology or media archeology is a field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past, and especially through critical scrutiny of dominant progressivist narratives of popular commercial media such as film and television.[1] Media archaeologists often evince strong interest in so-called dead media, noting that new media often revive and recirculate material and techniques of communication that had been lost, neglected, or obscured.[2] Some media archaeologists are also concerned with the relationship between media fantasies and technological development, especially the ways in which ideas about imaginary or speculative media affect the media that actually emerge.[3]

    The theories and concepts of media archaeology have been primarily elaborated by the scholars and cultural crit

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    Design Media Arts

    Professor Erkki Huhtamo is a shared professor between the Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media. He holds a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland. He is a media archaeologist, author, and exhibition curator. At DMA his areas are the history and theory of media culture and media arts. He is internationally known as a pioneer of an emerging approach to media studies called media archaeology. It excavates forgotten, neglected and suppressed media-cultural phenomena, helping us to penetrate beyond canonized "grand narratives" of media culture. Professor Huhtamo pays particular attention to the "life" of topoi, or clichés and commonplaces that emerge over and over again within media history and provide "molds" for new experiences. What may seem new things often prove to be just newly packaged ideas repeated during hundreds and even thousands of years. Professor Huhtamo has a