Reference : From the Dustbin of History: Rethinking the History of Amateur Media in a Historical ...
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Unpublished conference
Arts & humanities : History
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/36951
From the Dustbin of History: Rethinking the History of Amateur Media in a Historical Conversation
English
Aasman, Susan mailto [University of Groningen]
van der Heijden, Tim mailto [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > >]
Slootweg, Tom mailto [Utrecht University]
23-Aug-2018
No
Media History from the Margins
19-08-2018 to 24-08-2018
[en] Media history ; Margins ; Amateur media
[en] “Amateurs of one era are not the amateurs of another, even when a continuous tradition exists to connect them”, is an intriguing statement made by Lisa Gitelman (2014). Overall, Gitelman’s answer would favor a certain level of complexity as to avoid ‘sloppy media history’ even when a continuous tradition exists to connect them (137). Rather, we should explore how amateur filmmakers ‘doing and its do-ability’ can differ as they are situated in broader historical contexts. Building on this idea of a complex and dynamic history, that consists of a diversity of histories, we propose to start a semi-structured conversation between three experts in amateur media and between the experts and the audience. We seek to follow traces that connect or disconnect the various discourses and practices in amateur media history in which amateurism encountered predictions, hopes, and tried out appropriations of amateur media technologies as an alternative/marginal media space. The set of related concepts that will be deployed through time and in relation to different historical contexts are: marginality, democratization, resistance, alternative, avant-garde, subversive and experimental. By comparing, contrasting and evaluating these set of concepts we hope to add to the overall goal of the conference to open up a space to rethink historiography.
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Digital History & Historiography (DHI)
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/36951

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