Lori Emerson Explained

Lori Emerson
Occupation:Associate professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Education:Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo 2008M.A., SUNY at Buffalo 2004M.A., University of VictoriaB.A., University of Alberta[1]

Lori Emerson is an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and founder of the Media Archaeology Lab, a museum dedicated to obsolete technologies spanning from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. She is known for her work in media archaeology, digital preservation, and digital archives.

Education

Emerson has a B.A. from the University of Alberta (1998), and M.A. from the University of Victoria (2001) and an M.A. from the University of Buffalo (2004). In 2008 she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo.[2] She joined the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2008. As of 2022, she is an associate professor in the English department.[3] She is also the founder of University of Colorado's Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab.[4]

Career

Emerson's areas of study include cultural studies, poetics and aesthetics, media archaeology, computer history, telecommunications networks, digital humanities and textuality, digital preservation, and digital archives. Emerson writes on and teaches experimental American and Canadian writing from the 20th and 21st centuries, the history of computing, and media theory. Her interest in the predecessors to ASCII art was part of a 2014 story in The Atlantic.[5] Katherine Hayles explains that Emerson theorizes on the combinations of machine and human perspectives.[6]

A component of Emerson's work centers on media archaeology or how to preserve digital memories.[7] [8] [9] The Media Archaeology Lab she founded at the University of Colorado Boulder campus collects obsolete technologies in order to foster study and understanding of them.[10] Carrying the motto "The past must be lived so that the present can be seen," the lab maintains all of these items in working order and allows them to be used at any time.[11] [12] It houses the world's first portable computer, the Osborne 1, as well as video game consoles, typewriters, audiovisual materials, and audio equipment. In exploring the ways in which the Media Archaeology Lab both differs from and adheres to the expectations of a traditional archive, Emerson and coauthor Libi Striegl describe that the Media Archaeology Lab "changes from year to year, depending on who is in the lab and what donations have arrived at our doorstep, and thus it undoes many assumptions about what archives as well as labs should be or do".[13] This form of digital archaeology is a term used by Emerson to describe how people have interacted with computers over time.[14] Her work establishing a media lab has been mentioned by other researchers in the field.[15] [16] [17]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2015, Emerson received an honorable mention from the Electronic Literature Organization for the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature for her work Reading Writing Interfaces.[23] In 2015, she received the ASSETT Teaching With Technology Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder for her work in the Media Archaeology Lab.[24]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lori Emerson, Background . CU Experts . The University of Colorado Boulder . 28 April 2021.
  2. The rematerialization of poetry: from the bookbound to the digital.. University Microfilms International. 2008. Ann Arbor, Mich.. English. Lori. Emerson. 373333885.
  3. Web site: Lori Emerson. 27 April 2021. University of Colorado Boulder English. 19 June 2018 . The University of Colorado Boulder.
  4. Book: Wershler. Darren. The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies. Emerson. Lori. Parikka. Jussi. The University of Minnesota Press. 978-1-4529-5840-8. 27 April 2021.
  5. Web site: Madrigal. Alexis C.. 2014-01-30. The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art. 2022-01-08. The Atlantic. en.
  6. Book: Hayles, New York, in the ISBN), Katherine . Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational, Wellek Library Lectures . Columbia University Press . 2020 . 9780231198240 . New York . 30.
  7. Emerson. Lori. Kirby. Jay. June 2016. Media Genealogy: As If, or, Using Media Archaeology to Reimagine Past, Present, and Future: An Interview with Lori Emerson. International Journal of Communication. 10. 6 May 2021.
  8. Emerson. Lori. 1 April 2019. Anarchive as technique in the Media Archaeology Lab. International Journal of Digital Humanities. 10.1007/s42803-019-00005-9. 132419129. free.
  9. Emerson. Lori. 16 Jun 2020. Afterword: Towards a variantology of hands-on practice. Early Popular Visual Culture. 18. 1. 93–101. 10.1080/17460654.2020.1763635. 221061867.
  10. Web site: November 23, 2021. Play Oregon Trail on an old Mac at this Colorado lab. 2022-01-08. KUSA.com. en-US.
  11. Web site: Media Archaeology Lab . Atlas Obscura . 28 April 2021.
  12. Book: Adema, Janneke. Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities. 2021-08-31. MIT Press. 978-0-262-04602-2. 274. en.
  13. striegl . libi . Emerson . Lori . Anarchive as technique in the Media Archaeology Lab building a one Laptop Per Child mesh network . International Journal of Digital Humanities . 2019 . 1 . 59–70 . Springer Nature . 10.1007/s42803-019-00005-9 . 132419129 . free .
  14. Book: Keathley, Elizabeth. Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. 2014-03-31. Apress. 978-1-4302-6377-7. 126. en.
  15. Book: Clarke, James. Media Labs: what you need to know. 2019-03-12. Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.. 978-0-9566329-8-2. en.
  16. Book: Parisi, David. Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing. 2018-02-27. U of Minnesota Press. 978-1-4529-5619-0. en.
  17. Book: Jones, Steven E.. Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards. 2016-03-31. Routledge. 978-1-317-28654-7. 16. en.
  18. Smith. Martha Nell. 2015. Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound by Lori Emerson (review). The Emily Dickinson Journal. 24. 2. 99–103. 10.1353/edj.2015.0017. 170559793. 1096-858X.
  19. McGrath. Jim. 2018-01-31. Reappearing Acts: A Review of Lori Emerson's Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound. Digital Humanities Quarterly. 011. 4. 1938-4122.
  20. Web site: 2014-08-21. Review: Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound. 2022-01-08. HuffPost. en.
  21. Book: Tabbi, Joseph. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. 2017-11-30. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4742-3027-8. 428. en.
  22. Gades. Naomi. 2014. Review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 47. 2. 193–194. 44066197. 0742-5562.
  23. Web site: Marino . Mark . Hayles and Coover Prizes Announced at ELO 2015 . The Electronic Literature Organization . 7 August 2015 . Electronic Literature Organization . 28 April 2021.
  24. Web site: Students Nominate Emerson's Use of Media Archaeology Lab for Teaching with Tech Award . Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology . 24 June 2015 . The University of Colorado Boulder . 28 April 2021.

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