TMG Special Issue on 'Video History'

TMG Special Issue on ‘Video History’

My colleagues 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…

Postdoctoral Research at the University of Luxembourg

Postdoctoral Research at the University of Luxembourg

Since April 1 2017, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher in the collaborative research project “Digital History & Hermeneutics” of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg. Part of my tasks includes…

Radio Interview on Technostalgia

Radio Interview on Technostalgia

Last week, I 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…

Exhibition 'A century of home cinema: from projector to smartphone’ (visual report)

Exhibition ‘A century of home cinema: from projector to smartphone’ (visual report)

27 May-30 October, 2016Limburgs Museum, Venlo From the first home movies to vlogs on YouTube: since the advent of portable movie cameras (from 1910 onwards) people have tended to film the first steps and stumbles of a baby, parties, holidays…

Exhibition 'Homeless Movies' (visual report)

Exhibition ‘Homeless Movies’ (visual report)

26 June-15 January, 2016House of Alijn, Museum of Everyday Life, Ghent, Belgium EXPO: JASPER RIGOLE The museum exhibition Homeless Moviesat the House of Alijn, Museum of Everyday Life in Ghent (Belgium) brings an ode to home movies, once recorded in a private family sphere meant to…

Exhibitions updates

Exhibitions updates

From May 27 till October 30, 2016 the Limburgs Museum in Venlo organizes the exhibition: ‘A century of home cinema‘, which is one of the two exhibitions on ‘home movies’ resulting from the research project Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices:…

Exhibition ‘Homeless Movies’ in Ghent

Exhibition ‘Homeless Movies’ in Ghent

Homeless Movies 26 June-15 January, 2016House of Alijn, Museum of Everyday Life, Ghent, Belgium HOMELESS MOVIES brings an ode to home movies, once recorded in a private family sphere meant to built a family memory. Both inside and outside of museum House of…

Exhibition ‘A century of home cinema: from projector to smartphone’ in Venlo

Exhibition ‘A century of home cinema: from projector to smartphone’ in Venlo

27 May-30 October, 2016 Limburgs Museum, Venlo From the first home movies to vlogs on YouTube: since the advent of portable movie cameras (from 1910 onwards) people have tended to film the first steps and stumbles of a baby, parties,…

Upcoming: two exhibitions on ‘home movies’

Upcoming: two exhibitions on ‘home movies’

This year, two museum exhibitions will be organized around the theme of ‘home movies’ in the Netherlands and Belgium. From May 27 till October 30, 2016 the Limburgs Museum, based in Venlo, organizes an exhibition on a century of ‘home cinema:…

Found: unique Kodacolor home movie from 1929

Found: unique Kodacolor home movie from 1929

Film historian Louis Pelletier has found a rare Quebec home movie from 1929. The film, which Pelletier bought on a flea market in 2014 for $25, could actually be one of the earliest home movies in colour (Kodacolor) ever made….