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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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,…
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:…
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….
