Arqueología de los Medios: ¿campo de estudios o método?
an expanded conversation unfolding across distances – five voices excavating what media archaeology means in local contexts, where art meets science meets technology in geographies often written out of canonical narratives.
the panel format itself becomes archaeological site: Juan Orozco, Samanta García, Luis Negrón van Grieken connected telematically from Cologne, Ricardo Arias, Diana Medina – each bringing fragments, methods, provocations. not a unified discourse but a miscellany of ideas, authors, objects of study scattered across the table like artifacts awaiting assembly.
is media archaeology a general field of study? a method? both? neither?
the question matters differently when approached from Bogotá, when the objects under examination weren't designed here but circulated here, when obsolescence arrives pre-installed, when the relationship between art, science, and technology carries colonial residue that northern media archaeology often treats as invisible.
this expanded talk lets the format breathe – allows digression, multiplicity, the telematic glitch as punctuation. the connection between Cologne and Bogotá becomes itself archaeological: layers of infrastructure, protocols old and new, the cardboard aesthetics of telefante meeting the serious inquiry of media studies.
we excavate not in straight lines but in constellations, letting diverse methodologies contaminate each other, letting local contexts reshape inherited frameworks, letting the conversation remain unfinished – as all good archaeology should.