Community

    Students in the Lab

    We’ve given tours to thousands of students!

    Undergraduate and graduate classes from all across CU have engaged with the lab, completing assignments and creative and research projects of all sorts. We've also hosted students of all ages from outside CU, including elementary and middle school summer campers, high school volunteers from the Boulder Valley School District, and life-long learners from around our community.

    Students visiting the lab engage in various ways ranging from free discovery time to focused assignments. General tours are a great starting place, but we like in-depth engagement even more. Instructors and professors are encouraged to develop assignments specific to the MAL.

    We have developed activities that can be modified for many types of classes, including prompts for self-guided exploration in the collections. For classes that demand more specific instruction, we work with professors to develop tailored assignments. To see how a semester-long research project might look, visit The Dig.

    If you'd like to bring students to the lab, please email mediaarchaeolgy+classes@colorado.edu.

    Outreach

    Our outreach work includes intra- and inter-institutional collaborations, curated exhibitions, conference presentations, workshops, and more. For example, we have participated in the Whaaat!? Festival, ournetworks, and Radical Networks. Our most popular workshops include Take It Apart(y)!s, an introduction to Right to Repair concepts; and differNet, a physical exploration of invisible networks. If you would like to propose a collaboration with the lab, email us at mediaarchaeology+collaborations@colorado.edu.

    Our Extended Community

    Founding Director

    Dr. Lori Emerson (Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder)

    Managing Director

    Dr. libi rose striegl

    Residency Curator

    • Oisín Sheerin

    Research Fellows

    • Kadallah Burrowes

    • Cooper Casale

    • Pilar Muñoz

    Academic Advisory Board

    • Johanna Drucker

    • Christopher Funkhouser

    • Lisa Gitelman

    • Garnet Hertz

    • Erkki Huhtamo

    • Matthew Kirschenbaum

    • Elizabeth Losh

    • Mark Matienzo

    • Tara McPherson

    • Shintaro Miyazaki

    • Marisa Parham

    • Jussi Parikka

    • Jason Scott

    • Jacqueline Wernimont

    • Darren Wershler

    Advisory Board

    • Samuel Arbesman

    • Bob Baskerville

    • Vint Cerf

    • Brad Feld

    • Alicia Gibb

    • Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky

    • Todd Vernon

    • Peter Vitale

    • Richard Whitt

    MAL PALs

    • Andrew Brandt

    • Maya Buffet-Davis

    • Ian Hatcher

    • Emma McCormick

    • Eric Perez

    • Miarri Phillips

    • Allison Radomski

    • Ian Scott

    • Chris Torrence

    • Will Tuttle

    Past Curators
    University of Colorado at Boulder Faculty Fellows

    Donors

    John Ackerman, Jonathon Anderson, Apple Inc., Nicholas Arner, Amy Batchelor and Brad Feld, Donna Auguste, Avery Family (In memory of James Avery), Sue Baer, Rebecca Beshore and Family, Derek Beaulieu, Norie Bregman, Vinton Cerf, Bill Chapman, Roni Chen, Robert Craig, Darna Darfur, Kevin Driscoll, Rob Duarte, Paul Echeverria, Edwards family, Turing Erat, Rafael Fajardo, Stan Feld, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Fiske Planetarium, Ken Gagne, Julie Gemmel, William Glinkman, James Groom, Aryeh Goretsky, Lyla Hamilton, Christopher Heivly, Fred Herrmann, Michael Hiscox, Stefan Höltgen, John C. Hopkins, Larry Hunter, Dave Hyde, Jon Ippolito, David Izant, Lionel Kearns, Douglas Kimmel, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Aaron Kuhn, Kemp Langhorne, Deena Larsen, David Lee, Lynette Leiker, Amy Letter, Clayton Lewis, Judy Malloy, Neal McBurnett, Jason Mendelson, Alen Meyer, William Monninger, Keith Moore, Mark Morris, Stuart Moulthrop, Cynde Moya, Bo Olson, Elika Ortega, Janice Peck, Wade Peterson, Michael Preston, Mike Procopio, Randy Prunty, illiam Redak, JR Raith, Tasha Reynolds, Bill Riordan, Bruce W. Ristow (In Memory Of), Benjamin Robertson, Gary and Colleen Rynearson, Adam Sayles, Kathy Schmitt (in honor of Harry Edwards), Rachel Serres, Ben Shapiro, David Simmons, Benjamin Smith, Slaton Spangler, Stephanie Strickland, Chuck Strinz (In Memory of), Guy Stone, Timothy P. Sweeney, Christopher Torrence, Charles Tribble, Emily Velasco, James Vermillion, Kathleen Ward (In Memoriam), William Waite, Mark S. Weiner, Don Witte, Paul Zelevansky

    Campus Partners