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What’s In a Name?

This is not a media archaeology lab. This is not an archive. This is a research collection.

Residual Media Depot main slide deck

An introduction to all aspects of the Residual Media Depot in slide form (PDF, 5+MB. Version 1, 2017-06-07).

The Video Game Archaeologist

Profile of Darren Wershler and the Residual Media Depot by Karl Rettino-Parazelli for Le Devoir, June 5, 2017. Original here.

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The Residual Media Depot (RMD) is a project of the Media History Research Centre in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University, under the direction of Darren Wershler, the Concordia University Research Chair in Media & Contemporary Literature.

The RMD is a sister organization of the Media Archaeology Lab of the University of Colorado At Boulder and The Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research group (AMT) at the University of Southhampton.

Location and Contact

EV 10.701
Milieux Institute
Engineering, Computer Science & Visual Arts Integrated Complex

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Dr. Darren Wershler
Department of English
LB 685-3
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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@residualmedia on Twitter

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June 14, 2021

@WorldIsSquare @TAG_News @residualmedia You need to create your own Nintendo Power Station

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June 14, 2021

@Alexrosswrites Summer project: dumping digitized Nintendo promo videos back onto VHS and setting up a viewing station at @TAG_News or @residualmedia.

June 11, 2021

Bonus side effect: newfound relevance for media archaeologists who understand pre-1998 video cards

gato fumador ❼@KweenInYeIIow

just ban any video card developed after like 1998. gamers, streamers, crypto dorks all in one fell swoop

June 7, 2021

Happy to talk any time …

Sean Tudor@S_Tudor

@TriFreako @GavinDYoung Thanks! not @IngeniumCa anymore but still keep my toes in the waters. Pretty cool! @CommTechCurator my old boss - there may be interest. If that does not work try @residualmedia & @alienated for use in game studies & preservation education. I can make more intros if needed

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May 7, 2021

Reposting this blog I wrote with @_alexically, as we've just started cataloguing the @ResidualMedia Depot's Nintendo collection, and the naming conventions are waaaaaay different than the older stuff (Odysseys, Ataris, etc.)

http://residualmedia.net/uncontrolled-vocabulary/

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