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Born 1958 in Helsinki. Media archaeologist, writer and exhibition curator. At
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Erkki Huhtamo (1958) is a media historian and theorist, working as a professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media. He received his Ph.D. in cultural history from the University of Turku, Finland. Huhtamo is also a specialist in the history and aesthetics of media arts.
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D|MA his area is media history and theory. Professor Huhtamo holds a
 
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Ph. D. in Cultural History. He has written extensively on media archaeology
 
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and the media arts. Media archaeology is an emerging critical approach
 
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Professor Huhtamo has pioneered (together with a few other scholars)
 
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since the early 1990's. It excavates forgotten, neglected and suppressed
 
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media-cultural phenomena, helping us to penetrate beyond canonized accounts
 
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about media culture. Huhtamo pays particular attention to the "life"
 
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of topoi, or clichéd elements that emerge over and over again
 
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in media history and provide "molds" for experiences. What
 
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may seem new often proves to be just new packaging of ideas repeated
 
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during hundreds and even thousands of years. In recent years, Professor
 
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Huhtamo has applied this approach to phenomena like peep media, the
 
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notion of the screen, games and mobile media. He has also written about
 
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the ways in which media artists like Paul deMarinis, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
 
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and Bernie Lubell have integrated media-archaeological elements into
 
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their work. Professor Huhtamo has just finished a book on the history
 
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of the moving panorama and the diorama, tentatively titled Illusions
 
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in Motion (California University Press, forthcoming 2009). With
 
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Dr. Jussi Parikka (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK) he is preparing
 
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a collection of writings on media archaeology, also for California University
 
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Press (forthcoming 2009).
 
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As a curator Professor Huhtamo has created many media art exhibitions, for example
 
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the major project Alien Intelligence (KIASMA Museum of Contemporary
 
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Art, Helsinki, 2000). He has served in many art exhibition and festival
 
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juries worldwide, including Siggraph, Ars Electronica and the Interactive
 
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Media Festival. He has lectured very widely in Europe, the US, Japan,
 
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and elsewhere. He has also written and directed television programs
 
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about media culture, for example the series Archaeology of the Moving
 
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Image (YLE, The Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-96). In 2005-06
 
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Professor Huhtamo created with the acclaimed media artists Golan Levin
 
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and Zachary Lieberman (Tmema) a multi-media performance titled Musings
 
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on Hands. It was performed in Tokyo at Waseda University's Ono
 
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Memorial Hall and the Ars Electronica 2006 festival in Linz, Austria.
 
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Professor Huhtamo also gives magic lanterns shows with an authentic
 
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late 19th century biunial magic lantern and original hand-painted
 
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slides. He has an extensive collection of antique optical viewing devices,
 
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such as magic lanterns, peep show boxes, camera obscuras, praxinoscopes,
 
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kinoras, etc., which he often demonstrates to the students.
 
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* ''Illusions in Motion'' (California University Press, forthcoming 2009)
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* editor, with Jussi Parikka, ''Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications'', University of California, 2011.
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* Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka (eds.), a collection of writings on media archaeology, California University Press (forthcoming 2009)
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* ''Illusions in Motion'', MIT Press, 2013.
  
 
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* Huhtamo, "Introduction", in: ''Archeology of Media Art'' [http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic014/huhtamo/huhtamo_e.html]
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* [http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic014/huhtamo/huhtamo_e.html "Resurrecting the Technological Past: An Introduction to the Archeology of Media Art"], ''InterCommunication'' 14 (1995).
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* ''Interview with Erkki Huhtamo on Alien Intelligence exhibition''. 2000. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0002/msg00155.html
 
  
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* [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0002/msg00155.html Alien Intelligence in Kiasma/Helsinki/Erkki Huhtamo Interview], ''Nettime'', 18 Feb 2000.
  
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http://www.design.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?ID=9
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* http://www.erkkihuhtamo.com/
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* http://www.design.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?ID=9
  
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Latest revision as of 18:37, 3 December 2022

Erkki Huhtamo (1958) is a media historian and theorist, working as a professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media. He received his Ph.D. in cultural history from the University of Turku, Finland. Huhtamo is also a specialist in the history and aesthetics of media arts.

Books
  • editor, with Jussi Parikka, Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, University of California, 2011.
  • Illusions in Motion, MIT Press, 2013.
Articles
Interviews
Links
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