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Medea Lab
Medea Lab, Malmö University, is a transdisciplinary media lab where researchers and artists address cultural and societal challenges through experiments, installations and interventions.
Medea Vox and vinyl
The digital gothic: horror and hoaxes online

The internet is filled with stories of ghosts, ghouls and monsters, as well as stories that claim to be authentic evidence of hauntings, curses and possessions. In this episode internet horror researchers Erika Kvistad (University of South-Eastern Norway) and Line Henriksen (Malmö University) talk about the ghosts that haunt our digital technologies, and what happens when a horror hoax ages.
Echoes of the Club: Affective Materiality & Vinyl Records as Boundary Objects

Erin Cory & Bo Reimer's article, 'Echoes of the Club: Affective Materiality & Vinyl Records as Boundary Objects,' published in Riff's journal, explores vinyl records as both archives and research objects. Based on an ethnography of Malmö club Too Cute to Puke it includes a vinyl 45 capturing the club's 7th-anniversary celebration. Check out the article and use the QR code to listen to the album!
Exhibition and talks
Time Space Existence

Discover the mysteries of space and explore the human experience through the Tender Time installation. Eight researchers and 12 students are working on the Venice exhibition 20 May - 20 November 2023. The Time Space Existence exhibition features projects, proposals and pro-utopian dreams of architectural expression. Follow us!
Medea Talks

Meet highly regarded thinkers and practitioners from the media and design field in Medea Talks, a series of open lectures. The series has featured topics such as the politics of place and space in contemporary crime series, radical open access, negotiating ethnic notions and cultural identity, and socio-material move-making.
Researchers and projects
Medea Lab-affiliated researchers have academic backgrounds that span widely across the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, and technology.
The research focus is on media, design, art, and public engagement. Established in 2009, recent projects have dealt with topics such as interstellar space exploration, artificial creativity, the politics of listening, hauntology, collaborative songwriting, and transmedia storytelling.
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HBStaff
Hugo Boothby - Lecturer
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Staff
Martin Cathcart Fröden - Senior Lecturer within the arts
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Erin Cory - Senior lecturer
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Magnus Denker - Lecturer
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Line Henriksen - Senior lecturer
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LHStaff
Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter - Postdoc
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Staff
Bo Reimer - Professor
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Bojana Romic - Senior lecturer
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Richard Topgaard - Project manager
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Josepha Wessels - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
josepha.wessels@mau.se
Additional researcher
Lucy Cathcart Frödén
Lucy is a researcher, linguist and community artist, working primarily in music and sound. She is interested in creative collaboration, and how the act of making things together can foster solidarity and mutual care. Her research tries to understand how the radical openness that shared creativity requires can turn in-between spaces - between people, languages, cultures, academic disciplines or art forms - into common ground.
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Research project
Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain
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Research project
The Digital Gothic. Rethinking ethics, media and monsters in a digital age
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Research project
Knowing From Somewhere: On Modes and Sites of Knowledge Production with Hacker Communities in the Field of Internet of Things
maria.hellstrom.reimer@mau.se
Publications
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2023 | Article in journal
Echoes of the Club: Affective Materiality & Vinyl Records as Boundary Objects
Erin Cory, Bo Reimer
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2022 | Conference paper
Lively Media Technologies: Ethics, Monsters and New Imaginaries for the Future
Line Henriksen, Bo Reimer, Bojana Romic
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2022 | Conference paper
Developing democratic data practices for heritage organisations
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Line Henriksen
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2022 | Article in journal
Writing bodies and bodies of text: Thinking vulnerability through monsters
Line Henriksen, Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, Marie Blønd, Marisa Cohn, Baki Cakici, Rachel Douglas‐Jones, Pedro Ferreira, Viktoriya Feshak, Simy Kaur Gahoonia, Sunniva Sandbukt
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2022 | Article in journal
Negotiating anthropomorphism in the Ai-Da robot
Bojana Romic
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2020 | Other
Artificial Creativity
Bojana Romic, Bo Reimer, Karolina Rosenqvist, Richard Topgaard
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2020 | Chapter in book
No Interaction on Instagram: Political Parties Use of Instagram in the 2014 Swedish Election Campaign
Uta Russmann, Jakob Svensson
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2018 | Conference paper
Visual Materiality: crafting a new viscosity
Maria Engberg, Susan Kozel, Henrik Svarrer Larsen
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2018 | Conference paper
Accessing sexual minorities in Uganda: an exploration of methodological challenges and ethical considerations
Jakob Svensson, Cecilia Strand
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2018 | Conference paper
Sharing and collaborating in service design
Anna Seravalli, Daniela Selloni, Marta Corubolo
Medea has been around since 2009. An archive of all output (videos, audio, blog posts etc) is available through Zenodo.
- Jay Bolter, Professor of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Pelle Ehn, Professor Emeritus in Interaction Design, Chair of the Advisory board
- Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology, Malmö University
- Kirsten Ostherr, Professor of English, Rice University
- Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London