Medea Lab, Malmö University, is a transdisciplinary media lab where researchers and artists address cultural and societal challenges through experiments, installations and interventions.

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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.

Image from the Riff's journal

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!

The Golden Record.

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!

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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.

News and events

News

Reflections on Earth in a faraway galaxy

News

Are spooky stories a way of understanding our own demons?

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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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.

Lucy Cathcart Frödén

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Publications

Medea has been around since 2009. An archive of all output (videos, audio, blog posts etc) is available through Zenodo.

View the Medea archive on 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

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