This past term I was a teaching assistant for the senior undergraduate course Counter-Archives and Residual Media Production in Concordia University’s Communication department. Structured as a studio practicum, the course emphasized the conception, design, and execution of media works, with class time heavily favouring production exercises. 
The “residual media” aspect of the course was inspired by definitions posed by Raymond Williams and Charles Acland, that focus on the ongoing uses and situations of allegedly outmoded technologies …