The collaboration between artist/researchers Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka seeks to open up the term 'media archaeology' in order to use it as an art practice to excavate bodies of memory held not only by the human mind but also especially by the media themselves.  Thus turning to objects, chemicals and electronic circuits, Hertz and Parikka operate in close vicinity to such practices as DIY, circuit bending or hardware hacking.

The Laboratory Planet is a periodic journal of philosophy, science and critical writing on technology, discussing geostrategic and tactical media as well as speculative issues lurking behind the ambiguous headlines of the mainstream press.