The Museum of Lost Technology: A Preview

“The Museum of Lost Technology: A Preview” presents artistic experiments from Ebru Kurbak’s long-term practice-based research project investigating speculative “lost possibilities” at the intersections of textiles, science, and technology. What possibilities may have been lost through the historical exclusion of “women’s work” from early sites of science and technology? What kinds of technologies emerge when textile and string-based practices are approached as sites of invention? Developed through conversations with scientists across fields, the exhibition brings together experiments, prototypes, and instruments in a setting that blurs boundaries between laboratory, craft workshop, and archive. The museum becomes a site not only of preservation, but of exploring technological imaginaries interrupted by the historical segregation of knowledges. The exhibition is part of The Museum of Lost Technology (2020–2026), an Elise Richter PEEK Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): 10.55776/V795.