This project explores ideas of the body as they are rendered “obsolete” by technologies. We thought that Stelarc’s approach to the relationship between technology and the body was a fruitful paradigm for media archaeology as it inherently demands remediations, reappropriations, and repurposings of bodies. Specifically, this project began with the technology of the magnetic tape head--a piece of technology that can be found in cassette tape players and many similar sound systems. The object is a media archaeology that poses questions about forms, mediums, shadows, and cycles of the body. It repurposes media (the magnetic tape and the magnetic tape head) that were first experienced as audio into a visual, physical, and nickelodeon-like “silent” film. The sounds of the tape head clicking and the magnetic mobius strip of tape crinkling around the wooden pegs provide audio stimulus that is both familiar and strange--old and new together--over and over again. ..