Canterbury collection
The Nic Costa Archive.
Costa's collection of coin-machine marketing materials, photographs and artefacts was donated to Canterbury Christ Church University. It remains a valuable primary source for the history of the industry.
Archive & recognition
A practice that leaves traces.
Nicholas Costa's work continues across collections, critical citations and the institutions that preserve its evidence.
BFI National Archive
Experimental film.
The Nic Costa Collection preserves films he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, documenting an experimental dimension to his work alongside his books and research.
Critical attention
A continuing conversation.
Books, articles, theses and reference works have cited Costa's research across nearly four decades, from technology history and gaming studies to archaeology and ancient history.
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Books as evidence.
D'Aleman Publishing brings together the published work of Nicholas Costa, from machine histories and artist's books to investigations of myth, landscape and historical memory.
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