Mnemosyne: a History of the Arts of Memory : From Antiquity to Contemporary Multimedia Creation by François Boutonnet EPUB, FB2
9782914563833 English 2914563833 Francois Boutonnet's "Mnemosyne" offers the first consideration of the art of memory from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture. First documented in the 5th century BC, the art of memory is the art of memorizing any kind of information--from shopping lists to the Periodic Table--by mentally placing memorable images associated with each item in a sequence throughout a building. This method enables one to recall vast quantities of information by simply "walking through one's mind." The memory arts were associated with oratory in Rome; with meditation in the medieval era; with occultism and encyclopedism in the Renaissance; and with the birth of calculus, via Leibniz. Here, Boutonnet reflects on the link between thoughts, places and images as revealed by the art of memory, from antiquity to digital landscapes, from Giordano Bruno and Leibniz to Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, showing how the history of visual thinking reveals a history of human knowledge., The Ancient Greeks invented the art of memory (personified as Mnemosyne) 2,700 years ago. More than merely a mnemonic device useful to orators, they developed a technique for visually representing the world, which has since nurtured figurative arts and human knowledge. Focusing on the theme of Mnemosyne, this essay thus reflects on the history of visual thought as revealed by the art of memory, from antiquity through Giordano Bruno, Leibniz and Walter Benjamin to Aby Warburg and digital landscapes. Today, digital culture and its interactive practices provide new possibilities for reinventing Bruno's expanding universe. This enables us to access a wide range of information and knowledge and their interactions help us to develop collective intelligence. This work also shows how humans and their computer memories are producing new forms of knowledge using digital media combined with this ancient art; we see how a new type of visual thinking is emerging that creates new forms of knowledge and representations of the real. Because of these new possibilities, the arts of memory have become meaningful as a way of apprehending the emergence of a digital thought process. The status of images has followed the same paradigm shift, so that we now consider the image not as the visible but as the visual; not as a world of shapes, but as a concretion of time, obligating, according to Georges Didi-Huberman, art history to turn back into an art of history, an art of memory. Francois Boutonnet is a filmmaker and senior lecturer in film studies.
9782914563833 English 2914563833 Francois Boutonnet's "Mnemosyne" offers the first consideration of the art of memory from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture. First documented in the 5th century BC, the art of memory is the art of memorizing any kind of information--from shopping lists to the Periodic Table--by mentally placing memorable images associated with each item in a sequence throughout a building. This method enables one to recall vast quantities of information by simply "walking through one's mind." The memory arts were associated with oratory in Rome; with meditation in the medieval era; with occultism and encyclopedism in the Renaissance; and with the birth of calculus, via Leibniz. Here, Boutonnet reflects on the link between thoughts, places and images as revealed by the art of memory, from antiquity to digital landscapes, from Giordano Bruno and Leibniz to Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, showing how the history of visual thinking reveals a history of human knowledge., The Ancient Greeks invented the art of memory (personified as Mnemosyne) 2,700 years ago. More than merely a mnemonic device useful to orators, they developed a technique for visually representing the world, which has since nurtured figurative arts and human knowledge. Focusing on the theme of Mnemosyne, this essay thus reflects on the history of visual thought as revealed by the art of memory, from antiquity through Giordano Bruno, Leibniz and Walter Benjamin to Aby Warburg and digital landscapes. Today, digital culture and its interactive practices provide new possibilities for reinventing Bruno's expanding universe. This enables us to access a wide range of information and knowledge and their interactions help us to develop collective intelligence. This work also shows how humans and their computer memories are producing new forms of knowledge using digital media combined with this ancient art; we see how a new type of visual thinking is emerging that creates new forms of knowledge and representations of the real. Because of these new possibilities, the arts of memory have become meaningful as a way of apprehending the emergence of a digital thought process. The status of images has followed the same paradigm shift, so that we now consider the image not as the visible but as the visual; not as a world of shapes, but as a concretion of time, obligating, according to Georges Didi-Huberman, art history to turn back into an art of history, an art of memory. Francois Boutonnet is a filmmaker and senior lecturer in film studies.