A love of knowledge that borders on psychosis.
EK ACCESSION #: ICI 22328 TITLE: Art hIstory reaDing liSt DISCUSSION: An image-text by ICI associate Lise Patt created for Part 2, a publication of the City University of New York, Graduate Center . Here, a typical syllabus for a class in art history is … Continue readingArt hIstory reaDing liSt
As visual thinkers, we often resort to the impromptu diagram to help bring us through a conceptual morass. Through the years, we have taken this conceit one step further in our belief that our nascent theories and philosophies should lend themselves to a visual form. … Continue readingICI Technic: Diagramming
The well-worn but faithful drawers of the ICI’s Ephemera Kabinett. We call the material contained in these drawers ephemera because by they time it comes to us its initial purpose has expired; someone has decided to discard the object (or if we’re lucky, has decided … Continue readingICI Ephemera Kabinett
The telegraph room at the Mundaneum circa 1930, Paul Otlet’s ambitious project to create a master bibliography of all the world’s published knowledge. His interest in collecting magazines, journals, photographs, posters and all kinds of ephemera and not just books mimics our own activities at … Continue readingMundaneum
Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive.The Archive figured prominently in the ICI’s third title, Searching for Sebald: Photography After W. G. Sebald. In her essay that considered the work of Tacita Dean and Joseph Beuys through the prose fictions of W. G. Sebald, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes compares Dean’s Floh (2001) … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas
In the Minoan palace on Crete, the ‘clew’ was a ball of thread that would help one navigate the Cretan labyrinth. The clue’s early meaning was retained when the noun became a verb. To this day, ‘to clue’ is to roll into a ball.