EARTH SAMPLE: Copan Ruinas, Honduras
ICI-22204
Category: Raw Material
This is the default category for the virtual ICI Laboratory. In essence, we believe everything that comes to, resides in or journeys forth from the ICI is raw material for tomorrow’s research.
EARTH SAMPLE: Auschwitz, Poland
ICI-22198
Abstraction
Artistic abstraction, which came into public view circa 1911, is currently undergoing a broad reassessment. At mid-century, Clement Greenberg argued that modernist painting’s exploration of line, color, and gesture — each a turn away from figurative representation and from the other plastic arts– constituted a search … Continue readingAbstraction
Zeitschrift Physiologie
In 1902, Max Verworn began the Zeitschrift für allgemeine Physiologie (Journal of General Physiology). In 21 years, the Zeitschrift amounted to 20 volumes full of pictures, diagrams, graphs, and photographs — companions to extensive articles on the inner-workings of all sorts of bodily systems. The Institute holds volumes … Continue readingZeitschrift Physiologie
Interviewing the Dead: Sebald’s Words
The Searching for Sebald project was a landmark event for the ICI because it opened the door to a whole new toolbox for doing creative research. Sebald’s bricolage gave us permission to “play” more than we usually do. In this case, we transcribed an interview … Continue readingInterviewing the Dead: Sebald’s Words
EARTH SAMPLE: Pond of Ashes from Birkenau, Poland
ACCESSION #: ICI 21641
The Clue’s Tool
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.