Binding: Paperback
Description: With the prevalence of smartphones massive data storage and search engines we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality every era has faced its own challenges of storing organizing and accessing information. While they lacked digital devices our ancestors when faced with information overload utilized some of the same techniques that underlie our modern interfaces: they visualized and spatialized data tying it to the emotional and sensory spaces of memory thereby turning their minds into a visual interface for accessing information. In Excavating the Memory Palace Seth David Long mines the history of Europe's arts of memory to find the origins of today's data visualizations unearthing how ancient constructions of cognitive pathways paved the way for modern technological interfaces. Looking to techniques like the memory palace he finds the ways that information has been tied to sensory and visual experience turning raw data into lucid knowledge. From the icons of smart phone screens to massive network graphs Long shows us the ancestry of the cyberscape and unveils the history of memory as a creative act.
Title: Excavating The Memory Palace Arts Of Visualization From The Agora To The Computer
Author(s): Long Seth
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226695280
Pages: 248 Pages, 20 Halftones, 12 Line Drawings
Publication Date: 12/14/2020
Category: Information Technology: General