camera obscura

Origami cameras -- a camera without the camera. PaperCams are the simplest cameras imaginable: by folding a sheet of photographic paper into a cube and taping it shut, you end up with a pinhole camera that consists of a brass plate and a sheet of paper. The artist assembles his cameras entirely in the dark and revels in the accidental burns and streaks created by light-leakage. Link (via Kottke)
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe focuses on the hand as a meeting place of matter, mind, and spirit. More than eighty images, dating primarily from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, concern the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge from such diverse realms as anatomy, psychology, mathematics, music, rhetoric, religion, palmistry, and alchemy. In addition, the exhibition addresses the relationship between the hand and the brain, sensory perception, the rhetoric of gesture, early forms of finger-spelling for the deaf, morality, and spirituality. On view are miniatures, prints, and drawings that are inscribed with, or surrounded by, natural marks, such as lines or creases, or artificial ones, including letters, numbers, words, or symbols. In each the inscribed hand serves as a visual prompt to the intellect or the memory of the viewer. Indeed, this exhibition reintroduces early modern conceptual frameworks for learning, remembering, and recalling practical and abstract concepts by means of the hand.

via [kellerkind bogenallee 11] & [Der Schockwellenreiter]

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