Palaces of memory. ELO 2022 – Electronic Literature Conference Italy.

The architecture of memory is the subject of Sara Carraro's graduation thesis at the Brera Academy, accompanied by a 360-degree video that reconstructs in 3D and retraces the main mnemotechic architectures of the past. Simonides di Ceo, author of the fifth century. BC, is the father of the loci technique. In the Roman civilization the method is taken up by Marco Tullio Cicerone. In the Middle Ages, an example of the Art of Collective Memory is the structure of Dante's Divine Comedy. Giulio Camillo is the author of the Renaissance Memory Theater, 16th century. The palace of memory of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary in China, dates back to the same period.In addition to creating the first Chinese-Western dictionary, he created a synthesis of European and Christian culture by reworking the visual code of ideograms with the method of the art of memory. .

Видео Palaces of memory. ELO 2022 – Electronic Literature Conference Italy. канала Roberto Carraro