Abstract
@tlas is a web application that allows us to question visual production by creating a space for reflection between images. Conceived as a workshop of potential spaces for thought, this Denkraum – to use the term coined by the art historian, founder of iconography, Aby Warburg – draws an unequivocal parallel with the KBW library in Hamburg, which was used to create his famous Mnemosyne atlas (1918-29). The Denkraum refers to the mental space between us and the world. The very site of interpretive investigation that enables us to resolve epistemological problems as much as migration questions or any other visual knowledge lesson. The @tlas performative device is based on a skillful montage of compositions and decompositions, so that elective affinities are affirmed through iterations and circulations in the space of interactive boards offered by the online atlas. These experiments is born of a process as much reflective as intuitive. Involving visual perception, it becomes a true heuristic tool for thinking with images as well as generating several images of thought.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Atlas, Visual Knowledge, Mapping, Methods, Iconography, Art History
