Atlas, Atlas - a double book launch

The Warburg Institute in partnership with Ignota Books celebrates the launch of two new books, Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne: The Original and The Atlas of Anomalous AI, with Bill Sherman, Ben Vickers (Ignota Books & Serpentine Gallery), writer and musician K Allado-McDowell, artist and performer Jenna Sutela, and artist Suzanne Treister. This event features conversation, performance and hands-on exploration of both books.
Bilderatlas Mnemosyne: The Original - the folio volume gathers the 63 plates of Warburg’s Atlas - newly photographed from the original, multi-colored images and the 20 panels from the previous versions in black and white, along with essays by Axel Heil, Roberto Ohrt, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman and Claudia Wedepohl.
The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas - an image map of the “afterlife of antiquity” - to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective. The compendium is made up of contributions from over 25 leading thinkers, artists, philosophers and engineers, including Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Ramon Amaro, Jorge Luis Borges, Federico Campagna, Catherine Malabou, William Blake, Ithell Colquhoun, DeepDream, Pierre Huyghe, C. G. Jung, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, Casey Reas, Jenna Sutela, Suzanne Treister and Hito Steyerl.
This event took place on 3 December 2020.
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