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Giulio Camillo (1480 - 1544) was as well-known in his era as Bill Gates is now. Just like Gates he cherished a vision of a universal Storage and Retrieval System, and just like Microsoft Windows, his ‘Theatre of the Memory’ was, despite constant revision, never completed. Camillo’s legendary Theatre of Memory remained only a fragment, its benefits only an option for the future. When it was finished, the user - so he predicted - would have access to the knowledge of the whole universe. On account of his promising invention, Camillo’s contemporaries called him ‘the divine’. For others, like Erasmus or the Parisian scholars, he was just a ‘quack’, but also this only shows that his reception was as strong as is the case with the computer gurus of our days. Still, Camillo was forgotten immediately after his death. No trace is left of his spectacular databank - except a short treatise which he dictated on his deathbed and which was formulated in the future tense: ‘L’Idea del Theatro’ (1550). ...
"Wissen als Schauspiel" – nach den Möglichkeiten theatraler Formen von Wissensrepräsentation fragt Peter Matussek. Er beobachtet eine Wende vom "pictorial turn" zum "performative turn" und gibt uns einen historischen Abriss der wiederauflebenden Gedächtnistheater. Kann die theatrale Form der Wissensrepräsentation die Aufmerksamkeitsstörungen der Informationsgesellschaft kurieren, oder ist sie selbst das Symptom, das sie zu kurieren vorgibt? Matussek betont, welchen bisher weitgehend übersehenen Einfluss "The Art of Memory" von Frances Yates auf Wissensingenieure, Interface-Designer und Computerkünstler ausgeübt hat. Dabei gehe es nicht nur um die Anordnung, sondern auch um die Erfindung von Wissen und neuen Werkzeugen zur Systematisierung, Kontextualisierung, Visualisierung und Inszenierung von Information.