"Just as Borges' mythical library contains every book imaginable, the World
Wide Web seems to contain every page imaginable."[4]
I find several versions of the mythical origin of the art of memory
from the most varied texts and contexts. A reference leads me to the designated
location, where I find yet another re-reading of the relevant passage:
[4]Jon Ippolito: http://www.Gegeben:Das Universum.
Gezeigt: Jedes Kunstwerk, from: Schaffner,Ingrid & Matthias Winzen (Ed.):
Deep Storage. Arsenale der Erinnerung. Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der
Kunst, Munich 1997, pp. 157-164, here p. 157. The "Deep Storage" exhibition
catalogue will be published in English in May 1998 by Prestel Verlag, Munich,
when the exhibition goes to the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.
Similarly to the "Imaginäre Bibliothek", this wonderful catalogue text
projects Borges' library fantasies (Jorge Luis Borges: The Library of Babel,
from: "Ficciones", Everyman's Library of Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) to the WWW and
refers to numerous artistic projects on the Net, which attempt to aesthetically
transform "archives" - inspired, for instance, by:
Daniel Rubey, "Meditating on the Library as Archive: From Alexandria to the Internet" in Talkback! 1, Dec. 4, 1995
See also:
The Garden of Forking Paths, the Section of the Great Libyrinth devoted to Jorge Luis Borges