Tag Archives: artifact

11 Sep 09

Rosetta Stone 2.0

The Rosetta disk is an archive of  1,500 languages  that can comfortably be held in the hand. The underside of the disk has, .. over 13,000 microetched pages of language documentation. Since each page is a physical rather than digital image, there is no platform or format dependency. Reading the Disk requires only optical magnification. [...]
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2 Sep 08

Tactile Maps

The image above is of a tactile map made by the Inuit of parts of the coast of Greenland. It seems the Inuit mapped their territory by songs, legends and these tactile maps. It also shows how the empirical world of space as the empty side of a binary relationship with place is badly flawed. [...]
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