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Description: The Digital Mnemosyne is a real-time, algorithmic video installation inspired by the work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929), a German art historian whose revolutionary ideas about transhistorical archetypes deeply influenced the study of visual culture and anticipated the unfathomable proliferation of images in our time. Warburg’s most ambitious project, the Mnemosyne Atlas (1924-1929), represented his effort to categorize significant, recurring motifs throughout the history of visual culture. The pr