31.12.2018
Order of the day
Lectio :: Mythology
Hephaistos
Pygmallion
Pythagoras
Disputatio :: Myths of a digital world
Exercitio :: A letter to Your digital self...
03.01.-800
Mythology :: Hephaistos
a male counterpart to Pallas Athena
gives skill to artists
god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volca...
03.01.-800
Made by Hephaistos
Hermes' helmet and sandals, Achiless' armor, chariot of Helios
chain-link net for Aphrodite & Ares
Pandora's pithos (also known as "Pandora's box")
first do...
03.01.-800
Automata attributed to Ἥφαιστος
Wheel tripods to bring stuff to Olympos and back (Iliad, ca. 8th century B.C.)
golden and silver dogs and lions which could bite invaders of the palace of Alkinoos (Ody...
01.01.8
The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue
Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life,
Abhorr'd all womankind, but most a wife:
So single chose to live, and shunn'd to wed,
Well pleas'd to want a consort of his bed.
Y...
31.12.1349
carv'd in iv'ry a maid so fair
Pygmalion working on his sculpture :: Illumination on parchment (14th century)
01.01.8
A happy end
The Goddess, present at the match she made,
So bless'd the bed, such fruitfulness convey'd,
That ere ten months had sharpen'd either horn,
To crown their bliss, a lovely boy...
01.01.8
Pygmalion :: a summary
described in 10th book of Ovid's metamorphoses, but potentially derived from older myth from island of Cyprus
an archetypical story about a thing which becomes consciou...
03.01.-570
Philosophy :: Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
a half-mythological, half-historic personage
first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom")
important contributions to mathematics (e.g. Pythagorean th...
03.01.-570
Tetractys of Pythagoras
triangle distributing numbers 1 to 10 in four rows
many levels of symbolism (Unity / Power / Harmony / Kosmos; Fire / Air / Water / Earth; Point / Line / Triangle / Te...
03.01.-570
Pythagoras Theorem
The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse (c).
31.12.2018
Modern myths
Can You think of any modern myths in which machines, robots, virtual reality, numbers or digitalisation play a key role ?
02.01.-600
Genesis revisited
and then said creators: faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram
and then said humans: faciamus machinam ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram
