Words into Images: Archives and Memory

4 ECTS course offered in the Fall term

Instructor:  István Rév

The course intends to explore the specificities, but also the close family relationships of museums and archives (libraries, as well); and explore the possibilities, and also limits of turning words into images, and textual documents into visuals. It deals with words, texts, the tension between literal meaning and figurative excesses, with the energeia, the active, activating quality of images, and the evocative character of both textual documents and artifacts.