Memory, Memes and Metadata: Heman Chong and Aby Warburg

Описание: Singapore Art Museum (SAM) hosted a special lecture featuring Professor Bill Sherman, Director of The Warburg Institute. Titled "Memory, Memes and Metadata: Heman Chong and Aby Warburg," the lecture brought Professor Bill Sherman’s pioneering research on marginalia and the history of libraries into conversation with Chong’s practice. The discussion offered unique insights into the themes of knowledge, collection, and archives present in Chong's work.

This programme was presented in conjunction with the exhibition and publication, 𝘏𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. To learn more about the exhibition, please visit bit.ly/heman-chong.

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Bill Sherman is Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of Cultural History in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.  Before moving to the Warburg Institute he served as Director of Research and Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York. A committed crosser of disciplines, periods and professional sectors, he has worked on Renaissance readers, modern artists and many things in-between. He is currently completing a monograph on visual marginalia called The Reader’s Eye, a book based on his 2021 Wells Lectures (Oxford) on The Cryptographic Renaissance and an edited anthology of Aby Warburg’s essential writings.