Edited by Space Caviar and Sheida Ghomashchi
Publisher: Humboldt books

Dixit Algorizmi – The Garden of Knowledge

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ISBN:978-88-99385-94-1
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Dixit Algorizmi - The Garden of Knowledge, published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition in Venice, presents a series of essays reflecting on the themes addressed in the exhibition series soon to open in Venice. Dixit Algorizmi - The Garden of Knowledge sets out to question the origin myths and narratives surrounding modern technologies, using the lens of contemporary artistic practices to explore their forgotten roots, and overlooked resonances with distant places, times, and cultures. The book presents a reflection on the seminal work of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwārizmī, a scientist and polymath born and raised in the city of Khiva (present-day Uzbekistan). Al-Khwārizmī’s treatise On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals (825 CE), was responsible for the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe, and it was the Latin transliteration of al-Khwārizmī’s name to Algorizmi that gave us the modern word algorithm.