FG 391: Reading and grasping the world. Image, script and number between oral and written culture

In medieval manuscripts as well as in early prints there are manifold combinations of the written word, image and number which refer back to the hand of God. At the same time they manifest the advanced (mnemo)techniques in a culture where scriptural and oral memory coexist (scriptorality): the relationship of 'counting' and 'telling' (mind that to 'tell' can also mean to 'count, enumerate'), the indexical, correlative juxtapositon of text and image. The project will be trying to propose hand and number as operators of mnemonics as well as to examine the 'hidden' number in text and image. The aim is to show how the numerical connection of text and image antecedes a technologically mediated audiovisuality.