10-4-99
Dear Mr. Davis,
At first I would like to thank you for your immediate reply to my
inquiry. I am really glad that I have found you.
As a student and member of a graduate school at the University of
Hamburg, Germany, I am at work on a dissertation about the current
conjuncture of architectural and urban metaphors and signatures, or, to
say it in other words, about the spatial organization of information. In
the course of my investigations the ars memoriae, often cited in context
of electronic media, has called my attention.
Two years ago I came across Robert Edgar`s Memory Theatre One.
Fascinated by the project I established contact with Robert to find out
more about it. During the last months our correspondence has developed
into a stimulating discourse on the mnemonics and their conceptual
influence on computer graphics as well as electronic media. Furthermore,
Robert has been so kind sending me the disks of MT One, and I am going
to practice and study it in the next few days. The results of this
investigation are meant to constitute a part of my dissertation.
Collecting anything written and said about MT One I would really much
like to get your review of it. As Robert has told me your review was
published in The Atlanta Art Papers in 1986. He also mentioned the site
www.mit.edu:8001/people/davis/Edgar.html. But my inquiries on the web
were not successful. The Atlanta Art Papers seem not to exist any more.
It may also be possible that they are not registered on the Web. And
your remarks on MT One on the mentioned site are not complete. So, I
have to rely on your support.
If you could send me a copy of the review (maybe as data file?) I would
be most grateful.
Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Kirsten Wagner