Disseratio de Arte combinatoria (G. W. Leibniz), Read Only Memory, 2016

Hong Kong 2016
Disseratio de Arte combinatoria (G. W. Leibniz), Read Only Memory

Annely Juda Fine Art

Mixed Media
double-sided, copper-coated, epoxy resin glass fabric laminate, electrical components, lead solder
106.5 x 106.5 (cm)
41.9 x 41.9 (inch)
The ROM (read-only memory) is a data storage medium, whose data content is permanently recorded in production. In 12 new works, Goldbach has hand-built Read Only Memory boards with technical means common from the 1950s to 1970s. These ROMs encode passages from canonical texts addressing ideas and approaches to a universal language or “Lingua Universalis”. Conceived in the seventeenth century as a universal and formal language to express mathematical, scienti c, and metaphysical concepts, it is widely seen as the conceptual precursor to digital communi- cation. Similarly, photography has been seen as a type of “Lingua Universalis”, interpreting objects of the world through apparatus in ‘words of light’.