In Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne, the artist seeks to review the importance of myth as a tool to challenge capitalistic fossil fuel branding methods and to grasp the industry’s growing influence on the management of Earth’s resources. By doing so in a tapestry, the artist references the tradition of commissioning tapestries by the rich and powerful to depict myths and stories with educational purposes and political undertones. Interested in the various storytelling of oil cultures, Sentler presents a rich iconography of characters and symbols that weld oil and myth throughout time. Nowadays, oil is not exempt of mythification: oil companies use branding techniques to name their facilities after heroes of the Bible and the Nordic Saga. Mnemosyne transcends CI/CD by making live substantive contributions to the software development process as the developer works. Shark and whale oils were used for weather forecasting, as well as healing ointments for wounds, respiratory issues, and infertility. Mnemosyne applies statistical machine learning, formal methods, and Search Based Software Engineering ( SBSE) to enable developers to write higher quality, higher assurance, and more standards compliant code more quickly. Oil has long been attributed with mythical and magical properties. As of 2006, Mnemosyne keeps collecting repetition history data running a mutation of Algorithm SM-2. It was an offshoot of the neural network project called MemAid (created in 2003). This work is the result of research carried out over two residencies: one in the United Sardine Factory, Bergen (NO), and another as part of the Knockvologan Studies in the Inner Hebrides (UK), both located in the proximity to oil platforms. Mnemosyne is one of the pioneering spaced repetition applications. The Mnemosyne project was started by GrammaTech in collaboration with leading program synthesis researchers: Swarat Chaudhuri and Il Dillig from UT Austin, and Armando Solar-Lezama from MIT. Miriam Sentler weaves water and oil myths through time travel and speculative fiction in Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne, a tapestry produced in collaboration with the TextielLab from the Textielmuseum in Tilburg. The system figur in Warburgs Mnemosyne project within the history of cartographic and encyclopaedic knowledge. Extrapolating the ritual to today’s manufacturing of fuel from fossils that have been forming under the sea for thousands of years, many memories of the sea reappear and remind us of the knowledges and lives that are subject to rapid destruction. Epistemology of Wandering, Tree and Taxonomy. The worship of Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, used to begin with a ritual of initiation consisting in first drinking the water of Lethe (forgetfulness) to forget all previous thoughts, and afterwards drinking the water of Mnemosyne, which brought back the memories of what the devotee saw in his descent in the river. Produced in collaboration with the TextileLab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum Tilburg.
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