Orbis Pictus Revised

The Orbis Pictus Revised is an interactive installation that is set up in Karlsruhe in the Center for Art and Media Technology . The work of art is based on the Orbis sensualium pictus . It was created in 1995 by the artists Tjebbe van Tijen and Milos Vojtechowsky .

Idea and content

The installation shows how people have tried for centuries to explain the world with pictures and what changes certain terms and their representation have undergone. The elementary term "child breastfeeding" was initially explained with pictures of large families and wet nurses , but later with pictures of baby bottles. The change in the world of work from simple farming activities to modern large-scale operations can also be experienced visually. Part of the installation is also a virtual bookshelf, with the help of which the visitor can not only familiarize himself with Comenius as an ingenious classification system, but also with the further development of the representation of the respective topics in later works, for example in the 17th and 20th centuries.

Web links

• Orbis Pictus Revised , on the website of the Center for Art and Media Technology
• Orbis Pictus Revised , at www.imaginarymuseum.org