In Katherine Olivetti's interview with Pamela Eakins, they explore her path from Stanford academic to Tarot and visionary cosmologist. Eakins describes the creation of the Tarot of the Spirit deck, ...which she modeled on the Tree of Life that contains the ten powers or points of the Tarot. They discuss the collaboration with Eakins's mother, Joyce Eakins, an artist who painted the Tarot deck, and the synchronicity that led to its publication along with development of Visionary Cosmology, which incorporates contemporary science as a way to redefine the paradigms of how we see and walk in the world.
This interview inaugurates a larger investigation about visual female artists who use divination techniques in their practice. These interviews are conducted in the form of tarot readings.
The Sensing Salon Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva (The Sensing Salon)
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The text is a written rendering (heavily edited transcription) of the Sensing Salon held in Stockholm, on February 3, 2023, for the question: How to engage citational practices that support ...collaboration/make space within the institutional context? This collective reading is divided into three parts: (I) a Tarot reading done by the two of us, which includes explanations for the meanings of the cards, the positions, etc.; (II) a collaborative reading, which took the form of a free-flowing conversation, involving many if not most of those present; and (III) we close this documentation of the session with a reading of a Celtic Cross for one of the cards in the first spread, using a preliminary version of a deck we are in the process of developing, the Echo Tarot Deck*. The layering of readings allows for the complexity and nuance the question for this reading demands. As we zoom in with this reading, a glimpse of another image of citational practices appears. *The Echo Deck was inspired by the poems of African American-Japanese American poet Ai Ogawa. A provisional version of deck, with all the cards still blank, was first used in readings during our residency at Amant in New York, in 2022.
Failla asserts that after our meeting in an online occult Facebook group, Amanda decided to come by my house to receive a tarot reading. Immediately, upon her entrance to my living room, we began ...getting to know one another. I introduced her to my six-month-old puppy and offered her coffee. I unwrapped my tarot cards from the gold and brown cloth where they are kept safe and asked Amanda to shuffle them while telling me what was on her mind. We spoke like old friends, sharing the deepest parts of ourselves. Amanda's body language told me she was sad. Her shoulders hunched. This article explores African American women's shifting tarot from a European-dominated tradition into one that cultivates resilience for Black people. Through a process of creolization, or Hoodoo sensibility" as one of my respondents termed it, Black women make tarot Black by reimagining the Eurocentric deck into one that reflects brown and Black faces and connecting to ancestors long lost through the transatlantic slave trade.
This annotated list of books from 1990 through 2005 continues the bibliography in Mythlore 36.2 (SpringSummer 2018) and includes abstracts for each novel or series and some card layout diagrams.
This paper introduces and contextualises Climate Futures, an experiment in which AI was repurposed as a ‘co-author’ of climate stories and a co-designer of climate-related images that facilitate ...reflections on present and future(s) of living with climate change. It converses with histories of writing and computation, including surrealistic ‘algorithmic writing’, recombinatory poems and ‘electronic literature’. At the core lies a reflection about how machine learning’s associative, predictive and regenerative capacities can be employed in playful, critical and contemplative goals. Our goal is not automating writing (as in product-oriented applications of AI). Instead, as poet Charles Hartman argues, ‘the question isn’t exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting’ (1996, p. 5). STS scholars critique labs as future-making sites and machine learning modelling practices and, for example, describe them also as fictions. Building on these critiques and in line with ‘critical technical practice’ (Agre, 1997), we embed our critique of ‘making the future’ in how we employ machine learning to design a tool for looking ahead and telling stories on life with climate change. This has involved engaging with climate narratives and machine learning from the critical and practical perspectives of artistic research. We trained machine learning algorithms (i.e. GPT-2 and AttnGAN) using climate fiction novels (as a dataset of cultural imaginaries of the future). We prompted them to produce new climate fiction stories and images, which we edited to create a tarot-like deck and a story-book, thus also playfully engaging with machine learning’s predictive associations. The tarot deck is designed to facilitate conversations about climate change. How to imagine the future beyond scenarios of resilience and the dystopian? How to aid our transition into different ways of caring for the planet and each other?
El Tarot de la Unidad es un proyecto autogestionado, ilustrado por el chileno Rafa Cuevas y redactado por la psicóloga Rocío Delanoe. Este objeto de memoria histórica relata a través de la serie de ...arcanos mayores del Tarot, la evolución del estallido social ocurrido en Chile a principios de Octubre del año 2019, en donde el pueblo chileno decidió levantarse frente a los abusos de su gobierno para exigir una vida más digna.
Pamela Colman Smith: Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie. Dawn G. Robinson. Fonthill Media, 2020. 213 pp. with notes, bibliography, and 32 plates. ISBN 978-1-78155-741-9. $29.00.
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