Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine.

102pp. Prof. illus. 1 hors-texte photographic print, mounted on board and signed, numbered, titled and captioned by the artist in pencil on the mount, loosely inserted in pocket under back cover, as issued. 4to. Cloth, with mounted title panel on front cover. Edition limited to 27 numbered copies, signed and numbered by the artist in the colophon. The edition is divided in three tirages of nine copies each, with a different hors-texte photographic print for each tirage. The work was printed entirely on an Indigo 5000 press.A fantastical work from the imagination of Gregory Vershbow, "‘Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine’ is a collection of the contraptions, fragmented journal entries and original ‘photographs’ of a nineteenth-century scientist who accidentally invented photography while failing to construct a mechanical mind. Lusterko’s attempts to build a mechanical mind never could have proved or disproved his conviction that memory was the result of a mechanical process in the human mind. The mechanical mind (or the ‘memory machine’ as it is also called) is not an empirical model, but rather a physical construction of a metaphor of the functions of the mind" (the artist).…