| Description |
xxxviii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / William Gibson -- Overture / Randall Packer and Ken Jordan -- 1. Outlines of the Artwork of the Future / Richard Wagner -- 2. The Futurist Cinema / F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla and Remo Chiti -- 3. Theater, Circus, Variety / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- 4. Intermedia / Dick Higgins -- 5. The Great Northeastern Power Failure / Billy Kluver -- 6. Cybernated Art and Art and Satellite / Nam June Paik -- 7. Cybernetics in History / Norbert Wiener -- 8. Man-Computer Symbiosis / J. C. R. Licklider -- 9. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework / Douglas Engelbart -- 10. Diary: Audience 1966 / John Cage -- 11. Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision / Roy Ascott -- 12. Responsive Environments / Myron Krueger -- 13. User Interface: A Personal View / Alan Kay -- 14. Modalities of Interactivity and Virtuality / Jeffrey Shaw -- 15. As We May Think / Vannevar Bush -- 16. Excerpt from Computer Lib/Dream Machines / Ted Nelson -- 17. Personal Dynamic Media / Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg -- 18. Spatial Data-Management / Richard A. Bolt -- 19. The New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems / Marc Canter -- 20. Information Management: A Proposal / Tim Berners-Lee -- 21. Hypertext, Hypermedia and Literary Studies: The State of the Art / George Landow and Paul Delany -- 22. The Cinema of the Future / Morton Heilig -- 23. The Ultimate Display / Ivan Sutherland -- 24. Virtual Interface Environments / Scott Fisher -- 25. Academy Leader / William Gibson -- 26. Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace / Marcos Novak -- 27. A Room with a View / Daniel Sandin, Thomas DeFanti and Carolina Cruz-Neira -- 28. Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being / Char Davies -- 29. The Future of the Novel / William Burroughs -- 30. Untitled Guidelines for Happenings / Allan Kaprow -- 31. Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space? / Bill Viola -- 32. The Fantasy Beyond Control / Lynn Hershman -- 33. Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace? / Roy Ascott -- 34. Welcome to 'Electronic Cafe International': A Nice Place for Hot Coffee, Iced Tea, & Virtual Space / Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz -- 35. Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities / Pavel Curtis -- 36. The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace / Pierre Levy -- 37. Agency / Janet Murray |
| Summary |
"Packer and Jordan bring together a collection of the groundbreaking visions of scientists like Vannevar Bush, Douglas Englebart, and Norbert Wiener, and artists like John Cage, Nam June Paik, and William Gibson. This expanded edition features additional essays by important innovators, including Laurie Anderson, Douglas Bolt, and Janet Murray, as well as an extended introduction to the collection. Packer and Jordan's explanations of the core concepts behind multimedia provide historical context."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Multimedia systems.
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Multimedia (Art)
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| Author |
Jordan, Ken.
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Packer, Randall.
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| ISBN |
0393323757 paperback |
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