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Multimedia From Wagner to Virtual Reality

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ISBN-10: 0393323757

ISBN-13: 9780393323757

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ken Jordan, Randall Packer

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Tracing the fertile and fascinating series of collaborations between arts and sciences throughout the 20th century, Randall Packer and Ken Jordan present the history behind multimedia. They assemble a collection of the groundbreaking visions of scientists and artists to show the historical context.
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 498
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Ken Jordan has pioneered innovative Web sites such as SonicNet, Word, and Media Channel. He lives in New York City.

Randall Packer is a media artist and professor of electronic arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Foreword
Overture
Integration
"Outlines of the Artwork of the Future"
"The Futurist Cinema"
"Theater, Circus, Variety"
"Intermedia"
"The Great Northeastern Power Failure"
"Cybernated Art" and "Art and Satellite"
Interactivity
"Cybernetics in History"
"Man-Computer Symbiosis"
"Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework"
"Diary: Audience 1966"
"Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision"
"Responsive Environments"
"User Interface: A Personal View"
"Modalities of Interactivity and Virtuality"
Hypermedia
"As We May Think"
Excerpt from Computer Lib/Dream Machines
"Personal Dynamic Media"
"Spatial Data-Management"
"The New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems"
"Information Management: A Proposal"
"Hypertext, Hypermedia and Literary Studies: The State of the Art"
Immersion
"The Cinema of the Future"
"The Ultimate Display"
"Virtual Interface Environments"
"Academy Leader"
"Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace"
"A Room with a View"
"Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being"
Narrativity
"The Future of the Novel"
"Untitled Guidelines for Happenings"
"Will There Be Condominjums in Data Space?"
"The Fantasy Beyond Control"
"Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?"
"Welcome to 'Electronic Cafe International': A Nice Place for Hot Coffee, Iced Tea, & Virtual Space"
"Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities"
"The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace"
"Agency"
Coda: Laurie Anderson, "The Language of the Future"
Notes and References
A Note on the Web Site
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Index