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multimedia: from wagner to virtual reality >>
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by
Randall Packer & Ken Jordan, is a growing dynamic resource
that allows the user to explore the historical and ideological
precedents of multimedia. The hypertext site is composed
of four sections: ãIn Depthä covers the creative work
and essays of five of multimedia's pioneers: Douglas Engelbart,
Billy KlŸver, Alan Kay, Scott Fisher, and Lynn Hershman.
ãConceptsä links artists, engineers and theorists across
disciplines according to their contributions to the core
concepts (i.e. interactivity, hypermedia, and narrativity)
that underlie digital multimedia. ãPioneersä is a timeline
that provides a chronological view of the work of artists
(i.e. William Burroughs and Jodi), theorists (i.e. George
Landow and Roy Ascott), and scientists (i.e. Ted Nelson
and Vannevar Bush). ãOvertureä is an illustrated hypertext
narrative of the history of multimedia.
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[from the site:]
ãTed Nelson was particularly concerned with the complex nature of the
creative impulse, and he saw the computer as the tool that would make
explicit the interdependence of ideas, drawing out connections between
literature, art, music and science, since, as he put it, everything is
Îdeeply intertwingled.â Nelson's critical breakthrough was to call for a
system of non-sequential writing that would allow the reader to aggregate
meaning in snippets, in the order of his or her choosing, rather than
according to a pre-established structure fixed by the author.ä
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