Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality >>
Ken Jordan
Randall Packer
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: "In Depth" covers the creative work and
essays of five of multimedia's pioneers: Douglas Engelbart, Billy KlYver,
Alan Kay, Scott Fisher, and Lynn Hershman. "Concepts" 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. "Pioneers" 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). "Overture" is an
illustrated hypertext narrative of the history of multimedia.
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[Intro] Ted 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.
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