Secrets of successful multimedia design
Bob Hughes
Addison-Wesley 2000
but although we do invent the future, the effects of our inventions are unpredictable.
mechanized multimedia
Various artists in the 1920's built contrivances to give an immersive, multimedia experience
Some think that the operatic composer Richard Wagner was the first artist in cyberspace.
to integrate all existing art forms: music, dance, poetry, painting and architecture.
everything is intertwingled (Ted Nelson)
Then it seems, he realized that this intertwingularity was totally at odds with the education system he'd spent so long in and had been so uncomfortable with.
there is a friction between art and science
A curriculum promotes a false simplification of any subject, cutting subjects' many interconnections and leaving a skeleton of sequence which is only a charicature of its richness and intrinsic fascination.
some history
Hamlet on the Holodeck (Janet Murray)
Interactive Video
interactivity sucks (Max Withby, 1992)
shovelware, multimediocrity, ...
human languages (Vilerski)
main action is down here
storification: from the path to the landscape itself
from perfection to workmanship
draft version 1 (16/5/2003)