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"I recommend this book to you with an earnestness that I have seldom felt for any collection of historic texts," writes William Gibson in his foreword.

Randall Packer is a composer, media artist, and leading authority on the history of multimedia. His work has been shown internationally at the ICC (InterCommunication Center) Biennial Exhibition in Tokyo, ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Radio France in Paris. He currently serves on the faculty of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, where he teaches the history, theory, and practice of digital media Ken Jordan is one of the pioneers of Web-based multimedia: as founding editorial director of SonicNet.com, the Web's first multimedia music zine; as creative director for Icon New Media, publisher of the award-winning Word.com and Charged.com; and, most recently, as cofounder of the public-interest portal MediaChannel.org. He lives in New York City

Foreword

ix

William Gibson

Overture

xiii

Randall Packer

Ken Jordan

I. Integration

``Outlines of the Artwork of the Future''

3

(7)

Richard Wagner

``The Futurist Cinema''

10

(6)

F.T. Marinetti

Bruno Corra

Emilio Settimelli

Arnaldo Ginna

Giacomo Balla

Remo Chiti

``Theater, Circus, Variety''

16

(11)

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

``Intermedia''

27

(6)

Richard Higgins

``The Great Northeastern Power Failure''

33

(6)

Billy Kluver

``Cybernated Art'' and ``Art and Satellite''

39

(8)

Nam June Paik

II. Interactivity

``Cybernetics in History''

47

(8)

Norbert Wiener

``Man-Computer Symbiosis''

55

(9)

J.C.R. Licklider

``Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework''

64

(27)

Douglas Engelbart

``Diary: Audience 1966''

91

(4)

John Cage

``Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision''

95

(9)

Roy Ascott

``Responsive Environments''

104

(17)

Myron Krueger

``User Interface: A Personal View''

121

(14)

Alan Kay

III. Hypermedia

``As We May Think''

135

(19)

Vannevar Bush

excerpt from Computer Lib/Dream Machines

154

(13)

Ted Nelson

``Personal Dynamic Media''

167

(12)

Alan Kay

Adele Goldberg

``The New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems''

179

(10)

Marc Canter

``Information Management: A Proposal''

189

(17)

Tim Berners-Lee

``Hypertext, Hypermedia and Literary Studies: The State of the Art''

206

(13)

George Landow

Paul Delany

IV. Immersion

``The Cinema of the Future''

219

(13)

Morton Heilig

``The Ultimate Display''

232

(5)

Ivan Sutherland

``Virtual Interface Environments''

237

(10)

Scott Fisher

``Academy Leader''

247

(5)

William Gibson

``Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace''

252

(14)

Marcos Novak

``A Room with a View''

266

(9)

Daniel Sandin

Thomas DeFanti

Carolina Cruz-Neira

V. Narrativity

``The Future of the Novel''

275

(4)

William Burroughs

``Untitled Guidelines for Happenings''

279

(8)

Allan Kaprow

``Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space?''

287

(12)

Bill Viola

``The Fantasy Beyond Control''

299

(6)

Lynn Hershman

``Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?''

305

(12)

Roy Ascott

``Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities''

317

(18)

Pavel Curtis

``The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace''

335

(10)

Pierre Levy

Notes and References

345

(15)

A Note on the Web Site

360

(1)

Acknowledgments

361

(2)

Permissions

363

(4)

Index

367

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