Multimedia From Wagner to Virtual Reality Ed., Randall Packer and Ken Jordan Norton, NY, London, 2001

Hardback

A history of interfaces , links and interactivity that we now take for granted. Collaborations between the arts and sciences going back to just after World War II - and further, to Wagner, whose ideas about the immersive nature of music foreshadowed virtual reality.

Includes the Futurists' 1916 manifesto on cinema; Vannevar Bush's 1945 Atlantic Monthly essay that led to hyperlinks; Nam June Paik's 1984 essay proposing that satellite technology would encourage a global information art; Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal for a document sharing network which became the basis of the World Wide Web; Lynn Hershman "The Fantasy Beyond Control"; Pierre Levy "The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace."

392pp Very good condition