Title:
The NewMediaReader
Author:
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah.
ISBN:
9780262232272
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Physical Description:
xv, 823 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Contents:
Perspectives on New Media: Two Introductions. Inventing the medium / Janet Murray -- New media from Borges to HTML / Lev Manovich.
Part I : The Complex, the changing, and the indeterminate. The Garden of Forking Paths / Jorge Luis Borges, 1941 -- As We May Think / Vannevar Bush, 1945 -- Computing Machinery and Intelligence / Alan Turing, 1950 -- Men, Machines, and the World About / Norbert Wiener, 1954 -- Man-Computer Symbiosis / J.C.R. Licklider, 1960 -- "Happenings" in the New York Scene / Allan Kaprow, 1961 -- The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin / William S. Burroughs, 1963 -- From Augementing Human Intellect : A Conceptual Framework / Douglas Engelbart, 1962 -- Sketchpad : A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System / Ivan Sutherland, 1963 -- The Construction of Change / Roy Ascott, 1964 -- A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate / Theodor H. Nelson, 1965 -- Six Selections by the Oulipo. A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems / Raymond Queneau, 1961 ; Yours for the Telling / Raymond Queneau, 1973 ; A Brief History of the Oulipo / Jean Lescure, 1973 ; For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature / Claude Berge, 1973 ; Computer and Writer : The Centre Pompidou Experiment / Paul Fournel, 1981 ; Prose and Anticombinatorics ; Italo Calvino, 1981.
Part II : Collective media, personal media. Two Selections by Marshall McLuhan. The Medium Is the Message, 1964 (from Understanding Media) ; The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society, 1969 (from The Gutenberg Galaxy) -- Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology [E.A.T.]. From "The Garden Party," 1961 ; From 9 Evenings, 1966 ; [Press Release], 1966 ; The Pavilion, 1972 -- Cybernated Art / Nam June Paik, 1966 -- A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect / Douglas Engelbart and William English, 1968 -- From Software--Information Technology : Its New Meaning for Art / Theodor H. Nelson, Nicholas Negroponte, and Les Levine, 1970 -- Constituents of a Theory of the Media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 1970 -- Requiem for the Media / Jean Baudrillard, 1972 -- The Technology and the Society / Raymond Williams, 1974 -- From Computer Lib/Dream Machines / Theodor H. Nelson, 1970-1974 -- From Theatre of the Oppressed / Augusto Boal, 1974 -- From Soft Architecture Machines / Nicholas Negroponte, 1975 -- From Computer Power and Human Reason / Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976 -- Responsive Environments / Myron W Krueger, 1977 -- Personal Dynamic Media / Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, 1977 -- From A Thousand Plateaus / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 1980.
Part III : Design, activity, and action. From Mindstorms : Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas / Seymour Papert, 1980 -- "Put-That-There' : Voice and Gesture at the Graphics Interface / Richard A. Bolt, 1980 -- Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive (from Literary Machines) / Theodor H. Nelson, 1981 -- Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space? / Bill Viola, 1982 -- The Endless Chain (from The Media Monopoly) / Ben Bagdikian, 1983 -- Direct Manipulation : A Step Beyond Programming Languages / Ben Shneiderman, 1983 -- Video Games and Computer Holding Power (from The Second Self) / Sherry Turkle, 1984 -- A Cyborg Manifesto : Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century / Donna Haraway, 1985 -- The GNU Manifesto / Richard Stallman, 1985 -- Using Computers : A Direction for Design (from Understanding Computers and Cognition) / Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, 1986 -- Two Selections by Brenda Laurel. The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them, 1991 (from Computers as Theater) ; Star Raiders : Dramatic Interaction in a Small World, 1986 -- Towards a New Classification of Tele-Information Services / Jan L. Bordewijk and Ben van Kaam, 1986.
Part IV: Revolution, resistance, and the launch of the web. Mythinformation / Langdon Winner, 1986 -- From Plans and Situated Actions / Lucy A. Suchman, 1987 -- Siren Shapes : Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts / Michael Joyce, 1988 -- The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems / Bill Nichols, 1988 -- The Fantasy Beyond Control / Lynn Hershman, 1990 -- Cardboard Computers / Pelle Ehn and Morten Kyng, 1991 -- The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat / Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer, 1991 -- Seeing and Writing (from Writing Space) / J. David Bolter, 1991 -- You Say You Want a Revolution? : Hypertext and the Laws of Media / Stuart Moulthrop, 1991 -- The End of Books / Robert Coover, 1992 -- Time Frames (from Understanding Comics) / Scott McCloud, 1993 -- Surveillance and Capture : Two Models of Privacy / Philip E. Agre, 1994 -- Nonlinearity and Literary Theory / Espen J. Aarseth, 1994 -- Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance / Critical Art Ensemble, 1994 -- The World Wide Web / Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Ari Loutonen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, and Arthur Secret, 1994.
Abstract:
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were originally published between World War II--when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared--and the emergence of the World Wide Web--when they entered the mainstream of public life. The texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. The contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo Calvino, Marshall McLuhan, Billy Kl?Jean Baudrillard, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Bill Viola, Sherry Turkle, Richard Stallman, Brenda Laurel, Langdon Winner, Robert Coover, and Tim Berners-Lee. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. One example is a video record of Douglas Engelbart's first presentation of the mouse, word processor, hyperlink, computer-supported cooperative work, video conferencing, and the dividing up of the screen we now call non-overlapping windows; another is documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art installation.
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