PROGRAM THIRTEEN:
WONDER BOOKS (A SUITE OF WORKS ONLY ON PC)
Is it a paradox to celebrate the CD-Rom for enlivening the culture of the book?
While libraries and classrooms profit from the dense memory and portability
of the CD-Rom, their budgets for the purchase of books and print materials give
way to sizable investments in hardware and software. Yet, the format of the
CD-Rom with its rich textures and multimedia interactives could well be said
to renew the publics sensivity to the wonder of the book. This program
reminds us how books resonate with the lyrical voice of rhetoric, how early
modern texts blended the figures of print and image in a fashion that energized
reading in something of a three-dimensional space. Here the CD-Rom activates
a deep well of cultural interface that ushers the private reader into the wondrous
dark cabinet of the computer, its sound interface, and its libidinal
zones.
Michael BUCKLEY, The Good Cook, 2000 (Australia)
Michiel KNAVEN, Nachtmusik
(Holland)
Aarre KÄRKKÄINEN/Hilkka
OKKONEN Divine ComedyDigital, (Finland)
Calin MAN, Das Wanderbuch (Romania)