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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Michael Sikillian 1 Jan 1993
Ong
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, Routledge, London 1988
The term 'global village' has become a commonplace in the media to describe societies created and sustained by electronic technology. But are digital computer systems replacing the visual print...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1992
Rheingold
Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality, Secker & Warburg, 1991
The second half of the memorable year 1989 saw not only the 'velvet revolution' that swept Eastern Europe, but also the presentation of virtual reality to the world. Two developments that will occupy...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Bolz
Norbert Bolz, Chaos und Simulation, W. Fink Verlag 1992
Die Welt als Chaos und als Simulation is the third book in a series by German media philosopher Norbert Bolz.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1992
Ronell
Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, University of Illinois Press 2004
There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book. Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Fleck
Robert Fleck, On Justifying the Hypothetical Nature of Art and the Non-Identicality within the Object World, Walter König bookshop, Köln 1992
The catalogue of the Peter Weibel's interactive computer installation in the Tanja Grunert gallery in Cologne (June to August, 1992) contains a number of interesting pieces.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Norbert Bolz 1 Jan 1994
The Meaning of Surface
Traditional industrial design is falling apart.
Now that the digital revolution is turning everything into surface and the things with which we interact are becoming increasingly immaterial and turning into black boxes, not only do established...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Durlach
Nathaniel Durlach, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Routledge, London 1992
Presence aims to become the professional magazine of hard-core interface designers. //The operator's performance, experience and sense of presence in teleoperator and virtual environments depend...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Rötzer, Weibel
Florian Rötzer & Peter Weibel, Strategien de Scheins Kunst Computer Medien, Klaus Boer Verlag, München 1991
This collection might be called a good sequel to Rötzer's Digitaler Schein (see Mediamatic 6#4). Strategien des Scheins contains edited lectures from the congress held on the occasion of the opening...
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Matthijs Wolzak
Studeert Toegepaste Cognitieve Psychologie aan de Universiteit Utrecht