Multimedia Theory and Criticism
Instructor Glenn Kurtz
This is the reading list for the Spring, '97 semester. This hyperlink page contains the
reading list for the class and also includes links associated with the various articles.
Here are web pages that describe 'smart technologies' such as:
||As a follow up, I would like to investigate the induced
anomalous experience created by Dr. Barry Beyerstein, associate professor, psychology at
Simon Fraser University.
Individual Paper/Creative Project
This page investigates the idea of the author centered text versus the user centered
text. It might encapsulate the ideas from the title, "What I Intend, What You
Here it is: My Work - Your Text
This is an experiment of the ideas of Roland Barthes.
The above examples might be useable in this project. Investigate the idea of fishWrap® an experimental personalized newspaper
project at MIT. Also, investigate the contributions of multimedia to our cultural
environment. See the entry in the Encyclopedia of Multimedia
at SFSU about Encyclopedia.
In 1244, a Dominican friar named Vincent de Beauvais created
perhaps the first organized encyclopedia titled Speculum Maius (the bigger mirror).
In 1481, William
Caxton (another link)
published "The Mirror of the World" which was a translation into English from a
French work "Mappe Monde" (the image of the world).
I would like to study the image of the mirror as it relates to the idea of
This link leads to a page that Glenn Kurtz distributed which
has links relating to the Experimental Fiction class. This is a duplicate page and as of
Monday, November 03, 1997 I have not found the actual link. This should do for now.