new book from V2 - "Interfacing Realities"

Sept. 7, 1997

Type: discussion

V2_BOOK PUBLICATION
INTERFACING REALITIES

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17cm x 24 cm - full color - bilingual (Dutch-English) - price fl 29,50
ISBN # 90-6617-183-9

Are computer networks a virtual world, parallel to a 'real' world? Can a
superhighway be digital? Can a city be digital? Is the Internet nothing
but a huge collective mental projection, constructed with the aid of a
large number of (architectural) metaphors? If the answer to these
questions is affirmative, we - together with these authors - will have
to address a number of essential issues. What does this mean to the
cities we inhabit now? And if this technological extension of the urban
space has so much 'reality effect', are we willing to throw ourselves on
the Net for shopping, education and even to search for money and
happiness? In the end, will we have to metaphorize ourselves, with our
bodies becoming nothing but a protrusion of the screen?

This book is not a metaphor, but a machine that has caught a virus from
the Net. When used intensively, the shape changes.

The five authors Knowbotic Research, William J. Mitchell, Stephen
Perrella, Stacey Spiegel and Siegfried Zielinski wrote their texts in a
procedure proposed by V2_Organisatie. The authors could read and comment
on each other's material via the Net in three consecutive rounds. Stefan
M=FCnker moderated the proceedings and wrote the introduction.

This publication is an initiative of the V2_Organisatie, resulting from
DEAF95 (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) that V2 organized with
Interfacing Realities as its theme.

distribution: Uitgeverij De Balie and Idea Books

Information
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