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William
Blake argued that the 5 senses are our only true interaction with God.
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Interactivity is the future of entertainment, among other things. Like the holodeck on Star Trek, soon any fantasy you can dream up, will become a virtual reality. This site includes some of the new media artists using sensory devices, connected to a computer through a midi controller, to create interaction. |
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It's still early when it comes to new media. Some say it will be at least fifty years before we start to know how to use it. By 2006, US broadcasters must relinquish their current analog transmissions and broadcast only digital signals. At the dawn of this digital age, there are new media artists working to understand this new medium and how to harness it's power. And what is that power? The common ingredient that most successful new media products share is interactivity. |
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David
Rokeby's article, Transforming
Mirrors, provides further theory on the roll of interactivity and
the future of new media.
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"To this day nobody really knows what compelling interactive content looks like."
Red Herring, January 1999