Multimedia: from Wagner to virtual reality

Foreword / William Gibson

Overture / Randall Packer and Ken Jordan

I. Integration

1. Outlines of the Artwork of the Future / Richard Wagner

2. Futurist Cinema / F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra and Emilio Settimelli / [et al.]

3. Theater, Circus, Variety / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

4. Intermedia / Richard Higgins

5. Great Northeastern Power Failure / Billy Kluver

6. "Cybernated Art" and "Art and Satellite" / Nam June Paik

II. Interactivity

7. Cybernetics in History / Norbert Wiener

8. Man-Computer Symbiosis / J. C. R. Licklider

9. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework / Douglas Engelbart

10. Diary: Audience 1966 / John Cage

11. Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision / Roy Ascott

12. Responsive Environments / Myron Krueger

13. User Interface: A Personal View / Alan Kay

III. Hypermedia

14. As We May Think / Vannevar Bush

15. excerpt from Computer Lib/Dream Machines / Ted Nelson

16. Personal Dynamic Media / Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg

17. New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems / Marc Canter

18. Information Management: A Proposal / Tim Berners-Lee

19. Hypertext, Hypermedia and Literary Studies: The State of the Art / George Landow and Paul Delany

IV. Immersion

20. Cinema of the Future / Morton Heilig

21. Ultimate Display / Ivan Sutherland

22. Virtual Interface Environments / Scott Fisher

23. Academy Leader / William Gibson

24. Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace / Marcos Novak

25. Room with a View / Daniel Sandin, Thomas DeFanti and Carolina Cruz-Neira

V. Narrativity

26. Future of the Novel / William Burroughs

27. Untitled Guidelines for Happenings / Allan Kaprow

28. Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space? / Bill Viola

29. Fantasy Beyond Control / Lynn Hershman

30. Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace? / Roy Ascott

31. Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities / Pavel Curtis

32. Art and Architecture of Cyberspace / Pierre Levy.