[-empyre-] A challenge to silence: Noah's Q and A

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

Dear -empyreans= especially those of you who are lurking about without
writing..........

I  would be interested to hear from more of you who have not yet responded
to Noah's query.   Especially if some of  you have the book New Media Reader
in hand. 

 The New Media Reader, as many of you know by now, is an annotated
compendium of documents and writing from about mid century into the nineties
-- indeed,  a chronicle of everything from those first exciting attempts to
conceptualize everyday design for HCI - to the radical participation tactics
of performance artists working with network and collaboration on the street
-- to the history of surveillance, state control via the 'panopticon' -- to
the potential of video as an immersive medium in 3d realtime.


 The book  has loads of pithy intro comments from nick 'n noah.  No doubt
some lurkers are burrowing into their own copies of it at this very moment.
Please speak up with your specific response to Noah's question, copied
below, especially with regard to your own practice and thinking.  Personally
I would like to hear from HCI designers.
  
-empyre is listening to the list --



cm



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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:41:37 -0800
From: noah wardrip-fruin <noah@queeg.com>
Subject: [-empyre-] pieces of history
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If I might pose a question, I'd be interested to know what work from
the history of new media (however we define the term) empyre folks
have found particularly important - perhaps as you came into the
field, or in a later stage of your work.