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1994, Interactive virtual sculpture.

Next Wave Festival Catalogue Essay
Footnotes & Bibliography

[1] Horgan, J. The New Challenges, Scientific American, December 1992, pp. 8 - 11. The article quotes from a book called The End of Science, which explains: "There is an increasing feeling that science as a unified, universal, objective endeavour, is over".

[2] I use a Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo Elan computer. The director of engineering for the Indigo series of computers (dubbed "Project Hollywood") was Carol Peters. See: Hooray for Hollywood! Iris Universe No. 17, pp 15 - 21, 1991.

[3] Almost all computers are based on the `Von Neuman' architecture, which basically consists of a processor, some kind of `main storage' and a form of input and output.

[4] Zabusky, N.J. Computational Synergistics, Physics Today, July 1984.

[5] Quoted from: Benjamin, W. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Illuminations, translated by Harry Zohn, Fontana Press, Great Britain 1973.

[6] For a further analysis see Penny, S. Old Ideas in New Boxes, Siggraph 93 Visual Proceedings, pp 151 - 153, ACM Annual conference series, New York, 1993.

[7] Wright, R. Computer Graphics - Can Science Help Make Art?, Computers in art, design and animation. pp. 29 - 40, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989.

[8] From: Borges, J.L. Labyrinths, p 279, Penguin Modern Classics, 1964 .


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