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Descriptions & Essays
The Multi Mega Book is an "uptodate" electronic book sculpture ... a magical and stimulating journey through some of the most intense moments of human experience in media, technology, science, architecture and culture.
The project is available MMB Architectonic-multimedia installation, MMB Virtual Application and MMB Net-version.
The Multi Mega Book in the Cave was developed for CAVE: Cave AutomaticVirtualEnvironment"; a VR full-inmersive-interactive installation with high resolution stereoscopic images. The MultiMega Book (MMB) in the CAVE (VR-application) expands one Maxi-Page of the ongoing Multi-Mega-Book Project. The MMB in the CAVE focuses on the specific argument of "The shift from the printed+book ... to the electronic text+digital skin". The avatar Nem is composed using basic geometric forms, circle, triangle, sphere. These shapes shift to create a column or a character. In the Renaissance city he appears first as an "info-point" column. As the visitors approach, he opens up into a "humanoide" figure and establishes an interactive relationship with them as he guides them through the environment.
(FRANZ FISCHNALLER)
Literature
Fischnaller, Franz. »Multi Mega Book in the Cave.« In XXXIV Incontri Di Sorrento Del Cinema e dell´Audiovisio, edited by Gennarelli Bideri, 35-36. Naples: 1999.
Fischnaller, Franz. »Multi Mega Book in the Cave.« In Monumedia: Multimedia and Cultural Heritage, edited by Fridericiana/University Press, 29-30. Electa, Napoli, Italy: Editor Fridericiana/ University Press, 1998.
Fischnaller, Franz. »Multi Mega Book in the Cave.« In MULTIMEDIA GRAND PRIX´97, edited by , 15. Japan: 1997.
Fischnaller, Franz. »Tracking the Net.« In Fleshfactor, Ars Electronica Festival ´97, edited by , 137-138. : 1997.
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