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Links and Literature

Links.

Metaphorical Places

• Imaginary Library (in German).
  An illustration of the labyrinth of the library, the book in the book, art-machines, virtual worlds and the net of systems. http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/ami/pool/inha_419.htm

• Ubiquity:
  http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/lab/ubiquity/project.html#Project
  You approach a digital city as an immigrant/colonizer. Entering the city means changing non-places into places (when you understand how it works). The city does not exist of buildings but of texts and pictures.

• Labyrinth:
  http://www.netmen.ch/wullschleger/lab.html

• Collective Memory Palace:
  http://imda.umbc.edu/people/serena/palace.html
  Departing from a "memory-palace", this site exists of a number of "rooms", each of which holds the "memory" of a different person. The memory of different people (pictures, sounds and text) can be connected by links or not. The authors can construct their own rooms and determine their place in the building.

• The Place:
  http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/ludgate/the/place/place2.html "In the place there are no objects, spaces, or bodies. Remember these things are not sacred in themselves. The place explores the boundary between tool and myth, instrument and concept (to see the ways in which they mutually constitute each other) from the "manifesto".

• chickenfish:
  http://203.35.148.179/ Various online art projects, under construction or on CD Rom, on soundspace, VR and other subjects.

• http://www.irational.org/zina Various projects.

• Melinda Rackham - line - :
  http://www.subtle.net/line. The story (about off- and online life) combines fairytale narrative elements with technological terminology. A personal message and mail are adressed to the visitor. ("there are 15 messages for you").

• Simon Biggs, The Great Wall of China:
  http://www.easynet.co.uk/simonbiggs/wall.htm. Designed for simultanious realization in different media (website, CD Rom, book and interactive installation) this project is based on a real-time interactive language machine. The Great wall of China is the metaphor used for navigation because the system produces an infinate stream of everchanging text. Inspired on Kafka's novel "The Great Wall of China", all the words used in the database are taken from this book.

• ...And Tomorrow the Whole World:
  http://www.prot.de/english/proj.htm Two strategies of the theatre are compared.

• Joachim Sauter's project "The Invisible Shape of Things Past" http://www.artcom.de/projects/invisible_shape/welcome.en

• http://www.t-hyp.com/links.html#anchor1320062
  "Sound in the Arts" contains websites to experiment with sound or make music with.

• Acoustic Space: http://www.xchange.re-lab.net/

• Agree to Disagree:
  http://www.three.org/agree/atd-f.html introduces a series of arguments that start with the statement "in the future, books will be replaced by maps". Users can navigate between statments by clicking on answers.

• Atlas of Cyberspaces:
  http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html

• 3d information visualisation:http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs3py/pages/work/Documents/lit-survey/IV-Survey/index.html

• Visual Browsing
  http://mcf.research.apple.com/hs/sites.html

Literature.

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• GASTON BACHELARD. The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas. Boston 1964.

• MICHAEL BENEDIKT (ed). Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge, 1991.

• LAUREL, BRENDA. Computers as Theatre. Reading 1991.

• UMBERTO ECO. "The Encyclopedia as Labyrinth"; in: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, London 1984
  

• WIM KEYZER. Vertrouwd, en o zo vreemd (book en video)

• STEPHEN KERN. The Culture of Time and Space. 1880-1918, Harvard UP, Cambridge Massachusetts 1983

• GEORGE LAKOFF and MARK JOHNSON. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, 1980.

• HENRI LEFEBVRE. The Production of Space, Oxford & Cambridge, Massachusetts 1991 (1974)

• ELIZABETH LOFTUS. Myth of Repressed Memory

• WILLIAM J. MITCHELL. City of Bits, MIT Press, online-versie: http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/

• PATRICK NUTTGENS. The Landscape of Ideas. London, 1972.

• GEORGES PEREC. Ruimten Rondom, Amsterdam 1998 (1974)

• SIMON SCHAMA. Landscape & Memory, London 1995

• DAVID SIBLEY. Geographies of Exclusion. London/N.Y. 1995

• JAMES E. SWAN (ed). "The Power of Place". Sacred Ground in Natural & Human Environments, Bath 1993 (1991)

• BILL VIOLA. The Theatre of Memory (video installation)

• GREGORY L. ULMER. Heuretics: the Logics of Invention, Baltimore etc 1994

• THOMAS WÄGENHAUSER (ed). The Poetics of Memory, Tübingen 1998

• BENJAMIN WOOLLY. Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality, Oxford 1992.

• FRANCIS YATES.The Art of Memory, London 1997 (1966)

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