Multimedia Graphics [antikvár]

I ':.!'! (i PrefaceThe most exciling thing aboui multimedia and electronic publishing is the potenlial ihey hold: the potential to establish themselves as a completely new media Form in their own right, the potential for a new kind of creative channel that allows us to search and uncovcr the undercurrent of society and learn more about ourselves through a process of revealing, not concealing. All great painting and sculpture have been effective as mirrors refTeetions of our fears and hopes, our internal struggles and our social obsessions and rules. Multimedia can play that role. They are the media that best match our current obsessions and communications systems and ihereforc hold the greatest possibility as a transport mcchanism for change and comment.The main drawback in all of this Is the lack of adventure and risk being taken in addressing a new form and in developing that form as a new language iliat rcfluets a change in human behaviour. When wi- 'use' an cletironit publication, our very activity Is altered. When llic leirvKlon was Invcnled. ll was designed lo appear as a radiii wHli a pkiurc, Ijctnusc liuilwillingness to create new forms and modes of thought for a revolutionary new form of media that needs addressing in a radically new way. The events of the next two years will be critical it is during this period thai both the textual and visual rules of the media will be established. This book presents some of those pointing the way, catalysts for the new vision necessary to break down c and fears.NEVILLC BfitlDYlo llie conlcmpnriiry power base. In rccent yenrs, ii similar view Inns been tiiken ol the widespread dlslrllniliDn ol the eonipuivr