{"id":22,"date":"2006-09-19T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=22"},"modified":"2024-06-27T00:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:10:42","slug":"multimedia-from-wagner-to-virtual-reality-expanded-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393323757\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0393323757&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=2f0e2af915878e55bb77c4c8331c19c1\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61qd-do1WiL._SL1206_-150x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61qd-do1WiL._SL1206_-150x226.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61qd-do1WiL._SL1206_-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61qd-do1WiL._SL1206_-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61qd-do1WiL._SL1206_-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61qd-do1WiL._SL1206_.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan (expanded edition, 2002)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Readers interested in the history of multimedia should be enthralled by this collection of hard-to-find essays. &#8220;Outline of the Artwork of the Future,&#8221; for instance, was first published in 1849, and its author was the great German composer Richard Wagner, who envisioned a new kind of stage drama that united music, visual effects, poetry, and dance. Skip forward seven decades, and here&#8217;s 1924&#8217;s &#8220;Theater, Circus, Variety,&#8221; by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, one of the foremost practitioners of the Bauhaus school of art. His elaboration of Wagner&#8217;s ideas incorporated the revolutionary idea of removing the so-called fourth wall and involving the audience in the play. Similarly, these essays trace the evolution of electronic media, film, and books (William Burroughs&#8217; 1964 piece, &#8220;The Future of the Novel,&#8221; is itself worth the price of admission). A remarkable blending of past and present, these essays remind us that today&#8217;s wondrous inventions didn&#8217;t just spring into existence out of nothingness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan (expanded edition, 2002) Readers interested in the history of multimedia should be enthralled by this collection of hard-to-find essays. &#8220;Outline of the Artwork of the Future,&#8221; for instance, was first published in 1849, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,11,5,9,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-media","category-philosophy","category-science","category-technology","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}