The
Multi Mega Book (MMB) is an "uptodate"
electronic book sculputure ...a magical and stimulating journey through
some of the most intense moments of human experience in media, technology,
science, architecture and culture. This project is available in different
versions:
1. Architectonic-multimedia installation
2. Virtual Application (Multi Mega Book in the Cave)
The Multi Mega Book in the Cave is project of Fischnaller( Fabricators)
which is being developed with EVL (Electronic Visualization Lab) at
Illinois University at Chicago in the CAVE: Cave Automatic VirtualEnvironment".
A VR full inmersive interactive installation with high resolution
stereoscopic images. The content of the Multi Mega Book in the CAVE
is based in Maxi-Page 17: "The shift from the printed+book to the
electronic text+digital skin" .
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The
interactive visitor freely explores the different dimensions of the
two key centuries through the use of the CAVE(TM) a Virtual Reality
Theater. When the user enters the CAVE, the Multi Mega Book is in
front of him/her. S/he can turn the pages, and move through the pages
into various parts of the worlds within. One world is an idealised
Renaissance city, the user can see famous buildings, walk through
Leonardo's "Last Supper", and visit and use Guttenberg's printing
press. A tunnel leads from here to another city - a "CD-City" which
visualises the movement of digital, networked information, a city
in which everything is interactive.
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The user can explore, experiment, interact in the first person and
in a creative way with two revolutionary moments of human history
and experience the shift between: the printed+ communication (XV century)
and electronic communication (XX century).
The MULTI MEGA BOOK (MMB) in the CAVE
(VR application) expands one Maxi-page of the ongoing Multi Mega Book
multi-media installation "The shift from the printed+book to the electronic
text+digital skin". The user experiences, and creatively interacts
with two moments of human history; the Renaissance and the Electronic
Age integrated into one unique environment. The application juxtaposes
two revolutions which have transformed the history of communication
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The
navigation and the interaction of the Multi Mega Book is often surprising,
designed to draw the user from the Renaissance to the Information
Age, exploring two different modes of communication and showing how
both eras combined mathematics, innovation, art and cutting edge technology.
In its entirety the MMB is a metaphor for means of communication through
time. The different pages of the MMB-installation give access to different
aspects of the history of communication. The MMB in the CAVE focuses
on the specific argument of "The shift from the printed+book to the
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"I am surrounded on every side.
Buildings, streets, squares, arches, corners, sculptures, objects,
paintings of the epoch reveal that this is an "ideal" Renaissance
city. Pieces by artists of the calibre of Michelangelo, Alberti,
Botticelli, Leonardo, Brunneleschi become protagonists in this imaginary
city rich in symmetry, colour and depth..."
"A stone grey floor emerges
beneath my feet, the street seems endless. It leads from one corner
to another, through passageways a porticos. The buildings are real
size, with fine details and meticulous facades. Their slight sepia
colour contrasts with the intense blue of the Mediterranean sky.
The richly ornamented environment, together with the ambient sound,
completely immerse me in the epoch."
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Author: Franz Fischnaller
& Yesenia Maharaj Singh (F.A.B.R.I.CATORS), Milan/Italy, Telephone
++39-2-70128233 - fax 76110498 email: fabricat@galactica.it
In collaboration with: Dave Pape, Josephine
Anstey, EVL (Electronic Visualisation Lab), University of Illinois
at Chicago.
And the contribution of: ARS Electronica
Center, Linz, Austria.
Testo
in formato pdf (16 Kb)
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