Abstract (in English)
A discussion of Reginald Woolery's CDROM World Wide Web/Million Man March (1997) and other experimental CDROMs in the context of modernist ideas of the hieroglyph, interface aesthetics, and afrofuturism.
A discussion of Reginald Woolery's CDROM World Wide Web/Million Man March (1997) and other experimental CDROMs in the context of modernist ideas of the hieroglyph, interface aesthetics, and afrofuturism.
"Experimental multimedia's 'labyrinths and... interlacings of matter' invite a decoding of hidden histories of the hieroglyph (the paradoxical cryptograph of the hieroglyph), and a critique of the emerging international language of 'user friendly.' If the objects of this avant-garde are not all immediately what we expected, it is because they document something important about the artist and his/her uncertain relation to the new medium."