Riddles of the Interface: Hieroglyphic Consciousness and New Experimental Multimedia

By Joe Milutis, 21 January, 2012
Author
Publication Type
Language
Year
Journal volume and issue
21.1
Record Status
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.

Pull Quotes

"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."

Attachment
File
21.1milutis.pdf (267.21 KB)