Windows and Mirrors

: Interaction Design, Digital Art and The Myth of Transparency

Jay Bolter and Diane Gromala
MIT Press, 2003
Translated into Japanese, 2004

Chapter 4. Magic Book : The New and the Old in New Media

Magic Book carries us right through the myth of transparency, offering three different interfaces, each with a unique combination of the transparent and the reflective. The paged book was the transparent interface of the past; the immersive virtual reality is (perhaps) the transparent interface of the future. Between these extremes comes the augmented reality interface, which is perhaps the most reflective of the three interfaces, precisely because it joins two forms of representation that we are not used to seeing together (p.82)

Chapter 5. Fakeshop : The Diversity of New Media

As it presents us with a welter of pseudo-information, Fakeshop serves as a parody of the media landscape in which we live. The whole SIGGRAPH conference is a microcosm of our mediascape. As we walk through the exhibits hall at SIGGRAPH 2000, we are bombarded with media forms competing for our attention. (p.112)

Chapter 6. T-Garden : The Materiality of New Media

The participants in T-Garden are asserting their physical presence as they interact with the system. As they dance, they are defining a kind of embodied cyberspace. And so, like TEXT RAIN and other pieces in SIGGRAPH 2000, T-Garden questions whether technology can (and should) allow us to divest ourselves of our bodies and enter a world of pure mind. (p.117)

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About the book
Contents
Chapter 1, 2, 3
Chapter 4, 5, 6
Chapter 7, 8, 9
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ⓒ Diane Gromala, 2007