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Earlier this year at the Digital World trade show in California, Peter Gabriel demonstrated "XPlora j: Peter Gabriel's Secret World," his latest multimedia release. Other artists who have released interactive kits include David Bowie and Todd Rundgren...
Other musical groups aren't quite as ready to replace human players with machines in the studio, but some are taking advantage of the current multimedia craze to release CD-ROM versions of their recordings. These special editions often contain both sound data from their audio CD cousins and computer data that can be loaded into a Windows or Macintosh PC to provide a graphical interface to the music...
...people work and play, Bob Zyontz and Larry Trink quit comfortable jobs in advertising agencies in 1986 to try to cash in on the new technology. Today their New Jersey-based firm, Princeton Direct, has $6 million in revenues and 14 employees engaged in the business of putting multimedia catalogs and other marketing material on diskettes and CD-ROMs. To keep up with the workload, Zyontz and Trink two years ago brought in computer expert and psychologist Jeff Friedman as a third partner...
...comparison to weighty issues like these, today's objections--that the multimedia scrutiny of the royals dredges up their human foibles--seem to be ridiculous reasons to consider trashing the crown...
However, it is only in the museum's third gallery, "This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native Creativity," that the museum's full originality becomes clear. A walk-through, multimedia collaboration by 15 contemporary Indian artists, it is irreverent, sometimes heavy-handed and very of-the-moment. It ends with a meditation on the fate of the earth titled Worldview, dominated by a traditional burial scaffolding embedded with a parking meter permanently stuck on time expired and set up next to a video monitor screening images of war. Previous Indian museums, says director Richard West, "felt they were doing...