"Encyclopedia of sensory overload" – Wired Magazine

Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality chronicles the history of art and technology. It focuses on the avant-garde artists and engineers who have pushed the envelope of their respective disciplines to bring about the dissolution of boundaries that traditionally exist between art and technology. This approach to the history of the media arts was inspired by Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Artwork), as he applied it to music drama, the fusion of all the arts, and his revolutionary design of the Festpielhaus opera house in Bayreuth, Germany in the 19th Century.

Co-edited by Randall Packer & Ken Jordan

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Book Website: http://www.w2vr.com