Desktop Multimedia

Brand Stewart , The Media Lab–Inventing the Future at MIT, Viking/Penguin, 1987.

Blown Paul , Communion and Cargo Cults, Proc. The Second International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (SISEA), Groningen, The Netherlands, 1990.

Blown Paul , ‘The Flip Side’, a monthly column for MacNews Australia, Niche Publishing, Melbourne, since April 1991.

Blown Paul , The Computer Human Interface, Art and Evolution – Considerations of Aesthetics and Ethics, unpublished. In this essay I apply Charles Sanders Peirce semiological system of Signifiers (Symbolic, Iconic and Indexical) in order to develop a taxonomy that enables ethical and aesthetic analysis of the field.

Blown Paul , ‘Technology, Art and the Future’, to appear in Agenda, Melbourne, 1992.

Clark Mike , ‘Koko's Mac II’, in The Art of Human Computer Interface Design, ed Laurel Brenda Wesley Addison , 1990. Clark and his colleagues describe a gorilla-computer interface design project. Other authors including Paras Kaul have described work on the dolphin-computer interface.

Dorsey Candas Jane, Machine Sex and Other Stories, Women's Press, London, 1988.

Steven Feiner , An Integrated System for Creating and Presenting Complex Computer-Based Documents, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 81, Assoc. for Computing Machinery, New York, 1981.

Feldman Tony , Multimedia in the 1990s, BNB Research Fund Report, The British Library Bibliographic Research Fund, Boston Spa, UK, 1991.

Gibson William , The Cyberpunk Trilogy –Neuromancer, Gollancz, London, 1984, Count Zero, Gollancz, London, 1986 and Mona Lisa Overdrive, Gollancz, London, 1988. Other essential reading includes: Sterling Bruce (ed), Mirrorshades–the Cyberpunk Anthology, Paldin/ Grafton, London, 1988, a good introduction to the work of the Cyberpunk sci-fi authors by one of their members; Rudy Rucker Wetware, Avon, 1988 and; Greg Bear, Blood Music, Arbor House, 1985.

Nelson Ted , Computer Lib/Dream Machines, republished in a revised and updated edition by Tempus/Microsoft in 1987.

Rheingold Howard , Virtual Reality, Seker & Warburg, London, 1991. Rheingold provides an excellent introduction to the leading-edge research into rich media and immersive multimedia CHIs that have been called virtual reality (VR); telepresence and; Cyberspace.

Ambron S. Hooper K. (eds). Interactive Multimedia, Microsoft Press, Washington, 1988.

Barker J. Tucker R.N. , The Interactive Learning Revolution, Kogan Page, London, 1990.

Gale John , Micro Multimedia, Information Workstation Group, Alexandria Virginia, 1990.

Nielson I. , HyperText and HyperMedia, Academic Press, San Deigo CA, 1990.

At present several publications cover the industry.

USA: Verbum; Seybold's Digital Media; Videodisc Monitor, CyberEdge Journal; Mondo 2000; and New Media Age.

UK: Digital Vision Interactive; Electronic Publishing Journal; European Multimedia Bulletin; Interactive Media International; and Multimedia Review.

Australia: MacNews; Desktop.