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film of animated text with changing fonts, sizes and colors. These pieces also illustrated Rich Gold’s third and fifth challenges, Linearity and Situation . The former refers to our natural inclination for linear thinking; the latter refers to the success of a simple piece in a complex environment. With regard to Gold’s fourth challenge, that the viewer becomes an Editor, I preferred the more complex Sounder by Jack Freudenheim, where multi-layered musical elements were depicted by balls bouncing in monitors. Gold’s sixth, but I feel the most important , challenge is Aesthetics, a hardtodefine but ubiquitous term. The clutter of densely packed collaged images on the screen is commonly thought to be “aesthetic.”When, upon seeing a scroll bar on a window in the midst of a mass of images on the screen, I exclaimed , “What a relief!” Susan, my guide, explained that such a device is a “no-no”in good software design. When software designers and fine artists march to different drum beats are they necessarily in conflict? In the winning works, I enjoyed the beauty, imagination and depth of The Dream of Time by Hsin-Chien Huang; obscure at times, it examined the concept of time, based on Alan Lightman’s book Einstein’s Dreams. And I appreciated the aesthetic presence of George Legrady’s An AnecdotedArchive of the Cold War. I liked: the enigmatic image opening into the intriguing material in Christine Tamblyn’s She Loves it, She Loves it Not: Women& Technology the animated and interactive details in the spirited presentation of The Baird Family Ball by Freedom Baird the humorous and erudite originalFig . 3. Volker Kuchelmeisterand ChristianZiegler, FmnhjhriBaUet, CDROM , Macintosh computer, 1992.An elegant tool for exForsythe ’sballet The Loss o f SmallDetaiL ploringWilliam CREATE STEREOGR~MS ON YOUR PC Dan Richardson. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A., 1994. 192 pp., illus., plus 3.5-in.disk. Paper, $26.95. ISBN: 1878739 -75-1. FATAL DISTRA~ONS David Gerrold. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A., 1994. 173 pp., illus., plus CD-ROM. Paper, $26.95. ISBN: 1878739 -77-8. G A R D E N SOF &AGINAnON: hOGRAMMING 30 G A M E SIN c/&+ Christopher Lampton. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.,1994. 572 pp., illus., plus disk. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 1878739 -59-X. MEDMMAi7C v0l.8. N ~ , 1. ~h~ g g ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Manianissue, ity of Tomohiso Shibayama’s animation of ancientJapanese Paintings in Yoshitoshi the layering of the comics inJoseph Rabie’s Interactive Cartoon Strip (Fig. 2) and last, but very certainly not least, TheFrankfurt Ballet by Volker KuchelJournal and CD-ROM. 1 ; Dutch and English. MmosomMULTIMEDU VIEH’ER HOW-TO CD Stephen Pruitt. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.,1994. 339 pp., illus., PIUS CD-ROM. Paper, $3995. ISBN: 1878739 -65-41. meister (Fig. 3), in.which he integrates all of Rich Gold’s challenges into a unified presentation that explores the choreography of William fundamentalsof dance movement. 878739-67-0. MODELING THE DREAM W:WALKTHROUGHS m n n n s L I Phil Shatz. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A., 1994. 128 pp., illus., Forsythe’s and the plus CD-ROM,Trade, $32.95. ISBN: 1M U S I C W O ~ 59. l k ~ JOURNALOF SoE ~PLORATION No. 59 (Summer 1994). “BeyondBoundaries : Sound Ecology2”Issue.Journal and audio CD. PDA PLAYHOUSE:THEIrnmmBOOKOF PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS Rod Williams and Harry Leverette. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A., 1994. 232 pp., illus., plus 1 Macintosh disk and 1PC Windows disk. Paper, $24.95. Multimedia Products THE h Y WARHOL MUSEUM The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.,1994. Museum Catalog, 208 pp., illus., plus audio CD. Trade, $40.00. ISBN: 0-88038-0263. ISBN: 1-878739-565. ANIManolvHOW-TO CD Jeff Bowermaster.Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA,U.S.A.,1994. 482 pp., illus., plus CD-ROM.Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 1878739 -549. Ausnwwv PuwoMINUTLIREY: Fonm-Two MNIATUIWS FOR h N 0 Michael Kieran Harvey. Red House Editions, Melbourne,Australia,1994.Audio CD plus three paperback booklets of scores: Australian Piano Miniatures:Books 1, 2 and 3. CD: $20...