Project Number

40

Title

Notes Toward a Mental Breakdown - An Interactive Fiction

Description

Hypermedia presentation of 1976 story by English author J.G. Ballard.

Contact

Murry C. Christensen

Affiliation

Art & Science, Inc.

Address

34 Coryell Street 
Lambertville, New Jersey 08530

E-mail

WWW

Year

1992

Reference

SIGGRAPH 92 Final Program

Project Details

A hypermedia presentation of the 1976 story by English author J.G. Ballard that consists of a single 18-word sentence, each word having a footnote that leads to links that form the narrative detail of the story. 
 
Presentation includes illustrations derived from Max Ernst's 1934 collage novel "Une Semaine de Sonte" which has significant connections to Ballard's work. 
 
This presentation should be seen as a collaboration between three "authors" over a span of years and involving quite different aesthetic worlds.

Sight

-

Sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

5 - Established, Finished

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

307 - art / commentary

Secondary

101 - hypermedia, hypertext

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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