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Subject: Speculative Fiction / Cinema
Publisher: David Blair (USA)
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| version for Mac, 1999
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| version for PC, 1999
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Like something from the network vaults of an alternate universe
William Gibson |
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Wax... is a delight for the eyeballs, a feast for the receptor sights, a brilliant illumination for our left brains and our right brains
Timothy Leary |
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With its rival paranoid geniuses, fin-de-siecle anxiety, and rampant image processing, Wax... suggests what some of Peter Greenaway's early films would be like if he remade them on video
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Jacob Maker is a beekeeper who designs flight simulators. One day, the past arrives out of the future, and Jacob enters WAXWEB.
WAXWEB is a hypermedia version of the theatrically-distributed electronic feature "WAX or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees" (1991). It's available on the Web at http://www.waxweb.org, in English, French, or Japanese versions, or on CD-ROM with higher-resolution video in each language. Play the movie from beginning to end – an 85 minute theatrical feature. Or click the "hypervideo" at any time – the movie has 1200 shots, and every shot is recomposed inside 25 unique pages/spaces. Pictures: Meaningful and endless resemblence; start of a mechanical dream.Words: Hypertexts for each shot, sideways to time, and talking. 3d: Silent movies around each shot. The void of the dream. Stutter through the dream – then cut back to the movie. As you go, the movie moves into endless time, expanding to become a grotesque and miniature world.Praise for "WAX or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees":
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