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Table
of Content:
BOOK I: innocence
BOOK II: pride
featured in
Rhizome.org ArtBase,
May 2001
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Technology
Notes
The road to understanding within our world is dependent on effective
communication. Communication over the centuries has evolved in remarkable
ways. The tradition of oral history transmitted through acting out of
stories and legends, augmented by painted pictographs, then writing
in symbols and letter forms on tablets, skins and parchments were our
first communication tools. The printing press supplied written communication
to ever expanding numbers of literate communities and the telephone
sent verbal communication winging across continents and vast oceans.
Though invaluable and remarkable, each stage in this evolution, strengthened
one primary mode of communication. But humankind is a multi-faceted,
many layered force. Effective communication between vastly different
peoples and cultures is best accomplished with more than a single method.
In the past century, the world was united in a totally unique and unexpected
way. The computer, plus the advent of software and the Internet, have
given the world a communication tool like no other in history.
First developed as a cold, calculating device of science and war, the
computer has surprisingly, given humanity new horizons for communication
and understanding using words, sound, movement, pictures and live interaction.
Through the use of images, voice, words and movement, Hai Dai Nguyen
has used the computer to integrate the past modes of communication into
an series of irresistible, multilayered messages, offering each viewer
a rich experience through which to know and understand the heart and
mind.
Patricia Johnson
Education Consultant & Writer
patjoh1@earthlink.net
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