Georgia Russell

Dissected book in circular acrylic case.

Cara Barer Photographer

S T E G E R P H O T O

Smallest book in the world with millipede.

Alison Knowles -- The Big Book (1967)

"...an eight foot tall construction ... a front cover and several pages, and contains a stove, telephone, chemical toilet, art gallery, electric fan, books and other necessities of life."

Welcome to The Can

28 March 1997 -- Sean Cubitt --
HYPERMETRICS: The co-evolution of voice and machine from typewriter to hypertext

"The book is dead, as God died: the codex of lyric verse did not need to be killed. All lyric now is elegaic."

"ROEM enables users to download and carry with them electronic books..."

huge-entity

"What is the book?
What is mind?
How can one bridge the two? "

lindA Zacks - I Swallowed a Rainbow...

electronicbookreview.com

"Open the Book, Open the Mind"
July 11-15, 2007
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.

David Small

"New visual languages have been created for information display which exploit the computer’s unique ability to render dynamic and three-dimensional typography. These languages demonstrate that the use of three dimensional form, expressive movement, visual focus and layering, in harmony with human perceptual abilities, improve navigation and contextual understanding of complex written documents."

Small, D. Rethinking The Book. MSC Thesis, MIT 1999.

mladen penev

"...the real change we must confront and understand is not a new selection of canonical great books but, as our expressive radical moves from print to screen, a new conception of human reason and how Western culture creates and transmits it."

The electronic word: Democracy, technology, and the arts, Richard Lanham (1993)

"This paper examines competing visions for the future of the book in the digital environment, with particular attention to questions about the social implications of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of cultural memory"

Clifford Lynch, First Monday, volume 6, number 6 (June 2001)

Bob Stein, new media pioneer, creater of TK3, interviewed in Halo by "This Spartan Life" about future of the book as a networked, media rich, mutating, 3D navigatable space.

Bob Stein: "The much more significant issue about the book of the future is that they will be networked, and won't be frozen; they'll change over time, quite rapidly...[and re: Muriel Cooper's work on navigable 3D space]...To be able to walk around in a book this way will be brilliant."