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Authors: |
Leão, Lucia. | |
Title: |
Hypermedia as Labyrinth | |
Keywords: |
Hypertext, hypermedia systems, navigation, cognition process, complex dynamic systems. | |
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Abstract: |
Recent advents such as the
expansion of the personal Computer, the CD-ROM, and Internet are raising a series of
problems to be discussed in different areas of the human thought. The acquisition of a new
intellectual technology makes changes in the several human activities possible; that is,
its reflection is spread to different fields and implies new analogies and
classifications, new practical, social, and cognitive worlds. In this paper, I intend to approach a specific aspect of hypermedia; the structure that organises the hipertextual information, as well as the route of reading that the user creates when advancing the links of a Net. My hypothesis is that the labyrinth is present in the hypermedia systems in two ways: the first is in the own organisation at he moment of the project development. The second, subtler, but not less profound, is the labyrinth that the reader is to construct when operating his choices in between the hypermedia chains. In this sense, my research will be oriented as of two principles, or two labyrinths: the potential labyrinth, present as a modular document with access "doors", "hyperlinks" to other documents; and the lived labyrinth, that which is experimented by the user at the moment of his navigation by the "hyperspace". Ways that are woven, addresses that cross the Computer screen, maps, and search programs... The object of study will also be the mathematics of the labyrinth, the consciousness of the architect that develops performable and multidimensional programs. In regard to the method I will use, the starting point will be double: on the one hand, we will try to verify how a labyrinth is constructed from a hypermedia navigation; on the other hand, we will explore the labyrinth in terms of grammar, myth, and geometry. |
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| Leão, Lucia. lucleao@uol.com.br PUC - São Paulo Lucia Leão is a multidisciplinary artist working with new technologies. Her artistic career begins in 1979 and henceforth she took part in dozens of collective exhibitions that explore new communication technologies and poetics. In 1986 she concluded the Bachelor of Art at FASM (São Paulo). At the next year, she started the Post Graduation course at University of São Paulo (ECA-SP). There she studied with important names on the inquire on electronic arts like Antoni Muntadas, Doug Hall, Robert Kaputof. In 1997, Leão realised her Master degree of Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil (PUC-SP), with her dissertation Labyrinth 1. The architecture of hypermedia, an interdisciplinary work about the interrelationship between hypermedia and labyrinth. Since 1997, she is Editor of a website - the InterLab. The purpose of InterLab is to bring together the work of researchers, professors, artists and all other persons concerned with art and new technologies. Nowadays, Leão is a PhD student at (PUC-SP) and her thesis, Labyrinth 2. Hypermedia and Art, is a practical and theoretical dive on labyrinthine subjects like ancient and primitive myths, architecture, Physics, Mathematics, etc. As a part of her present investigation, Leão is developing a poetic work on VRML - LabWeb. It is composed by labyrinthine interconnected structures that the Internet's users can explores on an interactive way. http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/in4/tilu_cv.htm | ||