{"id":49,"date":"2005-01-14T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T19:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-01-14T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T19:51:54","slug":"capturing_the_early_history_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/capturing_the_early_history_of\/","title":{"rendered":"capturing the early history of interactive media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"discursions.jpg\" img style=\"margin:4px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/discursions.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" align=\"right\"\/>some of the most important early work in interactive media took place at the Architecture Machine Group Laboratory at MIT (now the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/ \">Media Lab<\/a><\/b>). twenty years ago the lab made a videodisc, <i>Discursions<\/i>, containing videos of several key experiments. this early work at MIT was crucial in terms of fueling and defining my ideas about interactive media (see <b><a href=\"\/introduction\/press\/view\/?id=0\">books unbound <\/a><\/b> article).<br \/>\nyesterday i met with a group of freshman in the interactive media honors program at the University of Southern California who signed up to work with the institute on presenting the <i>Discursions<\/i> material in some as-yet-to-be-decided form. the response was fantastic.  (remember, these are young kids &#8212; none of whom were even born when <i>Discursions<\/i> was made). i know &#8220;awesome&#8221; is an overused word today, but that&#8217;s a good description of what the students thought of what they saw. many of the experiments seemed as if they could have been done yesterday and they grasped the importance of making the work available to young people working in the field now.  any fears i had that my interest in the <i>Discursions<\/i> material was merely an oppty. to walk down memory lane disappeared immediately.<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re planning to interview as many of the original researchers as possible, hoping that they can contextualize the work in terms of both its origin and its trajectory over the past twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some of the most important early work in interactive media took place at the Architecture Machine Group Laboratory at MIT (now the Media Lab). twenty years ago the lab made a videodisc, Discursions, containing videos of several key experiments. this early work at MIT was crucial in terms of fueling and defining my ideas about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[823],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_interactive_media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}