The overlapping layers of data that can be constructed through hypermedia design are compared to a palimpsest. Both the palimpsest and hypermedia can present a simultaneous view of different discourses. She discusses the research involved in the creation of the application and reconstructs some of the techniques that European explorers used to gather data in Latin America. She compares the sixteenth-century European practice of compiling and presenting data from foreign lands to modern scientific visualization, which uses the computer to present images of otherwise imperceptible data. This article explores the aesthetic implications of reading and writing hyperfiction.
Text written for an interactive medium creates a radically different reading environment.
Since it is the reader who assembles the text, the boundaries between reader and text collapse, and the text is not necessarily perceived as an otherness. The author describes some of the color-music fountains and other installations developed by the Erebuni group of Yerevan, Armenia. In the republics of the former Soviet Union, the Erebuni group has designed groupings of fountains whose operations are synchronized with colored lights and music. These works are multichannel engineering constructions of decorative art. The installations use audiovisual effects to create colorful, picturesque scenes that appeal to the emotions.