Title: Read Only Memory
Description: Read Only Memory is set in Washington D.C. during the peak of the 1990s multimedia CD-ROM industry. It is a fictionalized history of the period as seen through the eyes of a contemporary chronicler, Harvey Stubblefield, who, in his desire to capture the entirety of the era and its creations before its epochal termination, finds himself enmeshed in conspiracy when he encounters the elusive and obscure game, The Heavy Burden.
Subjects: CD-ROMs, Hypermedia, Interactive multimedia, Game design, Digital preservation, Obsolescence, Folklore, Arts, Video art, modernism, postmodernism
Places: Washington (D.C.), Phoenix (Ariz.), San Jose (Calif.), Georgetown University, University of Washington, University of Michigan, Baden-Baden, Black Forest (Germany), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time periods: early 1990s