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The Agrippa Files
Last week the Transcriptions team at UCSB launched the Agrippa Files website. It's a fascinating collection of multimedia materials about Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) which appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr.
Alan Liu writes that it is "a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book (with the permission of the publisher); a unique archive of materials dating from the book's creation and early reception; a simulation of what the book's intended "fading images" might have looked like; a video of the 1992 "transmission" of the work; a "virtual lightbox" for comparing and studying pages from the book; commentary by the book's publisher and scholars; an annotated bibliography of scholarship, press coverage, interviews, and other material; a detailed bibliographic description of the book; and a discussion forum."
It's an absorbing collection for anyone seeking to understand and enjoy the multiplicity of contemporary new media texts.
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