Because so much of our project work revolves around visual interaction, the first group of students who worked on this project decided that we should use the human eye as our “icon” throughout our work (a semiotic conceit that plays well, of course, with the cinematic fascination with the eye) and also the letter “I” which we use for:
• Inspiration (Personal and Social History)
• Innovation (Technology Development)
• Illumination (Pedagogy and Curriculum Design).
I have followed my student’s
advice in deciding how to structure the prose divisions
for this hypertext work.
As with any piece of hypertext,
you may read these pages in any order. I encourage you
to explore, but I have also interconnected this web
cluster with a number of text and image links to provide
you with a number of directed paths through the material.
The text links in the middle
of all the essays for this piece are designed to lead
you through a somewhat random, user-driven hypertextual
reading path. The authorial intention behind the link
structure is to tie together various references (both
direct and indirect) to ghosts, transmission, technology,
and transformation. As a reader, following your own
interests, you are certain to come to quite different
conclusions about the link structure—and this
is just the kind of reading hypertext clusters encourage.
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