Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking

Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”
“As a person who loves reading and has bought and read literally thousands of books, I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t like reading books anymore. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading stories, or novels, nonfiction, etc. – it’s that I don’t like reading books. That’s right, the ink-on-paper all bound in one big lump of dead tree things. I can’t stand them.”
HYPERMETRICS: The co-evolution of voice and machine from typewriter to hypertext
“The book is dead, as God died: the codex of lyric verse did not need to be killed. All lyric now is elegaic.”
“New visual languages have been created for information display which exploit the computer’s unique ability to render dynamic and three-dimensional typography. These languages demonstrate that the use of three dimensional form, expressive movement, visual focus and layering, in harmony with human perceptual abilities, improve navigation and contextual understanding of complex written documents.”
Small, D. Rethinking The Book. MSC Thesis, MIT 1999.
The electronic word: Democracy, technology, and the arts, Richard Lanham (1993)
“This paper examines competing visions for the future of the book in the digital environment, with particular attention to questions about the social implications of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of cultural memory”
Clifford Lynch, First Monday, volume 6, number 6 (June 2001)
Bob Stein, new media pioneer, creater of TK3, interviewed in Halo by “This Spartan Life” about future of the book as a networked, media rich, mutating, 3D navigatable space.
Bob Stein: “The much more significant issue about the book of the future is that they will be networked, and won’t be frozen; they’ll change over time, quite rapidly…[and re: Muriel Cooper's work on navigable 3D space]…To be able to walk around in a book this way will be brilliant.”















