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  • ...Since the 1980s, multimedia artist, composer, writer and educator Randall Packer has worked at the intersection of interactive media, live...
  • Packer, Randall and Ken Jordan. Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: W. W. Norton and Company Inc, 2002.
  • Season in Hell -
    ...four turbulent years serving the President, Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology took back the...
  • Live audio-visual transformation and dematerialization of the viewer. [prototype] (source: http://www.zakros.com/projects/narcissus/index.html)
  • ... Multimedia. From Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan, 104-120. New York, London: W. W. Norton and...
  • One of the most ancient parables depicting the experience of self was the legend of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image reflected in a perfect pool of water. Narcissus ultimately destroyed himself in the unresolved predicament of
  • This sensation of absorption and the loss of one’s presence also finds its roots in the fear of souls being captured in mirrors. The Etruscan word for soul, hinthial, literally means, "image reflected in a mirror." [prototype installation] (source:
  • Video: In this excerpt, Orf engages the speed and power of the aircraft, a weapon of mass destruction in the 21st century, singing: swing low, sweet chariot coming for to carry me home, evoking the extremist allure of the afterlife. (source:
  • The nation's Capital has been transformed into a mighty walled fortress, armed to the teeth, locked-down, swept-clean - all joy has been strangled - on any suspicion, they would pounce with the stealth of a wild beast. (source: