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  • Live audio-visual transformation and dematerialization of the viewer. [prototype] (source: http://www.zakros.com/projects/narcissus/index.html)
  • "Narcissus' Well" is an interactive multimedia installation that investigates how we are absorbed in the ephemeral, the intangible, the invisible, and the faraway - the quest for self-knowledge mediated through technology. The installation employs a...
  • 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...
  • Mirrors: the Real and the Virtual, an information display about the project on view at the NASA-Goddard Research Center in Greenbelt, MD, where the project was developed in collaboration with optics engineer Joseph Howard between 2003 - 2005....
  • 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:...
  • Legrady, George. Narrative and Interactivity In Present Formations, edited by Hubertus von Amelunxen and Antje Krause-WahlKiel: Muthesius-Hochschule, Kiel, 2001.
  • Ryan, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature
    and Electronic Media. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  • Mateas, Michael and Phoebe Sengers. Narrative Intelligence In AAAI Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence, North Falmouth: 1999.
  • In this installation images are projected onto a large screen lying flat on the floor of the exhibition space. The spectators stand on a surrounding balcony where a joystick enables any one of them to interactively operate the work by panning in any...
  • Hayles, Katherine. Narratives of Artificial Life In Future Natural, edited by Jon Bird and Lisa Tickner and George et. al. RobertsonLondon: Routledge, 1996.