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Mixed-Media, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, and Digital Works
The interplay of text and images was very important, and I think it allows the reader to jump off to consider their own lives because the images are sort of shared islands between us.
—LAWRENCE SUTIN
When I was young, I saw a movie called Earthquake, a movie announced as a new cinematic experience. It used Sensurround, a technology that sent out low frequency sound waves felt in the body more than heard, creating a physical addition to the screen that reflected the film’s quakes, temblors, and general mayhem. Earlier movies used a technology dubbed Smell-O-Vision, a system that released scents into the theater. Though Sensurround never quite caught on, I remember the excitement of sitting ...
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