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- CREDITS -
 
Written and Directed by: Hisham Bizri 
Concept by: Hisham Bizri and Maria Roussos 
Art Direction: Hisham Bizri, Maria Roussos, Alan Cruz 
Technical Direction: Maria Roussos 
Senior Modelers: Hisham Bizri and Alan Cruz 
Modeler: Joseph Alexander 
Animator: Alan Cruz 
Software design and implementation: Dave Pape
Programmers: Tomoko Imai, Alan Millman, Dave Pape, Maria Roussos 
 
group photographs

 

- Presentations & Press -
Exhibitions 
  • Digital Salon, New York, November 1998 
  • Art Futura, Seville, Spain, October 8 - 11, 1998 (I-Desk)
  • Prix Ars Electronica Festival and permanent exhibition in the Ars Electronica Center CAVE, Linz, Austria, September 8 - 12, 1998
  • Eurographics 98, video presentation, Lisbon, Portugal, August 31 - September 3
  • Virtual Worlds '98 conference, paper and video presentations, Paris, France, July 1 - 3, 1998
  • Virtuality and Interactivity, MediARTech '98 , Florence, Italy, March 23 -2 9, 1998 (I-Desk)
  • Virtual Spaces, an ISEA '97 allied event Gallery 400, Chicago IL, September 15-27, 1997 (I-Desk & CAVE)
  • ThinkQuest '97, L'Enfant Plaza, Washington DC, November 20-24 1997 (I-Desks)
  • mitologies at gallery 400 

    Video and Press Features 

  • Digital Salon, New York, November 1998 (video)
  • Leonardo Journal: Sixth Annual New York Digital Salon, "Church Sketch after Leonardo da Vinci," (slide, page 452, volume 31, number 5, 1998)
  • SIGGRAPH '98, Technical Slide Set
  • Anim World'98, Beijing, China (video)
  • Wood Street Gallery, June - August, 1998 (video and slides)
  • Electronic Fields, Illinois Art Gallery, March 31 - May 29 1998 (video) 
  • Digital Video Magazine, March 1997 (slide)
  • Leonardo Journal, upcoming artist statement by Hisham Bizri 
  • Web Features:

  • Walker Art Center, The Shock of the View, Nov. 3 - Nov. 24, 1998
  •  Alien Space, an essay by Marcos Novak, November 1998
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    -- Resources & Bibliography --

    A selection of resources used for the development of the project and cited throughout the text, including:

    1. Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. The complete woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, edited by Willi Kurth, Crown Publishers, 1946
    2. Cesare Ripa, fl. 1600. Baroque and Rococo pictorial image edition of Ripa's Iconologia , Dover Publications, 1971
    3. Paolo Santarcangeli, Il Libro Dei Labirinti, Vallecchi Editore Firenze, 1967.
    4. Penelope Reed Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Cornell University Press, 1990
    5. Umberto Eco, Apocalypse Postponed, Indiana University Press & The British Film Institute, 1994
    6. Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994
    7. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962
    8. Edward L. Stevenson (ed.) The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1991
    9. John Goss, The Mapmaker's Art, Rand McNally, 1993
    10. James Cowan, A Mapmaker's Dream - The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice , Shambala, Boston, 1996
    11. Ronald Lightbown, Boticelli, CrossRiver Press, Ltd.
    12. Titian, Prestel, 1990
    13. Jacqueline & Maurice Guillad, Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1989
    14. Joachim Poeschke, Donatello and his World , Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990
    15. Alberto C. Carpiceci, La Fabbrica Di San Pietro, Bonechi Editore, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1983
    16. Alberto Busignani & Raffaello Bencini, La Chiese di Firenze; Quartiere di Santo Spirito, all 7 volumes, Sansoni Editore Firenze, 1974
    17. Henri Stern, Les Mosaiques de la Grande Mosque de Cordoba, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1976
    18. Fernando Chueca Goitia, La Mezquita de Cordoba, Albaicin/Sadea Editores
    19. Liatif Kerimov et al., Rugs & Carpets from the Caucasus, Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 1984
    20. Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992
    21. Emanuel Winternitz, Die schonsten Musikinstrumente des Abendlandes, Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munchen, 1966
    22. Alan Kendall, The World of Musical Instruments , The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1972
    23. Ralph B. Swain, The Insect Guide, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1948
    24. Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Harper & Row, New York, 1962
    25. Dante Alighieri, Inferno, British Broadcasting Publication,1966
    -- Sound --
    Richard Wagner, excerpts from the complete opera Der Ring des Nibelungen ,
    Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti, The Decca Record Company, London 1965
     
    -- WWW sites --
    Borges: the Library of Babel
    Prospero: the books
    the Umberto Eco page
    links on & about Medieval Studies
    the Apocalypse
    The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle
    Late Medieval maps (1300-1500AD)
     
     
     
    http://www.evl.uic.edu/mitologies/
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