Abstract of my first paper for Multimedia: An Analysis of World of Awe as a Metaphor in New Media

This paper examines how the new media piece World of Awe (1997 to present), by artist Yale Kanarek, plays upon the new media principles of variability and transcoding, as defined by Lev Manovich in Chapter One of The Language of New Media (2001) to build what Migueal Amado claims in Rhizome News will remain one of the “most significant metaphors for our present human condition created by contemporary artists.” The examination is restricted to the context of the borders breached and strengthened in the process of creating and accessing World of Awe and how these borders work to both reflect and create the metaphor and what it signifies. It asks the question of where the borders exist, break and fuse both in reality and hyper-reality and what the possible implications for both art and identity may be or become.