Stephen Wilson—50 Points of Light
I created a hybrid CD-ROM event that explored the Web’s ability to provide a visual portal into internationally dispersed locations. What would it be like to be able to see fifty places on the earth at one moment? The event invites explorations of panoramas, street scenes, and inside spaces from each city and permits recapitulations in time. World weather, the flow of night and day, and snippets of cultural materials such as art and music provide an “information visualization extravaganza.” It explores cultural diversity and the cultural forces working to weaken that diversity. In the periodic “globalization” event, local cultural information is superseded by multinational corporate logos and jingles.