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The epistemology that can be found in structural computing holds promise as a foundation for digital visual art. The fields of literature and art criticism and reception and communication theory have parallels with structural computing’s call for structure as a first class object. The concept of authoring structure can then be applied to the field of visual art. Using foundations taken from literary theory and theater montage, a theoretical scenario is proposed for constructing an authoring tool that can access and in.uence a changing, dynamic structure ofa multimedia work of visual art. The “holes” ofa multimedia presentation - its changing structure - can be added to the domain ofthe author.
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Shapiro, S. (2002). Writing the Holes; “Structural” Reflections of a Visual Artist. In: Reich, S., Tzagarakis, M.M., De Bra, P.M.E. (eds) Hypermedia: Openness, Structural Awareness, and Adaptivity. AH 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45844-1_12
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