The potential of the new media to express cultural ideas has increased much faster than the development of new cultural ideas, so the potential is there. They’re waiting for some great vision to make all this abstract possibility into compelling experiences that will provide shape, purpose, and direction. “Where do you want to go today?” the architects of the new media ask, because they don’t know. that opportunities can open up for artists at key times in the history of media - artists dream up the kinds of possibilities that push media to envision new things before the significance of these things is generally understood. I was very interested in TV innovators like Ernie Kovacs and Andy Kaufman, in the development of music videos, and in the work of artists using the computer. Nash jumped at the chance, which he saw as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a curator on a much grander scale. The former art critic was working as a curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art when Bob Stein, founder of The Voyager Company, saw some of the cutting-edge mixed-media exhibitions he was putting together and asked him to come work for him.

The career arc of Michael Nash between 19 is a microcosm of the boom and bust of non-networked “multimedia computing” as a consumer-oriented proposition.

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