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Towards a space-time art: Iannis Xenakis's Polytopes.
INTRODUCTION
POLYTOPES" IS THE COLLECTIVE NAME of a series of multimedia installations, including sound, light and architecture, conceived by IANNIS XENAKIS during the 1960s and 1970s. The word "polytope" is Greek; in this context it has to be interpreted literally: poly means "a lot, several," while topos means "place." Furthermore, every Polytope bears the name of the site or the city where it has been installed. The name of these spectacles already indicates that here, we are dealing not only with multimedia works (though the very notion of multimedia was then not yet used to designate this kind of work as is the case today), but with an art that fully ...
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