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  Ivan Snow
OZ Interactive
  UK 1996
Cd-rom
The legendary British underground magazine OZ operated in the sixties. It was a magazine full of ‘sex, drugs & Rock and Roll’, ‘flower power’ and ‘love and peace’. Ivan Snow recently made ‘OZ Interactive’: a CD-rom which reincarnates this magazine through text and image animations, music, strips and innumerable little image jokes. Entirely, of course, in the graphic, typographic and hallucinatory colour style of the time. The provoking opening image lands you in a menu from which various numbers of OZ can be activated and explored. The points where you can click to go further, or to hear a Jimi Hendrix, Beatles or other hit number, are discovered without effort. An extra option is the Duke Box which gives you the opportunity to play the music, number by number, to listen to the ‘speeches’ and to call up a whole range of subversive images. An amusing and informative document, most certainly. Not just for freaks and old, nostalgic hippies, but also for the 18 year olds of today who go about entirely in the gear of that era, but who miss the real ‘feel’. Fingerlinkin’ Good!

Jorinde Seijdel

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