The Gifts of the Body the patients and the caregiver. The book contains ten short stories, the titles of each being associated with "gifts" which are various functions of the body, both physical and emotional: sweat, wholeness, tears, skin, hunger, mobility, death, speech, sight, hope, and mourning. The caregiver experiences each "gift", as he/she deals with patients who have AIDS, showing the different shared relationships in each case. Each patient is a distinct case, differing in terms of age, financial situation, attitude toward the illness etc., showing the reader that this disease affects all types of people. The book is written in the "no-frills style"
Don Ritter (artist) of interactive art should be an aesthetically pleasing experience not only for the mind but also for the body". His software "Orpheus" (1987), which enabled an improvising musician to control the narrative projection of video, is an early example of an interactive video installation. In his 1993 interactive installation "Intersection", viewers cross a virtual highway in a large darkroom . The highway is represented by the computer-controlled sound of cars passing and coming to a screeching halt. Ritter has collaborated with the American trombonist George Lewis. Don Ritter (artist) Don Ritter (1959) is a Canadian artist known for his interactive