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	Stop! – Stop communicating! Get inside your own world and stay there! This is the experience which the multimedia application Savant addresses. It gives you a high quality artistic interpretation of autism. But it places the emphasis not on exclusion but rather the phenomenal talents of autistic savants are explored. Autism is not treated as a disability, but as different and unique mode of being. Visually and aurally Savant explores the theme of "Life Beneath Glass" inspired by the autistic writer and poet Donna Williams, who described living with autism in her homonymous poem. A life behind glass, isolated from other people, looking out at a magnified reality, which is sometimes too enlarged, disordered or incomprehensible, but at other times attracts total attention to complex details. The excellent use of multimedia transposes users into the special states of the autistic mind. The hardly comprehensible phenomenon is presented also through personal essays that depict reality from the perspective of different autistic persons or parallel video files of daily situations comparing autistic and non autistic experience. Produced by: David Coyle Damian Polly Deirdre Molloy Mark Matthews Oonagh Casey Sinead Stafford University: Dublin City University www.dcu.ie Supervised by: Tom Lawrence Adress: 44 Rathmines Wood Dublin Ireland Phone: +353 1 4125315 Email: davidc@mle.ie Mediaformat: CD-ROM for Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS