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Leonardo Electronic Almanac                 Volume 8, No. 9
                                          September, 2000
Craig Harris,  Executive Editor
Patrick Maun,  Gallery Editor/Curator
Craig Arko,    Coordinating Editor
Michael Punt,  LDR Editor-in Chief
Roger Malina,  LDR Executive Editor

Editorial Advisory Board:
Roy Ascott, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Greg Garvey,
Joan Truckenbrod

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INTRODUCTION

<  This Issue  >
                                  Craig Harris

FEATURE ARTICLES
                                                                    
<  An Artist's View of Space Science - Part III  >
                                  by Leah Lubin
PROFILES

<  Telemusic #1  >
                                  by Randall Packer                                  
                                   and Steve Bradley


<  Steve Wilson Exhibition Review  >
                                  Sonya Rapoport 
                                   and Barbara Lee Williams

LEONARDO DIGITAL REVIEWS

<  This Month's Reviews  >
                                  Michael Punt

OPPORTUNITIES

<  Producer, Broadcast/Multimedia Project, Northeastern University  >
<  Florida State University School of Music  >
<  Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth  >
<  Composer Position, The University of California at Davis  >


ANNOUNCEMENTS

<  OLATS News  >
<  Art in the post-biological era  >
<  Call for Digital Art Submissions: Immedia2001  >
<  Maid in Cyberspace/ Les HTMlles  >

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LEA WORLD WIDE WEB ACCESS
LEA PUBLISHING & SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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<  This Issue  >
                                  Craig Harris, Executive Editor


Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Volume 8, Number 9
Introduction

This issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac features Part III of Leah
Lubin's "An Artist's View of Space Science." We are fortunate to have
this inside look into an artists background and point of view, and as
always Leah's piece is accompanied by several images illustrating her
work.

Also this month we are happy to bring the results of a Jerome
Foundation/LEA/American Composers Forum Sonic Circuits commission to
the readers of LEA, and to the world of the Internet. Randall Packer
and Steve Bradley have created Telemusic #1, a live interactive,
web-based performance artwork. The Profile for the work, including a
description of the project and artist biographical statements are
presented in this issue, and the work is available to experience live
on Friday November 3, 2000 from 8-11 pm CST, live from the Landmark
Center, in St. Paul, Minnesota. This performance is part of Sonic
Circuits VII, the International Festival of Electronic Music and Art.
The event is being cyber-cast via FuturePerfect.org, and Telemusic #1
can be accessed directly through <http://www.telemusic.org>. Join us
for the event and help us to launch the work!

Sonya Rapoport and Barbara Lee Williams present a perspective on a
Steve Wilson exhibition, and Michael Punt provides an editorial
illuminating reviews appearing in Leonardo Digital Reviews.

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<  An Artist's View of Space Science - Part III  >
                                  by Leah Lubin

Leah Lubin
<http://home.att.net/~leah_lubin/index.html>

It was out of dire need that I started writing. A voice within so
strong, it could not be ignored. It talked to me about communication,
the need to be heard, but most of all the need to be understood.

Reach out in words, write about how you view your world, ideas,
philosophies, and the vision behind your artwork. Include your
artwork. Make it all a part of one.

So it began. Not a brand new experience, for I have been writing
poetry since 1974. I am currently completing my fourth book of poetry,
"Every Day Secrets."

I had also written short stories, some in verse. Even published in
"Detail Magazine," put out by the local chapter of "Women Caucus for
the Arts." I knew I could do it! Write a book, fiction of course, that
would be the vehicle that I needed to basically explain myself and my
work. The title, "Between Two Worlds," was taken from a painting that
I painted in 1984. The book included thirty-two full-page scanned
paintings of mine.

The year of 1994 found me doing research and gathering information
about what I wanted to say. Its main character was non-human, an
energy form from what I call "the heavenly realm" or the "Astral
plane." Susan, in energy form, yearns to live on Earth at three
pivotal times in human history. Her desire so true that the Astral
Plane helps her achieve her goal. She joins us first as an artist in
man's early beginning, when we lived in caves and artwork on cave
walls was at its purist form. No one was selling, no critics or
judges, etc. Her second life, historically a most important period.
The times of our forefather, Abraham, the father of Jews, Christians,
and Muslims, there to detail the truth. Followed by a modern life,
which talks about the search for peace and the history of Israel, and
both ancient and modern England also featured.

But as you can expect, her adventures are what makes it a novel, which
is what I wanted. Its her words that are my words; her view, my view.
Metaphysical philosophy and explanations from deep within to be read
with enjoyment, my goal.

... [Content omitted: Ed.] ...

[Ed. note: the complete content of this article is available at the
LEA website: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/>.]


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<  Telemusic #1  >
                                  by Randall Packer                                  
                                   and Steve Bradley

Randall Packer 
Tel: 202.342.1292
Email: <rpacker@zakros.com>
URL: <http://www.zakros.com/projects/projects.html>

Steve Bradley
Tel: 410.719.2795
Email: <sbradley@umbc.edu>
URL: <http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~sbradley/>

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Artist Statements
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Steve Bradley
Media Artist and Professor of Art
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

My work is focused on strengthening communication across borders with
collaborative links that provide accessible technology and support
representation of a broader community as the basis of my presentation.
I believe that the World Wide Web and networking technologies have
provided an opportunity for individuals and groups with common goals
to build a hybrid society. In the past these communities were
difficult to organize, due to the boundaries imposed by cultural and
political despite the artists, cultural workers, and networkers who
desired such an exchange.

I consider myself to be a trans-media artist or generalist. I convert
systems of cultural iconography via media and technology into an
analytical and satirical inter-mediated narrative. I have been
conditioned by the media culture so television (media) easily serves
as my preferred mediated landscape. The computer serves as the primary
tool by which I link many other tools.

Borders represent more than just geography and politics. In the midst
of shifting cultural borders, new territories I see being created by
artist collectives foster a democratic dialogue. This dialogue would
include exhibitions, collaborative web projects, and telepresence
events using fax, email, and videoconference technology.

While living in Baltimore, Maryland, for the past years I have
contemplated how one could foster open relations between cultures in
local and global communities. I have worked to create channels of
exchange between disparate people and groups. Two years ago I created
a sound-art radio show called art@radio
<http://media.umbc.edu/~artradio> that is broadcast from the
University of Maryland Baltimore County. Through a number of
list-serves and personal contacts, I made a call to artists and
experimental musicians to submit sound works to be considered for
RealAudio broadcast. I was looking for works which explore concepts
such as serialism and ultra-rationality, allegory and the
anti-rational, musique concrete, chance music, text-sound composition,
sound/noise, synthetic and ambient space. Over the past year and a
half I have received over 200 submissions.

On another front, I serve on the board of directors of NOMADS , a
collective based in Washington, D.C., which is comprised of ten
people. NOMADS' mission is to develop global pathways, real or
virtual, connecting artists, institutions and audiences, and to serve
as a catalyst for critical discourse in the contemporary arts. We do
this through the presentation, dissemination, and documentation of
innovative practices in the digital, media, visual and literary arts
and the development of local, national and international networks for
the distribution and exchange of critical dialogue. We host
exhibitions, screenings, public forums, publications, and other
activities both within the local community and globally via the World
Wide Web.

During this past year, I have been organizing Polar Circuit 3,  an
international new-media-arts residency that will be based in
Rovaniemi, and Tornio, Finland. Polar Circuit media-art workshop was
organized for the first time in 1997, at the College of Art and Media
in Tornio, in the southwest part of Finnish Lapland. 52 artists,
writers and students gathered to work on collaborative and individual
projects.

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Randall Packer
Composer and digital artist
faculty of the Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

My work as a composer and media artist has focused on the integration
of live performance, technology and the interdisciplinary arts. From
the revival of avant-garde music theater to the creation of new
interactive media work, my work has bridged current issues in art and
technology with seminal interdisciplinary and performance strategies
from throughout the 20th century. My artistic research has involved
extensive historical investigation and analysis of the pioneering
artists, scientists, and critical theorists in the media and
performing arts, resulting in a book/website on the history of
multimedia to be published by ArtMuseum.net and W.W. Norton in
2000-2001.

Critical to my own creative work as a media artist is the role of the
composer in the context of the synthesis of the arts and technology,
integrating musical and temporal structures with visual forms. As
founding director of Zakros InterArts, a media arts company now based
in Washington, DC, I have produced, directed and created critically
acclaimed multimedia theater works including Mauricio Kagel's "Sur
Scene" (1988), John Cage's "Theater Piece" (1989), Karlheinz
Stockhausen's "Originale" (1990) and my own work, "Arches" (1991). I
produced the "Deep Listening" new music series (1991-93) for Life on
the Water in San Francisco, as well as organized and directed the
annual "John Cage Memorial MusiCircus" (1992-94) at Fort Mason Center
in San Francisco.

I have co-produced and composed music for CD-ROM under the Chronic Art
series, computer films that were premiered at the 1996 San Francisco
International Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. In
1997, I completed a collaborative sound-text work with writer Belen
Garcia-Alvarado, "Through Invisible Cities," performed at the Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and released on CD in 1998.
In 1999, the multi-user Web environment "Pleasure Island," created in
collaboration with my students at UC Berkeley and filmmaker Jan
Millsapps, was presented at the Interactive Frictions Conference held
at the USC School of Cinema-Television in Los Angeles and later shown
at the Mill Valley Film Festival. The collaborative installation
"Mori," created together with internet artist Ken Goldberg, was
included in the 1999 Biennial Exhibition at the InterCommunication
Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan. Most recently my net art project, the
"Telematic Manifesto," was included in the Net_Condition exhibition at
ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Description of the proposed work
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Study for Telemusic #1

In Study for Telemusic #1, the demarcation between physical and
virtual space, between on-line and local proximity converges and blurs
into a shared, participatory experience through sound and light, and
our attention to its spatial and transformational qualities. There is
a long history of the distribution of sound in space through a variety
of orchestrational and electronic techniques. Here, the control source
for the distribution of sound is the live presence of the network, a
system that has brought about dissolution of spatial and geographic
boundaries since the invention of the telegraph.

Here the network's geographical distribution is abstracted and
transposed as a means for heightening the viewer's experience of
dislocation. Through an interactive system designed for  the software
environment MAX, real-time Internet activity becomes a source for
controlling the distribution of sound-text, its timbral
transformation, and the diffusion of lighting on stage, to heighten
the viewer's awareness of the presence and broad dispersion of
telematic activity in the abstract "geographical" domain of
cyberspace.

A text will be composed of quotations and proclamations by pioneers of
telecommunications technologies. Beginning with the 19th century
inventor of the telegraph Samuel Morse, and continuing through the
present with information age engineers, artists, and cultural
renegades, their quasi-utopian statements will be used as the primary
and ironic source material for spatialization and transformation, with
simultaneous cultural, sonic, and visual implications .

The notion of new spatial territories as a landscape for human
experience is superimposed on the hyper-dramatic stage of evangelical
statements concerning the network and its potential for social and
aesthetic transformation.

... [Content omitted: Ed.] ...


[Ed. note: the complete content of this profile is available at the
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<  Steve Wilson Exhibition Review  >
                                  Sonya Rapoport 
                                   and Barbara Lee Williams

Sonya Rapoport
Email: <rapop@socrates.berkeley.edu>
URL: <http://www.lanminds.com/local/sr/srapoport.html>

Barbara Lee Williams
Email: <delano@pacbell.net>

Body Surfing: An Interactive Cyber/Physical Art Installation
by Stephen Wilson
at SFSU Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition
September 26 - October 19, 2000
URL: <http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/art/body/bodysurfing.html>

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Introduction
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Stephen's close personal association with Leonardo rather prohibits a
review in the normal sense that we use the term at LDR. However, so as
not to overlook an exhibition simply on that basis, as a brief pointer
to Stephen Wilson's installation at SSFU Art Gallery we have included
a dialogue review between Sonya Rapoport and Barbara Lee Williams. We
are grateful to them both for working to a close deadline and keeping
within an impossibly restrictive word count. We are fortunate however
that a fuller visual account of the work can be found at:

<http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/art/body/bodysurfing.html>

Michael Punt
Editor in Chief
Leonardo Digital reviews

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Sonya Rapoport: We furtively made our way through SFSU's faculty show,
anticipating Steve Wilson's interactive installation, BODY SURFING, an
artwork that repudiates the obsolescent role of the physical body in
cyberage. Eventually I found myself in a black cubic hole of pubic
images.

Barbara Lee Williams: . . .classical nudes, erotic photographs, video
streams of dance and sports, MRI scans, and superimposed texts denying
the flesh: "breath refused," "belly spurned," "feeling a twinness with
the machine."

These provocative texts, plus the insertion of film sequences,
immediately evoke the format and visual complexity of many web sites.

But the key to the work is its activation by the viewer: a sound track
invites us to touch objects containing hidden body sensors in order to
activate several videos. The positioning of these objects forces us to
move quickly and stretch in order to keep the films playing.

SR:  . . .communal collaboration, running and touching games, a
primordial twist to the physical distancing of electronic cutting
edge. In contrast to this "live" energetic complexity, the extended
sound component presented on the web is a visual calm.

The drum's rhythms can be created in a sequence on-line; users' vocal
grunts can affect the drumbeat; and links of related texts can be
added for synthesized voice reading at the site.

BLW: Steve's dizzying on-site piece seduces the viewers while
elevating the concept of inter-activity to a dynamic level: within the
suggestive "cave" the work provides a rich selection of interactive
possibilities: one can intellectually view the piece by simply reading
the images and texts; or physically interact, by touching, or
drumming; or vicariously participate by watching the rest of the
audience forget themselves in physical art-making.

SR: The physicality of the work hedonizes its digital presence.

[Ed. note: the complete content of this profile is available at the
LEA website: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/>.]

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Editor-in Chief: Michael Punt
Executive Editor: Roger Malina
Managing Editor: Bryony Dalefield
Web Editor: Sudhira Hay

This month there are 15 new reviews on the LDR website, (and possibly
more at the time of publishing as we catch up with the backlog). Two
new responses to Zeki's Inner visions by Jennifer McMahon and George
K. Shortess add to the growing body of discussion about this book
generated by Roger Malina's project. All the reviews and an overview
of the project will be published early next year in Leonardo. It
promises to be a significant document about an important book.
Elsewhere we are grateful to Roy Behrens for allowing us to reprint
his admirably succinct reviews from Ballast Quarterly, and Mike Mosher
for his commentary on Aleksandra Manczak's photographs. Sean Cubitt
tackles a demanding anthology by Vivian Sobchack and Kevin Murray
detects a dubious teleology and a whiff of Modernism in Michael Rush's
survey of new media. Once again we are grateful to Bulat M. Galeyev
for his commentaries on Russian Artists in Exile and the visualisation
of sound. His valuable contributions to LDR ensure that we have a
sense of work in Russia, which I for one, would have little access to.
Curtis Karnow ponders the question of Codes as laid out by Clifford
Pickover, and Molly Cox tackles the no less enigmatic affairs of
Situationists in a welcome contribution to the biographies of Guy
Debord by Anselm Jappe.

These reviews can be read at the usual URL:
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/ldr.html>.

Memory of Images by Aleksandra Manczak
Reviewed by Mike Mosher 

Inner Vision, An Exploration of Art and the Brain
by Semir Zeki
Reviewed by Jennifer McMahon

Inner Vision, An Exploration of Art and the Brain
by Semir Zeki
Reviewed by George K. Shortess

Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change
edited by Vivian Sobchack
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt

Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century
by Stanford Anderson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture
by Jonathan Crary
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Sex Appeal: The Art of Allure in Graphic and Advertising Design
edited by Steven Heller
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists
by Edward Lucie-Smith
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Theo Van Gogh 1857-1891
by Chris Tsolwijk and Richard Thomson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

New Media in Late 20th-Century Art
by Michael Rush
Reviewed by Kevin Murray

Russian Artists in Exile. Reference Book (1917-1939)
by Leikind O.L., Makhrov K.W., Severjukhin D.Y.
Reviewed by Bulat M. Galeyev

Aesthetics from Below and Aesthetics from Above - Quantitative Way of
 Reapproachement
by Yury Nikolaevich Rags
Reviewed by Alexander P. Mentyukov

Children Draw Music
by I.Vanechkina, I.Trofimova
Reviewed by B.Galeyev

Cryptorunes, Codes and Secret Writing
by Clifford A. Pickover
Reviewed by Curtis Karnow

Guy Debord
by Anselm Jappe
Reviewed by Molly Cox

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<  Producer, Broadcast/Multimedia Project, Northeastern University  >

Please send resume and sample of work to:
Professor Bruce Ronkin
Chairman, Music Department
Northeastern University
351 Ryder Hall,
Boston MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373-3088
Fax: (617) 373-4129
Email: <bronkin@lynx.neu.edu>

Northeastern University seeks a creative, energetic individual to lead
a team in the development of an interactive broadcast/multimedia
project in the Department of Music. This nationally/internationally
distributed project is intended to be a lively, entertaining, and
educational "broadcast," using radio, audio, video, and the world wide
web. It will likely be produced in conjunction with a public
broadcasting organization. In addition to his or her role in the
conceptualization, development, and production phases of this project,
the Producer will direct all aspects of the project including office
management, budget administration, and staff supervision. He or she
will also be responsible for leading the promotion and marketing of
the program to prospective audiences and sponsors.
 
A Bachelor's degree is required, and a background in music is
essential for this position. A minimum of five years
professional-level experience in radio/web broadcasting or a related
field, and demonstrated organizational and planning skills are a
necessity. This is a full-time position with benefits.

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<  Florida State University School of Music  >

Send resume and 3 reference letters with letter of application to

Jon R. Piersol, Dean
Composition Search
School of Music
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
                                        
Invitation for applications, appointment effective August 2001

Position: Composer with expertise in electro-acoustic composition

Salary/rank: Tenure-track position; rank and salary commensurate with
qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities will include individual instruction
in composition; courses and seminars in electro-acoustic music; and
leadership in the development and administration of an important new
center for electro-acoustic composition, performance, and research.

Qualifications: Doctorate preferred; teaching experience in
composition and electronic music; active research and composition
profile.

Institution: The Florida State University is a comprehensive research
institution of 16 colleges and schools with 1,600 faculty serving a
student body of 35,000.  The School of Music, with 80 faculty and over
1,000 students, offers a wide range of professional degrees in music,
baccalaureate through doctorate including the B.M., M.M., and D.M. in
Composition, and the B.M., M.M., and Ph.D. in Theory.

The University is situated in Tallahassee, Florida's beautiful, wooded
capital city, with an area population of over 240,000.  Located in the
"Big Bend" area of northern Florida, Tallahassee enjoys a mild change
of season, and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

Deadline: November 1, 2000 - Applications considered upon receipt.

Florida State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer.

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<  Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth  >

For a full position description and application submission
information, please contact:

Gloria DeFilipps Brush
Chair, GD 2001 Search Committee
Art Department, University of Minnesota Duluth
317 Humanities Building
10 University Drive, Duluth, MN. 55812.
Tel: (218) 726-8580
Email: <gbrush@d.umn.edu>
URL: <http://www.d.umn.edu/art/>

Graphic Design Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track

Salary: dependent upon experience
Start Sept. 1, 2001. Term of contract:  9/1/2001 - 5/31/2003

Teach courses in various aspects of graphic/digital design.
Assignments dependent upon departmental need and areas of expertise. 
Potential Involvement with new Visualization and Digital Imaging
Laboratory. Join 6 FTE person, rapidly expanding design program.
Contribute to aspects of the M.F.A. program in graphic design.
Creative activity/research, service and advising responsibilities.

Essential qualifications: M.A. minimum in graphic design, visual
communications or closely related design area by 7/1/2001. Experience
with Mac-based design technology. Familiarity with current and
emerging electronic technologies and historical and critical
graphic/media design issues.Communication skills appropriate to a
faculty position. See full position description for preferred
qualifications.

Completed applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2001.

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and
employer.

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<  Composer Position, The University of California at Davis  >

For inquiries about the position

Pablo Ortiz, Chair
Search Committee
Department of Music
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616

Tel: (530) 752-5537
Fax: (530) 752-0983
Email: <slpolley@ucdavis.edu>

The University of California at Davis seeks to appoint an Assistant
Professor of Music Composition for a tenure track position. An
appropriate terminal degree such as Ph.D., D.M.A., or equivalent
professional experience is required.  We seek an accomplished composer
capable of teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes in
his/her area of expertise and related tropics. Preference will be
shown to candidates with experience in directing professional new
music ensembles. The successful candidate should also possess a
thorough knowledge of twentieth-century music, including that written
within the past ten years.

Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae with full
bibliographical/discographical citations, and three letters of
reference (under separate cover) to the chair at the above address.

Applications should be postmarked by December 1, 2000, for full
consideration; position open until filled.

The University of California is an Affirmative Action Equal
Opportunity/ employer.

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<  OLATS News  >

1 - OLATS new face: <http://www.olats.org>

The re-design of the site is done and running. More dynamic, with a
new navigation format, it is much more easier to find one's way in all
the topics and infos.

Have a look !

2 - A new "Guided Tour" of the Internet dedicated to periodicals on
line. <http://www.olats.org/reperes/reperes.shtml>

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<  Art in the post-biological era  >

Detailed program at <http://www.olats.org>

contact:

Annick Bureaud
Email: <bureaud@altern.org>

Symposium : Art in the Post-Biological Era

OLATS and CAiiA-STAR, in partnership with the C.ID. Mediatheque of the
National School of Fine Arts, Paris, organise December 12th and 13th
2000, a symposium on the theme Art in the Post-Biological Era.

Through the presentation of the works and researches of the artists
members of the research group CAiiA-STAR, this symposium will point
out the state of the art in the current creation and explore the
emerging fields in techno-sciences related art: biotechnological art,
online creativity, interrelationship between physical and cyberspace,
the link between the ancien myths and the contemporary practices, an
approach to a consciouness reframed by the contemporary technologies,
etc.

Among the participants: Roy Ascott, Peter Anders, Donna Cox, Elisa
Giaccardi, Diane Gromala, Pamela Jennings, Eduardo Kac, Jim Laukes,
Dan Livingstone, Kieran Lyons, Simone Michelin, Laurent Mignonneau,
Joseph Nechvatal, Marcos Novak, Michaek Punt, Niranjan Rajah, Gretchen
Schiller, Bill Seaman, Thecla Schiphorst, Chris Speed, Christa
Sommerer.

CAiiA-STAR is under the direction of the artist and theoretician Roy
Ascott.

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<  Call for Digital Art Submissions: Immedia2001  >

Entity, the Ann Arbor digital artist coalition is seeking submissions
for our 6th annual exhibition of digital and electronic art. This
event of art and technology will take place February 6-28, 2001. It
was initiated in 1996 and has involved hundreds of artists and
organizations. This juried exhibition is an exciting opportunity to
participate in an international event and share your voice as digital
artists and activists.

Works created with or related to the # d i g i t al # m e d I u m #
are welcomed. These may include, but are not limited to: print, Web
design, interface design, film, video and animation, interactive
media, installation, electronics, sculpture, music, performance and
dance. Submission Deadline: December 1, 2000. Fill out your submission
form online at:

<http://entity.ummu.umich.edu/immedia2001>

Information on the submission process, rights and responsibilities
will be answered on our website.

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<  Maid in Cyberspace/ Les HTMlles  >

Alexandra Guite
Coordinator of the festival
STUDIO XX
338, Terrasse Saint-Denis
Montreal (Quebec) H2X 1E8
Tel: 514-845-7934
Fax: 514-845-4941
Email: <alexg@studioxx.org>
URL: <http://studioxx.org/>

Montreal, Canada, February 7-11 2001
At the Cinematheque Quebecoise

Maid in Cyberspace/ Les HTMlles is back once again to present the
truly innovative in web art production by women artists. This time
around, we are looking for artwork that explore this year's theme of
Mutant Cultures and Identities.

The festival will present a selection of Web projects, installations,
performances and conferences, produced by female artists that
investigate present day flux and mutation of both identities and
cultures.

Submissions are welcome for on-line projects. This year, we wish to
favor as much Net based sound projects as visual ones. Also we are
looking for a Web installation that will be showcased above the main
foyer of the Cinematheque*. The sound and visual aspects of this
installation are equally important. It should be participative,
modifying itself as a result of spectators' interaction throughout the
course of the festival.

Applications should be sent to Studio XX via email in the body of
their email, no attachments please. All submissions must include:

+Name, home address, telephone number, email.
+URL address of the Web project.
+A short bio (250 words).
+A short description of the Web project (250 words).
+Images and substantial description of installation projects.

Deadline for application is November 27th 2000.

Artists will be notified in December of the outcome.
Only completed projects will be accepted.

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