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<P><FONT color=#ffffff><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff>The Leonardo Electronic Almanac wishes its editorial board, peer reviewers, authors and readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.<SPAN class=style6><BR></SPAN><SPAN class=style7><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN class=style13><STRONG><FONT color=#339933>January</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN class=style11> </SPAN><FONT color=#ffffff><BR>(Part I – Groove, Pit and Wave: Recording, Transmission and Music – <EM>Nicolas Collins</EM><SPAN class=style8>)</SPAN> Performance Space Meets Cyberspace, examines initiatives throughout the post–industrial world supporting advanced networks – <EM>Michael Bussiere </EM> • The Gallbladder Sonata is an improvisation combining sound, narrative text, Internet and live performance – <EM>Marlena Corcoran</EM> • Mediating (through) Imagination introduces two Web-based multimedia projects and live laptop performances – <EM>Trace Reddell</EM><BR><BR></FONT><SPAN class=style13><STRONG><!
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color=#339933>February</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN class=style8><BR><FONT color=#ffffff>(Part II - Groove, Pit and Wave: Recording, Transmission and Music – <EM>Nicolas Collins</EM>) Recursive Audio Systems discusses the use of feedback systems in their compositional and performance techniques – <EM>Christopher Burns and Matthew Burtner</EM> • Turn/Stile provides a lively narration of his attempts to update composer Udo Kasemets' work – <EM>Tobias C. Van Veen</EM><BR> <BR></FONT><SPAN class=style14><STRONG><FONT color=#339933>March</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN class=style8><BR><FONT color=#ffffff>LEA thanks its peer reviewers whose significant contributions ensure LEA meets the highest academic standards and adds to the existing body of art, science and technology knowledge – </FONT><FONT color=#ffffff><EM>Patrick Lambelet<BR></EM> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#339933><SPAN class=style13><STRONG>April</STRONG></SPAN><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff>“Metavirtu!
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Subreality” or “The Involuntary Walker as Virtuous Subject Yet Only Semi-Intelligent Agent” or “Birds or No-Ledge to Stand on”, explores the effects of navigating in immersive environments – <EM>David Blair</EM><BR> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#339933><SPAN class=style13><STRONG>May </STRONG></SPAN><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff>The *Public News Network* (PNN), a computer-based artwork gives viewers "the power to interrogate corporate broadcast media." – <EM>Jack Stenner</EM> • Toward the Glass Bead Game, associates small images with ideas that are described in ordinary prose – <EM>Joshua Fost</EM> • Escuela Rural Andina de Cajamarca, seeks to activate the talents of rural Peru's artisans through the creation of permanent training facilities – <EM>Sabine Vess</EM><BR> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#339933><SPAN class=style13><STRONG>June </STRONG></SPAN><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff>Art as Technology describes artistic projects with massive geometrical desig!
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in remote natural settings often seemed to be connected with surprising changes in the environment and its inhabitants – <EM>Bill Witherspoon</EM><BR><BR></FONT><SPAN class=style13><STRONG><FONT color=#339933>July</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN class=style8><BR><FONT color=#ffffff>Translation, Transcodification, Transmission: Erika Tan's Pidgin: Interrupted Transmission, discusses "issues of cultural translation, digital media and notions of difference," using UK-based Erika Tan’s work – <EM>Janice Cheddie</EM><BR><BR></FONT><SPAN class=style13><STRONG><FONT color=#339933>August</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><FONT color=#ffffff> <BR>(Network Leaps, Bounds and Misses – <EM>Fatima Lasay </EM>)<BR>• UNESCO’s Program in the Promotion and Support of Digital Art and Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific is designed to promote creativity in the field of digital arts – <EM>Tereza Wagner</EM> • Recent New Zealand Electroacoustic Music discusses the role of the Sonic Art C!
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in documenting electroacoustic music – <EM>Ian Whalley</EM> • Latin American Media Art explores the various permutations of globalization –<EM> Jose Carlos Mariátegui</EM><BR><BR>The Use of Internet for an International Collaborative Project describes an experimental online project between students based in Japan and Malaysia to discuss notions of self, identity, nationality and cross-cultural encounters in today's global telecommunication age – <EM>Hasnul Jamal Saidon</EM> and <EM>Roopesh Sitharan</EM><BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#339933><SPAN class=style13><STRONG>September</STRONG></SPAN><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff>The Intertextual Thread presents ways of expanding the use of hypertextual and intertextual methods to aid a number of fields, including academic research – <EM>Motti Benari, Ziva Ben-Porat, Efrat Biberman, Liza Chudnovsky, Tammy Amiel-Hauzer and Eyal Segal</EM><BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#339933><SPAN
class=style13><STRONG>October</STRONG></SPAN><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff>Art by Telephone: From Static to Mobile Interfaces discusses the evolution of artworks using telephones, focussing on contemporary works using mobile phone technology – <EM>Adriana de Souza e Silva</EM><BR> <BR></FONT><STRONG><FONT color=#339933><SPAN class=style13>November</SPAN><BR></FONT></STRONG><FONT color=#ffffff>(Part I: "From the Extraordinary to the Uncanny: The Unusual and Inexplicable in Art, Science and Technology" – <EM>Michael Punt</EM>) • Biosensor And Media Art-Induced Meditation And Telepathy explores embodiment via technology and media art – <EM>Camille Baker</EM> • Parallel Worlds in Science-Fiction Literature provides an overview of SF works dealing with parallel worlds – <EM>John F. Barber</EM> • Shape-Shifting through Reality focuses on the cosmology of Australian aborigines and the understanding of ways the universes interact with their daily reality –
</FONT><FONT color=#ffffff><EM>Christine Morris<BR> </EM><BR></FONT><STRONG><FONT color=#339933><SPAN class=style13>December</SPAN><BR></FONT></STRONG><FONT color=#ffffff>(Part II: "From the Extraordinary to the Uncanny: The Unusual and Inexplicable in Art, Science and Technology" – <EM>Michael Punt</EM> ) • Hauntings explores intriguing parallels in the development of communications technology and spiritualist practices – <EM>Peter Anders</EM> • Media Ghosts discusses images adapted from various news media – Josephine Coy • Spookie Cookies looks into various takes on the supernatural within the alternative media – <EM>Len Massey</EM><BR><BR>Cinema and the Biological Basis of Otherness discusses interactive cinema seen as an "externalization of mind” – <EM>Pia Tikka</EM> • Universe from Beyond makes a compelling case for the central role of "unobservables" in cosmology and physics – <EM>C. S. Unnikrishnan</EM><BR><BR>In 2005, we continue to !
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