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<td class="f_issue" align="middle">v o l <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ffffff" size="3"><strong>14</strong></font></td></tr>
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</a><br><span class="footnote" style="COLOR: #666666"><font face="Verdana" size="1">Digital Behaviors and Generative Music<br>Copyright<strong> ©</strong> Dave Burraston and Andrew Martin</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#003399" size="2"><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/editorial.asp">Nisar Keshvani</a></font></td></tr>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/dgrigar.asp"><font color="#003399">The Emergent and Generative</font></a><br><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/sthomas.asp">
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#003399" size="2"><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/essays.asp">Wild Nature and the Digital Life </a></font></td></tr>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#003399" size="2"><a href="mailto:leadigitalwild-subscribe@googlegroups.com">Sign up for the Leonardo Electronic Almanac Digital Wild list</a></font></td></tr>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#003399" size="2"><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/forum.asp" target="_blank">Watch this space for details on LEA's live forum with authors
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<td>As the year closes, LEA editor in chief, Nisar Keshvani shares that the new LEA web platform continues to receive positive feedback from across the globe. Researchers, artists and educators find our downloadable pdf's and MLA/APA citations extremely useful.
<br><br>The LEAD: Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion around the New Media Poetics and Poetry issue generated overwhelming discussion within in the community. Chat transcripts now <a href="http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/index.asp" target="_blank">
<font color="#003399">available</font></a>.<br><br>Hold on to your seats as a very special double-themed LEA issue hurtles your way. Guest editors Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas have culled a neat collection of explosive essays from the hefty haul of initial contributions received and emerged with a two-themed anthology on
<a href="http://leoalmanac.org/"><font color="#003399">Wild Nature and the Digital Life</font></a>, which delves into the collaboration of art and nature. <br><br>In Dene Grigar's editorial, she explains that the first section explores a range of issues relating to the "Emergent and Generative" in nature, the digital, and art. The second wave of another four papers, edited by Sue Thomas, features essays that are "Performative and Locative" in scope.
<br><br>Drigar and Thomas have woven together a marvelous mix featuring Peter Hasdell, Tara Rodgers, Dave Burraston, Andrew Martin, Jennifer Willet, Adam Gussow, Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Jeremy Hight and Brett Stalbaum.<br><br>
The essays are packaged with a small but powerful <a href="http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/digiwild/index.htm"><font color="#003399">gallery</font></a> of two works, exhibiting Karl Grimes, Elisa Giaccardi, Hal Eden and Gianluca Sabena, also curated by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas.
<br><br>We're planning our 2007 issues, so if you have any essay, gallery or thematic issue proposals, we welcome you to drop a note to: <a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/lea@mitpress.mit.edu"></a>
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