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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">We are pleased to announce the "Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion" (LEAD) accompanying our <em>Wild Nature and Digital Life </em>special issue. By 16 December, we begin our moderated discussion forum (sign up today at:
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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">We will also shortly announce dates/times for our upcoming live chat sessions with our authors/artists for readers to engage with the special issue contributors (see below for full information).
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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><strong>Leonardo</strong><strong> Electronic</strong><strong> Almanac Discussion (LEAD): </strong></font></font><strong><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><strong>
"Wild Nature and Digital Life "</strong><br><strong>Moderated by Marcus Bastos and Ryan Griffis </strong></font></font></strong><br><br><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">What is the <strong>LEA Wild Nature and Digital Life
</strong>Special? <br>Guest edited by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas, the issue features Peter Hasdell, Tara Rodgers, Dave Burraston, Andrew Martin, Jennifer Willet, Adam Gussow, Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Jeremy Hight and Brett Stalbaum. The essays are packaged with a small but powerful gallery of two works, exhibiting Karl Grimes, Elisa Giaccardi, Hal Eden and Gianluca Sabena.
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<p><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><strong><strong>How to sign up to the DigiWild Moderated List?</strong><br></strong>Email: </font></font><a href="mailto:LEAdigiwild-subscribe@googlegroups.com"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">
LEAdigiwild-subscribe@googlegroups.com</font></a><br><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">LEA NMP URL: </font><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/leanmp" target="_blank"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">http://groups.google.com/group/LEAdigiwild
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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><strong>About the moderators</strong><br><em>Marcus Bastos </em>is PhD in Communication and Semiotics and <em>Ryan Griffis </em>is an artist and sometimes amateur writer, curator and tour guide.
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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">If you miss the chats and forum, fret not, an abridged version of the discussions will be made available with the next issue of LEA.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><strong>Useful URLs</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">LEA Journal: </font><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/index.asp"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">http://leoalmanac.org/index.asp</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">LEA Gallery: </font><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/index.asp"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/index.asp</font></a></div>
<div>Wild Nature and Digital Life Forum Info: <a href="http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/forum.asp">http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/forum.asp</a></div>
<div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">New Media Poetics and Poetry Chat Transcripts: </font><a href="http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/index.asp"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/index.asp
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><strong>What is LEA?
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">For over a decade, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) has thrived as an international peer-reviewed electronic journal and web archive, covering the interaction of the arts, sciences and technology. LEA emphasizes rapid publication of recent work and critical discussion on topics of current excitement. Many contributors are younger scholars and artists, and there is a slant towards shorter, less academic texts.
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Copyright© 1993 - 2006: The Leonardo Electronic Almanac is published by Leonardo / International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) in association with the MIT Press. All rights reserved.
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