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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts published in the Leonardo Abstracts Service Databases during the 1<SUP>st</SUP>, 2<SUP>nd</SUP> and 3<SUP>rd</SUP> quarters of 2005. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS), consisting of the English LABS database and Spanish LABS database, is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Masters and MFA thesis abstracts on topics in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology. Individuals receiving advanced degrees in the arts (visual, sound, performance, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology that in some way investigate philosophical, historical or critical applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit abstracts of their theses for consideration. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Top-rated abstracts in both the English and Spanish language databases are chosen on a quarterly basis by peer-review panels under the guidance of Sheila Pinkel and Pau Alsina and published in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Leonardo Electronic Almanac</st1:PersonName>.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The top-rated LABS authors of the 1<SUP>st</SUP>, 2<SUP>nd</SUP> and 3<SUP>rd</SUP> quarters of 2005 are:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Melvin L. Alexenberg: "A Unitary Model of Intense Aesthetic Experience in Art and Science"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Camille Baker: "Internal Networks: Telepathy Meets Technology in the Dream Pod"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Melina Berkenwald: "Screen and Frame in Painting in the Digital Era"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Samuel Bianchini: "Operating In Media Reality - For a Critical Practice in Interactive Images"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Julian Bleecker: "The Reality Effect of Technoscience"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Lisa Bode: "From shadow citizens to teflon stars: cultural responses to the digital actor"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Maria do Rosário de Assumpção <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Braga</st1:City></st1:place>: "Relations between Art and Science at Museums and Science Centres from 1969 until 2000"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Roc Parés i Burguès: "El procés d'interacció com a base de l'experiència estètica en les propostes artístiques que utilitzen la tecnologia de la realitat virtual"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Raphael Cuir: "From the Subject of Anatomy to the Anatomy of the Subject"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Hugo Solís García: "Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Carolyn G. Guertin: "Quantum Feminist Mnemotechnics: The Archival Text, Electronic Narrative and the Limits of Memory"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Alex Metral: "Almost Immortal: Aesthetic Ritual and Biological Mutation" </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Joseph Nechvatal: "Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Anne Niemetz: "Singing cells, art, science and the noise in between"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Daniel Palmer: "Participatory Media: Visual Culture in Real Time"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Lasse Scherffig: "It's in Your Eyes - Gaze Based Image Retrieval in Context"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Gretchen Schiller: "The Kinesfield: a Study of Movement-based Interactive and Choreographic Art"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Tanya Sheehan: "Doctor Photo: The Cultural Authority of Portrait Photography as Medicine in Nineteenth Century <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Melanie Swalwell: "Aesthetics and Hyper/aesthetics: Rethinking the Senses in Contemporary Media Contexts"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Grant David Taylor: "The Machine that Made Science Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art 1963-1989"</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Mette Ramsgard Thomsen: "Discovering Mixed Reality: inventing design criteria for an action based Mixed Reality"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Stella Veciana: "Research arts: la interseccion arte, ciencia y tecnología <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">como</st1:City></st1:place> campo de conocimiento y de acción" </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>To read all of the abstracts or to post an abstract in the English-language database, please visit: http://leonardolabs.pomono.edu</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>To read all of the abstracts or to post an abstract in the Spanish-language database, please visit: http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/leonardolabs</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The LABS project is part of the Leonardo Educators and Students Program. For more information, please visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/educators.html</FONT></P>
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