[LEAuthors] 2004 Seasons Greetings from the Leonardo Electronic Almanac

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The Leonardo Electronic Almanac wishes its editorial board, peer reviewers, authors and readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

January 
(Part I – Groove, Pit and Wave: Recording, Transmission and Music – Nicolas Collins) Performance Space Meets Cyberspace, examines initiatives throughout the post–industrial world supporting advanced networks – Michael Bussiere  • The Gallbladder Sonata is an improvisation combining sound, narrative text, Internet and live performance – Marlena Corcoran  • Mediating (through) Imagination introduces two Web-based multimedia projects and live laptop performances – Trace Reddell

February
(Part II - Groove, Pit and Wave: Recording, Transmission and Music – Nicolas Collins) Recursive Audio Systems discusses the use of feedback systems in their compositional and performance techniques – Christopher Burns and Matthew Burtner  • Turn/Stile provides a lively narration of his attempts to update composer Udo Kasemets' work – Tobias C. Van Veen
 
March 
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 – Patrick Lambelet
 
April
“Metavirtue and 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 – David Blair
 
May 
The *Public News Network* (PNN), a computer-based artwork gives viewers "the power to interrogate corporate broadcast media." – Jack Stenner  • Toward the Glass Bead Game, associates small images with ideas that are described in ordinary prose – Joshua Fost  • Escuela Rural Andina de Cajamarca, seeks to activate the talents of rural Peru's artisans through the creation of permanent training facilities – Sabine Vess
 
June 
Art as Technology describes artistic projects with massive geometrical designs made in remote natural settings often seemed to be connected with surprising changes in the environment and its inhabitants – Bill Witherspoon

July 
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 – Janice Cheddie

August 
(Network Leaps, Bounds and Misses – Fatima Lasay )
• 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 – Tereza Wagner  • Recent New Zealand Electroacoustic Music discusses the role of the Sonic Art CD series in documenting electroacoustic music – Ian Whalley  • Latin American Media Art explores the various permutations of globalization – Jose Carlos Mariátegui

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 – Hasnul Jamal Saidon and Roopesh Sitharan

September
The Intertextual Thread presents ways of expanding the use of hypertextual and intertextual methods to aid a number of fields, including academic research – Motti Benari, Ziva Ben-Porat, Efrat Biberman, Liza Chudnovsky, Tammy Amiel-Hauzer and Eyal Segal

October
Art by Telephone: From Static to Mobile Interfaces discusses the evolution of artworks using telephones, focussing on contemporary works using mobile phone technology – Adriana de Souza e Silva
 
November
(Part I: "From the Extraordinary to the Uncanny: The Unusual and Inexplicable in Art, Science and Technology" – Michael Punt) • Biosensor And Media Art-Induced Meditation And Telepathy explores embodiment via technology and media art – Camille Baker • Parallel Worlds in Science-Fiction Literature provides an overview of SF works dealing with parallel worlds – John F. Barber  • Shape-Shifting through Reality focuses on the cosmology of Australian aborigines and the understanding of ways the universes interact with their daily reality – Christine Morris
 
December
(Part II: "From the Extraordinary to the Uncanny: The Unusual and Inexplicable in Art, Science and Technology" – Michael Punt ) • Hauntings explores intriguing parallels in the development of communications technology and spiritualist practices – Peter Anders  • Media Ghosts discusses images adapted from various news media – Josephine Coy  • Spookie Cookies looks into various takes on the supernatural within the alternative media – Len Massey

Cinema and the Biological Basis of Otherness discusses interactive cinema seen as an "externalization of mind” – Pia Tikka  • Universe from Beyond makes a compelling case for the central role of "unobservables" in cosmology and physics – C. S. Unnikrishnan

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Thank you
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