Contents
Special Section: The Art of Burning Man
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Introduction: Desert Weirdness Introduces a New Era of ArtLouis M. Brill
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The Outsider Art of Burning ManLady Bee
The author describes art installations featured at the annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada. Burning Man is community based, collaborative and interactive and attracts a unique community of artists, performers and free spirits. The goal of the event is to remove the artist from the world of commerce and competition, emphasizing instead collaboration, cooperation and shared experience.
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The Bone TreeDana Albany
Artists' Statements
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The Voice of The Nebulous EntityAaron Wolf Baum (a.k.a. Dr. Friendly)
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Draka, The Flaming Metal DragonLisa Nigro
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The Futura Deluxe Bubble Fountain Porta-TempleSteven Raspa
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Dr. MegavoltAustin Richards
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FlockMichael Christian, Vladimir Djambazov
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The TelestereoscopeCassidy Curtis, Chris Whitney
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The CradleDeidre DeFranceaux, Jann Nunn, Jonathan N. Middleton
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The Ammonite ProjectHendrik Hackl, Norbert Schnell
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FirefallCynthia “Kiki” Pettit
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The Myth of SisyphusKal Spelletich
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The RibcageJenne Giles, Philip Bonham
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The One TreeDan Das Mann
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The Golden Tower ProjectSusan Robb
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The Plastic ChapelFinley Fryer, Irit Batsry
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The AfterlifeDavid Abel, Tatsuya Aoyagi
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L2K Ring Project and Ship to ShipTim Black
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The Lily PondJeremy Lutes
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SpinChristopher Schardt
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Beaming ManRussell Wilcox
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Color Plates
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CommentariesHerbert Franke, Eduardo Kac
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Leonardo Network News
Special Section: Global Crossings: The Cultural Roots of Globalization
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Uncomfortable Proximity: The Tate Invites Mongrel to Hack the Tate's Own Web SiteGraham Harwood, Matthew Fuller, Ciro Cattuto
Uncomfortable Proximity is a critical web hack of the Tate Gallery's web site, created by Graham Harwood, a member of the Mongrel collective. Commissioned by Tate National Programmes, it mirrors the Tate's own web site, but offers new images and ideas, collaged from Harwood's own experiences, his readings of Tate works and publicity materials and his interest in the Tate Britain site. A related critical text by Matthew Fuller provides wider cultural context.
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The Crying Post Project: A Multi-Part, Multi-Media Artwork to Memorialize Global Sites of Pain
The author describes The Crying Post Project, an artwork consisting primarily of wood staffs with solar-powered “cry generators” placed at different sites throughout the globe, at locations of environmental and/or social damage. Its two other components include an interactive 3D web site, which has been created as an alternative, data-rich venue for the project, and a series of digitally created photographic prints designed to capture the artist's emotional response to the sites. The artist also discusses how this artwork has been inspired by his research on the cross-cultural symbolism of trees, the indigenous Australian worldview, mapping theory and the relationship between language extinction and environmental destruction.
Historical Perspective
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The Dilemma of Media Art: Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA LondonRainer Usselmann, John Rigby
One year after the 1967 Summer of Love and at a time of considerable political unrest throughout the United States and Europe, Cybernetic Serendipity—The Computer and the Arts opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London to much critical and popular acclaim. This paper outlines the conceptual framework of this seminal exhibition and looks at some of the accompanying press reception in order to address a key question: how media art deals with its own historicity and the underlying socioeconomic forces that render it possible. Presented 35 years ago and still paradigmatic for the ever-shifting boundaries between art, technology, commerce and entertainment, Cybernetic Serendipity epitomizes some of the complicated dynamics that delineate the gamut of media art today.
Leonardo Reviews
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Time Stands Still: Muybridge and The Instantaneous Photography MovementAmy Ione, David Marlett
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./SwankStefaan Van Ryssen
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Introduction to Art Image Access: Tools, Standards, and StrategiesChris Cobb
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Ezra Pound's Radio OperasChris Cobb
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Czech Photographic Avant-Garde: 1918–1948Claire Barliant, Eric D. Scheirer
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Technoetic ArtsSoh Yeong Roh
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Guy Debord and The Situationist International: Texts and DocumentsSean Cubitt
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and The Culture of Listening in America 1900–1933Stefaan Van Ryssen
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Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to The Post-Human
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Writing Machines
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The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics From Beyond The Edge
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Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and The New Computing TechnologiesJack Ox
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Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network CultureMike Mosher, Jean-Marc Chomaz
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Reload: Rethinking Women + CybercultureMike Mosher, Jean-Marc Chomaz
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Representing Place: Landscape Painting and MapsAmy Ione, David Marlett
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Where The Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and CompositionRoy Behrens
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Lipchitz and The Avantgarde: From Paris to New YorkRoy Behrens
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Design Humor: The Art of Graphic WitRoy Behrens
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Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships OnlineChris Cobb
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The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and AestheticsGeorge Shortess
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Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on DemocracyChris Cobb
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Brochure: Art Lyrique Et Art NuméRique, A Propos D'une Scenographie Virtuelle Interactive De Norma Debellini. Actes De La Jounée D'études Du 17 Aoüt 2001.Stefaan Van Ryssen
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Images From Science: An Exhibition of Scientific PhotographyAmy Ione, David Marlett
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Shine02.OrgLuisa Paraguai Donati
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Materials Received