[Reader-list] BEFORE AND AFTER THE I-BOMB/invitation/press release

[Tom Sherman]

     The Banff Centre Press is very pleased to announce the      
publication of Tom Sherman's book of essays on the late 
twentieth century:

     BEFORE AND AFTER THE I-BOMB
     An Artist in the Information Environment

     An excerpt from the book appears as a Word file 
attached to this email.

     Please join Pages Books and Magazines and the Banff 
Centre Press in celebrating the launch of this 
groundbreaking collection in Toronto on June 13, 2002. Tom 
Sherman will be reading, speaking, and showing selections of 
his video art.

     Date: Thursday, June 13, 2002
     Time: 7 - 10 pm
     Place:  TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto,
             Ontario, 416-923-8137
            (Just south of Bloor, 3 blocks west of the
             Spadina Subway Station)

     Contact Pages Books and Magazines for more information 
at 416-598-1447, or Meaghan Craven at the Banff Centre Press 
at 403-762-7532 and press at banffcentre.ca.

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     Before and After the I-Bomb
     AN ARTIST IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

     TOM SHERMAN

     ISBN 0-920159-94-X / $29.95 CD $20.90 US / 6.5 x 8.25 /
     384 pages / B&W photos / Contemporary Art History


     Tom Sherman is an artist who has drawn deeply on his 
study of communications, the information economy, and 
natural scence. His writing works within and between these 
disciplines, postulating new ideas and congruencies, 
revealing possible truths for our future. In some cases, his 
speculation has become fact.

        - Peggy Gale, Preface


     Sherman integrates a deeply critical perspective on 
modern life with an understanding and sense of hopefulness 
that denies cynicism [and] defies ideological 
categorization. Read Sherman slowly and re-read. You will 
find his to be one of the most original and powerful voices 
of a generation.

        - David A. Ross


     I'm "blanking" on the "i-bomb." I'm "buffeted by the 
message storm" in Tom Sherman's poetic semi-fictional 
polemic on "the slow burn of telecommunications through the 
late 20th century." So, "don't check for my pulse. I just 
want to be a dial tone."

        - John Oswald, Perpetrator of Plunderphonics


     There was a time, not too long ago, when people wrote 
letters (and mailed them), picked up the phone and spoke to 
people (not voice mail systems), and considered whether to 
invest in expensive new "fax" technology as a means of 
speeding up communication. Children went outside to play 
games that didn't require a console and screen, schools 
bought books, and computers filled entire floors of some 
offices. In less than twenty years, our homes, schools, 
cars, workplaces, and leisure activities have been 
revolutionized by the onslaught of technology.

     Tom Sherman, part artist, part writer, and part 
visionary, got wired early and has spent much of his career 
leading the way through the aftershocks of the "I-Bomb" and 
its information revolution. Before and After the I-Bomb 
collects some of the best of Sherman's thinking and writing 
about art, nature, and technology from the last two decades. 
His series of personal reflections express both a love for 
and struggle with the new technologies and the cultural 
changes they have spawned. Most importantly they provide an 
instrument for gauging the evolution of a human culture 
inextricably bound to Earth's ecosystem, and a tool for 
negotiating the future, even if it is currently "obscured by 
a dense cloud of scrambled technobabble."


     ABOUT THE AUTHOR

     Tom Sherman is a media artist, writer, and broadcaster. 
He knows the media environment from several perspectives, 
having worked in mainstream radio and television, but also 
having produced groundbreaking art with video gear, 
industrial robots, surveillance systems, and 
telecommunications networks. He founded the Media Arts 
Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, co-founded Fuse 
magazine, and represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. 
Sherman performs and records with the group Nerve Theory. He 
currently teaches media art history, theory, and practice at 
Syracuse University in New York, but considers Nova Scotia's 
South Shore his home.


     REVIEW CONTACT / MEDIA CONTACT

     Meaghan Craven
     Acting Managing Editor
     Banff Centre Press
     Phone: 403-762-7532 Fax: 403-762-6699
     email: mcraven at telusplanet.net

     Available to the trade from the Banff Centre Press
     Available to the public at bookstores everywhere

     BANFF CENTRE PRESS
     Tel: 403-762-7532  Fax: 403-762-6699
     PO Box 1020, Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5, Canada
     press at banffcentre.ca
     www.banffcentre.ca/press
    <http://www.banffcentre.ca/press>


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