[Reader-list] [Announcements] LEA April '05: RE: Searching Our Origins

[nisar keshvani]

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: April 2005
ISSN#1071-4391
art | science | technology - a definitive voice since 1993
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Subject: LEA March '05: RE: Searching Our Origins

LEA’s April issue is the first in a two-part special that explores 
the theme: RE: Searching Our Origins. Guest Editors Paul Brown and 
Catherine Mason are at the helm, and in their editorial, introduce 
the notion of digital computing and the associated theories of 
cybernetics, logic and formal systems/linguistics.

As their piece progresses, they reflect how "it is refreshing at 
this dawn of a new millennium to discover a renewed interest in 
the 'lost' histories of the late modern and especially those 
exploring the interdisciplinary collaborations of the mid to late 
20th century."

The overwhelming response meant that the material had to be 
significantly culled, and here they've shortlisted five of those 
essays.

To start, Jennifer Gabrys talks about how technological failure is 
central to the logic of innovation, and through the consideration 
of how failure emerges at this moment in art and technology, 
suggests that the program of failure potentially reveals more 
about the drive of the automated machine than its recognized 
successes.

Following that, Rodrigo Alonso takes us through the early years of 
art and technology in Argentina.

In *Movements And Passages: The Legacy of Net Art*, Elisa 
Giaccardi explores net art as a form of thought and practice. The 
paper stresses how a transdisciplinary analysis of the aesthetical 
patterns characterizing net art as a "trans-genre" can lead beyond 
the entrapment of self-referential criticism and allow an 
understanding and promotion of the legacy of net art in a broader 
cultural context.

Then Riccardo Dal Farra takes us through a lyrical journey to 
"discover a world of sound that had been partially hidden, if not 
completely lost", and explains how recently, two actions to 
preserve, document and disseminate 50 years of Latin American 
electroacoustic music were realized: Extensive research focusing 
on the composers and their work in this field, and a musical 
archive.

Finally, Kristine Ploug and Petri Raappana delve into the latter's 
digital artwork *Timeline [Who writes the history?]*, which is a 
reaction to the ways of the media today, and addresses questions 
concerning economic gains, media reform, and the role of the 
Internet.
>From LEA's archives, One From the Vault resurrects Simon Penny's 
*Critical Issues in Electronic Media* and Paul Hertz's *Culture, 
Democracy and Computer Media*, which were both first published in 
LEA in April 1995.

Leonardo Reviews has Michael Punt paying tribute to one of the 
more active members of the panel, Stefaan Van Ryssen, who has 
returned six reviews this time round, all of which are featured 
here. Four of these are audio offerings: *Tara's Room: Two 
Meditations On Transition And Change*, *Electrotheraphy*, 
*Frequency, Altitude and Time* and *Middle of the Moment*; while 
the remaining two are publications: *Invisible Cities, A 
Metaphorical Complex Adaptive System*, a daunting and entertaining 
mixture of a respectful remake of Italo Calvino's masterpiece; and 
*Style In The Technical And Tectonic Arts; Or, Practical 
Aesthetics*, which Van Ryssen proclaims a "magnificent 
translation, a beautiful book and the result of a bold and 
adventurous editorial enterprise."
In ISAST News, we welcome Meredith Tromble to the Leonardo 
Advisory Board, and continue our series on the *The Pacific Rim 
New Media Summit: A Pre-Symposium to ISEA2006*, with statements 
from two of the working group chairs

Finally, with Bytes (featuring announcements and calls for 
papers), find out more about LEA's upcoming special on Wild Nature 
and Digital Life and how you can contribute.

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