[Reader-list] [Announcements] LEA June - July '05: New Media Arts, Technology and Education @ MAAP Singapore

[nisar keshvani]

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: June - July 2005
ISSN#1071-4391
art | science | technology - a definitive voice since 1993
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LEA’s June – July double issue, guest edited by Dr Hock Soon Seah 
and Kim Machan, sees yet another special edition, this time about 
New Media Arts, Technology and Education. This reviewed 
international conference was organized as part of the Multimedia 
Art Asia Pacific Festival 2004 held in Singapore.

In our first essay, Dew Harrison questions the teaching of digital 
media theory to new practitioners where it is understood as 
deriving from lens and screen-based media. It examines other 
routes through 20th century art history to current practice in 
digital art and determines the validity of Marcel Duchamp as 
influential on contemporary practice generally, and on Conceptual 
Art specifically.

In *Virtual Campus – It is fun and educational*, Alexei Sourin, 
with Konstantin Levinski and Qi Liu share with us the "great 
multimedia place for electronic education and fun, research and 
games, meeting new friends, and immersion in campus life" that is, 
a virtual model of Nanyang Technological University, and how it 
"teaches students how 3D shapes and their colors can be easily 
defined with parametric and implicit functions.”

Erik Malcolm Champion’s piece then deals with astral travel in 
virtual realms, where he evaluates conceptual understanding in 
digital reconstructions of past cultures. His paper discusses the 
case study of an ancient Mayan site, Palenque, to suggest ways of 
creating a platform conducive to cultural learning using virtual 
environment technology.

Next, a joint effort by Andrew H. K. Lam and Andy Tam T. K. 
explores how the conditions of media art have changed radically 
over the past few years. Their paper aims to project a vision in 
the relationship between the institution and the market, within 
the framework of the role of media art and infrastructure across 
the Asian continent.

In *Digital Speculations*, Bharat Dave describes selected projects 
that served as vehicles for critical investigation of interactive 
digital media and their potential for exploring different ways in 
which experiences can be imagined, constructed, and communicated.
Finally, Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar share their work, 
*Idensity®*, which develops scenarios for an interplay of the 
urban space and the media domain.
One From the Vault, the monthly dose of things past, looks at 
Curtis E. A. Karnow’s Molten Media and the Infiltration of the 
Law, a piece which first appeared in June 1995.

For Leonardo Reviews, Michael Punt’s selections include those of 
new panel member David Beer, with his reflections on Tia DeNora's 
book, *After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology*. Also featured is 
*The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging*, 
reviewed by Jan Baetens, another of the newer members who has 
already made a significant contribution to this project. Eugene 
Thacker's review of Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the 
Frontiers of Bioscience completes this section.

In ISAST news, read about *Leonardo’s* move to a new home, 
brainstorm with them for their upcoming 40th anniversary, and find 
out about the latest Leonardo at SIGGRAPH Town Hall Meeting in 
August. Also, keep updated with our series on *The Pacific Rim New 
Media Summit: A Pre-Symposium to ISEA2006*, where another working 
group chair shares the group’s scope and objectives.

Bytes features two vastly different calls for papers/artwork that 
will surely be of interest to many. Also, find out more about 
current exhibitions by Jacques Mandlebrojt at the 17 Earagail Arts 
Festival in Donegal, Ireland.

Lastly, Jill Sykes mourns the passing of Australian Joan Brassil, 
85, who was an artist of unique character and singular talents.

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