Introducing the LDR Panelists

Daniela Kutschat worked originally with multimedia and video installations and now develops immersive and interactive multiuser environments. She is an invited lecturer at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. In 1998 she was a CAiiA-STAR artist in residence researching human-machine interfaces for a pas-de-trois within a human-machine-environment. Since 1999 she has been a co-investigator in the virtual reality project OPERA: A Multidimensional Journey, in São Paulo. Web: <www.tr3s.com.br>. E-mail: <danikuts@dialdata.com.br>.

John Knight is a usability engineer at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design at the University of Central England. John studied fine art at University College Wales (then Gwent College) under Roy Ascott and specialized in mixed media. Over the next 12 years he worked in management and production on a variety of design projects, ranging from graphic design to photographic exhibitions and consumer magazines. John completed an MSc in User-Interface Design at London Guildhall University in 2000. Since then he has worked in research and development for a range of organizations including the British Library and Whirlpool. He is a longstanding member of the British Computer Society, Human-Computer Interaction Group and the Usability Professionals' Association and is a regular contributor to publications and conferences in the field of design, usability and engagability. John is also a practicing artist in mixed media and has worked as a visiting lecturer in design, computing, information and mathematics. E-mail: <John.Knight@uce.ac.uk>.

Call for Papers

Live Art and Science on the Internet

The Internet has become a venue and medium for art as a means to broadcast ideas to a worldwide audience. Leonardo and Guest Editor Martha Wilson seek texts on the subject of "Live Art and Science on the Internet" for a series of special sections in the international journal Leonardo, both in print and online.

As artists and others produce live art on the Internet, liveness, presence, mediatization, online activism, surveillance and identity/gender, among other issues, are being explored. We seek texts documenting such work, as well as texts on the history of this field of practice and on the vocabulary being used to describe it. We also seek texts from scientists who have used the Internet to conduct science investigations live on-line.

Guest Editor Martha Wilson and her peer review committee seek Statements (500 words plus one image describing one work), Notes (2,500 words plus 6 images describing a body of work), Galleries (750-word curator's introduction plus up to 10 images by individual artists, each with a 200-word caption) and Articles (5,000 words plus 12 images). Texts describing the work of a living artist or scientist must be written by the artist or scientist him/herself, with a co-author if necessary.

This call for papers is open for 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Please send an initial statement of interest with a brief explanation of your project to Martha Wilson: <Leonardo@franklinfurnace.org>. For author guidelines, follow the link "Info for Authors" on Leonardo On-Line <www.leonardo.info>.