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Leonardo 34.3 (2001) 283-284



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Materials Received


Audio Compact Discs

Hover
Cinnamon Sphere. Studio Excelo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1999.

Sarah Peebles
Insect Groove. Studio Excelo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000.

Playtime
National Health, Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A., 2001.

Books

Art, Technology, Consciousness: mind@large
Roy Ascott, ed. Intellect Books, Bristol, U.K., 2000. 204 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 1-84150-041-0.

Consciousness, Color and Content
Michael Tye. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2000. 198 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-20129-1.

Culture in Practice
Marshall Sahlins. Zone Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001. 640 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-942299-37-X.

Dancing in the Landscape: The Sculpture of Athena Tacha
James Grayson Trulove, ed. Ariel Grayson Publishing, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2000. 143 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-09679143-1-0.

The Deleuze Connections
John Rajchman. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2000. 167 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-262-68120-X.

Digital Design: New Frontiers for the Objects
Paolo Martegani and Riccardo Montenegro. Birkhauser V/A, Basel, Switzerland, 2001. 96 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 3-7643-6296-0.

I Levitate, What's Next?
Aleksandra Kostic. KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia, 2000. 192 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 961-6304-3-8. In English and Slovenian.

Information Design
Robert Jacobson, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1999. 357 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-262-60035-8.

A Landscape of Events
Paul Virilio. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2000. 100 pp. Paper. 0-262-72034-5.

The Life of Style
Jonathan Gilmore. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A., 2000. 157 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-8014-3695-8.

Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas about the Mind
Douwe Draaisma. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000. 270 pp., illus., Trade. ISBN: 0-521-65024-0.

Multi-Media: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
Randall Packer and Ken Jordan, eds. Norton and Co., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001. 416 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-393-04979-5.

New Wombs: Electronic Bodies and Architectural Disorders
Maria Luisa Palumbo. Birkhauser V/A, Basel, Switzerland, 2001. 96 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 3-7643-6294-4.

Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties
Linda M. Montano. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2001. 553 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-520-21021-2.

Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art
Richard Shusterman. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A., 2000. 266 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-8014-8650-5.

Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters
J. Lennart Berhhren. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2001. 232 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-691-01042-0.

Robosapiens
Peter Menzel. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2000. 239 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-13382-2.

Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana
Peter Redfield. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2000. 345 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-520-21985-6.

Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art
Eduardo Kac. KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia, 2000. 144 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 961-6304-02-X.

Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology and Topography
David Leatherbarrow. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2000. 293 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-12230-8.

The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History
Bruce Stephenson, ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000. 152 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-521-79143-X.

Periodicals

Kulturchronik
No. 4, 2000.

Whole Earth
No. 103, Winter 2000.

World Wide Web Site

Aurora/2001: Dance of the Auroras--Fire in the Sky
This site provides documentation about a dance and multimedia work that explores auroras and other phenomenon associated with the interaction of the sun with the earth's atmosphere. Choreographer Maida Withers, artist Tania Fraga, composer Oystein Sevag. Performances begin in January 2001.

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