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Leonardo 34.4 (2001) 389-390



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Barcode Music
Gunter Schroth. Archegon, Frankfurt, Germany, 2000.

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Godfried-Willem Raes. Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium, 2000.

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Bravido. Departamento de arte, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Books

Art and Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Yves-Alain Bois. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 336 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 1-890951-02-1.

Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature
Eric J. Chaisson. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 270 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-674-00342-X.

The Eye's Mind
Karen Jacobs. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A., and London, U.K., 2001. 302 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-8014-8649-1.

The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 333 pp., illus., Trade. ISBN: 0-262-13374-1

Music, Electronic Media and Culture
Simon Emmerson. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Hampshire, U.K., 2000. 244 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-7546-0109-9.

Music and Memory
Bob Snyder. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 291 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-262-69237-6.

Music Inside Out: Going Too Far in Musical Essays
John Rahn. Gordon and Breach Publishing, Newark, NJ, U.S.A., 2001. 232 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 90-5701-342-8.

net_condition: art and global media
Peter Weibel and Timothy Druckery. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 399 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-262-73138-X.

The Practice Persuasion
Keith Moxey. Cornell Univ. Press. Ithaca, NY, U.S.A., and London, U.K., 2000. 142 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-8014-8675-0.

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001. 370 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-19-874271-1.

Spectacular Bodies
Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2000. 232 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-520-22792-1.

Stargazing: Astronomy without a Telescope
Patrick Moore. Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge, U.K., 2000. 204 pp., illus. ISBN: 0-521-79445-5.

Structure in Science and Art
Wendy Pullan and Harshad Bhadeshia, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2000. 194 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-521-78258-9.

Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope and How to Find Them
Guy Consolmagno and Dan Davis. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000. 3rd Ed. (originally published 1989). 224 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-521-78190-6.

Multimedia Products

Mediamatic Off-Line
Vol. 10, No. 2, "Annunciation," by Cesare Davolio. Mediamatic Foundation, Amsterdam. CD-ROM for Macintosh/Windows.

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Lloyd Gibson and Mark Little.

Locus+, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., 2000. 72 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 1-899-377-10-7. Book with CD-ROM for Mac or PC.

Paintings Perused
Henry Foures, et al. Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille, Marseille, France, 1999. CD-ROM for Mac or PC.

Periodicals

Computer Music Journal
Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2000.

Kulturchronik
No. 5, 2000.

Maska
Winter 2000. In Slovenian.

Maska
Winter 2001. In Slovenian.

World Wide Web Sites

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 phenomena associated with the interaction of the sun with the earth's atmosphere. Choreographer Maida Withers, artist Tania Fraga, composer Oystein Sevag. Performances began in January 2001.

AboveStream.com
This site offers any art-related web site access to over 500 full-length streaming videos relating to art, architecture and literature. The videos offer comprehensive treatment of all of the major art periods from prehistoric times to the present.

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