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rGAf£ WAY CYPRES In 1991, CYPRES, Centre Interculturel de Pratiques , Recherches et Echanges Transdisciplinaires (Intercultural Center for Transdisciplinary Methods, Research and Exchange) was created at the Art School ofAix-en-Provence in the south of France. Around the two key words of 'intercultural' and 'transdisciplinary', the Center's goal is to propose a different approach to art and culture. Its activities are organized around four poles: 1. Training courses involving cross-disciplinary ways of thinking and creating, combining art forms and other disciplines (sciences, humanities , technologies, etc.). 2. Research conducted around specific subjects with seminars, workshops, etc. The 1992 program includes arts, space, communication, and art and cognition. 3. Creation and exchanges: workshops and seminars organized with artists and researchers from a wide range of practices and disciplines, and from different cultures. CYPRES has already organized an international workshop of electrography with Philippe Boissonnet from the Copy Art Center of Montreal, Canada. 4. Production and communication: conferences , symposia, exhibitions, publications. For July 1992, CYPRESis organizing Differentiel(s), an international event on the theme ofArt and Cognition-Human, Animal, Machine. This event will include a joint conference, with the In GATEWAY we report on significant events, including conferencesand expositions; news ofinteresting developments in technology and science as they relate to the arts; news about people ofinterest to the Leonardo audience, tutorial-level discussions ofimportant technologies and sciencefor the nonexpert. We welcomereaders' suggestionsfor and contributions tofuture sections. THE FIRST ESTONIAN DANCE THEATRE Nordic Star isthefirst Estonian dance theatre. The artistic director is Saima Kranig, who was a ballet soloist inthe Estonia Opera and SalletTheatre from 1970to 1991. Since 1989Kranig has studied modern , avant-garde and postmodern dance, and she has performed leadingroles inmodern works bythe Sweden-based American choreographer and dancer Jeanne Vasko and theFinnish choreographer and dancer Tiina Lindfors. Kranig has always been interested intheelectronic arts. The Estonian composer Sven Grunberg has written theelectronic ballet Reflections especially for Kranig. The concrete, electronic and computer musics of David Shea, Laurie Spiegel, Lepo Sumera and Luciano Serio are also heard in theperformances of Nordic Star. The first performance of Nordic Star tookplace on24 September 1991.Atpresent thenew theatre© 19921SAST Pergamon Press pic.Printed inGreat Britain. 0024-094X/92 $5.00+0.00 LEONARDO, Vol. 25, No.2, pp. 111-117, 1992 III rGAf£ WAY Nordic Star ... has inits repertoire eight short ballets : The Journey, choreographer Bonnie Sue Stein; One Hand Takes from the Other, choreographer Barbara Hofrenning; The Case, choreographer Tamar Rogoff; Quiet Chaos, choreographer Jeanne Yasko; The Woman, choreographer Mai Murdmaa; Pieta, choreographer Jurijus Smoriginas; and The Kiss of the Wind, choreographer Jurijus Smorginas. The theatre is sponsored by Nordic StarLtd. MARK RAIS Kentmanni 10-16 Tallinn 200000 Estonia HOLOGRAPHY AWARDS The Shearwater Foundation of New York City has awarded atotalof (U.S.) $82,500ingrants within its Holography Program for 1991. The Holography Program was initiated 5 years ago to promote and encourage theart of holography by providing support and recognition to thepre-eminent artists inthe field. Since 1987, theProgram has been expanded to include support of institutions and activities thatcon112 Gateway Where does structure end and art begin? -Max Bill CYPRES ... Bio-computer science laboratory of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris; an art exhibition dealing with connectivity (with Roy Ascott), behaviour and artificial life; workshops (on the same subjects as the exhibition) and video and film screenings. CYPRES is developing a program of artists and researchers in residence, and relationships with other institutions in the world, such as the Studio for Creative Inquiries at Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Directed byJean Biagini, CYPRES counts among its council members Louis Bee, Paul Virilio, Roy Ascott, Mario Borillio, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Fumio Nanjo, Peter Richard, Brian Rogers, Fransisco Varela, Ilya Prigogine, Edgar Morin and many others. For further inquiries, please contact CYPRES, Ecole d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, 1 rue Emile Tavan, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France. Tel: 3342275735 , fax: 33-42 27 63 99. ANNICK BUREAUD 57 rue FaIguiere 75015 Paris, France IN MEMORIAM: VlLEM FLUSSER He believed in the ideal ofthe Renaissance-this could be his epitaph. His was an epic destiny: born in Prague, parents and sister exterminated at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, killed in an auto...

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