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We make our instruments, and then they make us, changing our perceptions, our image ofourselves. -Heinz Pagels Weightless ... Schwerelos is also a worthy remembrance to Otto Lilienthal and to his first flight in 1891, exactly 100 years earlier. References 1.Jeannot Simmen, Vertigo: Schwindel dermodernen Kunst, series Zeit-Zeuge-Kunst (Munich: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1990). 2.Jeannot Simmen, ed., Schwerelos, exh. cat. (Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1991). Includes essays by Bazon Brock, Ulrich Giersch, Adolf Max Vogt, Christoph Asendorf, Norbert Bolz, Bernhard Kerber, Thomas Zaunschirm andJeannot Simmen. EMANUEL DION c/oJurgen Schmidt NiebuhrstraBe 66, D-1000 Berlin 12, Germany r@£WAY Experimental Gallery ... trackchorus of voices thatspeak directly to theaudience passing through theirworld. For more information, please contact: Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560, U.S.A. CORRECTION On p. 379 of Leonardo 24, No.4 (1991), thecorrect name of the computer music association is Computer Music and Musical Informatics Association (CMMIA). Also, the contact address for the association should beamended to thefollowing : Tonisrnagi 7, Tallinn 200106, Estonia. Gateway 117 rGAfE WAY ARTIST'S PROFILE: JOEL SLAYTON It seems obviousthat interactivemultimedia should avail itselfto idiosyncratic participation. Viewercontrolled systems should include theviewerand computer as conceptual collaborators. -Joel Slayton Joel Slayton is director and associate professor of fine arts at the Computers in Art and Design/ Research and Education (CADRE) Institute at SanJose State University, SanJose, California. His artworks involving computer imaging, interactive systems and performance have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally . He is the author of numerous articles addressing the impact of computers on art and is a frequent guest speaker at major art and technology conferences. Slayton's recent collaboration with the George Coates Performance Works, The Architecture of Catastrophic Change, exhibited a number of new uses of technology in multimedia performance. InJuly 1990 Slayton collaborated with choreographer Tandy Beal and the Tandy Beal Dance Company to produce 98.6FM. For this work, Slayton created a computer-mediated set design incorporating video walls, image projection, microwave transmission sculpture and interactive video disk. The performance culminated with a message transmission from the theater out to deep space. Slayton is currently working on a new performance work in conjunction with the SanJose InstiIn GATEWAY wereport on significant events, including conferences and expositions; newsofinterestingdevelopments in technology and science as they relate to thearts;newsabout people ofinterestto theLeonardo audience, tutorial-level discussions of important technologies and sciencefor the nonexpert. We welcome readers' suggestionsfor and contributionstofuture sections. FREEDOM, PRIVACY AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS The follOWing is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution by Laurence Tribe, professor of consttutionallaw at Harvard University: This Constitution's protections for thefreedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly, and itsprotections against unreasonable searches and seizures and thedeprivation of life,liberty or property without due process of law, shall beconstrued asfully applicable without regard to the technological method or medium through which information contentis generated, stored, altered transmitted or controlled. This proposal, which seeks to extend First Amendment protection fromprintto all forms of broadcast media, was presented atthecenterence Computers, Freedom and Privacy, 25-29 March 1991,in Section Editor:William C. Castell©19911SAST Pergamon Press pic. Printed inGreat Britain. 0024-094X/9153.00+0.00 LEONARDO, Vol. 24, No.4, p. 375-381 • 1991 375 @EWAY Freedom &Privacy ... Burlingame, California, U.S.A. Sponsored byComputer Professionalsfor Social Responsibility, the conference attracted individuals from areas such asgovernmental and computer security, software development and law. Asmore and more of ourdaily actions involve the use of computers, whether we aremaking telephone calls or conducting bank transactions, ourlives are now more easily tracked and charted with computers. Who is in control of this information? "People areonly now starting to realize how information about them is being used", says Janlori Goldman, lawyer for theAmerican Civil Liberties Union. The European Community is leading theway inthe protection of individuals byconsidering theadoption of a setof rules thatwould restrict how computerized information such aspersonal medical data and airline reservations can be used by businesses and governmental agencies . The European proposal, known asthe Privacy Directive, was prepared lastyear bygovernmental officials in an effortto create safeguards for individual privacy. The proposal prohibits theexchange of information between com376 Caiewav He who...