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Bettina Brendel, 1061 N. Kenter Avenue , Los Angeles, CA 90049, U.S.A. The painting Resonance, by Bettina Brendel, will be part of the permanent collection of the new Museum Fur Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, Germany, to open in faU 1991. Marc Battier, 29 Avenue de Joinuille, F-94130, Nogent-sur-Marne, France. The final version of Marc Battier's mixed media For Clarinet and Computer Sound Synthesis was performed in Kobe, Japan, by clarinetist Honda Koichi. The performance took place in a contemporary music festival at the Xebel Art Center. Eduardo Kac, 1525 West Farwell, 2B, Chicago, IL 60626, U.S.A. Eduardo Kac's recent activities include the following . Solo exhibit: Holopoetry, 19831990 , 19 April-22 June 1990, Museum of Holography, New York. Group show: The Third Dimension and Beyond, 21 March-23 June 1991, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Teaching: Computer Holography, Department of Art and Technology, School of the Art Institute ofChicago, spring 1991. Visiting artist: Department of Comparative Literature , Indiana University, Bloomington , 28 November-1 December 1990. Articles published: "Parallels between Telematics and Holography as Artforms ", New Obseroations 76 (May-June 1990); "On Baudrillard's Text 'Hologrammes "', Holosphere17, No.1 (1990). Paul Z. Hartal, 2360 Valade, St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4M 1N1. Paul Z. Hartal's recent activities include the foUowing. Exhibitions in 1990: Visions of Space, OURS, Montreux, Switzerland; The Nomad Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Piazzale degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy; Books as an Art Form: Gutersloh, Germany; Maison de la Culture, Famenne Ardenne, Belgium; Oak Park Library, Michigan, U.SA. Publications in 1990: "Poems of Distant Skies: Art and Space Exploration ", PULSAR (IAAA) , March-April; "Space Art or Space Science?", PULSAR, November-December; "Perceptual Ambiguity and Metaphoric Conceptualization", Contemporary Philosophy , July-August; Brain Cell Series, Osaka, Japan; Poetry Canada 10, No.4; Encvclopedia oJ Living Artists, 5th Ed., ISAST MEMBER NEWS Director's Guild, California. Special lecture: "Art, Earth and Space Exploration ", Quebec Educators' Convention, Montreal, 9 November. Recent awards: American Poetry Association Poet of Merit. Publications about Paul Hartal: Dictionary oJInternational Biography, 21st Ed., IBC, Cambridge, U.K.; Encyclopedia oJLivingArtists (see above); YLEM, California , October; Elet es lrodalom, Hungary, 22June. Naomi Asakura, Art and Design Institute , Bunkyo University, Minamiogishima Koshigaya-shi, Saitama-Ken, Japan 343. Naomi Asakura published her book Fundamentals oJ the Composition oJ Lights, 1990, 240 pp., Rikuyosha, 381 black-and-white illus., and 341 color illus. (Publisher's Address: Shizuokaginko bd., 2-19-12, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 160. Telephone: 03-3354-4020.) This book contains Asakura's essay "Experiments with Mirror Reflections," Leonardo 23, No.1, 71-74 (1990). H. Thwaites, Director, 3Dmt Center, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B lR6. 3Dmt has published a volume of papers presented at the 1989 3Dmt Conference in Montreal, covering all aspects of 3D-media technologies . We are currently preparing for the next conference, 3Dmt '92, to be held in May 1992 in Montreal. For information, contact the center. The center also publishes an international newsletter. Bruce Beasley, 322 Lewis Street, Oakland , CA 94607, U.S.A. Bruce Beasley has recently been commissioned by the Federal Home Loan Bank in San Francisco to create an 18-ft bronze sculpture . He also will have a one-person show at the Oakland Museum in 1992 and at the Museum of Modern Art in Mannheim in 1993. Barbara Nessim, 63 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012, U.S.A. Barbara Nessiru's show Random Access Memories will open at Rempire Fine Arts and Gallery at 121 Greene Street, New York, NY on 11 April 1991 (running through 4 May), and at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center in Pueblo, Colorado, JuneAugust 1991. The show will consist of an interactive computer artwork, 20 computer 3D-stereo pair-framed artworks , and 6-x-9-ft computer paintings in the images of flags of different nations . Evelyn Rosenberg, 4812 Madison Court NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110, U.S.A. Evelyn Rosenberg continues to create work using explosives but has moved from bas-relief to 3D work. She is currently working on a commission for the Nebraska State Capitol Building , a new library at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Briggs Chaney High...