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WAY In GATEWAY we report on significant events, including conferences and expositions; news of interesting developments in technology and science as they refate to the arts; news about people of interest to the Leonardo audience, tutorial-level discussions of important technologies and sciencefor the nonexpert. We welcome readers' suggestionsfor and contributions tofuture sections. SYMMETRY: NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL The Third Interdisciplinary Symmetry Congress and Exhibition will take place in Washington, D.C. from 14-20 August 1995. The congress will present a broad, interdisciplinary forum with a special focus on art-science -technology relationships. There will be morning plenary sessions and afternoon symposia. The subjects of the exhibition, Ars Scientifica, will include polyhedra , geometric design, kaleidoscopes and new media. The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry), which has members in 41 countries in six continents, is organizing and sponsoring the congress and exhibition. For further information , contact Gyorgy Darvas or Denes Nagy: GYORGYDARVAS Symmetrion—The Institute for Advanced Symmetry Studies P.O. Box 4 Budapest H-1361 Hungary Tel: 36-1-131-8326; fax: 36-1-131-3161 E-mail: DENES NAGY Institute of Applied Physics University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Science City Japan 305 Tel: 81-298-53-6786; fax: 81-298-53-5205 E-mail: LMJ ANNOUNCES NEW INTERNATIONAL CO-EDITOR DOUGLAS KAHN We are pleased to welcome new in­ ternational co-editor Douglas Kahn, who joined the Leonardo Music Journal Editorial Board in May 1994. Kahn is a multimedia artist and writer with broad interdiscipli­ nary experiences and interests in the history and theory of the media arts, with an emphasis on sound and auditive technologies. He is coeditor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant Garde (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992). Kahn currently resides in Thirroul, Australia and can be reached via email at . ROGER F. MALINA© 1995 ISAST LEONARDO, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 81-84, 1995 81 # WAY . . . Toforget isjust as important afunction of memory as to remember. —Vilem Flusser, "On Memory (Electronic or Otherwise),"Art/Cognition, Cypres, 1994. IN MEMORIAM: IVOR DARREG Composer, theorist, instrument builder and author Ivor Darreg died Saturday, 12 February 1994, in San Diego, California. A memorial fund has been set up by Jonathan Glasier to issue Ivor's collection of improvi­ sations in the equal temperaments from 5 to 53 (less 12), entitled All Systems Go, on compact disc. This collection consists of MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) improvi­ sations edited and orchestrated by Brian McLaren. McLaren has been editing Darreg's writings on music into a publishable text. Many of us will remember Ivor best as a voluminous correspon­ dent on topics as diverse as cre­ ativity, linguistics (he taught himself a half-dozen or so languages, in­ cluding Esperanto, Latin, Greek and Russian), experimental music and electric musical instruments. Donations for dissemination of Ivor Darreg's work can be sent to the Ivor Darreg Memorial Fund, c/o J. Glasier, P.O. Box 371443, San Diego, CA 92137, U.S.A. John Chalmers, Music-Research Digest 9, No. 9(1994). E-mail: . COMPUTER AND VIDEO ART Computer and Video Art, a seminar organized on the initiative of SKB "Prometheus" with the support of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, was held in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Russia, from 12-13 May 1994. Representatives of 20 scientific, artistic and commercial groups in the republic of Tatarstan—all of them involved in introducing uses for new technologies in the arts—took part in the seminar. An exhibition and presentation program gave participants an opportunity to share their work. In the field of computer animation, notably successful presentations were given by the Lorien studio and by Ephir (air), an independent television broadcasting company. Kazan composer Sergei Rychkov elicited the interest of audiences with his meditative electronic music, some of which has featured in slide shows created by SKB "Prometheus." The television broadcasting company "Tatarstan" presented videos devoted to composer Sofia Gubaidulina (a native of Tatarstan who now lives in Germany ) and to young piano virtuoso Rem Urasin. Not surprisingly, advertising has become a primary field of interest for artists working with computer animation in Tatarstan. This situation prevails in both St. Petersburg and Moscow. However...