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The Rhizome community is geo­ graphically dispersed and includes art­ ists, authors, designers, programmers, musicians, curators, critics and others. Rhizome brings people together by pro­ viding a platform for meaningful com­ munication and the exchange of ideas. Rhizome currently has subscribers in 23 countries. STRATEGIES As the World Wide Web explodes, people tend to forget that E-mail is one of the most lively and effective forms of communication on the Internet. Rhi­ zome E-mail lists establish networks of trust over time as subscribers exchange ideas and information. Trust helps fos­ ter community, and community pro­ vides a meaningful context for content by connecting it to people. The Rhizome Contentbase (http:// www.rhizome.org) combines notions of a magazine with those of a search en­ gine to provide interactive access to an edited wellspring of ideas. Rather than navigating through tedious hierarchical MOSCOW: THEREMIN DAYS CONFERENCE by Lydia Kavina The Theremin Days Conference, de­ voted to the centenary of the birth of electronic music pioneer Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeyevich Termen) [1] was held at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory from 14-19 October 1996. Theremin worked at the conserva­ tory's Laboratory of Musical Acoustics from 1964 to 1967. The experiments with electronic music that he conducted in Lydia Kavina, Astrdamskaya Str., 4, Apt. 232, Moscow 125422, Russia. E-mail: . Alexander S. Belonenko, Vernost Str. 13, St. Petersburg 195220, Russia. Mikhail S. Zalivadny, St. Petersburg 195220, Russia. Irina Vanechkina, Teatralnaya Str., 3-3, Kazan 420111, Russia. 3 2 2 Art/Science Forum layers, users find the answers they are looking for by querying Rhizome's ob­ ject-oriented database that generates Web pages on the fly. Understanding that most members of the new media art community integrate Web use into their work, Rhizome has structured the Contentbase to save time. Text objects are limited to a maximum 1,000 words, and the freshest entry in the Contentbase is featured on the first page of the site. Rhizome's editorial policy emphasizes work that is conceptually and techno­ logically innovative, rather than tradi­ tional media that have simply been "repurposed " or displays of the latest imaging software. Rhizome's scope in­ cludes commercial projects, such as CDROMs or Virtual Reality games, ap­ proached from an informed, critical perspective. Contributors to Rhizome are invited to be outspoken and opinionated in their criticism. In this way, Rhizome serves as a filter against information overload and helps users sort the wheat from the chaff. the laboratory provoked the amusement of students and professors at the conser­ vatory while stimulating their creative ac­ tivities. The reaction of the institution's administration, however, was distinctly negative, due partly to the novel nature of his artistic endeavors, but also due to Theremin's status as a former political prisoner. It was only during the 1990s that it became possible to organize an electronic music studio, the Theremin Center, at the same institution. The Theremin Center was the orga­ nizer of the international centennial cel­ ebration. The main significance of the event lay in the opportunity to familiar­ ize participants with theremin music in all its stylistic variety, while addressing various issues related to the unique instrument's revival: the difficulties of playing the theremin and the techno­ logical problems of its reconstruction. Conference participants received a great deal of information on the life of Theremin himself, on his creativity and DIFFERENCES Most art Web sites cover a range of topics: because of their breadth, they lack depth. Rhizome focuses on one thing: new me­ dia art. In doing so, we are becoming a truly comprehensive resource. Rhizome actively seeks out new networks of people and constantly strives for a global scope. Acknowledgments The people responsible for Rhizome Internet in­ clude: Mark Tribe, founder and creative director; Garnet Heraman, director of marketing; Kenseth Armstead, managing editor; Markus Weisbeck, in­ terface designer; Alex Galloway, editorial assistant; regional editors: Vuk Cosic, Ljubljana; Nina Czegledy, Toronto; Sean Cubitt, London; Suzanne Meszoly, Budapest; Joseph Nechvatel, Paris; Marie Ringler, Vienna; Pit Schultz, Berlin; Alexei Shulgin, Moscow; Toshiya Ueno, Tokyo. The Rhizome Internet Advisory Panel includes Stephan Balzer, co-founder of Lava Digital Media, Hamburg; Catherine Billon, vice president of inter­ national marketing at...

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