Color Plate

COLOR PLATE A No. 1. Eugene Thacker, embody_dissolve 2.0, web work of GIF files, DHTML and streaming media from Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 1998. This work is a hypermedia essay about and inquiry into two types of bodies currently being produced and reproduced on the Web: the body as found in contemporary technoscience and the body as found in web pornography. Embody_dissolve uses text and images to investigate how these two seemingly disparate discourses may reconfigure what will become recognized as a "body" in a new medium such as the Web. (See Leonardo Gallery.) Educate yourself. Educate the children. BA Magazine No. 2. Natalie Bookchin, BAD (Burn the Art World Down), web journal, 1999. BAD is a journal committed to the documentation of acts of terrorism and agitation against the institutional art world. (See Leonardo Gallery.) No. 3. Tina LaPorta, Translate }I Expression, web work from Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 1998. Translate { } Expression explores the relationships between technology, the body and female subjectivity . (See Leonardo Gallery.) COLOR PLATE B No. 1. Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformnissions in the Z-Buffer, interactive computer work, 1998. In another Lucid Mapping animation, light blue text in the foreground recedes backward along the axis formed by large yellow text, which itself pivots clockwise 180?. No. 2. Philippe Bootz, screen capture from the unique-reading poem "passage," 1996. In the second phase of the program, the texts-tobe -seen are interactive, but readers cannot reset or cancel their actions, even by restarting the computer. ...