fall issue







features





Notes On Immersion
by G.H. Hovagimyan



Avatars on the World Wide Web: Marketing the "Descent"
by Victoria Vesna







Globe Theater Archives: A Blue Planet Discourse
by Adrianne Wortzel A.D. 1997








Coping with TechnoFatigue
by Robbin Murphy
















Sex / Machine / Art: From Mechanical Repetition into Electronic Flicker
by Joseph Nechvatal


interview

"I don't believe in self-expression"
An interview with Alexei Shulgin
by Tilman Baumgaumlrtel




conference report


Consciousness Reframed
by Kenneth Wahl

Ongoings: The Fine Arts Gallery at SIGGRAPH 97
by Dena Elisabeth Eber



technology

Ten Probes into the Art of Unrealized Software
by Norman Weinstein







TURN ON, ZOOM IN... PAD++ MULTI-
SCALE INTERFACE

IA talks to Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a research scientist at NYU's Center for Advanced Technology, about PAD++, a zooming interface.




website reviews




Networking Communities
"LA Culture Net"
"The Davis Community Network"



The Truth Out There
"DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments"
"Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940"




Electronic Books of Creation
"GRAMMATRON"
"Poem Navigator"




cd-rom reviews














By the Skin of our Nightmares: "Rehearsal of Memory"
by Harwood & Ashworth Arts

reviewed by Jim Gasperini

Clicks of Mindfulness:
"Mnemonic Notations V.VI"
by Phillip George and Ralph Wayment

reviewed by Jim Gasperini

Clicking Our Way Out of the Crib:
"Eve"
by Peter Gabriel

reviewed by Jim Gasperini

Keep it simple, stupid!
"first person: Marvin Minsky--The Society of Mind"














FYI Arts: 10 short website reviews



FYI Education: 10 short website reviews