fAf Sept 2002 Retrospective: News from now & then

Sincere apologies for cross posting
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fineArt forum
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## Take a walk down memory lane?
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With our special feature this month. Several essays from faf's prestigious
editorial history including Ray Lauzzana, Paul Brown and Judy Malloy are
reproduced. The essays are drawn from fAf's archive and present an
insightful reflection on the emergence of electronic arts and cultural
publishing.

## In this month's reviews:
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n09/reviews/reviews.html
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:: Greg Hooper reviews Felice Frankel's new book 'Envisioning Science: The
Design and Craft of Science Image'. The book discusses the pedagogy and
style of photographing objects of science.
:: Christian Bumbarra Thompson takes a look at Coco Fusco's collected
essays entitled 'The Bodies That Were Not Ours'. A reflective piece that
spans the last decade of the 20th century, Coco Fusco's global perspective
manages to encompass issues of contemporary art, the black body and public
space.
:: James Quinn-Hawtin reflects on his attendance to the Brisbane 2002
Australian Effects and Animation Festival held in Brisbane.
:: Mia Thornton gets in touch with SELF: Contemporary Indian Video Art
Exhibition
:: Michelle Gordon-Coles reviews of 'The Language of New Media' by Lev
Manovich, now out in paperback.

## fAf Promo Online
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This month's new release is the promotional video developed by Victorian
College of Art student Corinne Teo. According to Editor-in-Chief, Nisar
Keshvani, "the video is an attempt by fAf to reach broader audiences, for
visibility, and to experiment with digital film-making techiques, and
transforming it for the WWW boundaries that exist today. Corinne has
developed intriguing concept and given it a raw experimental feel."
Corinne's involvement with faf started with her role as editor of Art in
Motion, faf's travelling program. Check out the new promotional video
online.
http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/highlights_index.html.

## Do you have a favourite?
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fAf's new 15th anniversary project, "Favourites" invites you to tell
us all about your 'favourites'. In 750 - 1500 words, you
are invited to write about your favourite work/s in field of art,
science or technology. This could be a book, website, CD-ROM,
hypertext, artwork, soundwork, project, portal, discovery or any
other event or contribution to new media practice and theory, which
you believe is influential, significant, innovative, experimental or
simply, your favourite. Contributions received by 1 November will be
published in the January 2003 issue of fAf. For more info contact
l2.carroli@qut.edu.au

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Nisar Keshvani
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Linda Carroli
Australian Editor
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