G.H. Hovagimyan wrote:

The Thing website (http://www.thing.net) received a letter from Mattel's
lawyer (Mattel manufactures the Barbie Doll) demanding the removal of my
work BKPC (http://www.thing.net/~gh/artdirect/bkpc1.html) from the
website. Mattel is claiming trademark dilution. I mean really!

It does ...

We would like to inform you about an event, LA RECEPTION, soon to come.
LA RECEPTION has two axes: one educational and one aiming to show
different media submitted to experimental practices, as movie, music,
video, multimedia (CD-Rom and internet). There are three workshops for
teenagers: electronic music (Simon Redfern ...

Variant magazine now on the web…

Point your browser towards Variant, Scotland's leading independent arts
journal.

http://www.cryptic.demon.co.uk/variant.htm

Variant is a magazine of cross-currents in culture: critical thinking,
imaginative ideas, independent media and artistic interventions.

Variant is an independently produced 'art' magazine, which is ...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 8 (1998)
Theme: "Ghosts and Monsters"

In his infamous 1972 essay, "John Cage – Ghost or Monster," Cornelius
Cardew took Cage to task on issues of political correctness. Inspired by
Mao Tse-tung's "Talks at the Yunan Forum on Literature and Art" (1942 ...

Special Exhibition in the Collected Visions Gallery
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery

C O L L E C T E D V I S I O N S
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu

An interactive Web Site that explores how family photographs shape our
memories.

Exhibition VII is now ...

Interact Multimedia Festival 1997
Experimenta - ALTERED STATES
Curated by Helen Stuckey and Shiralee Saul
30 October - 2 November
Melbourne Exhibition Centre

Out of Interact Asia Pacific Multimedia Festival this year comes
Experimenta - Altered States, a multimedia arts exhibition designed to
explore artistic expression in the age of the digital revolution ...

The trAce International Online Writing Community is pleased to announce
the launch of its mailing list.

This is the chance for trAce members around the world to talk to each
other. Everything is up for discussion, and this is the place to do it.
Post to the list and introduce ...

A L E P H - N E W S
Novedades en la secci

contd - electronic magazine

issue 2 out now:

'SOUND SYSTEM / SYSTEM SOUND'

http://www.art-bag.net/contd
luxus@contrib.de

+ + +

contributors for issue 2 (amongst others):

BENJAMIN BECK (berlin) about $, paradoxes, lenin and luhmann; JOSEPHINE
BERRY (london) about 'x', table conversations, mice and michael jackson;
PAOLO BIANCHI (baden) about coolness, crossover ...

I am editing another anthology called Contagion, that will be published
by the independent press, Kaya. It is the third in a series that Kaya
publishes (the second one, Collapsing New Buildings, is out now). I'm
looking for essays, short fiction, poetry, proposals for interviews, and
artists' projects.

CONTAGION: MUAE ...

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www.vuk.org
announces a grant program for net.art

It is with pleasure and honour that we are announcing this grant
program, focused on supporting the development of net.art endeavours by
www.vuk.org.

further info at:
http://www.vuk.org/philantropy/

ART AND TECHNOLOGY: IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION

Liverpool, UK - 1-3 July 1998

Conference Announcement and Call for Contributions

1. Conference Idea

We live in a world that depends increasingly on electronic communication
technologies. The global diffusion of these technologies is creating
what has been called the virtual planet. The ...

INTRO

The often praised non-linearity of the web, its rhizomatic structure
that makes it possible to literally move through texts, images, lists,
references, etc. is the experience of a collaged world that invites you
with every new hyperlink, button or address that you stumble over to
explore another fragment of ...

Are you brave enough to enter

TAYLOR'S CAT HOUSE?

Join legendary film star Taylor Mead as he battles a flock of fiendish
felines who threaten his friend Quentin Crisp. (Xena ain't got nothin'
on Taylor!)

http://moobird.com/purplelion/taylor

Just in time for Halloween on a Web browser near ...

Virtual Environments for Learning:
A Special Issue of PRESENCE
J. Michael Moshell and William Winn, Editors

One of the original driving forces behind the invention of virtual
environments (and of simulation in general) was the vision of an ideal
tool for learning. Freed from the limitations of specific lab equipment ...