Leonardo Electronic Almanac: May 2004

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: May 2004
ISSN#1071-4391
art | science | technology - a definitive voice since 1993
http://lea.mit.edu


*Public News Network by Jack Stenner*
A computer-based artwork giving viewers "the power to
interrogate corporate broadcast media." Using a 3-D
navigable space, with Internet-transmitted objects
representing news broadcasts, to synthesize ideas from
multiple disciplines the work encourages the audience to
question their preconceived understanding, providing the
"opportunity for a new
understanding via chance juxtapositions and a re-
sampling of existing content."


*Toward the Glass Bead Game by Joshua Fost*
A realization of writer Herman Hesse's "Glass Bead
Game.