LEA Feb '05: River of Many Sides

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: February 2005
ISSN#1071-4391
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In this month's LEA, Irina Aristarkhova starts things off with an editorial in which she reflects on the "tyranny of the possible" that artists are presented with in their work with
various media. This tyranny, she argues, confronts artists with the need to make wise use of the myriad choices available to them.

In "Crossing the Bridge," Annette Barbier discusses the performance of River of Many Sides, an interactive media performance that involved the collaboration of artists from the
U.S.A. and Vietnam, as well as the many cross-cultural issues that arose out of the process. Unsurprisingly, what is known to Americans as "The Vietnam War" and to Vietnamese as "The American War" emerges as a central influence on the work.

From LEA's archive, first published in July 1994, Greg Garvey provides insight into his Automatic ConfessionMachine (ACM), and Stephen Bell explores the aesthetics of interaction in an article and anotated list of characteristics.

Leonardo Reviews brings us discussions of a festival and two conferences with some interesting meeting points: DEAF (the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival) '04, in which a central concern was the nexus between the electronic arts and consciousness studies; a conference of the American Synesthesia Association; and Consciousness Reframed: Qi and Complexity, which explored notions of consciousness, spirituality and the arts.

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> *sincere apologies for cross-posting*

There is no such thing as a sincere apology for cross-posting.

ja