LEA May '05: RE: Searching Our Origins Part Two

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: May 2005
ISSN#1071-4391
art | science | technology - a definitive voice since 1993
http://lea.mit.edu

In May's LEA, we wrap up our two-part special revolving around the
theme: RE: Searching Our Origins. This time round, guest editors
Paul Brown and Catherine Mason have selected five essays.

To begin, Frieder Nake discusses the compArt project and how it is
creating an elaborate dynamic digital medium for computer art,
where he describes four subspaces of the compArt medium.

Robin Oppenheimer then takes us through the world of regional
media arts histories and their contributions to electronic arts.
She summarizes examples of late 20th century regional media arts
histories research in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and traces some
of their complex connections to major art movements and artists,
and their interconnectivity and interrelated in complex and
unexpected ways.

In Anne Laforet's piece, she examines how the preservation of net
art has become a core issue, especially for the cultural
institutions which have acquired it, as the advent of the
Internet, with its inundation of data, makes the longevity of
artworks difficult, if not impossible, to assess.

Following that, Robert Edgar enlightens us on the aesthetic,
economic, technological and personal contexts involved with being
an early adopter of personal computer programming as an art
form.

To conclude, Cynthia Beth Rubin examines the innovations by
artists working with early digital imaging software prior to 1988
in her essay, *Digital by Choice: Explorations of Early
Software*.

Delving deep into LEA's archives, One From the Vault revives Paul
Warren's Alternative Virtual Biennial Exhibition