> From: "LEONARDO (mk)" <
isast@well.com>
> Date: Mon Nov 3, 2003 7:44:57 PM US/Eastern
> To: LEO Promo <
isast@well.com>
> Subject: Women, Art, and Technology published by MIT Press and Leonardo
>
> *apologies for cross posting*
>
> MIT Press and Leonardo/ISAST announce publication of
> Women, Art, and Technology
> Edited by Judy Malloy
>
> Although women have been at the forefront of art and technology
> creation, no
> source has adequately documented their core contributions to the field.
> Women, Art, and Technology, which originated in a Leonardo project of
> the
> same name, is a compendium of the work of women artists who have
> played a
> central role in the development of new media practice.
>
> The book features overviews of the history and foundations of the
> field by
> critic/curator Patric Prince; critic Margaret Morse; artist/educator
> Sheila
> Pinkel; artist/networker Anna Couey; and Kathy Brew, artist and former
> director of the new media initiative ThunderGulch. The foreword was
> written
> by Patricia Bentson, managing editor of the Leonardo Music Journal.
>
> Artist contributors include computer graphics artists Rebecca Allen,
> Donna
> Cox, and Diane Fenster; video artists Dara Birnbaum, Joan Jonas,
> Valerie
> Soe, and Steina Vasulka; composers Cecile Le Prado, Pauline Oliveros,
> and
> Pamela Z; interactive artists Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen, Agnes
> Hegedus,
> Lynn Hershman, Nancy Paterson, and Sonya Rapoport; virtual reality
> artists
> Char Davies and Brenda Laurel; net artists Monika Fleischmann and
> Wolfgang
> Strauss, and Sandy Stone; and choreographer Dawn Stoppiello. Critics
> include
> Jaishree Odin, Simone Osthoff, and Zoe Sofia.
>
> Editor Judy Malloy is an electronic fiction and Internet pioneer and
> editor
> of the electronic publication NYFA Current (formerly Arts Wire
> Current).
>
> Follow this link to order Women, Art, and Technology from Amazon:
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262134241/leonardoonlin-20.
>
> The complete table of contents, articles not included in the book and
> links
> to new works in the field are available on the book's website at
>
http://www.judymalloy.net/newmedia.
>
> Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and
> Technology
> (ISAST) serves the international arts community by promoting and
> documenting
> work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology, and by
> encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists,
> and
> technologists. For further information, go to
www.leonardo.info .
>