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On-Line Monograph on Abraham Palatnik tive on-line database of artists, events and works; a scholarly publi- The initial pages of an extensive monograph featuring the work and cation; a popular publication, intended for a broader audience; life of Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik are now on-line at: acquisition of a new national collection of computer-based work . This from the period; a major summer show of surviving work to be work is part of the Pioneers and Pathbreakers project developed by scheduled for 2005; a new post-graduate program at Birkbeck; and, OLATS/Leonardo. possibly, a television miniseries. According to Palatnik, the artist’s role is to “order the chaos of “This grant is a recognition of the importance of this area which perception.” This is probably what led him to explore such a wide hitherto has been shamefully neglected by historians of and cul- gamut of techniques and materials. He first tried his hand at the ture,” Gere said, speaking from Birkbeck College, “and also of the traditional arts of painting and pencil drawing; this was in the late urgency of undertaking important research, before it is too late.” 1940s, while he was teaching art in the Therapy Department at the For more information, contact Paul Brown at . the inmates, who produced art with a different yet complex lan- guage, turned out to be an extraordinary experience that shattered Cultural Roots of Globalization Project his own relation to art. Palatnik then decided to give up painting Leonardo/OLATS recently launched the research project “Cultural and created his first kinechromatic device, which was presented at Roots of Globalization” at . In the first São Paulo Biennial in 1951. With his machines based on this project, philosophers, scientists and artists question the onto- the kaleidoscope principle, he established himself as one of the key logical significance of globalization. We especially emphasize artists figures of kinetic and technological arts in Brazil. in the techno-scientific field who are also sensitive to poetic aspects Now in its initial phase, the Palatnik Monograph offers a biogra- of the phenomena of globalization (planetary art, Web art, telemet- phy, bibliographies and the beginning of an anthology with materi- ric art, etc.). al contributed by some of the leading scholars of Palatnik’s artwork: The project will present bibliographies, key texts, new unpub- Mario Pedrosa, Frederico Morais, Aracy Amaral, Eduardo Kac, lished texts and an art gallery, as well as seminars on specific topics. For and Jacques Leenhardt. more information, contact Julien Knebusch at . The Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paulo recently presented “Pio- neer Palatnik: Painting Machines and Decelerating Machines.” Douglas Kahn, LMJ Editorial Board Member Curated by the art critic Marcio Doctors, this show displayed a Douglas Kahn is director of technocultural studies at the University unique selection of 26 kinetic and kinechromatic works, sketches of California at Davis. With research concentrations in auditory and documents. For more information, or to contribute to the culture, the history and theory of sound in the arts, and new media on-line project, contact curator Jocelyne Rotily at . in the Arts (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), co-editor of Wire- less Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde (Cambridge, History of in the U.K. MA: MIT Press, 1992), and editor of an ongoing MIT Press book A team of researchers based at the School of History of Art, Film series, Auditory Culture. His catalog and journal essays, book chap- and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London has been ters and magazine articles on contemporary media artists, sound awarded over £250,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research artists and musicians have appeared internationally and have Board. The grant will enable the team to research, document, con- included writings on Christian Marclay, Paul DeMarinis, James textualize and archive the history of the computer arts in the U.K. Tenney, Joyce Hinterding, Nigel Helyer and Rosemary Laing. He from their origins in the 1950s to 1980, when user-friendly inter- curated the LMJ CD The Lyre's Island: Some Australian Music, faces altered the nature of such practice. This is one the first major Sound Art and Design, published with Leonardo Music Journal 6 grants awarded in the U.K. for research in this area. (1996) and edited the volume's special section on Australian new The team consists of Charlie Gere, lecturer in Histo- music and sound art. He serves on the International Editorial Board ry at Birkbeck; George Mallen, CEO of System Simulation Ltd., of Leonardo Music Journal. Kahn also organized “Audio Ideas,” a who co-founded the Computer Arts Society in 1968; and Anglo- symposium and performance series on post-techno electronic music Australian artist, writer and Leonardo International Co-Editor Paul at Artspace Sydney. He produced radio art and “new documentary” Brown, who is well known as a pioneering practitioner of computer for ABC-Radio (Australia), was a frequent commentator on nation- art. Based at Birkbeck, the 3-year project will also recruit a Ph.D. al radio in Australia and collaborated with Frances Dyson in writing student and a post-doctoral research assistant. and media production through the company Liminal Product. The project has several major objectives, including an authorita- Kahn has degrees in art history and post-studio arts, and another in

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Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/002409402320774420 by guest on 25 September 2021 experimental music composition from Wes- mance art, multimedia and installations; Maxwell was the publisher and creative leyan University, where he studied with three of his compositions have been released visionary behind the McKinley Group, Alvin Lucier and Ron Kuivila. For more on CD. His book, Art and Innovation, owners of the Magellan directory, which is information, contact Doug Kahn at which documented collaborations between now part of the Excite search directory. Pri- . artists and research scientists at Xerox Palo or to launching the McKinley Group, Alto Research Center (PARC), was released Maxwell held senior marketing, strategic Craig Harris, Advisory Board in 1999 by MIT Press. His electroacoustic business and development positions with Member work, The Hill Has Something to Say, com- Pergamon Press Publishers, Science Craig Harris is the executive director of the missioned by soprano Renée Fleming, pre- Research Associates (SRA) and Macmillan Minneapolis-based dance-theater company miered in Alice Tully Hull in May 2000. Publishing Company. She holds degrees in Ballet of the Dolls. Harris was the founding His ballet The Red Shoes premiered in sociology and Latin American Studies from editor of Leonardo Electronic Almanac and September 2001, performed by Ballet of the Pitzer College in Claremont, California. served in the past as executive director of Dolls and choreographed by Myron John- She also serves as a Trustee and Vice Presi- Leonardo/ISAST and as president of the son. For more information, contact Craig dent of Membership and Communications International Computer Music Association. Harris at . on the Board of the Internet Society. He has been a consultant to universities and Maxwell co-authored the original New Rid- arts organizations on three continents and is Christine Malina Maxwell, ers Official Internet Yellow Pages in 1994. affiliated with Sutton + Associates, a firm Advisory Board Member For more information, contact Christine providing a range of services to non-profit A veteran of the publishing and research Malina Maxwell at . organizations. industries, Christine Malina-Maxwell is A new-media artist, composer, per- focusing her extensive research, publishing former, writer and educator, Harris holds a and Internet expertise on creating a new degree in music composition from the East- information retrieval and publishing vehicle man School of Music. His artwork includes for high-value intellectual property. As a co- concert works, music theater and perfor- founder of the Magellan on-line directory,

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