From: Mark Jones Subject: PUB: cyberstage 2.2 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 22:44:00 EST CyberStage, the Toronto-based arts and technology magazine, is pleased to announce the release of its Winter issue, the article of which are listed below. CyberStage is on the constant lookout for interesting new work and ideas to use in articles. If you would like to contribute to CyberStage, get in touch at cstage@passport.ca. If you would like to find out how to obtain a copy of this or any back issues, please also let us know. Mark Jones Editor Editorial Lineup CyberStage 2.2 Winter 1995 Departments i) Editorial How do you Sell Electronic Art Installations? by Mark J. Jones ii) Perspektiv Promiscuous Digitalia What is digital imaging doing to our sense of what's real? by Darrell Varga iii) gogorhythm VNX Matrix and Synthetic Pleasures Gogo looks at the work of Australian performance artists VNS Matrix; plus a look at the film Synthetic Pleasures, recently featured at the Toronto International Film Festival. iv) ChipChat v) WebWatch More hot links on the World Wide Web vi) Letters to the editor Reviews i) Dance Performance: Dragon by Claudia Moore by Soraya Peerbaye ii) Exhibit: Welcome to the Digital Flesh at Interaccess Art Gallery by Elizabeth O'Grady iii) CD-ROM: Digital Beethoven on Cyberspeed: The Great Kat by Mark J. Jones Features i) COVER: Equal Time: Jaron Lanier Talks Back VR visionary, Jaron Lanier, recently slammed an article published in the Fall 1995 issue of CyberStage. Here, in an exclusive interview, Jaron talks of his work and the underbelly of what he calls "post- symbolic communiation". ii) Reaching Nirvana: The Technology of Alternative Rock Alan Cross, DJ and host of The Ongoing History of New Music Program at Toronto's CFNY-FM, reflects on the technology and the groups that changed the face of new music, and speculates on where we're going. by Adam Levine iii) Blinded by Science: Confessions of an ICMC Delegate The International Computer Music Confernece recently wrapped up in the Banff Centre. This delegates wonders if anyone knew or cared. by Russell Ovans iv) Kevin Kelly Out of Control Wired's Executive Editor and author of Out of Control talks about the biologicalization of technology. by Scott Taylor v) Virtual Ground Zero Taylor expands the principles of McLuhan to incorporate virtual reality. by Scott Taylor vi) Video-in-Demand: Lisa Steele and the VTape Distribution Program The Vtape program is the first marketing and distribution centre in Canada which aims to promote the work of video artists on a national level. Details on the program, their efforts at promotion on the Internet, and a small profile of its director, Lisa Steele. by Anthony Cogliano vii) Cultech Takes Centre Stage: Paul Hoffert Interview Part Deux The second part of the interview of the chair of the Ontario Arts Council. Here, Hoffert describes some of the new work happening at Cultech Collaborative Centre at York U., of which he is the director. by Mark J. Jones viii) Conversations with a Muse: The Electronic Chronicles New York's visionary artist, Adrianne Wortzel, allows us a peek at her alter ego, MusEleanor, and her work on the World Wide Web. by Adrianne Wortzel and Mark Jones ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *CyberStage: The Magazine of Art and Technology* G E T I N T O U C H CyberStage Online http://www.passport.ca/~cstage email: cstage@passport.ca