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A refereed journal of media arts and culture, published three times a year.
Vol 5 Number 1 May 2008
Screenscapes Past Present Future
Edited by Chris Chesher, Peter Marks, Kathy Cleland
The proliferation of screens represents a signature feature of modern and contemporary life. Screens located on computer, cinema, television or mobile platforms offer possibilities for entertainment, communication, art, manipulation and monitoring, creating new forms of identity, community, expression and social control. These developments in turn have created a rich and rapidly changing set of research initiatives within and across academic fields. In late 2007 the University of Sydney held the Screenscapes Past Present Future conference to consider these issues and changes. Participants came from China, Germany, the United States, England, New Zealand and Australia, and the keynote speakers were Professors Lev Manovich (University of California at San Diego), Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne) and David Trotter (University of Cambridge). The conference offered a space for examining the creation of screen communities and identities, the remediation of screen technology into other cultural forms, the history and future of screen technology, aesthetics, audiences, developments in mobile platforms, and the use of screens in visual and data surveillance. Most of the articles in this issue were presented as Screenscape papers before being expanded and refined for publication.

A magazine of media arts essays, reviews and other pieces.
NEW TO THE MAGAZINE:
Writing Lives: Revealing Families by Willa McDonald
Book Review: The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation, edited by Alan Cholodenko (2007, Power Publications) by Lisa Bode
Determined Indeterminacy A Review of THE THIRD MIND at Le Palais de Tokyo Curated by Ugo Rondinone by Joseph Nechvatal
Our Digital Noology: Catherine Perret in conversation with Joseph Nechvatal by Catherine Perret

A gallery of multimedia works and sites.
NEW TO THE GALLERY:
Let Us Burn the Gondolas by Jonathan Walker
How to hold the Binoculars by Jack Randell
The Fourth Floor by Maria Miranda & Norie Neumark
Anomalies by Ellen Jantzen