cyberstage 2.2

[Mark J. Jones]

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 at 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