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Contents

• Series Forward
  
• Pat Bentson: Foreword: The Leonardo Women, Art, and Technology Project
• Judy Malloy: Preface and Introduction: At the Intersection of Art and Technology in a Time of Transformation

Overviews

• 1. Margaret Morse: The Poetics of Interactivity
  
• 2. Patric Prince: Women and the Search for Visual Intelligence
  
• 3. Sheila Pinkel: Women, Body, Earth
  
• 4. Anna Couey: Restructuring Power: Telecommunications Works Produced by Women
  
• 5. Kathy Brew: Through the Looking Glass

Artists' Papers

• 6. Steina: My Love Affair with Art: Video and Installation Work

• 7. Joan Jonas: Transmission

• 8.Dara Birnbaum: The Individual Voice as a Political Voice: Critiquing and Challenging the Authority of Media

• 9. Jo Hanson: Small Leaps to Ascend the Apple Tree

• 10. Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison: Shifting Positions towards the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness

• 11. Sonya Rapoport: Process(ing) Interactive Art: Using People as Paint, Computer as Brush

• 12. Lynn Hershman: Touch-sensitivity and Other Forms of Subversion

• 13. Nancy Paterson: Bicycle TV: Expo '92 Installation

• 14. Pauline Oliveros, Acoustic and Virtual Space as a Dynamic Element of Music

• 15. . Rebecca Allen with Erkki Huhtamo I Always like to go where I am not supposed to be

• 16. Donna Cox: Algorithmic Art, Scientific Visualization and Tele-immersion: an Evolving Dialogue with the Universe

• 17. Agnes Hegedus: My Autobiographical Media History - Metaphors of Interaction, Communication and Body Using Electronic Media

• 18. Judith Barry: Reflections on some Installation Projects

• 19. Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen: Do While Studio

• 20. Brenda Laurel: Technological Humanism and Values-driven Design

• 21. Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss: Imagine a Space Filled with Data

• 22. Char Davis: Landscape, Earth, Body, Being, Space and Time in the Immersive Virtual Environments Osmose and Ephemere

• 23. Cecile Le Prado: Sound Installations and Spatialism

• 24. Pamela Z: A Tool is a Tool

• 25. Nell Tenhaaf: Production and Reproduction

• 26. Alluquere Rosanne Stone: Your Words, My Silent Mouth: Trying to Make Narrative Sense out of Nonnarrative Work

• 27. Valerie Soe: Video arte povera: Lo-Fi Rules!

• 28. Kathy Rae Huffman: Face Settings: an International Co-cooking and Communication Project by Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman

• 29. Diane Fenster and Celia Rabinovitch: The Alchemy of Vision

• 30. Linda Austin and Leslie Ross: Pigs, Barrels and Obstinate Thrummers

• 31. Dawn Stoppiello with Mark Coniglio: Fleshmotor

Concluding Essays

• 32. . Jaishree K. Odin: Embodiment and Narrative Performance

• 33. Simone Osthoff: Women and Media Arts in Brazil

• 34. Martha Burkle Bonecchi: Technology has Forgotten Them: Third World Women and New Information Technologies

• 35. Carol Stakenas: Crossing the Threshold: Examining the Public Space of the Web Through Day Without Art Web Action

• 36. Zoe Sofia: Contested Zones: Futurity and Technological Art