Pacific Rim New Media Summit Companion

Leonardo Volume 39, No. 4 (August 2006)

Leonardo is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit (PRNMS), a pre-conference event to ISEA2006. In conjunction with PRNMS, Leonardo will release a special issue of the Leonardo journal to serve as a summit companion. Guest-edited by artist and educator Greg Niemeyer, this special issue of Leonardo follows the Working Group structure of the summit itself, featuring introductory texts by the Working Group chairs and preliminary papers of Working Group members.

This special issue of Leonardo will be included in the registration packs of all ISEA2006 early-bird conference registrants, with additional copies available for sale at ISEA2006.

Highlights include:

Surfing the outernet: Where net art presented the medium of the Internet, locative art brings to the fore the media of mobile and wireless systems. Drew Hemment unfolds a taxonomy of locative-art approaches to the gap between the perfect grid and the reality of the mapped world.

Cyber-mythologies and portraits of dispossession: Rachel O'Reilly examines how Asian and Pacific understandings of place in recent work by Vernon Ah Kee, Lisa Reihana and Qiu Zhijie expand the frames of contemporary locative art.

Cartographies of the future: Annie Lambla discusses the San Francisco Exploratorium's Invisible Dynamics project, which considers the museum's relocation from a perspective integrating art, science and geographic context.

Culture, uncontained: Commerce, communication and technology intertwine in the works of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit exhibition Container Culture. Artists from Mumbai to Vancouver use the medium and metaphor of shipping containers to explore regional and global complexities.