Index

3 editorial  - the medium is the reality
7 Avatars on the World Wilde Web: marketing the descent by Victoria Vesna 
15 Notes on immersion by G.H. Hovagimyan

WEBSITE REVIEWS

22 The trouth out there
Doe openess: human radiation experiments 
Atomic audit: the costs and consequences of U.S. nuclear weapons since 1940
24 Networking communities
26 electronics books of creation, GRAMMATRON Poem navigator

INTERVIEW

28 I don't believe in self-expression An interview with Alexei Shulgin by Tilman Baumgärtel
35 Coping with technofatigue by Robbin Murphy
42 fyi education, cd-rom reviews
44 Rehearsal of memory, By the skin of our nightmares by Jim Gasperini
46 Mnemonic notation V.VI, Clicks of mindfulness by Jim Gasperini
48 Eve, Clicking our way out of the crib by Jim Gasperini
53 First person: Marvin Minsky-the society of mind, Keep it simple, stupid!

CONFERENCE REPORT

58 Consciousness reframed by Kenneth Wahl, Ongoigs: the fine arts gallery at siggraph 97
by Dena Elisabeth Eber
62 fyi arts

TECHNOLOGY

65 Ten problem into the art of unrealized software by Norman Weinstein
66 Turn on, zoom in...PAD++ multiscale interface
74 Sex/machine/art: from mechanical repetition into electronic flicker by Joseph 
Nechvatal
80 Globe theater archives: a blue planet discourse by Adrianne Wortzel A.D. 1997