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released</b></big><br>
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Banff Centre Press and Riverside Architectural Press, in association
with OCAD University and The University of Sunderland announce the
release of <b>Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media
Institute Dialogues</b>. The 1100 page anthology is edited by
Sarah Cook and Sara Diamond. Featuring <b>worldwide pioneers,
artists and cultural icons</b>, and <b>digital-industry
innovators</b>; <b>Euphoria & Dystopia</b> documents the key
decade of Canada's Banff New Media Institute, between 1995 and 2005.
Attracted by innovative programming set against Banff’s
extraordinary mountain landscape, hundreds of international
practitioners were brought together to debate the new forms wrought
by technology. This volume charts the rise of the emerging field of
digital media art and industry, through those discussions. It is
essential reading for scholars, developers, and theorists of new
media.<br>
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A copy of the table of contents is available for download here:</b>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.riversidearchitecturalpress/current_publications/euphoria_dystopia/sample/EuphoriaDystopia_TOC.pdf">http://www.riversidearchitecturalpress.com/current_publications/euphoria_dystopia/sample/EuphoriaDystopia_TOC.pdf</a><br>
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Euphoria & Dystopia contains essays by Sandra Buckley, Steve
Dietz, Jean Gagnon, N. Katherine Hayles, Susan Kennard, Eric
Kluitenberg, Jeff Lieper and Allucquere Rosanne Stone. <br>
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The contents of <b>Euphoria & Dystopia</b> include over 150
original transcripts drawn from thousands of hours of audio material
from the annual Interactive Screen event and numerous summits and
annual workshops. The book is organized by themes that range from
data visualization to the interface of technology and the body to
curating to gaming. It includes fully annotated references and
biographies of participants, a detailed list of events that took
place at Banff between 1995 and 2005. The book also includes
commissioned essays from the co-editors and from leading new-media
theorists. Included is the catalogue of the exhibition The Art
Formerly Known As New Media (2005) and a DVD of HorizonZero, the
groundbreaking bilingual electronic journal produced at Banff from
2002 to 2004.<br>
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<b>Sara Diamond</b> is the Founding Director of the Banff New Media
Institute, and served as Artistic Director of Media & Visual
Arts and Director of Research at The Banff Centre. Her work with the
BNMI included creating numerous international research partnerships
and securing support for emerging new-media businesses. In 2005, she
became the President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University in
Toronto, Canada.<br>
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<b>Sarah Cook</b> is a curator and writer based in the United
Kingdom. Working as a postdoctoral research fellow at The Banff
Centre until 2006, she curated exhibitions for the Walter Phillips
Gallery, helped to found the Banff International Curatorial
Institute, and participated in summits at the Banff New Media
Institute.<br>
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To order a copy of <b>Euphoria & Dystopia</b> please go to: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.amazon.com/Euphoria-Dystopia-Banff-Institute-Dialogues/dp/1894773225">http://www.amazon.com/Euphoria-Dystopia-Banff-Institute-Dialogues/dp/1894773225</a>
or <a href="http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/39/euphoria-and-dystopia.mvc">http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/39/euphoria-and-dystopia.mvc</a><br>
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<b>Media contacts: </b><br>
Riverside Architectural Press, Eric Bury, 416-766-8284, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:contact@riversidearchitecturalpress.com">contact@riversidearchitecturalpress.com</a><br>
Banff Centre Press, Jill Sawyer, 403-762-6475, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Naomi_Johnston@banffcentre.ca">Jill_Sawyer@banffcentre.ca</a><br>
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<b>Distribution contacts:</b><br>
ABC Art Books Canada Distribution, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.abcartbookscanada.com/">www.abcartbookscanada.com</a>
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Literary Press Group of Canada, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.lpg.ca/">www.lpg.ca</a><br>
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Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues<br>
Riverside Architectural Press / The Banff Centre Press<br>
ISBN: 978-1-894773-22-5<br>
9"x6.5", 1100 pages, black and white, soft cover, smyth sewn,
contains DVD<br>
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