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X-RAY PHOTOGRAMS by Sheila Pinkel was published in 2009. This book is an overview of the X-Ray images she produced at the Xerox Medical Research Center in Pasadena, California, from 1978 - 1983. This technology, commercially known as mammography, is special because of its ability to image delicate tissue and because it makes visible the internal structure of the natural and man-made world. The book is organized into categories in behalf of both clarifying the structure of those categories and to create a sense of the marvelous of the natural and fabricated world. It is available through Lulu.com.

REPRESENTATIONZ is a new blog covering how symbols, images, and language affect our daily lives --- from representation in art, science, and culture to cryptic puzzles. The blog is run by Paul Fishwick and can be viewed on the web or via smartphone apps. Twitter and RSS feeds are available. See http://www.representationz.com for more details.

THE WIRED LAB is an art + science project investigating æolian instruments that sonically capture the magnificent and dynamic universe of the natural world. Based in rural South West NSW, Australia, WIRED Lab was established in 2007 to ensure the legacy of The Wires, a unique and distinctly Australian invention that primarily exists in rural landscapes. The Wires are inherently interdisciplinary with foundations in sculpture, environmental/land art, sound composition, interactivity, behavioural constructs of old/new media, bio resonance, physics and complex systems sciences. We host research residencies and workshop programs for artists and scientists, for more information go to: http://wiredlab.org/.

ECOTONES (working title) is a new data-ecological project by Janine Randerson that employs information from satellite telemetry and sonification of the paths of migratory birds from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere. The bar-tailed godwit, a bird with the longest non-stop migration of any species, arrives annually in Miranda, an estuary in New Zealand's North Island. This area is an 'ecotone,' or transitional space between terrestrial and marine ecosystems; where land meets sea, saltwater meets freshwater. The birds are arriving in smaller numbers to New Zealand, due to the lack of seasonal availability of foods, a predicted consequence of climate change, and the historical lack of human care for the ecotones, regarded as unwanted, hybrid spaces. Ecotonal space and the flight of the migratory bird are reconceived visually and acoustically in this installation to work against the atomisation of North/South, human/non-human, air, sea and earthly relations. Ecotones will be developed at the SCANZ: Eco Sapiens residency in New Zealand in 2011. “Eco sapiens seeks to bring a range of worlds together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change, and explore poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the long-term cultural shifts required.” Trudy Lane, http://intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens. Janine Randerson is also a participant in the Data Ecologies workshop series (2010-2011), conceived by Tom Corby, University of Westminster; “The politicization of climate data, whilst potentially dangerous offers opportunities for us to re-think our relationships to science and develop discussion around interdisciplinary art/science approaches to our changing environment.” Tom Corby, August 9, 2010 http://data-ecologies.ning.com.

THE CAMBRIDGE LITERARY REVIEW is a new print journal of poetry, fiction and essays. It is committed to publishing interdisciplinary work. Essays have covered such topics as Otto Neurath’s picture language "Isotype", poetry and politics, Hume, Hegel and Walter Benjamin, as well as traditional literary criticism. Issue 3 (June 2010) is dedicated to translation and contains an essay by the composer Peter Zinovieff on the subject of analogue to digital music translation. The Cambridge Literary Review is available to purchase from http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org, and costs £8 for one issue, £20 for a one year subscription (3 issues).

Updated 27 August 2010