Since 1981, Luang Paw Charoen Panchard, Abbot of Thamkrabok Monastery in the Lopburi province of Thailand, has created music based on shapes found in nature. Cracks in walls, stones or the soil are traced onto transparent plastic sheets and transformed into musical notes. Luang Paw believes that the process of making this earth music results in spiritual healing and growth

This article presents an overall view of contemporary electronic artworks related to Planet Earth as a topic of artistic inquiry. The author presents and interprets philosophically the different ways in which artists have approached Planet Earth and tried to reappropriate this object of modernity. In order to do so he outlines a phenomenological reading of these artworks and confronts them with the well-established phenomenological discourse about humans' relationship to Planet Earth

Over a relatively short period of its history, literature has become closely linked to the book; but literature preceded the book, and today its creation, due to its digital form, is more and more linked to screens or to sound output interfaces. Because the screen is not a material object but a virtual one, it can take as many forms as its users wish. This article attempts, first by means of an excerpted short story by the author and then in a theoretical discussion, to demonstrate and analyze some of the implications of the use of the screen in the field of e-literature.

A dispatch on the arts, technologies and cultures in the metropolitan community served by the Amsterdam airport.