INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This issue is about the arts and networking. In a sense, it makes a good companion piece for the Arts and Mass Media track which is in the works for ENA '90 in San Francisco, dealing with the urgent issues of the role of the creative artist and media maker in the world of networking. Some of the articles concern themselves with ideas in the creation of art, others with ideas or services of networks intended to serve artists. In all cases, the connection between culture, communication, and the greater social good begin to come clearer than they have been, traditionally, in U.S. society.
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CONTRIBUTORS

RAY GALLON, guest editor, is an educator (NYU Film dept.), media
artist, networker, and producer who has worked in Radio, Film,
Television, and theatre for 25 years, in many countries. He has
a passion for international collaborations and intercultural
interchange.

PHYLLIS BARNEY has been telecommunicating for 4 years, has been
enjoying folk music much longer than that, and is SIG
coordinator on The Point, and is the PARTICIPATE Librarian on
Compuserve, where she is better known as PJ.

CARL EUGENE LOEFFLER is the director of Art Comm TV, in San
Francisco, which distributes print, software, and video art and
information, including software as art, and operates the Art
Comm Electronic Network on The Well.

DWIGHT STEWARD is a professor at Delaware State University,
networker, and editor of "GESTUS," an online journal of the
Brecht Society of America. He can be found on NWI and other
networks where he is known, both as DSTEWARD and DWIGHT THE
VERBOSE.

[note: This is a very exciting development for ENA. We're delighted to have our first Guest Editor for NETWEAVER and that he has stretched our organization by heightening our awareness of the role of creative arts in this medium. If you would like to be the Guest Editor of a future issue, please send us your ideas! - Lisa Kimball]