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Dear list, I am pleased to announce the availability of a new book published by YYZ Books, "H& IT ON," featuring 100 pages of new work by pioneering conceptual artist IAIN BAXTER& (aka Iain Baxter, N.E. Thing Co.) that loosely updates media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, "The Medium is the Massage" : http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/exhibition-jaime-angelopoulos/ I am the editor of the project, which also features an essay of mine that situates BAXTER&'s early information art within the very first history of Canadian artists working with 'information' as a medium. The book also includes an essay by American scholar Dennis Durham which compares the cybernetic work of the Vancouver-based N.E. Thing Co. with the work of American peers Robert Smithson and Dan Graham. McLuhan scholar Richard Cavell traces the McLuhanesque genealogy of H& IT ON in a preface. Best regards, Adam Lauder W.P. Scott Chair for Research in E-Librarianship Rm. 203F Scott Library York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M3J-1P3 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: 416-736-2100 x55974 IAINBAXTER&raisonnE: http://archives.library.yorku.ca/iain_baxterand_raisonne/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~