<apologies for cross-posting / please pass on> _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with digital artist and cyberpoet Jason Nelson, discussing fictobiography, responsive poetry, and other topics. :: Chat date: Tuesday, October 24. :: 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac <http://leoalmanac.org/> Chat instructions are here: http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp. PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to apply to all jabber chat clients, but there may be some variation for individual clients. For example, some clients may require the chat room server "conference.jabber.org" and others clients only "jabber.org." Also, please refer to the link for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and for instructions on joining chats. -------------------------------------- Artist Biography With work recently appearing in Singapore at the Asian Civilizations Museum, St. Petersburg Florida, UCLA, Hermeneia from Barcelona, Spain, Vancouver Washington, around Australia, and other worldly parts, Jason Nelson is always charmed by how rarely he travels beyond the distance provided by a tank of gas. Being a Digital Writing Lecturer at Griffith University in the Gold Coast of Australia, he deeply misses the snows of the Oklahoma plains, so miss the snows. Come explore his creatures at: http://secrettechnology.com or http://heliozoa.com