Mondo 2000 magazine No. 8 1992 Diamanda Galás U2 Cronenberg Jon Anderson Disney

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Hello and thank you for checking out my auction for Issue 8 of Mondo 2000 magazine. Originally published in California during the mid-1980s as High Frontiers, the magazine changed its name in 1988 to Reality Hackers when famous hacker/writer Jude Milhon (aka St. Jude, cypherpunk advocate) joined the editorial staff before it was renamed to Mondo 2000 in 1989. Besides the well written content (often by famous names in the cyberpunk community), the magazine was also known for its ahead-of-its-time, surrealistic Photoshop art by Bart Nagel. Issue 8 was published in late 1992 (the magazine is not published on a regular basis) and features avant-garde musician, painter and AIDS activist Diamanda Galás on the cover (see photo #1, Diamanda would go on and collaborate with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones on an album that was released in 1994). Some highlights of this issue include: - "Big Brother isn't dead, He's just subcontracting" by The Omega. A look at the tools offered by the Information America Network and their impacts on privacy (see photo #2) - "Cyced Up! or: ontology to go" by Daniel Rasmus, about the 10 year, multi-million dollar AI project developed by Austin's Microelectronics and Computing Technology Corporation (MCC) known as Cyc, which approaches AI with feeding it knowledge rather than attempting to construct sets of rules that would enable the machine to learn eventually - "The MIDI Warp Drive: The Hotz Translator" by Mihai Manoliu, the story of how a Texan inventor's project for Mick Fleetwood evolved into a master controller enjoyed by some of the world's most famous musicians, including Jon Anderson of Yes (see photo #3) - "In the Belly of the Entertainment Beast: NPSNET" by Kristen Kelleher, explaining the design philosophies behind The Naval Postgraduate School's Virtual Reality software - "Dee0kectronix", the Mondo Tech Centerfold (see photo #4, I guess this is the cyber-fashion pictorial section) - "The Cypherpunk Movement: Irresponsible Jounalism", column by St. Jude (see photo #5) - "You Can Be Anyone this Time Around: The Lost Liner Notes" by Jas. Morgan about the CD re-release of Timothy Leary's album "You Can Be Anyone This Time Around" (see photo #6) - "Woman's Home Companion" by St. Jude - "DeLAnda Destratified": Erik Davis observes the Liquefaction of Manuel DeLanda - "Kick-start the Street Party!", a fashion pictorial - "U 2 Can Sue a Sample Simon", interview with U2's the Edge (see photo #7) - "UnCoiled!": John Balance and Peter Christopherson in conversation with Jas. Morgan and Diana Trimble on a variety of topics - "Walking the Cow: Daniel Johnston's Visionary Universe", interview with the Austin-based singer/songwriter by Andrew Hultkrans (see photo #8) - "Killing Floor: The Harrowing Spirituals of Diamanda Galás", interview by Gracie & Zarkov, including her "Plague Mass" (see photo #9) - "The Totems of Die Warzau": profile of the band by Gareth Branwyn - "Long Live the New Flesh": excerpts from Cronenberg on Cronenberg, a collection of interviews with Canadian director David Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, etc.; see photo #10) - "Running on the Blade's Edge": interview with William Vollmann by Larry McCaffery - "The Future of an Illusion: in search of the Art of Music Video" by Gareth Branwyn - "TimeTravel by Disney": physicists Jack Sarafatti & Nick Herbert in conversation with R.U. Sirius and Josephine Grieve (see photo #11) - "Riding the BoardzZz: a guided tour of the underground" by Sanity Bandit on the hacker culture - "There's a Party in my Mind... MindVox!" by Andrew Hawkins, on the new BBS created by Patrick Kroupa (aka Lord Digital) - "Morphing the Life Fantastic: digital art of Yoichiro Kawaguichi", interviewed by Jas. Morgan, translated by Joichi Ito (see photo #12) - Reviews of "Et Tu, Babe" by Mark Leyner, "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling, "MacJ... read more

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