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He is the traveller who sends us on our way: Andrei Roiter, born in Moscow in 1960 and oscillating between Amsterdam and New York since 1990, often with detours via Russia to visit family. 'Bon Voyage' is a slogan referring to the work, but at the same time it is an encouragement and greeting to the visitor who comes to that work from the opposite direction. The artist and his public cross one another en route: the provisional terminus for the one is the point of departure for the other; the art is both a meeting place and an intermediate station.

This is a chess monograph called "King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 3. exd5 Variation" which explores these chess moves: "1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5". The author has played 76 chess games where he won 71 games, lost 3 games, and drew 2 games. All these games are recorded in Algebraic Chess Notation. And there are 66 chess diagrams, too.

This thesis is an account of the realization and interpretation of the autonomous responsive electronic media artwork "Memory Association Machine" (MAM). Realization and interpretation are components of the creative process that braids conceptual, site-specific, electronic media art and artificial intelligence practises. The meaning of MAM is dependent on its unique location in space and time. MAM relates Itself to its context using three primary processes: Perception, the Integration of sense data into a field of experience, and the free-association through that field. MAM perceives through a video camera, integrates using a Kohonen Self-Organizing Map, and free-associates through an implementation of Liane M. Gabora's model of memory and creativity. These processes are as important as MAM's physical appearance, are composed of computational elements, and allow the system to respond to context autonomously.

This is a chess monograph called "Latvian Gambit: The Strautins Gambit" which explores this chess opening: "1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Bc4 b5". The author has collected 79 completed chess games which are recorded in Algebraic Chess Notation. And there are 75 chess diagrams, too.

An application of homosexual stage-based self-integration theory suggests that until gay individuals have become fully self-integrated, their capacity for leadership within the community is diminished. Unfortunately, now more than ever before, leadership is needed in dealing with such pressing community issues as the disproportionately high suicide rate among gay teens, the ongoing struggle for gays to become fully self-integrated individuals, bringing equal rights to the gay population, and of course, developing a base of strong gay leaders to meet the ongoing challenges facing this population. To test the self-integration-leadership hypothesis, this study surveyed 150 men in gay Internet chat rooms across the United States in an effort to measure the extent of their identity development as well as their propensity for leadership within the community. This was accomplished through the construction of a 26 question survey, based on the homosexual stage development models of Cass (1984), Griffin (1992), and D'Augelli (1994), and consisted of 18 Likert-scale questions designed to measure identity development and leadership propensity, five open-ended questions to help triangulate the final stage assessment, and three demographic questions. This information was then used to produce a final stage assignment for each of the respondents, which, together with the demographic information, was used in regression analyses designed to explain variation in the leadership propensity of community members. Results suggest that the final stage assignment for each individual, which reflects the extent to which they have become self-integrated, was a powerful factor in explaining an individual's propensity for community leadership. For example, the results of the regression analysis show an almost one-to-one correspondence between the stages of identity development and an increasing propensity for leadership; specifically, a movement of one stage in identity development is associated with an almost one-point increase (.96) in the likelihood of displaying leadership (on a five-point Likert scale). Interestingly, none of the demographic measures used were significant predictors of leadership behavior, suggesting that age, race/ethnicity, and religious affiliation may work in less direct ways in influencing the practice of leadership, something that can be explored by future researchers in the area of gay/queer studies.