Volume 25, Number 5 issue of "Leonardo : Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology" doubling as an exhibition catalogue for the "Third Annual New York Digital Salon" held at the School of Visual Arts, New York, November 13 - 27, 1995. Curated and with a statement by Bruce Wands. Essays include "The Politics of the Artificial," by Victor Margolin; "Virtual Environments and the Concept of Synergy," by Manuel DeLanda; "Artifice, Artifact: The Landscape of the Constructed Digital Environment," by Annette Weintraub; "The Chrome Age: Dawn of Virtual Reality," by Sonya Shannon; "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction (An Evolving Thesis: 1991-1995)," by Douglas Davis; "CD-ROM: Radical Nostalgia?: Cinema History, Cinema Theory, and New Technology," by Michael Punt; "Towards a Poetics of Knowledge," by Richard Wright; "OU: Interactivity as Divination as Vending Machine," by Ken Feingold; "Mastery: Computer Games, Intuitive Interfaces, and Interactive Multimedia," by Grahame String Weinbren; "Desire Lines and Mercurial Tendencies: Resisting and Embracing the Possibilities for Digital Architecture," by Sarah Chaplin; "A World Exhilerating and Wrong: Theatrical Improvisation on the Internet," by Antoinette LaFarge; "Time as Medium: Five Artists' Video Installation," by Barbara London; "Transparent Technology: The Swan Song of Electronics," by Timothy Binkley; "Digital Media and Ephemeralness: Art, Artist, and Viewer," by Suzanne M. Marchese and Frances T. Marchese; "Beyond the Context: Landscapes, Pictures, and the Epistemology of Image-Making," by Stewart Ziff; and "An Overview of Computer Art and Education in Hong Kong," by Wong Wo Bik. Includes juror biographies.