Cover image, Z_Orb, by Sabine Bitter.

Sabine Bitter works with Helmut Weber. They have collaborated on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations, and related visual politics. Their series of photo- and video-works such as Recent Geographies, Caracas Hecho en Venezuela and LIVE LIKE THIS! engage with specific moments and cultural logics of globalization as they are materialized in architecture as a frame for social meaning.

Lake Trout Monument, Great Bear Lodge, August 2003 ..... Peter C. van Wyck

The long abandoned Great Bear Lodge was once a popular fly-in fishing camp situated on the Leith peninsula, a little over 50 km southwest of Port Radium. It was also the site of a 5000' runway used by Eldorado Mining and Refining to receive materials from the south and to transport radium and uranium ores from the mines at Port Radium for processing at Port Hope, Ontario. It is still home to uranium contaminated soil and debris. And the fish.

Electric Horizon ..... Robert Prenovault

Robert Prenovault is a sculptor and maker of things who currently lives in Montréal, Canada. Raised in the city and having lived for many years in the bush, his work questions the supposed distinction between nature and culture. This has led him to investigate the social and symbolic meanings of landscape as a liminal space existing at the conjuncture of human endeavour and the natural environment. Electric Horizon (1997), highlights their points of contact and connection.

Cindy Stelmackowich is an Ottawa-based visual artist and academic with a particular interest in medical science. The picture on the cover, “handbook of SURGERY” (cover photo by David Barbour), is part of an ongoing series wherein medical books—textbooks, dictionaries, anatomical manuals, first aid primers—are made subject to Stelmackowich’s own incisive explorations. In these works, medical science’s bodies of knowledge become an important source of her work, not only conceptually but more directly as the material through the work is made. Stelmackowich has exhibited her artwork across Canada and has received numerous grants and fellowships. Currently she lectures at Carleton University where she is completing a PhD in the history and theory of anatomical illustration. For more information about her artwork visit www.patrickmikhailgallery.com.

Caroline Martel is a Montreal-based documentary artist with a special interest in our relationships to technology, invisible histories, archives, cinema and telecommunications. Hold the Line (Dernier Appel, 52 min, National Film Board of Canada, 2001), was her début in professional filmmaking. The still image on the cover of this issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication is from The PHANTOM of the OPERATOR, Martel’s first feature-length production as an independent producer-director. It was shown in over 40 film events on 4 continents. For more information see www.artifactproductions.ca/phantom.