C O N C R E T E If you are reading the publication in which this letter has been planted, you must have some taste. This is a covert message (In fact, it is subconscious) from the members of Concrete, an artist's collective who are currently searching for individuals willing to submit material for publication in a freely distributed digital, and Lower Mainland paper publication. Concrete's focus is on present day culture (or the lack thereof), technology, sociology, art, computers, music, and multi-media expression (Note: we do not mean 'multimedia' as in the buzzword.) Concrete is available free digitally on local Vancouver Bulletin Boards (as well as on nation-wide echomail networks), and on the vaunted Internet. Persons (real or imagined) who have work in the following areas are welcome to publish with us under one condition: that the work be well made. Content is up to the artist, and editing is less for content, and more for style. We are a group of artists, born and raised in the 70's, 80's, and 90's 'Info strip-mall' that wish to acquire more colleagues with whom to publish. Concrete publishes in paper, text file + images/multimedia files, and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language, or what Web browsers can view.) We accept work in any file format, however our preferred pixmap format is .GIF . Please do not limit your submissions to digital format, sculptures etc. are welcome too. Currently, we are collecting work for the next issue in the following areas of: The Written Word: Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Essays, Narratives, Prose, Poetry, Spoken Word Art Visual Arts: Photography, Ad Art, Sculpture, Video, Damage Art, Social Art, Painting, Performance Art Sonic Arts: Music, Singing, Composing, Art of Noise, Ambient, Techno, House, Indust, Indo, Anglo, Groucho, Zeppo, Harpo, Chico... Digital Arts: Assembler, C/C++, Pascal, Delphi, Eiffel, perl, LISP, mathematical algorithms, source or binary Misc: Zen Power Yells, trancendental meditation, self flagellation, writing the King James on a grain of rice... To Submit work: Upload to: 1.604.261.0309 (Odyssey BBS, Unix based, SLIP optional.) Or any ConcreteNet BBS in Canada. Web: http://helix.net/~maxy/concrete.html Email to: maxy@helix.net Snail Mail to: Concrete: c/o Coyote apt 15312, 111 Ast. Surrey B.C, V3R 6G7, Canada Phone us: 1.604.930.0328 (Concrete Voicemail Server) Fax to: 1.604.263.5440 (To: Submissions Fool)