CIRCA 89, Autumn 1999 cover images: Doug Aitken, Ronnie Hughes CIRCA 89 also contains a 26-page Art Education Supplement. It is also available separately, while stocks, last, from the CIRCA offices, price £3. Full texts from the supplement are also online. Regular columns: Visual Arts/North Visual Arts/South Film and Television Slave to the Machine News bits

Features Gemma Tipton: If you can make it there... Tips for New York and useful contact information for the Big Apple Orla Ryan: Meaningful instances and laguna lacunae Report from the Venice Biennale Maeve Connolly: A constructive lack of agenda A 'themeless' art symposium in New York Gemma Tipton: Lest they fade Commemorating tragedy in Omagh and Dublin's inner city Ciarán Swan: Red roses for the President The visual language of the Mary Robinson campaign Eoghan McTigue: Transgressive events Art and the eerie Steve Tomasula: Time capsule: self-capsule On a biotechnological intervention by Eduardo Kac PROJECT Martina Corry: from the series Photogenic Drawings REVIEWS Cork: Intermedia, Limerick, Derry, Belfast, Drogheda/Dundalk, Dublin I, Dublin II, London, Scotland, Ghent: SMAK, New York, Tokyo, The Crafts in 20th Century Britain, Los Angeles: SIGGRAPH 99 Sites relating to this issue