Guest Editor: José Alberto Gomes This special issue of the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts is inspired by the first >>| Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference, held at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts in Porto, Portugal. Like the conference, this issue seeks to celebrate the convergence of sound, new media, and artistic expression by exploring a wide range of innovative practices, theories, and approaches. It aims to foster meaningful discussions that critically examine traditional notions of art while pushing the boundaries of creativity. Following the conference, we invited various authors to develop and submit their research, with the hope that their contributions will shed further light on how we perceive and construct the world through sonic and new media art practices.

Editorial v16 n1...5-7 Explorations on Sound and New Media Art...9-13 GhostDance: On the Materiality Feeling of Dancing Bodies in Virtual Reality...14-36 Why Listen with Animals? Straining toward an Environmental Resonance...37-54 Memorial Contours...55-74 LOOM • ROOM • HARP...75-87 It’s Not Raining. How to Perform the Weather in a Time of Climate Change...88-100 Computational Creativity Without Computers...102-125 Brazilian Digital Women Artists: Giselle Beiguelman and Vitória Cribb in the First Collection of Digital Arts of a Public Brazilian Art Museum...126-142 Vampirizing With AI, Resignifying Images...144-155 AI as Mirror: a Review of “Vampirizing With AI, Resignifying Images”...156-160 Review: Collecting the Collections...162-165