Events
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: INAUGURAL UCSC LASER, 8 OCTOBER 2013
On 8 October 2013, the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz will host the launch of UCSC’s LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) series. At this inaugural event, artists, scientists and scholars will lay the foundation for the series by speaking about the intertwining of art and science. Questions like “why art and science” and “why now” will provide context for the series as a local forum for presenting creative, original and interdisciplinary art-and-science projects underway throughout the University of California, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Find out more
KOSMICA MEXICO
The second annual three-day galactic gathering in Mexico—an off-the-planet mix of art, science, debate, music and film exploring alternative and cultural uses of space—will be held 8–10 August 2013. Organized by artist Nahum and The Arts Catalyst (U.K.) in partnership with Laboratorio Arte Alameda, INBA (Mexico), KOSMICA Mexico brings together artists, astronomers, performers, space explorers and musicians from Mexico, the U.K., France, Lithuania, Slovenia, Australia and the U.S.A. actively working in cultural and artistic aspects of space exploration. Find out more
SOUNDSCAPES, KANBAR FORUM: SEPTEMBER 2013
To explore and test the limits of the state-of-the-art Meyer Constellation sound system housed in the San Francisco Exploratorium’s new 3,600 square-foot Kanbar Forum, this September, guest artists Shane Myrbeck and Emily Shisko and Artist-in-Residence David Cerf will create sound installations that function as aural exhibits. Shisko and Myrbeck are collaborating to create an interactive auditory experience that will allow visitors to create spontaneous compositions with the help of others in the room. David Cerf will create a newly commissioned sound work specifically for the space. Find out more
Publications
LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC VOLUME 19, ISSUE 2: NOT HERE NOT THERE, PART 2– NOW AVAILABLE
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Volume 19, Issue 2: Not Here Not There surveys the current trends in augmented reality (AR) artistic interventions and reflects on the future of AR interventions. There is no other substantive academic collection currently available on this topic. Not Here Not There features contributions by and interviews with Salvatore Iaconesi, Chiara Passa and Mark Skwarek among many others. Find out more
Opportunities and Community Announcements
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2014
This conference marks the 20th anniversary of the first Tucson "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference, an interdisciplinary conference known for rigorous and cutting-edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience, including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, medicine, quantum physics and cosmology, as well as art, technology and experiential and contemplative approaches. Speakers include: Ned Block, David Chalmers, Karl Deisseroth, Daniel Dennett, David Eagleman, Rebecca Goldstein, Stuart Hameroff, Christof Koch, Henry Markram, John Searle, Petra Stoerig, Giulio Tononi and many more. The conference will be held 21–26 April 2014. Abstracts will be considered for oral and poster presentations and for art/tech demo sessions. Online submissions open: 15 August 2013. Find out more
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: INTEL FELLOWSHIP @ CIID
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) announces a new Intel Fellowship Program. The Intel Research Fellowship @ CIID recognizes and resources outstanding researchers who extend the impact of research in interaction design, artistic practice in technology and creative inquiry in communications and media. The fellowship will be offered to practice-based researchers in art, design and technology, and will support the development of self-led projects that push boundaries in practice and thinking in these areas. Deadline to apply: 23 August 2013. Find out more
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MADATAC 05 INTERNATIONAL ESSAY PRIZE
In its aspiration to expand the bibliography concerning the practice, study and research of new media narratives and the tools of audiovisual digital art in all its forms, MADATAC 05 is issuing a call for previously unpublished essays written in Spanish or English that adhere to the theme of new media art, electronic audiovisual art, multimedia art, video art, cyberart, bioart, digital technologies, sound art or any other creative symbiosis between art, science and technology. Deadline to submit: 2 September 2013. Find out more
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FLAT TIME HOUSE ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY
In partnership with the Barry Flanagan Foundation, Flat Time House (FTHo) is accepting applications for an artist's residency to begin November 2013. FTHo, the former home and studio of artist John Latham, which he designated a 'living sculpture,' will operate as a base for interrogating sculpture as a subject of research, rather than a static art form or medium. The residency will involve time spent in the John Latham and Barry Flanagan Archives. The selected artist will be provided with accommodation, studio, stipend and a production budget towards an FTHo exhibition of their work made while in residence. Deadline to submit: 8 September 2013. Find out more
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE ART OF SCIENCE IN NEW ENGLAND, 1700-1920
This one-day symposium will explore visual representations of scientific inquiry produced, collected, distributed or otherwise circulating in New England from the start of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Beginning with the scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment and extending through the 19th and into the 20th centuries, New Englanders sought to understand and explain scientific paradigms through two- and three-dimensional representations such as botanical drawings, geological maps and charts, anatomical models, waxworks, dioramas. The symposium will be held 15 March 2014 at Collins Cinema, Davis Museum, Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature rather than descriptive and should be approximately 20 minutes long. Please submit 250-word proposals and a two-page CV via e-mail to Martha McNamara at: mmcnamar@wellesley.edu and Barbara Matthews at: bmathews@historic-deerfield.org. Deadline to submit: 30 September 2013.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY AND BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED MUSIC, SOUND, ART AND DESIGN (EVOMUSART 2014)
EvoMUSART 2014 is the twelfth European event and the third international conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design. The main goal of EvoMUSART 2014 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The event will be held in April 2014 in Baetha, Andalusia, Spain, as part of EvoStar, an event comprised of five co-located conferences. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in the EvoMUSART proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Deadline to submit: 1 November 2013. Find out more
