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Leonardo/ISAST Governing
Board of Directors
Mission Statement: Leonardo/ISAST serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology, and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists.
Vision Statement: Science and Technology dominate our current landscape, emerging with an intensity and velocity never before experienced. This intense intellectual creativity needs to be integrated with the humanizing activity of creating art, to bring balance to how we experience our current existence and imagine our futures. Over the course of history, art has been both an organizing and integrating role with our emotional and intellectual lives. Art serves as a means of presenting, questioning, understanding and creating order out of chaos and change. Imagination often leads the way of discovery in science. Innovation of art, science and technology will allow for new ideas that may be important economically and socially. Leonardo/ISAST serves as the organization that nurtures and fosters this alliance between the arts and sciences, proactively bringing these social networks together leading to greater creativity and social change in both areas.
Activities include publication of the art, science and technology journal Leonardo; the Leonardo Music Journal; the Leonardo Book Series; the electronic journal, Leonardo Electronic Almanac; and our World Wide Web Site, Leonardo On-Line (all published by The MIT Press). We have a sister organization in France, the Association Leonardo, which publishes the Observatoire Leonardo Web Site. We have a number of other activities including the Leonardo Educators and Students Program and an awards program
Board Discussions (password protected)
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Jeffrey Babcock(07-09)
International Center for the Arts
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
Administration #154A
San Francisco, CA 94132
E-mail: jeffnb@sfsu.edu
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Jeffrey Babcock is a composer, producer, consultant
and arts executive with a special interest and expertise in creative technologies
that are expanding,
even redefining the creative process and significantly influencing the role
of the arts in society. As Executive Director San Francisco State
University's International Center for the Arts, he leads a multidisciplinary
team of distinguished artists and innovators who pursue a variety of
entrepreneurial initiatives that focus on the creative process and the
advancement of gifted emerging artists through research projects,
performances and exhibitions. Babcock co-founded the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Institute with artistic directors Leonard Bernstein and Michael
Tilson Thomas, and the New World Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas where
he served as that organization's first president and CEO. He led the
creative/technology team that developed the innovative Pianocorder
Reproducing System for Superscope/Marantz, directed the Clarice Smith Center
for the Performing Arts at the University of Maryland, served as Dean of
Fine Arts at Boston University and General Director and CEO of Boston
Ballet, and owned Cultural Strategies, Inc., a non-profit consulting, event
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Michael Joaquin Grey (06-08)
344 W 14th St. E2
New York, NY 10014
E-mail: michaeljoaquingrey@mac.com
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Michael Joaquin Grey is an artist, designer, inventor and entrepreneur. His popular educational toy ZOOB has won honors from ID Magazine, Consumer Reports, Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Astra and the American Toy Institute. Designed by Grey, ZOOB merges genetic engineering with Tinker Toys. As an artist, Grey has exhibited internationally and won the Ars Electronica's Golden Nica Award. He is in the collections of museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, MOCA, Los Angeles, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Grey has served on the boards of Zero One, ATC and Eyebeam Atelier, among others. His current work invstigates synesthetic cinema and computational filmmaking.
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Greg Harper (07-09)
E-mail: gharper@harperlaw.net
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Greg Harper is an attorney and a politician. His formal education consists of a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and B.A. in Economics, both from the University of Illinois. His graduate work focused on Artificial Intelligence at San Jose State University and culminated with a J.D. from the University of California at Hastings. He is the Principal of Harper & Associates, a law firm specializing in contract and land use law. Since 2000, Harper has served in the elected political position as Director of the Alameda-Contra Costa County Transit District for Ward 2, representing approximately 300,000 citizens of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont California. Currently he is President of that Board and as well. He is also a member of the Berkeley’s Measure G Global Warming Task Force. His numerous political positions and appointments include the position of Mayor of Emeryville from 1990 to 1991. Harper is excited about exploring the rarified intersection of art and pure science. His interests are in determining how Leonardo/ISAST might benefit from its more grounding correlative of the intersection of art and applied sciences or engineering. His experience extends to drafting contracts for commissioned sculpture in which art education is sorely lacking. But most of all he anticipates using his legal expertise to protect Leonardo/ISAST and his organizational expertise to help it further grow and mature.
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John Hearst (07-09)
E-mail: jehearst@berkeley.edu
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Dr. John Hearst is a co-founder of Cerus Corporation where he served as a Director from 1991 to 2002 and as Vice President of New Science Opportunities from 1996 to 2004. He has had a long academic career, having been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley ("UCB") from 1962 to 1996. As an Emeritus Professor, Dr. Hearst retains the position of Senior Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ("LBL"). He also served as Director of the Chemical Dynamics Division at LBL from 1986 to 1989. Dr. Hearst is well known for his work on psoralen photochemistry, DNA replication and transcription, DNA excision repair, DNA helix elasticity, the structure of eucaryotic chromosomes and the first DNA sequences of the reaction center and light harvesting genes associated with photosynthesis. The basic science foundation utilized in the Cerus photochemical inactivation technology was developed in the Hearst laboratory at UCB. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 1992, Dr. Hearst received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from Lehigh University and received The Berkeley Citation from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999.
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Roger F. Malina
(08-10)
211 Sutter St., suite #501
San Francisco, CA 94108
E-mail: rmalina@alum.mit.edu
Web: http://www.astrsp-mrs.fr/www/mal.html
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Roger Malina is an astronomer and space scientist. He is the former director of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale CNRS, Marseille, France, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is currently a member of the SNAP consortium to build a new astronomy satellite to study dark energy and dark matter in the universe. He was the founding Chairman of Leonardo/ISAST, and since 1982 has served as Executive Editor of the journal Leonardo. He writes and speaks on the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology.
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Sonya Rapoport
(08-10)
6 Hillcrest Court
Berkeley, CA 94705
E-mail: sonyarap@lmi.net
Website: http://www.sonyarapoport.net
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Sonya Rapoport's computer-assisted artworks date back to the mid-1970s. She has been involved in art/science collaborations with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory , the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley and the Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, CSIC, Córdoba, Spain. The Peabody Museum at Harvard University, The National Library in Madrid, and the Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands were among the venues for exhibiting these works. Rapoport, trained as a traditional artist, started her art career as an abstract expressionist. She was associated with the original John Bolles Art Gallery in San Francisco in the early 1960s and has had one-person exhibitions at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Crocker Art Museum of California in Sacramento. Since the 1970s her computer-assisted cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary interests evolved into multi-media interactive installations that have been presented nationally and internationally. Her recent lecture "From Homunculus to Golem: Tracking an Alter Avatar" was presented at the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the UC Berkeley's Center for New Media. Her web works Make Me a Man and Brutal Myths (with Marie Sat) were presented in April 2005 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
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Beverly Reiser(07-09)
6979 Exeter Drive
Oakland, CA 94611
E-mail: beverly@idiom.com
Web: http://www.beverlyreiser.com
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Beverly Reiser has worked with a wide range of light-emitting media,
from stained glass to large-scale kinetic neon and glass walls with
computer-controlled light sequencing in architectural settings. As
personal computers and interactive multimedia emerged, she began using
them to continue her exploration of light, color movement, environment
and viewer participation. Her work has been commissioned and exhibited
in Europe, Canada, the United States and Japan. Reiser was the president
of Ylem/Artists Using Science & Technology, and founded, designed and
directed Ylem's "Art on the Edge" website (http://www.ylem.org/). She
produced an interactive multimedia installation for Exploration Place, a
children's science museum in Kansas, which takes viewers on a virtual
journey through the human circulatory system, lungs and brain. In 2004
Burning Man commissioned her to do an interactive sound and video
installation called The Black Hole of Desire, which collected and played
back live what people said were their desires.
In 2006 Burning Man commissioned her to do a work called The Hopeand
fearometer. She collaborated on video installations for the Interactive
TV conference at Yerba Buena Art Center and for Yuri's night at the NASA
Center at The Ames Reasearch Center at Moffet Field. Her website is at:
http://www.beverlyreiser.com and
http://www.ylem.org/artists/breiser/heart_theater_home.htm. Ms. Reiser
is chair of the Leonardo/ISAST Advisory Board and associate curator of
the Lush Life gallery at the Jazz Heritage Center.
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Christian Simm (07-09)
swissnex
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
E-mail: christian.simm@swissnexSanFrancisco.org
Web: www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org
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Christian Simm is the executive director of swissnex, an exchange platform fostering cooperations and partnerships between Switzerland and Western North America in science and technology, education and entrepreneurship, and art and innovation. In December 1997, Simm opened the Swiss Science & Technology Office in San Francisco for the Western U.S.A. and Western Canada, which fosters high-level transatlantic exchanges in R&D, education and innovation. Simm is the author of numerous articles in newspapers and magazines and a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. Prior to his current position, he was director of CAST, a public-private partnership in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has kicked off various Swiss participations in European innovation and technology initiatives, co-founded a company active in process management, and was research group leader at Hydro-Québec in Montréal (Canada). Simm holds a Ph.D. in physics and management degrees from IMD and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
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Tami Spector
(08-10)
Department of Chemistry
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
Ph: (415) 422-2927, fax: (415) 422-5157
Email: spector@usfca.edu
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Tami Spector is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of San Francisco. She received her B.A. from Bard College, her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. Trained as a physical organic chemist her experimental research interests are focused on the transformations of strained ring organics, the design and synthesis of organic selective ion transport systems, and spectroscopic analysis of intramolecular hydrogen bonding. In addition, she has published in the field of computational chemistry with an emphasis on molecular dynamics and free energy calculations of biomolecular systems. She also has a strong interest in aesthetics and chemistry and has published and presented work on The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease, John Dalton and The Aesthetics of Molecular Representation, and The Visual Image of Chemistry.
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Darlene Tong (06-08)
J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU
1630 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-4030
E-mail: dtong@sfsu.edu
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Darlene Tong is Head of Information, Research & Instructional Services at San Francisco State University. Her responsibilities at SFSU include coordinating the new library building project and being subject liaison for art, architecture and design subject areas. A prolific writer, Tong has presented material on archiving new art documentation and has written recently about alternative art and multicultural art research. Tong is a contributor to an ongoing biographical project on California Asian-American artists. In addition to serving on the Leonardo/ISAST Board, Tong also serves on the Advisory Board of the Poetry Center/American Poetry Archives and on the Board of Directors of La Mamelle/Art Com, a non-profit artist organization that has supported alternative art and new art technologies since 1975.
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Meredith Tromble (07-09)
800 Chestnut St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
E-mail: mtromble@sfai.edu
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Meredith Tromble is an artist, writer, and co-publisher of Stretcher.org. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and faculty co-founder of SFAI's Center for Art + Science. In addition to Stretcher.org, her magazine affiliations have included founding editor-in-chief of Art Contemporaries and art editor for Breathe (2004-05) and art editor for LIMN Magazine of Art and Design (1998-2000). As editor-in-chief of the original NextMonet.com, she created the on-line magazine Mark in 2000-2001. Before developing these publications she served as editor-in-chief of Artweek from 1996-1998. She is the author of hundreds of articles, interviews, and catalog essays and the editor of The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I, published by the University of California Press (2005). With the Stretcher collective, she exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, and as an independent artist she has shown at venues ranging from Mills College Art Gallery to the Walter and McBean Galleries at SFAI.
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Stephen Wilson
(08-10)
Art Department
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway
San Francisco, CA 94132
E-mail: swilson@sfsu.edu
Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/
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Stephen Wilson is a San Francisco author, artist and professor who
explores the cultural implications of emerging technologies such as
biosensors, gps, and artificial intelligence. His award winning
interactive installations & performances have been shown internationally
in galleries and SIGGRAPH, CHI, NCGA, Ars Electronica, and V2 art shows.
He has been an investigator in NSF projects and artist in residence at various
think tanks including Xerox PARC. He has published numerous articles and books
including the latest "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and
Technology" (MIT Press, 2002). He directs the Conceptual/Information Arts
Program at San Francisco State University which prepares artists to work at the
frontiers of research. More details are available at
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/.
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Mark Beam
Mina Bissell
Anne Brooks-Pfister
Rosa Casarez-Levison
Theodosia Ferguson
Penny Finnie
Rich Gold
Larry Larson
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Curtis Karnow
Marjorie Duckworth Malina
Christine Maxwell
Robert Maxwell
Samuel Okoshken
Greg Niemeyer
Ed Payne
Anne Brooks Pfister
Mark Resch
Marci Reichelstein
Lord Eric Roll
Piero Scaruffi
Joel Slayton
Aimee Tsao
Makepeace Tsao
Barbara Lee Williams
Richard Wilson
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In Memoriam:Marjorie Duckworth Malina
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Marjorie Duckworth Malina was born on 28 April 1918 in Elslack, Yorkshire, England. The daughter of John James Duckworth and Mary Anne Bolton, she was the youngest of four; her sisters were Thyra, Annie and Mary. She attended the University of London, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1939. She trained in accountancy while working in her father's textile company, JJ Duckworth Ltd. During World War II she served in the Women's Auxiliary Corps, reaching the rank of captain, and with the antiaircraft batteries operated by women that helped defend Britain during the war. Shortly after the war she applied to work at UNESCO, a newly founded organization, after hearing a radio broadcast by Julian Huxley, and was hired in the personnel department in 1947. There she met Frank Malina, then Deputy Director for Science of UNESCO, and they married in 1949. Frank and Marjorie bought a house in Boulogne Bellancourt and raised two sons, Roger and Alan. The Malina home was the birthplace of the journal Leonardo and a center of art-science debate in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. It was also the studio where Frank Malina worked as a pioneer in the kinetic art movement. The steady flow of guests and visitors included astronautical pioneers, artists and scholars including Jacob Bronowski, Frank Popper, Academician Sedov, Roy Ascott and Leonardo editorial board members. Numerous friends and colleagues enjoyed the hospitality of Marjorie Duckworth Malina. She worked tirelessly for the success of the Leonardo project and was an ardent defender of the ideals of international collaboration. Marjorie passed away in the spring of 2006. Donations to Leonardo/ISAST in memory of Marjorie Malina are gratefully accepted.
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In Memoriam:Barbara Lee Williams
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Barbara Lee Williams was a San Francisco Bay Area art critic and essayist specializing in 20th-century artists and ethics. A former curator and
educator, she wrote regularly for San Francisco Sidewalk, Microsoft's Bay Area entertainment guide; her work has also appeared in
"The Threepenny Review," "San Francisco Magazine," "The San Francisco Chronicle," "Christian Science Monitor" and
literary publications. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology since 1997 and was the Vice-Chairman of
the Board and head of the Leonardo Awards Program Committee. She also contributed dialogues on electronic arts to Leonardo Digital Reviews. Barbara passed away in
March of 2002.
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In Memoriam:Rich Gold
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Rich Gold was a composer, cartoonist and researcher who in the 1970s
co-founded the League of Automatic Music Composers, the first network
computer band. As an internationally known artist he invented the field of
Algorithmic Symbolism, an example of which, "The Party Planner," was
featured in Scientific American. He was head of the sound and music
department of Sega USA's coin-op video game division and the inventor of
the award winning "Little Computer People" (Activision), the first fully
autonomous computerized person one could buy. For 5 years he headed the
electronic and computer toy research group at Mattel Toys and was the
manager of the Mattel PowerGlove, among other interactive toys. He also
worked on Captain Power, the first interactive broadcast TV show and ICVD,
an early CD-based video system. After working as a consultant in Virtual
Reality he joined Xerox PARC, where he was a researcher in Ubiquitous
Computing, the study of invisible, embedded and tacit computation. He was a co-designer of the PARC Tab, helped launch the
successful LiveBoard project, and was the inventor or co-inventor on 10
patents. In 1992 he created and ran for ten years the PARC artist-in-residence
program (PAIR), which pairs fine artists and scientists together based on
shared technologies (Art and Innovation, MIT Press, describes the
project). He was the manager of a multi-disciplinary laboratory,
RED (Research in Experimental Documents), which looks at the creation of
new document genres by merging art, design, science and engineering. His
particular area of study was in corporate identity within new genres
and "living documents" (ever changing documents deeply embedded in ever
changing cultures). Rich Gold was a Fellow at The World
Economic Forum and as an Applied Cartoonist gave talks all over the world
on his work, the pragmatics of knowledge art and on contemporary
innovation. His passion was the merging of art, science, design and
engineering. Rich passed away in January of 2003.
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