Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board of Directors
Greg Harper, Chair, Treasurer, Interim President
Meredith Tromble, Secretary
Roger F. Malina, Chair Emeritus
Jeffrey Babcock
Nina Czegledy
Jim Crutchfield
Melinda Klayman
Gordon Knox
Tami Spector
Marcia Tanner
Darlene Tong
Stephen Wilson
Past Board Members
Board Discussions (password protected)
Our Mission: The critical challenges of the 21st century require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology. Leonardo/ISAST fosters collaborative explorations both nationally and internationally by facilitating interdisciplinary projects and documenting and disseminating information about interdisciplinary practice.
Vision Statement: Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and technology. Through publications, initiatives and public forums, Leonardo/ISAST facilitates cross-disciplinary research in these fields, seeking to catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century. Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. By enhancing communication between scientists, artists, and engineers, Leonardo supports experimental projects and interacts with established institutions of art and science to transform their research and educational practices.
Greg Harper
(07-09)
E-mail: gharper@harperlaw.net
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.
topJeffrey Babcock
(07-09)
E-mail: jbabcock47@gmail.com
Jeffrey Babcock is an arts and university executive, producer, consultant and composer with an extended background in and relationship with creative technologies. As founder and managing director/chief executive he has conceived, successfully launched and managed a half-dozen successful arts and cultural organizations to sustainability, including San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts, an entrepreneurial, multidisciplinary creative, production and academic training project, the Miami-based New World Symphony, which he co-founded with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and served as president and CEO; Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, which he developed in collaboration with Leonardo Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas and Daniel Lewis; the Clarice Smith Center for the Arts at Maryland, for which he served as executive director; and, Atlanta’s four-year Cultural Olympiad and 1996 Centennial Olympic Arts Festival, which he directed and served as executive producer. He has also served as Dean of Fine Arts at Boston University, General Director/CEO of Boston Ballet, and founded and serves as principal of Cultural Strategies, Inc., a consultancy that provides services to arts, arts education and entertainment organizations, and pursues collaborative entrepreneurial ventures with adventurous, creative partners.
topNina Czegledy
(09-11)
E-mail: czegledy@interlog.com
Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer works internationally on collaborative art and science and technology projects. She has produced time based and digital works, won awards for her artwork and exhibited widely. Czegledy has lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide, her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals. "What will you do to cool the earth?" a collaborative public art project. Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project, Digitized Bodies Virtual Spectacles, Points of Entry and the Aurora projects initiated by Czegledy, focus on the changing perception of the environment and the human body and are presented via on-line and on-site events internationally. Czegledy is President of Critical Media a Canadian based Knowledge Organization, she curated numerous touring exhibitions. Czegledy, is a Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Associate Adjunct Professor Concordia University, Montreal, Honorary Fellow, Moholy Nagy University of Design, Budapest, member of the international space art network, co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), executive board member of Increate.org (NZ) and ex-officio chair of ISEA.
topJim Crutchfield
(09-11)
E-mail: chaos@cse.ucdavis.edu
http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos
Jim Crutchfield teaches nonlinear physics at the University of California, Davis, directs its Complexity Sciences Center, and promotes science interventions in nonscientific settings. He's mostly concerned with what patterns are, how they are created, and how intelligent agents discover them.
topMelinda Klayman
(09-11)
E-mail: melinda@klayperson.com
Melinda Klayman is Program Manager for Sony U(x)nited, the User Experience team for Sony and Sony Ericsson, where she combines her background in art and art history with experience in mobile computing to influence the future of consumer technology. After achieving a bit of notoriety for co-creating the online sexy role playing game, Anime Noir, Melinda's personal endeavors to combine art, science, and technology in her own work has been limited to occasionally dancing the robot. Otherwise she just offers her opinion on other people's efforts, which is why the world invented the discipline of art criticism. In her spare time, Melinda fronts the San Francisco band, Madam and the Ants.
topGordon Knox
(10-12)
E-mail: gordonknox@gmail.com
Gordon Knox is the Director of the Arizona State University Art Museum. Previously a core collaborator at the Stanford Humanities Lab, Knox developed international projects that connect artists with scientists and technologists to develop contexts that expanded the circulation of ideas and advance social justice. Knox was the founding director of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy and has advised numerous international residency programs and commission-oriented cultural institutions in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa in the areas of fund raising, management, program design and international collaboration. Knox’s interest in the relationship between critical, artistic inquiry and social change grows from his studies in anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, Cambridge University and the University of Chicago.
topRoger 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
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.
topTami 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
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.
topMarcia Tanner
(09-11)
Email: marcialart@aol.com
Marcia Tanner is an independent curator and writer based in Berkeley, California. Former director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Tanner most recently organized We Interrupt Your Program at Mills College Art Museum in 2008. Her previous exhibitions include Brides of Frankenstein at the San Jose Museum of Art (2005), Bad Girls West, UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1994); Shadow Play and Location Location, San Jose ICA; We Look and See, Berkeley Art Museum; Tom Marioni: Trees and Birds, Mills College, Oakland; Mi Casa es Su Casa, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Aural Sex and Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; and Dromology: Ecstasies of Speed and LifeLike, New Langton Arts, San Francisco. The author of numerous reviews, articles, and catalogue essays, Tanner’s writings on art have appeared in Art+Text, ArtNews, Art Ltd., artnet.com, Artweek, Cabinet, Flash Art, Leonardo, LIMN Magazine, Rhizome News, the San Francisco Chronicle, stretcher.org, and other publications. She currently chairs the Collections Committee of the Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley and co-chairs the Advocacy Committee for the Northern California chapter of ArtTable.
topDarlene Tong
(06-08)
J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU
1630 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-4030
E-mail: dtong@sfsu.edu
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.
topMeredith Tromble
(07-09)
800 Chestnut St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
E-mail: mtromble@sfai.edu
Meredith Tromble is an artist and writer with an emphasis on the relation between art, science, and technology. From 2000-2010 she was active as a member of the artist collective stretcher.org, publishing an online magazine and orchestrating dialogs and events. Her independent work of the past decade includes a series of performance/interventions focusing attention on psychological aspects of sustainability. She received an MFA in studio art (painting and installation) from Mills College in 1991. Her practice as an art writer began as a regular artist/commentator for KQED. In addition to producing hundreds of commentaries in fifteen years of broadcasting and public speaking, she has authored many features and reviews, and served as art editor or editor-in-chief for four print magazines, including Artweek and Art Contemporaries.
topStephen 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/
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/
topPAST BOARD MEMBERS
Mark BeamMina Bissell
Anne Brooks-Pfister
Rosa Casarez-Levison
Theodosia Ferguson
Penny Finnie
Rich Gold
Michael Joaquin Grey
John Hearst
Larry Larson
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Curtis Karnow
Marjorie Duckworth Malina
Christine Maxwell
Robert Maxwell
Samuel Okoshken
Greg Niemeyer
Ed Payne
Anne Brooks Pfister
Sonya Rapoport
Beverly Reiser
Mark Resch
Marci Reichelstein
Lord Eric Roll
Piero Scaruffi
Christian Simm
Joel Slayton
Aimee Tsao
Makepeace Tsao
Barbara Lee Williams
Richard Wilson
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In Memoriam:
Marjorie Duckworth Malina
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.
In Memoriam:
Barbara Lee Williams
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.
In Memoriam:
Rich Gold
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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