Leonardo On-Line: Past Events

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, The University of Illinois eDREAM Institute, The University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

Schedule:

6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7:00-7:30pm: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media"

Employing a range of strategies for acquiring, organizing, and re-contextualizing information found on the World Wide Web; exploring themes such as online communities (in which participants communicate through mediated, self-defined personas), "cyber-stalking," as well as using the Internet as a means of self-discovery and recollecting personal histories.

7:30-8:00pm: Shona Kitchen (San Jose State University, CADRE) on "Hyper-functional Landscapes and Art"

Airports are a work of art in themselves; an aesthetic framework for routing people through the microcosm of airline travel. Airports have what one might call a "captured" audience, creating a perfect place for art to take advantage and send the traveler on an alternative journey within a journey.

8:00-8:15: BREAK

8:15-8:45pm: Leila Takayama (Stanford Univ and Willow Garage) on "Throwing Voices"

Audio projection technologies in our everyday environments throw our voices to new locations in ways that influence our experiences of closeness, comfort, and dominance. Psychological experiments demonstrate several ways that the spatial locations of projected voices influence how well we perform on tasks, how psychologically distanced we become, and how we feel about each other.

8:45pm-9:15pm: Fred Kuttner (UC Santa Cruz) on "Can Quantum Mechanics Save Science from Newton's Sleep?"

Newtonian physics and its sequelae in the sciences including biology and psychology point to a comprehensible yet pointless universe. Quantum mechanics may offer a way out, but there are dangers.

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Tuesday, 27 July, 2010

Art papers (morning session): Design and Computation: Process, Product, Play
9-10:30 AM
Theater 411
SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, CA

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Art papers (afternoon session): Information Aesthetics
3:45-5:15 PM
Theater 411
SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, CA

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Art Papers inform artistic disciplines, set standards, and stimulate future trends. In addition to the core topics of the digital arts and interactive techniques, Art Papers explore the theme of SIGGRAPH 2010's juried art gallery, TouchPoint: The Haptic Exchange Between Digits.

Art Papers are presented by their authors in 20-minute sessions with five minutes of Q&A. The papers are published in a special issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology. The issue also includes visual documentation of the works exhibited in TouchPoint: The Haptic Exchange Between Digits. Publication of this special issue coincides with SIGGRAPH 2010.

Tuesday, 27 July, 2010

TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits
Art Gallery Reception and Special Issue Release
2-3:30 pm
Room 150 Concourse Hall, near the Art Gallery
SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, CA

Celebrate the intersection of art and technology in TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits and the Special Issue of Leonardo. Talk with the artists, designers, and Art Papers authors about their work and meet the members of the SIGGRAPH 2010 committee who organized this year's Art Gallery.

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Wednesday, 28 July, 2010

20XX.EDU: Grand Challenges in Education, Part I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Theater 411
SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, CA

This panel, organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and Leonardo/ISAST, brings together a diverse group of outstanding researchers and artists, academy and industry professionals, educators, and government officials to discuss the future of education in its broadest sense, encompassing both formal and informal learning.

New digital technologies for human expression and communication have given birth to a 24/7-connected worldwide community that offers individuals and institutions a myriad of new models for shared, interactive learning. Information from a variety of digital devices that we now carry with us at all times is reshaping the way we perceive the world and interact with it. Online collaboration and social networking now play a major role in how we acquire and spread knowledge.

How can educational institutions take advantage of the increasing popularity and dissemination of these technologies? How can individuals and institutions benefit from the massive increase of participatory and collaborative learning in our society? What are the major challenges in education today, in the sciences and the humanities? What are the new educational trends and paradigms for the coming decades? What kind of new learning contexts can be created outside of traditional institutions?

The recent MacArthur report on The Future of Learning Institutions in the Digital Age provides one set of responses to these questions. This panel continues the conversation.

Panelists:
Marc Barr, Middle Tennessee State University
Roger Malina, Leonardo/ISAST and University of Provence
David T. Goldberg,HASTAC, University of California
Rebecca Allen, NOKIA Hollywood
Mary Lou Maher, National Science Foundation
Sarah Cunningham, National Endowment for the Arts
Glenn Entis, VanEdge Capital

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28 July 2010

20XX.EDU: Grand Challenges in Education, Part II
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Theater 411
SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, CA

This panel, organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and Leonardo/ISAST, is a continuation of the conversation that begins in Part 1 among a diverse group of outstanding researchers and artists, academy and industry professionals, educators, and government officials to discuss the future of education in its broadest sense, encompassing both formal and informal learning.

Panelists:
Marc Barr, Middle Tennessee State University
Donna Cox, NSCA
James Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andy van Dam, Brown University
Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles
Roger Malina, Leonardo/ISAST and CNRS

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Wednesday, 28 July, 2010

Leonardo Town Hall and Leonardo Education and Art Forum Meeting (Birds of Feather meeting)
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room 506
SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, CA

Join the Leonardo Education and Art Forum for a town hall meeting to discuss matters of interest to the Leonardo community.

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12 July 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Admission is free but limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Linda Gass (Artist) on "Can Art Change Our Water Consciousness?"

A visual presentation on textile-based art informed by site, maps, aerial photography and environmental activism. The artwork portrays aerial views of the human marks on our landscape in an effort to draw attention to concerns about water, using beauty to encourage people to look at the hard issues we face.

7:10-7:45pm: Peter Foucault (SFAI) on "Systems and Interactivity in Drawing"

A discussion on how drawings are constructed through mark making systems, and how audience participation can influence the outcome of a final composition, focusing on an interactive robotic drawing installation

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Cindy Stokes (Photographer) on "Dynamic Form"

A discussion of photographs and comments on some of the universal principles involved in the image structures.

8:15pm-8:45pm: Imin Yeh on "Downloadable Mahjong"

A discussion and craft circle based upon print media in the digital age and contemporary possibilities for "La Perruque"

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9 June 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
515 N. Whisman Road
Mountain View, California

Admission is free but limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com

Schedule:

6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7:00-7:30pm: Robert Lang (Origami Artist) on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes"

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of has undergone a renaissance over the last few decades, in part due to the contributions of scientists and mathematicians to the art. Mathematical techniques can give rise to both artworks of remarkable beauty as well as real-world applications in medicine, space, and more.

7:30-8:00pm: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison on "How Can Art Help Create a Sustainable World?"

"The Force Majeure" is a work to reflect on the oncoming effects of Global Warming from a whole systems perspective. What can culture do, specifically the artist, as a response to the loss of glaciation and the ensuing problems with rivers and droughts in a region like Tibet? This work suggests a sweeping, but possible, biological response to the 2.4 million square kilometers of the Tibetan plateau as well as to other regions of the world.

8:00-8:15: BREAK

8:15-8:45pm: Victoria Scott and Scott Kildall (Zer01 Artists in Residence) on "Imaginary Gifts"

Gift Horse is a sculpture constructed almost entirely of recyclable materials, which depicts the mythological Trojan Horse, as originally modeled in and exported from the virtual world of Second Life.

8:45pm-9:15pm: Tom McKeag (BioDreamMachine) on "How Would Nature Do That?"

Teaching science through design to natural-born inventors.

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10 May 2010

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks satellite symposium
BarabásiLab - Center for Complex Network Research
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

By means of keynotes, contributed talks and interdisciplinary discussion we will explore and identify important issues surrounding the convergence of arts, humanities and complex networks. On the one hand we will concentrate on network structure and dynamics in areas ranging from art history and archeology to music, film and image science. In the same time we are interested in the development and critique of network visualizations from medieval manuscripts to the latest tools, such as Cytoscape and Processing. Our dual focus is based on the opinion that the study of networks and the study of visualizations of these networks complement each other, much in the same way as archeology cannot live without self-reflective art history - studying the represented always presupposes the study of representation. Bringing together network scientists and specialists from the arts and humanities we strive for a better understanding of networks and their visualizations, resulting in better images of networks, and a better use of these images. Running parallel to the NetSci2010 conference, the symposium will also provide a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers and practitioners of complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.

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10 May 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
Maraschi Room
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Chris Palmer (Artist) on "Tradition Meets Modern Digital Fabrication"

Custom software tools (rhinoscripts | grasshopper definitions) developed to serve the expression and fabrication of Middle Eastern styles combining structure and ornament

7:10-7:35pm: Therese Lahaie (Artist) on "Longing for the Background"

An unusual combination of glass, steel, motors, lighting and photography is employed in an investigation of the sciences, the natural world and contemplative practice. The technical and imaginative possibilities of LED lighting will also be discussed.

7:35-7:50pm: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Mona El Khafif (California College of the Arts) on "City Space Share"

Revitalizing and transforming urban activity in a city center through spatial strategies that recuperate the street frontage, promote productive inhabitation and initiate micro-urbanisms that support the local neighborhood.

8:15-8:45pm: Evelyne Gayou (INA France and Stanford CCRMA) on "Making and Listening"

The evolution of the musician's tools from musique concrete to electronic music through the philosophy of "making and listening", where first is the gesture and second the perception.

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14 April 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
515 N. Whisman Road
Mountain View, California

Schedule:

6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7:00-7:30pm: Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (USF) on "Knitting Code"

Knit cloth is tangibly constructed from series of knit and purl stitches. Code is constructed from intangible sets of zeros and ones strung together. Two projects to be shown and discussed include Virtual Knitting and KNiiTTiiNG. In Virtual Knitting users are able to knit with custom made electronic knitting needles in both physical and virtual space at the same time, constructing both tangible and intangible cloth. KNiiTTiiNG uses the Nintendo Wii to knit with.

7:30-8:00pm: Ken Eklund on "Massively Seeking Susan: Connecting Strangers Through Gameplay / ZOROP"

Don't believe those who dismiss it as some sort of game. Zorop is real, and so is the Great Zoropathetic Warp - the fabric of human connection woven whenever strangers find something in common. Zoropathians can prove it: through their agency, people will see the threads they add to this great weave (at the 01SJ Biennial in September). is it possible that just by visualizing simple human connections we can make the world a better place?

8:00-8:30: BREAK

8:30-9:00pm: Phil Ross (artist) on "It's Alive!: Curating Life into the Art Realm"

An introduction to the ideas and ambitions that gave rise to BioTechnique, a 2007 show that traced the history of life as a cultured thing; the complicated logistics in curating living works into galleries and museums; a larger view of the bio-culture industry.

9:00pm-9:30: Tami Spector (University of San Francisco) on "Nanoaesthetics"

The evolution of nanoaesthetics from representations of the molecular machine to the machine made image, including the aesthetics of molecular systems such as nanocars and nanoputians that reference the mechanistic and vitalistic philosophies of the 17th and 18th centuries

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8 March 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Helena Carmena (California Academy of Sciences) on "Connecting Art and Science through Museum Experiences"

Artists and scientists share similar approaches in their processes, an overlap in skills and processes has led to a thoughtful education-focused collaboration between the California Academy of Sciences and the de Young Fine Arts Museum.

7:10-7:35pm: Jesse Austin & Charles Lee (BIOS Design Collective) on "The Application of Biological Patterns to Architecture"

Design at the intersection of biology and technology. Collaborative self organization through the lens of bio-inspired design and information technology.

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Anna Couey on "Communication Systems as Social Sculpture"

Projects and reflections about artists involved in telecommunications as an artistic medium, from building communication systems as social sculpture to facilitating community-led research as a strategy for building power and transforming social systems.

8:15-8:45pm: Taraneh Hemami (Visual Artist) on "One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran"

Chronicling narratives of place and time, a group of Iranian artists examine the relationship between the patterns, rhythms, and systems that emerged from their everyday experiences in Tehran within the larger social and cultural context of the city.

8:45-9:30: More Socializing/Networking

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10 February 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
515 N Whisman Rd
Mountain View, CA 94043-2172

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by The University of Illinois eDREAM Institute, The University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

Schedule:

6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7-7:30pm: June Power (Altor Systems) on "A Matter of Form"

A discussion of how mathematics might provide inspiration for addressing complex management issues in distributed computer systems. The talk will be conceptual in nature and will aim to provide a glimpse into this very complex problem space.

7:30-8pm: John Edmark (Stanford Univ) on "Geometric Patterns of Change"

A number of transforming and kinetic works have been created as a result of an ongoing exploration into spatial patterns of symmetry and growth, focusing in particular on those arising out of logarithmic spiral structures, Fibonacci numbers, and the golden ratio.

8-8:30: BREAK

8:30-9pm: Carlo Sequin (U.C. Berkeley) on "Knotty Sculptures"

This presentation explores the use of simple knots as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures. One approach places simple n-foil knots on the n-sided faces of a Platonic or Archimedean polyhedron. Another investigation explores various generating principles for the construction of recursive knots. For instance, a simple crossing of two strands is replaced with a more complicated tangled version of two strands, and the process is then repeated recursively. A few of these designs conceived on a computer are then developed further to make actual 3D models on various rapid prototyping machines.

9-9:30pm: Gertrude Reagan (Visual Artist) on "My Life Among the Patterns"

Studying natural patterns both by drawing them and finding analogs for them in crafts materials. Patterns as metaphors for philosophic ideas.

9:30-10:00: More Socializing/Networking

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13 February 2010

Leonardo Education and Art Forum at CAA Chicago 2010
Regency A, Gold Level
West Tower
Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chicago, IL
12:30 PM–2:00 PM

"Migratory Structures: Scientific Imagery and Contemporary Art Practice"

Chair: Paul Hertz, independent artist and curator, Chicago

RE:presentation
Marlena Novak, Northwestern University
Jay Alan Yim, Northwestern University

Algorithmic Practices at the Intersection of Art and Science
Jean-Pierre Hebert, University of California, Santa Barbara

Better than Drugs: VR, Meditation, and Pain
Diane Gromala, Simon Fraser University

Visualization and the Art of Metaphoric Mapping
Jack Ox, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Discussant:Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago

11 January 2010

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
The University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Joe Davis (MIT Department of Biology) on "Rubisco Stars - An Active SETI Message from Arecibo"

A brief description of the transmission of a coded signal from the Arecibo Observatory to commemorate the 35-year anniversary of the Drake message for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). On November 7, 2009, a signal was transmitted to intercept three stars likely to have planets (GJ 83.1; SO 025300.5+165258; G5B).

7:10-7:35: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison on "How can art help create a sustainable world?"

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Laura Granka (Google and Stanford Univ) on "Applying Ethnography to Search"

People acquire information from a number of different sources, and online search is only one part of this equation. By conducting ethnographic research in homes and offices, we are better able to capture the number of different tools, techniques, and sources that people use for information discovery. At Google, I have conducted a great deal of research to better understand how all of these elements factor into the information seeking process. I'll share the insights I've learned from this research, as well as discuss how fostering effective collaboration with design and engineering teams has enabled Google to turn user behavior research insights into actionable ideas for product development and design.I acquired a camera and began noticing, and photographing, formations in the macroscopic world that much resembled what was seen in the microscope.

8:15-8:45pm: Victoria Vesna (UCLA) on "Bio-Nanotech + Art: Teaching / Learning / Creating in Social Networks"

Bioartists use cells, DNA molecules, proteins, and living tissues to bring to life ethical, social, and aesthetic issues of sciences. Nanotechnology has caught attention of artists to go beyond the visible and audible realm. A theory + practice course is being pioneered at UCLA and Parsons simultaneously with star art/scientist guests participating and free access for the general public to all course materials.

9:30-10:00: More Socializing/Networking

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9 December 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
The SETI Institute
Palo Alto, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7:00-7:30: Chris Chafe (Stanford) on "Making Music in Data-Rich Environments"

The material of music now includes possibilities from the vast and accessible "datascape" that we're able to hook into via computers and media. The lecture will traverse musical projects I've been involved with which have engaged data in many forms, from internet traffic and computer animation, to real-time environmental sensors as musical performers.

7:30-8:00: Paul Rabinow of UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science on "Ars Synthetica".

"Ars Synthetica" is a website that, while centered on synthetic biology, is a multi-media experiment in documentation, critique, debate, and problems.

8:00-8:30: BREAK

8:30-9:00: Deborah Munk of the San Francisco Dump on "The Art of Recycling"

An overview of the Artist in Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal and will focus on a few of the 70 artists who have had residencies. I will also discuss recycling, the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch and sustainability.

9:00-9:30: Cindy Stokes (Photographer) on "Dynamic Form"

A discussion of photographs and comments on some of the universal principles involved in the image structures. I first became intrigued with structure and pattern in nature while examining cells and tissues in the microscope during graduate school. It wasn't until after graduation that I acquired a camera and began noticing, and photographing, formations in the macroscopic world that much resembled what was seen in the microscope.

9:30-10:00: More Socializing/Networking

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26 November 2009

LEF@Re:live2009
Faculty of VCA and Music
University of Melbourne
234 St Kilda Road
SOUTHBANK Victoria 3000

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) will run a one day forum on the 26th November 2009 prior to the media art history conference Re:live.The LEF@Re:live will be focused on mapping the terrain: Institutional capacities in media art, science and technology creating an exchange on the burning current issues in education.

The LEF intend to publish policy papers in the course of the next few years. Contributions by participants of LEF conferences in 2008 form the base of our introductory LEF Strategic Summary document available for comment at http://mass.nomad.net.au/leonardo-education-forum-strategy-summary-on-media- art-education/

The Forum will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, 234 St Kilda Road, SOUTHBANK Victoria 300

10 00 am Welcome
Su Baker, Associate Professor Art, Head of School, Faculty of the VCA and Music, University of Melbourne

Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair, Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University and Dr Paul Thomas, Australian representative for LEF, Co chair Media Art History Conference, Re:live 09, Director Centre for Research in Art Science and Humanity Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.

10.10 am Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair presents LEF international initiatives & Policy Papers

10.30 am Dr.Paul Thomas and Jeremy Blank will report on the Australian national media art scoping study.

11.00 am Reports from delegates on LEF@ISEA - Ars on the three themes

11.15 am Professor Oliver Grau,, Chair for Image Science, Head Department for Cultural Studies
DANUBE UNIVERSITY, Krems, AUSTRIA

11.30 am Professor Ross Harley, Head of School, Media Arts, Acting Associate Dean Research, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia

11.45 am Professor Ian M Clothier, Faculty of Art, Commerce and Technology, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand, Director: Intercreate.org, SCANZ2006 & 2009

12 pm lunch

1.30 - 3.00 pm Working groups focus:

1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks

3.00 pm summary by session chairs

Working Groups

The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
Working group leaders: Oliver Grau & Melentie Pandelovski

The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
Working group leaders: Ross Harley & Cat Hope

The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational
Capacities and Benchmarks
Working group leaders: Ian Clothier & Attila Nemes

3.15pm - 4.30 pm Resolutions and outcomes
(With refreshments.)

Please feel free to circulate.

Contact/Organizers: Nina Czegledy (czegledy@interlog.com), Paul Thomas (p.thomas@curtin.edu.au) and Julian Stadon (j.stadon@curtin.edu.au)

9 November 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

This event is FREE but space is limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com.

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:10: Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) on "Software Studies, Software Art, Software Design"

Since software design is a process of writing, the "computer revolution" can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium.

7:10-7:35: Jim Campbell (artist) on "More is Less: Delving Into Lo-fi"

I'll discuss how my work over the last few years has gone from looking at very low-resolution visual image representations to looking at almost no-resolution non-image visual representations. I'll show different ways of distilling time and rhythm information from an event, ways that , when successful, present an essential and felt (as opposed to analytic) extremely minimal representation.

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15: Phil Ross (artist) on "It's Alive!: Curating life into the art realm"

8:15-8:45: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media"

8:45-9:30: More Socializing/Networking

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9 November 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:10: Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) on "Software Studies, Software Art, Software Design"

7:10-7:35: Jim Campbell (artist) on "More is Less: Delving Into Lo-fi"

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15: Phil Ross (artist) on "It's Alive!: Curating life into the art realm"

8:15-8:45: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media"

8:45-9:30: More Socializing/Networking

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14 October 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

This event is FREE but space is limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

7:00-7:30: Julie Newdoll on "Molecular Mirror up to Shakespeare, and other Tales"

Cell biology as a new surface upon which to gaze at the magnificent works of William Shakespeare as well as other myths and stories Biological systems and the myths and legends of cultures both ancient and contemporary have evolved in similar ways. Over time they have both been refined into the masterpieces they have become and speak from our deepest roots.

7:30-8:00: Steve Wilson (Artist and Author) on "Overview of Art and Biology Experimentation"

Biological research promises to have even more impact on the culture than electronics. It is critical that artists get involved. The presentation gives an overview covering the following topics: Cultural and Pragmatic Rationales for Involvement of Artists, Philosphical Issues Underlying Biology Research, Examples of Emerging Areas in Biology Research, Examples of Areas of Biology Research & Development Asking for Artistic Inquiry, Examples of artists Working with Biology, Examples from the presenter's installations: Protozoa Games and IntroSpection.

8:00-8:30: BREAK

8:30-9:00: Wayne Vitale (Gamelan Sekar Jaya) on "The Aesthetics of Oscillation in Balinese Music"

The gamelan orchestras of Bali are famous for their brilliant ensemble virtuosity. Underlying the metallic flash is an aesthetic sensibility of periodicity or oscillation that affects every aspect of the music. Based on Hindu cosmology, the Balinese concept of rwa bhineda---interdependent opposites---is manifest in the tiniest details of musical elaboration and interlocking melodies, in the paired tuning system of "detuned" unisons, and in extended gong periods several minutes long. This presentation gives an overview of the Balinese sense of beauty-in-oscillation.

9:00-9:30: Wayne Lanier on "Walking the Salt: Life at the Bottom of the Food Chain"

How salt marsh microorganisms get together to form well-ordered communities

9:30-10:00: More Socializing/Networking

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14 September 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:15pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:10: Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (USF) on "Knitting Code"

Knit cloth is tangibly constructed from series of knit and purl stitches. Code is constructed from intangible sets of zeros and ones strung together. This has been the basis for much of my work as an artist working across textiles and technology. In some of my recent works I began working with the idea of motion, the motion to knitting, typing, wearing cloth, working at a computer and translating what these motions could look like. Two projects to be shown and discussed include Virtual Knitting and KNiiTTiiNG. In Virtual Knitting users are able to knit with custom made electronic knitting needles in both physical and virtual space at the same time, constructing both tangible and intangible cloth. KNiiTTiiNG uses the Nintendo Wii to knit with.

7:10-7:35: Chris McKay (NASA AMES) on "This Martian Life"

3 Short Stories of life on Mars, in pictures

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15: Bonnie DeVarco (artist) on "Imago Mundi - Visioning Earth from MappaeMundi to Cyberspace" From Buckminster Fuller's geoscope to the latest gaming and virtual world technologies

8:15-8:45: Zann Gill on "What Daedalus told Darwin

Tracing a thought path from Leonardo da Vinci's little-known Codex Trivulzianus, through Adam Smith's neglected Theory of Moral Sentiments, which was overshadowed by his Wealth of Nations, highlights cultural biases that may explain why we emphasized a half interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, making the Tragedy of the Commons an inevitable outcome of evolutionary dynamics. Recent findings in cell biology raise questions about pure Darwinism (random variation and environmental selection) as the exclusive driver of evolution's ingenious designs. Mythical inventor/architect Daedalus tells the great scientist Charles Darwin that Intelligent Design has diverted us from the full meaning of "design" - its role in life's past and future evolution toward eco-sustainable futures.

8:45pm-9:30pm: Discussions, more socializing

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29 August 2009

Leonardo Education Forum @ ISEA 2009
Belfast, Ireland

13.45 Welcome
Kerstin Mey Director of Research Institute of Art and Design, University of Ulster. Artistic Director ISEA2009
Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair

13.55 Keynote Andrea Polli, Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program, University of New Mexico, LEF outgoing co-chair

14.15 LEF international initiatives & the White Paper
Nina Czegledy, Senior Fellow KMDI, University of Toronto Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University, LEF co-chair

14.35 Introduction to LEF working group session
Daniela Reimann, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz
LEF correspondent, Germany

14.45 Working groups

Focus:
1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks

16.15 Summary.

12 August 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

7:00-7:30: David Stork. (Ricoh Innovations and Stanford Univ) on "When computers look at art: Rigorous image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts".

New computer methods have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. How do these computer methods work? What can computers reveal about images that even the best-trained connoisseurs, art historians and artist cannot? How much more powerful and revealing will these methods become? In short, how is computer image analysis changing our understanding of art?

7:30-8:00: Darlene Lim (NASA) on "Learning by doing: A Hitchhikers' Guide to the Scientific Training of Moon and Mars Bound Astronauts"

Humans are set to return to the Moon. Astronauts will to be chosen from a variety of backgrounds. As we train them for their missions, we also want to put the heart and soul of humanity back in space exploration. We will focus on teaching them how to think and operate as field scientists and not just proxy scientists, by training them in Field Science and Exploration camps, notably at at Pavilion Lake , an artist's paradise. This will give them the chance to learn in a social environment, as humans do best. The experiment at Pavilion Lake will also include an artist in residence program.

8:00-8:30: BREAK

8:30-9:00: Irene Chien of Berkeley's Center for New Media on "Embodied Gaming from Dance Dance Revolution and Wii to Biofeedback Gaming"

Embodied Gaming from Dance Dance Revolution and Wii to Biofeedback Gaming Video games have been traditionally pathologized for turning players into passive thumb-twiddling zombies sucked into the virtual space of the computer screen. But video game interfaces from Dance Dance Revolution to Guitar Hero to Wii Fit now urge players to get up and move. They direct us away from the screen and toward player's real bodies, calling unprecedented attention to the curious ways our bodies occupy both digital and physical space.

9:00-9:30: Laura Granka (Google and Stanford Univ) on "Applying Ethnography to Search"

9:30pm-10:00pm: Discussions, more socializing

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4-6 August 2009

Leonardo @ SIGGRAPH 2009
New Orleans, LA

1. Leonardo/SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Reception and Special Issue Release Reception

Time: Tuesday Aug. 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Place: SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference, New Orleans, LA, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hallway outside Rooms 353-355, adjacent to the BioLogic Gallery

Celebrate the opening of the BioLogic Gallery and the release of the Leonardo Special Issue documenting the SIGGRAPH 2009 BioLogic Gallery and Art Papers.

2. Leonardo Town Hall / Birds of a Feather Session

Time: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 1:30 - 3:00PM

Place: SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference, New Orleans, LA, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room 263

Town Hall meeting for SIGGRAPH attendees interested in Leonardo projects and collaborations. We welcome artists, scientists, technologists, educators, students and others interested in work that integrates art, science and technology.

13 July 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:10pm: Jamie McHugh of John Kennedy University and Tamalpa Institute on "Inner and Outer Landscapes"

We are nature: our soma and psyche are reflections of the elements. This informs my work both as a "body conservationist" (somatic movement educator) and as a photographer of Nature's body. My images - Nature Being Art - transmit the living earth not as figurative landscape but as contemporary abstract art, reflecting the dynamic balance of movement and stillness found both in nature and in body. I will present my images of the natural environment as contemplative objects in tandem with an embodied approach to meditation.

7:10pm-7:35pm: Daniel "Cosmo Kichman" Grupp (Artist in residence at DeYoung Museum) on "Yielding to Irony: Understanding the Illusion of Importance in Art and Science."

Both art and science can attain levels of great importance in our lives. We start from a clear intention, and may end up in a place where the importance itself is what is important. In both art and science, we may present with magnified importance an idea or an object, completely without irony. In this talk I explore the joy we can experience when we yield to the irony of our seriousness.

7:35pm-7:50pm: BREAK

7:50pm-8:15pm: Rhonda Holberton, artist, on "Geopolitical Ruptures: How Science, Technology, and Repo-modernism will save the World"

My discussion will address visual language and how it operates within a cultural paradigm to reinforce political ideology. Is it possible that cultural indexes are beginning to suggest the end of one imaginary totality and the beginning of another; Post-Industrial, Post-postmodernism, Post-materialism, Post-oil, Post-technology, Post-capitalism, Post-global warming, Post-cultural revolution, Post-autonomous, Post-democratic? How are the arts, sciences, and technology fields working together within the ruptures of our current system to prepare us for this ideological shift?

8:15pm-8:45pm: Terrence Deacon (U.C. Berkeley) on "The Aesthetic Faculty"

Abstract

8:45pm-9:30pm: Discussions, more socializing

This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

10 June 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

7:00pm-7:30pm: Sheila Pinkel, (artist) on "Making visible the invisible in nature and in culture"

Since 1973 I have been trying to make visible the invisible in nature and culture. I will briefly speak about the evolution of my work during this time to provide a conceptual overview of my ideas and process.

7:30pm-8:00pm: Robert Edgar (Stanford Univ) "Temporal Seurats: Simultaneous Opposites"

Will show a video, and speak about the aesthetics he's working through. To preview the work go to www.vimeo.com and search for Robert Edgar.

8:00pm-8:30pm: BREAK

8:30pm-9:00pm: Liena Vayzman (San Jose State University) on "The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art"

Is home a fleeting dwelling place? A memory? Luxury for the rich? Site of regional identity? Domestic heaven or hell? Nostalgic marker for lost history? In light of the recent foreclosure crisis, Liena Vayzman will discuss the exhibition "Home: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art" which she curated in 2007. Works by 30 contemporary artists interpret the concept of home in innovative works of sculpture, video installation, photography, design, painting, and documentary film. "Home" demonstrates artistic critiques and re-imaginings of the embattled white-picket-fenced symbol of the American dream on the cusp of a shifting cultural terrain etched by economies of greed and displacement.

9:00pm-9:30pm: Roger Malina, CNRS Marseille

9:30pm-10:00pm: Discussions, more socializing

This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

8 April 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.

7pm-7:30pm: Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) on "Software Studies, Software Art, Software Design"

Since software design is a process of writing, the "computer revolution" can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium.

7:30pm-8pm: Hasan Elahi, San Jose State University's CADRE Lab for New Media, on "Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project"

Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project builds on a series of installations, performances, and websites that use Elahi's self-surveillance to critique contemporary investigative techniques. Aspects of Tracking Transience include: a self-tracking device that constantly transmits and maps his exact location alongside his financial data, communication records and transportation logs; a database of thousands of images of airports Elahi travels through and sometimes sleeps in, food he consumes in transit, and public toilets he uses while traveling. Elahi has protected himself from unwanted scrutiny by making his entire life and whereabouts publicly accessible.

8pm-8:30pm: BREAK

8:30pm-9pm: Chris McKay (NASA AMES) on "The Phoenix Mission to Mars and Mars-like places in Antarctica"

Phoenix landed at 68§N in the ice-rich ground on Mars and investigated the chemistry and geology of a polar site on Mars for the first time. Studies in the high elevation dry permafrost in Antarctica provides a basis for considering the possibilities for life at the Phoenix site on Mars.

9pm-9:30pm: Marty Banks (UC Berkeley) on "Some Interesting Phenomena in Picture Perception"

Pictures are very widely used to convey 3D information on a 2D surface. I will discuss how the picture viewer is able to perceive the 3D layout of the depicted scene despite frequently viewing the picture from an incorrect position. The results have implications for our understanding of picture viewing, for perceptual distortions with wide fields of view, and for the effectiveness of various photographic and cinematographic tricks.

This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

25-28, February 2009

Leonardo Education Forum at College Art Association Conference 2009
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California

Leonardo Education Forum participated in the 97th annual College Art Association meeting in downtown Los Angeles, CA. Among the events they hosted were a panel session, a business meeting and a special visit to the UCLA Art|Sci Center.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

12:30PM-2PM
LEF Business Meeting
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2

Thursday February 26, 2009

9:30AM-12PM
Related Panel: Proof: Art Illuminates Science
Bill Tomlinson, Lev Manovich, Carol Steen, Lillian Ball, and Aviva Rahmani with Barbara Stafford as a respondent.

12:30-2PM
LEF session: Shifting Paradigms in Media Art, Science and Technology Education in a Global Context
Concourse meeting room 406AB, level 2
List of panel: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Paul Thomas, Diana Domingues, Christo Doherty Felipe C. Londono.
Moderation: Nina Czegledy and Andrea Polli

3-9PM
Visit to UCLA Art|Science Center
Will arrange for a van to pickup guests at conference center at 3pm and bring them to the UCLA Art/Sci Center, Please note this same evening there will be a series of special events on the UCLA Campus. See below for more information.

4-6PM LEF Meeting
Art|Sci Center, Broad Art Center

6-9PM Special Events, Hammer Museaum and Fowler, Broad Art Center Open House

9PM Return by Van

An Evening at UCLA
Reception: CAA Annual Exhibition
Fowler Museum
Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa
Curated by Mary Nooter Roberts, this exhibition presents the work of five outstanding artists with close associations to Africa: Yto Barrada, Claudia Cristovao, Alfredo Jaar, Georgia Papageorge, and Bernie Searle. Each offers a compelling example of the ways that time-based media lend themselves to the representation of complex transnational, postcolonial identity politics resulting from diasporic displacement, geographic rifts, and deep emotional attachments and divides.

Exhibition viewing and wine-and-cheese reception. Also on view are Transformations: Recent Contemporary African Acquisitions; Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda; Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives, and Reflecting Culture, The Francis E. Fowler, Jr. Collection of Silver. Open House

Hammer Museum
On view will be Portraits from the Collections, a selection of works on paper and paintings drawn from the collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, curated by Cynthia Burlingham and Gary Garrels. Artists represented in the exhibition include David Dupuis, David Hockney, Ray Johnson, Gustav Klimt, Sharon Lockhart, Edvard Munch, Catherine Opie, Pablo Picasso, Jack Pierson, Kiki Smith, John Sonsini, and James McNeill Whistler. Also on view will be two Hammer Projects by artists Erin Cosgrove and Shirana Shahbazi, and the Armand Hammer Collection of old-master and nineteenth-century European and American paintings. Open House

The Broad Art Center
Designed by Richard Meier and Partners Architects, the UCLA Art Department's headquarters will welcome visitors. The various visual-arts departments will be open, and the undergraduate juried art exhibition will be on view in the New Wight Gallery.

Friday, February 27, 2009
5:30-7PM
Education Roundtable: Education at the Intersections of Art, Science and Technology
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2
Led by Andrea Polli, Nina Czegledy, Ellen Levy and Andres Burbano

Saturday, February 28, 2009

9:30AM-12PM
Related Panel: Database Aesthetics: sorting through bits & flesh
Concourse Meeting Room 406 AB, Level 2
Sharon Daniel, Carol Gigliotti, Eduardo Kac, George LeGrady. Respondent: Lev Manovich.

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11 February 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
515 N. Whisman Road,
Mountain View, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

7:00pm-7:30pm: Amy Ione on "Perception, Photography, and the Art/Sci Equation"

The USA film and video critic Gene Youngblood once wrote that "all art is experimental, or it isn't art." This presentation examines some historical experiments between artists and scientists, primarily those who brought perception and photography together, to show the value of an interdisciplinary approach. I will then relate this model to the contemporary Art/Sci environment.

7:30pm-8:00pm: Frank Pietronigro

"I See The Earth and it is Beautiful" 8:00pm-8:30pm: Daniel Grupp on "Yielding to Irony: Understanding the Illusion of Importance in Art and Science."

Both art and science can attain levels of great importance in our lives. We start from a clear intention, and may end up in a place where the importance itself is what is important. In both art and science, we may present with magnified importance an idea or an object, completely without irony. In this talk I explore the joy we can experience when we yield to the irony of our seriousness.

9:00pm-9:30pm: Robert Rich on "Microtonal Music and Just Intonation"

A brief introduction to the use of tuning systems based upon ratios, focusing on musical examples and audio demonstrations, with just a bit of history and not much math.

This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

12 January 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU Downtown Center, 835 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:00pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:10: Steve Wilson, artist and author, on "Overview of Art and Biology Experimentation"

Biological research promises to have even more impact on the culture than electronics. It is critical that artists get involved. The presentation gives an overview covering the following topics: Cultural and Pragmatic Rationales for Involvement of Artists, Philosphical Issues Underlying Biology Research, Examples of Emerging Areas in Biology Research, Examples of Areas of Biology Research & Development Asking for Artistic Inquiry, Examples of rtists Working with Biology, Examples from the presenter's installations: Protozoa Games and IntroSpection.

7:10-7:35: Dor Abrahamson of Berkeley's Embodied Design Research Lab on "Close Listening to Gesture - An Embodied-Design Perspective on Mathematical Reasoning"

Embodied mechanisms, including kinesthesia, visuo-spatial images, audiated sound, proprioceptive motorics, are constitutive of reasoning. One window onto such embodied mechanisms is gesture. Gesture (aspects of hand/arm motion that do not physically manipulate utensils or the environment) is associated with dedicated aspects of reasoning that may not be communicated through verbal utterance. I focus on gesture in the context of mathematical learning and practice. I'll be showing video/audio QuickTime snippets and NetLogo multi-agent computer programs.

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15: Kavita Philip and Beatriz da Costa on "Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience"

Tactical Biopolitics is a project at the intersection of art, activism and technoscience studies.

8:15-8:45: Paul Rabinow

"Ars Synthetica" is a website that, while centered on synthetic biology, is a multi-media experiment in documentation, critique, debate, and problems.

This LASER was sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

10 November 2008

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU Downtown Center, 835 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a bimonthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Schedule:

6:00pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:15: Sam Bower, executive director of the the Green Museum, on "Rebuilding a Sustainable Culture"

By addressing the intra-disciplinary needs of our communities and ecosystems directly through the arts, artists and their collaborators are pioneering a reintegration of aesthetics, restoration science, spirituality, urban development and green planning. To create a more sustainable human population, the arts, beauty and metaphor need to be profoundly engaged. Art can inspire creative problem solving, connect infrastructure and ideas to local culture and history and engage people in a vision of a better and more beautiful world.

7:15-7:45: Nomi Talisman, video and photography artist, on "Cultural Objects and their Relationship to Everyday Life"

The artist will describe how her work with photography, digital media and video, combining media from public archives and footage that was shot on ordinary locations and depicting everyday events, explore systems and structures of knowledge; explore psychological, emotional, fictionalized and mythologized relationships to definitions of "the real".

7:45-8:15: Frank Pietronigro, co-founder and director of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, on "Humanities and Culture in Space"

A general overview of some of the groups, individuals and institutions involved in expanding the presence of the Arts, Humanities, and Culture within the context of human space exploration.

8:15-8:45: Hasan Elahi, San Jose State University's CADRE Lab for New Media, on "Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project"

Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project builds on a series of installations, performances, and websites that use Elahi's self-surveillance to critique contemporary investigative techniques. Aspects of Tracking Transience include: a self-tracking device that constantly transmits and maps his exact location alongside his financial data, communication records and transportation logs; a database of thousands of images of airports Elahi travels through and sometimes sleeps in, food he consumes in transit, and public toilets he uses while traveling. Elahi has protected himself from unwanted scrutiny by making his entire life and whereabouts publicly accessible.

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

8 September 2008

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU Downtown Center, 835 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a bimonthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

6:00pm-6:30pm: Socializing/networking

6:45-7:15pm: Thomas Zimmerman IBM Almaden Research Center, on "Music as the Mother of Invention"

Many of my inventions started as input devices for musical instruments. The DataGlove was a means to play air guitar. The Personal Area Network was a means to play air drums. I shall discuss the development of input devices for electronic musical instruments and how they contributed to inventions.

7:15-7:45pm: William Hsu and Matt Heckert of the Multimedia & Visualization Lab at SFSU on "Sound Machines and Computer Control"

An overview of several mechanical sound installations and performances they have collaborated on over a 5 year period: the Rotifiers/Centripetal Sound, the Fencers, and the Chainboxes.

7:45-8:00pm: Break

8:00-8:20pm: Sharon Siskin, of WEAD

Over the past 20 years my studio art has had clear and sometimes subtle overlaps with science. Some recent projects make visual the detritus our family produces in the process of raising twin daughters. I will be showing documentation of a variety of recent and past gallery projects; from work that resulted in the creation of a garden at an AIDS hospice, to installations that combined reused, altered X-rays and scientific paraphernalia to address issues related to food and my ethnic identity, loss, memory and healing.

8:20-8:40pm: Deborah Munk, of the San Francisco Dump

An overview of the Artist in Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal and will focus on a few of the 70 artists who have had residencies. I will also discuss recycling, the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch and sustainability.

8:40pm: Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening

8:45-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing

To receive mailings about upcoming LASER events, email isast@leonardo.info

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

14 August 2008

Leonardo Education Forum at SIGGRAPH 2008
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 507
Los Angeles, CA

Members of the Leonardo Education Forum met for a Birds of a Feather meeting to discuss issues related to Leonardo Education Forum. Afterwards there was a party hosted by LEF member (and LABS Director) Sheila Pinkel.

27-30 July 2008

Leonardo Education Forum at ISEA 2008
Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore.

Sunday, July 27, 2008
At the Crossroads of Media Arts and Science and Technology:
Education in the 21st Century - What is to be done?
Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore.

Discussion of the white paper draft initiated at LEF@re:place2007 in Berlin, edited by Michael Century, Daniela Reimann and Nina Czegledy. Schedule: following short opening statements, we would like to briefly introduce the LEF international network and discuss the concept and development of regional networks focused on local issues and context. We propose to spend the first hour on feedback of the white paper draft and identification of key areas for discussion. We suggest to break out into moderated discussion groups on each subject. The final hour is for conclusions and concrete recommendations.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Special Event at the Singapore Science center:
Art Science exchange, mixer, show and launch

In this informal gathering, UCLA Art | Science center director Victoria Vesna presents the concept, research and work of the recently established center housed in two locations -- Broad Art center and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). She is joined by astrophysicist Roger Malina, executive director of Leonardo journal and co-chairs of the Leonardo Education Forum, Andrea Polli and Nina Czegledy. Together they will discuss some of the most recent activities, challenges and opportunities that this internationally oriented organization is involved in. After this, Victoria will lead a tour of the NANO exhibition she co-created with nanoscientist James Gimzewski, followed by a tea reception mixer where ideas and contacts will be exchanged and the launch of the Filter magazine published by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). The edition will be on Interdisciplinarity -- specifically as such a practice relates to art and science collaborations.

14 July 2008

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU Downtown Center, 835 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a bimonthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

6:00pm-6:30pm: Socializing/networking

6:45-7:15pm: Joaquin Alvarado, Director of SFSU's Institute for Next Generation Internet, on "Economies of Representation and the Rise of Transactional Identity"

Converging platforms and persistent user interactions on the network have created a new tension in communities and communication. Individual agency is now being applied as a quantifiable transaction in the evolving event-horizon of ubiquitous computing. As users continue to deploy mediated actions in abstracted media forms they are inevitably engaging in negotiations with automated agents. This creates a friction point that will deliver the new economics of identity.

7:15-7:45pm: Amy Ione, Director of the Diatrope Institute, on "Art and the Brain"

Art practice and appreciation are generally considered products of human culture, rather than areas for scientific investigation. Yet, perhaps because art that is quintessentially exquisite speaks so deeply to us, it is difficult to see human culture as a map for one1s individual experience with art. Now, with the explosion of brain research on cognition, perception, and sensation we are beginning to explore the nature of art in ways that include neurobiological and neuropsychological questions.

7:45-8:00pm: Roger Malina, CNRS Marseille, on Leonardo ISAST's worldwide activities

8:00-8:20pm: Robert Rich, Electronic and Digital Composer, on "Microtonal Music and Just Intonation"

A brief introduction to the use of tuning systems based upon ratios, focusing on musical examples and audio demonstrations, with just a bit of history and not much math.

8:20-8:40pm: Lynette Cook, Artist, on "Art and the Cosmos"

Known especially for her collaborations with Geoff Marcy and other exoplanet discoverers, Cook has painted many planet portraits, from those of our own solar system to those orbiting other stars. She will explain how she knows what these distant bodies look like.

8:40pm: Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening

8:45-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing

To receive mailings about upcoming LASER events, email isast@leonardo.info

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

3 June 2008

Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age
Berkeley Big Bang 2008 Co-hosted by Leonardo/ISAST and the Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
2621 Durant Street, Berkeley CA 94720
3 June 2008

Berkeley Big Bang 2008 was a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Leonardo/ISAST hosted a full day of panels and events on Sunday, June 3rd, including an exhibition of student artwork, organized by Piero Scaruffi.

"Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age"

Schedule of events:

8:30: Registration and Check-In.

9:00: Introduction: 40 Years of Leonardo, by Steve Wilson, Leonardo Board Member, Author of Information Arts, Professor of Conceptual/Information Art at San Francisco State University

9:30-10:30: Osmosis: What Can the Arts do for the Sciences?

Art-Science interaction is a two way process. The impact of science and technology on the arts is much discussed and well documented. This panel seeks to examine the influence of the arts on the sciences, and the benefits that science can derive from the arts.

Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Instructor at Royal College of Art in London, Past director of the Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England

Melinda Rackham, Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology

Jim Crutchfield, Complexity and Chaos Researcher, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, Co-founder and Scientific Director Art and Science laboratory

Chris Chafe, Composer, Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, Director Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

11:15-12:45: Brilliant Noise: How Data Becomes Experience for Artists and Scientists

Most information about the world we live in is now mediated by instruments. This data is often visualised and sonified both to aid analysis and to communicate with other researchers, but artists too can make this data meaningful and "sensual". The same data sets can lead to very different kinds of work. One person's noise is another person's sound.

Camille Utterback, Interactive Video Artist, Inventor, and Founder of Creative Nerve

Laura Peticolas, Geophysical Researcher at Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley

Douglas Kahn, Auditory and Sound Culture Historian, Director of Technocultural Studies, UC Davis

12:45-1:45: Lunch Break

2:00-3:30: The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very Very Small

Human cognition is bounded by the inadequacy of human senses to allow us sensory contact with the world on scales larger or smaller than ourselves. To perceive the nano world one needs extended senses or new senses. The nano world requires a new ontology and a new epistemology.

Ruth West, New Media artist, Director Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Center, University of California, San Diego

Wayne Lanier, Microbiologist, San Francisco Exploratorium

Jennifer Frazier, Project Director of the Visualization Laboratory, San Francisco Exploratorium

3:30-5:00: Closing event of the two-day conference for the audience to mingle with the speakers of the various panels and with Leonardo board members. Winners of the first Leonardo Art/Science Student Contest were presented.

More information about Berkeley Big Bang 2008: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang

Watch video podcasts of the symposium on the UC Berkeley website.

12 May 2008

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU downtown
San Francisco, CA

LASER is organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

6:00pm-6:30pm: Socializing/networking

6:30-6:45: Welcome by Jeff Babcock (Executive Director of the International Center for the Arts, SFSU, and Leonardo ISAST board member) and Piero Scaruffi

6:45-7:15: Ken Goldberg, Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media on "Robots as Naturalists"
Ken will present experiments and questions raised by robots and social networks, ranging from ouija boards to human "tele-actors," and tell a true story about how invasions of privacy led him and his students to investigate how robots can assist in monitoring the natural environment. he'll describe a robotic system they've deployed to assist the search for the ivory billed woodpecker, a bird of extreme interest to birdwatchers, ornithologists, and conservationists whose last confirmed sighting was in 1944. ken will also present the manifesto of the berkeley center for new media and propose a hopefully controversial definition of "media."

7:15-7:45: Carlo Sequin on "Knotty Sculptures"
This presentation explores the use of simple knots as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures. One approach places simple n-foil knots on the n-sided faces of a Platonic or Archimedean polyhedron. Another investigation explores various generating principles for the construction of recursive knots. For instance, a simple crossing of two strands is replaced with a more complicated tangled version of two strands, and the process is then repeated recursively. A few of these designs conceived on a computer are then developed further to make actual 3D models on various rapid prototyping machines.

7:45-8:00: Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum, on the forthcoming UC Berkeley "Big Bang" conference
Berkeley's New Media Center and Leonardo ISAST are organizing a two-day academic conference to be held in June 2008 at the Berkeley Museum. Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Museum, will present the Berkeley day of the conference (first day of the conference).

8:00-8:20: Kris Paulsen, grad student at Berkeley Center for New Media on "Participation TV".
Kris will examine a sequence of projects from the 1960s to the present in which artists have worked to reverse the unidirectional structure of broadcast television. These artists feed back into the networks by disrupting broadcasts, "hijacking" programs through pseudo-events and hostile takeovers, and by developing their own multi-directional systems that challenge the television viewer's traditionally passive role. By exploiting the potential for liveness on television news, CCTV, and public access, the artists addressed in this talk attempt to put viewers into direct contact with the event and with the others who are watching - the network becomes a crowd.

8:20-8:40pm: Trevor Paglen of the Department of Geography University of California at Berkeley on "The Other Night Sky"
Artist/geographer Trevor Paglen will talk about his recent project to track and photograph 189 classified "moons" (reconnaissance satellites) in Earth orbit. Along the way, he introduces us to an international network of satellite observers, tracks the history of two "stealth" satellites, and contemplates the relationship between classical empiricism and democracy.

8:45pm-9:45: Discussions, more socializing

More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

12 April 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008
NASA Ames
Moffett Field, CA

Leonardo Network members were in attendance at Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008. Yuri's Night is a celebration of space exploration—and mankind's curiosity, scientific ingenuity, technical achievements, and spirit of collaboration that have made it all possible. In 2008, NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Bay Area was home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever, with 8,000 people joining astronauts, artists, scientists, engineers, and musicians to pay tribute to our global space heritage and to celebrate how much more is out there to be discovered!

More information: http://yurisnightbayarea.net/2008/

March 10, 2008

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU downtown
San Francisco, CA

LASER is organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

6:00pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking

7:00-7:30: Tami Spector of USF on "Chemistry and Contemporary Visual Art"
Relative to physics, mathematics, and biology the intersections of chemistry and contemporary visual art have been relatively neglected. In this talk I will explore some of the ways that modern and contemporary artists have explored this connection, focusing on how the visual arts share unique material and conceptual aspects with chemistry. Specific works by artists who self-define their art in relation to chemistry and others whose work can be recontextualized through the lens of chemistry will be discussed. See also this page.

7:30-8:00: Diane Gromala of Georgia Institute of Technology.

8:00-8:10: Piero Scaruffi on the Leonardo Day of the "Big Bang" conference
Berkeley's New Media Center and Leonardo ISAST are organizing a two-day academic conference to be held in June 2008 at the Berkeley Museum. I will briefly remind the audience of this conference and specifically of the program for the Leonardo day (second day of the conference). At the next Leonardo event on May 12 Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Museum, will present the Berkeley day of the conference (first day of the conference).

8:10-8:30: Kathelin Gray on "Organic Realism"
The Institute of Ecotechnics (I.E.) was founded in the '70's with the premise that action and interaction promote learning and creativity. Annual conferences, projects in different ecological zones worldwide, in conjunction with scientific and artistic collaborations, have resulted in a network of people and efforts. The focus of this presentation will be the role of the arts and performance and the concept of organic realism, in such efforts.

8:30-8:50: Sharon Daniel on "Public Secrets"
The injustices of the Prison Industrial Complex are public secrets - secrets that the public chooses to keep safe from itself like, "don't ask, don't tell." Public Secrets provides an interactive interface to an audio archive of hundreds of statements made by current and former prisoners, which unmask the secret injustices of the war on drugs, the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. Visitors navigate a multi-vocal narrative that links individual testimony and public evidence, social theory and personal statements, in an effort to challenge the assumption that imprisonment provides a solution to social problems. Artist and Author Sharon Daniel will present this Webby award honored project and discuss the process of gathering and structuring the content for the internet.

9-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing

February 20-23, 2008

LEF Participates in 2008 College Art Association Conference
Adam's Mark Hotel
Dallas, TX

The 96th Annual Conference of the College Art Association happened February 20–23, 2008, in Dallas, TX. The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) held a business meeting, participated in a Professional Development Roundtable and presented Social Fabrics: a wearable technology fashion show.

LEF Business meeting
Wednesday, February 20th, 5:30-7PM
Adam's Mark Hotel, Dallas Ballroom D3, 1st Floor

Professional Development Roundtable
Thursday, February 21, 12:30–2:00PM
Adam's Mark Hotel, Remington Room, 4th Floor.

Social Fabrics: a wearable technology fashion show
Friday, February 22nd, 5:30-7PM
Adam’s Mark Hotel, Remington, 4th Floor

More about Leonardo Education Forum: http://artsci.ucla.edu/LEF/

January 2008

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU downtown
San Francisco, CA

LASER is organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

6:00pm-7:15pm Socialize/Network

7:15pm-7:45pm Roger Malina on "Micro Science: Or Making Science Intimate"

As an astronomer, I view new telescopes as a steadily increasing number of senses, new interfaces to the world, that bring otherwise inaccessible phenomena into my intimate awareness. I will present a brief history of the universe informed by this perspective. Most people on this planet have never met a scientists nor used a scientific instrument. I believe that part of the cultural change needed to build a sustainable society involves making scientific knowledge acquired through instruments an intimate part of daily life. Just as the inability of large banks were to respond to the daily needs of individuals led to the micro credit movement, I argue that scientific institutions are unable to respond to the scientific needs of individuals, and that a micro-science movement is needed. I will give examples of the work of artists that in my view are exemplars of intimate science.

7:45pm-8:05pm David Stork (Ricoh Innovations and Stanford Univ) on "When computers look at art: Rigorous image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts". David Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Professor at Stanford University.

8:05pm-8:25pm Joel Slayton on San Jose's forthcoming Zero1 Conference and Piero Scaruffi on Berkeley's forthcoming Big Bang Conference

8:25pm-9:05pm Presentations by some of the panelists of the forthcoming Berkeley conference:

Douglas Kahn (Cultural Historian at U.C. Davis) on "Noise Water Meat" A very brief history of the accidental discovery of natural radio in the late-19th Century, the musical aesthetics of scientific research in the 1920s and 30s, and the beginnings of amateurism and arts in the second-half of in the 20th Century. Laura Peticolas (Berkeley's Space Science Lab) on "Hearing Space Weather" The "Sounds of Space" project is being developed to explore the connections between solar science and sound, to compare visual and aural representations of space data, mostly from NASA's STEREO mission, and to promote a better understanding of the Sun through stimulating interactive software. I will be talking about the work I am doing with musicians to sonify current solar wind data (particle data and magnetic fields) and images of the Sun. (Abstract)

9:05pm-9:40pm: Discussions, more socializing

We will project the movie made by Wayne Lanier (Hidden Ecologies project of the San Francisco Exploratorium) Mat-forming Cyanobacteria in San Francisco Bay salt marsh ponds move in a gentle coordinate dance of 3.5-billion years, creating our oxygen atmosphere. I wanted to capture, in motion and music, a sense of this deep time and relentless movement.

8-10 November 2007

MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, International Conference
Prague, Czech Republic
8-10 November 2007

An international Conference organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER festival in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations which will explore the major mutations that are affecting the future of our world. The festival will feature also the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina.

MORE INFORMATION about MutaMorphosis

Join us on November 11, 2007 for Leonardo Day

15-18 November 2007

re:place 2007: The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology
Berlin, Germany
November 2006

re:place 2007, the Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, will take place in Berlin from 15 - 18 November 2007 as a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This conference is a sequel to 'Refresh!', the first in this series, chaired by Oliver Grau and produced by the Database of Virtual Art, Leonardo, and Banff New Media Institute, and held at the Banff Center in Canada in September 2005, which brought together several hundred artists, scientists, researchers, curators and theoreticians of different disciplines.

MORE INFORMATION about re:place 2007

2 November 2007

Fire Arts & Burning Desires
swissnex San Francisco
730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
2 November 2007

In a collaboration between Burning Man, Leonardo journal and swissnex San Francisco, an evening symposium titled Fire Arts & Burning Desires included several Burning Man fire artists, who discussed the use of their work with fire as a creative medium.

From pyrrhic highlight to transcendent interaction, when is fire an appropriate part of a sculptural statement? How do we use fire in a safe way for both the artist and the audience? Audience members learned about the behind the scenes gyrations of previous Burning Man fire art spectacles.

Fire Arts & Burning Desires was hosted by swissnex San Francisco and presented by Burning Man and Leonardo journal, who collaborated in publishing an exclusive collection of essays and photographs on the Fire Arts of Burning Man (Leonardo Volume 40 Issue # 4, 2007).

Speakers included Crimson Rose (The Fire Goddess), The Flaming Lotus Girls, (TBA), Bill Codding (The Burninator), Wally Glenn (The Flaming Zen Garden), Lucy Hosking, (Satan's Calliope) and DaveX, who will discussed the safety parameters of working with fire in an artistic way

This event was hosted by swissnex San Francisco and organized by Louis M. Brill (louisbrill@sbcglobal.net)

visit the swissnex website

19 September - 12 October, 2007

Minimal Landscapes: exhibition and roundtable
swissnex, San Francisco
19 September - 12 October, 2007

Minimal Landscapes: An exhibit of the work of Ariel Ruiz i Altaba
Wednesday, September 19th to Friday, October 12th, 2007, (open 11AM - 5PM)

"Boundaries and Meaning in Landscapes: From Science to Art and Back" moderated by Leonard Shlain
Wednesday, September 19th (registration required)

This event is co-sponsored by the Leonardo Scientists Working Group.

MORE INFORMATION and how to register for the roundtable discussion

5-9 August 2007

ACM Siggraph Conference
San Diego, CA, USA
5-9 August 2007

Leonardo Education Forum hosted two panel sessions in honor of Leonardo's 40th anniversary and a Birds of a Feather (Town Hall) meeting at Siggraph 2007. The World Has Changed: The Leonardo Network After 40 Years

Panel I: The Planet Has Changed: Art, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Time: 9 AM - 10:45 AM
Room 30 A

Human societies face a number of important issues related to the problems of sustainable development, environmental change, and climate change. Many artists have been involved in these issues over the last decades within the environmental and green movements. A new generation of artists, scientifically and technically literate, is engaging in new ways. The new planetary information-technology infrastructures and new-media technologies provide different approaches than were possible 40 years ago.

Moderator
Sheila Pinkel
Pomona College

Panelists
Roger Malina
Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology

Andrea Polli
Director Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College

Mike Phillips
University of Plymouth

Panel II: Artists Have Changed: Art, Science, Technology Interaction
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Time: 11 AM - 12:45 PM
Room 30 A

When Leonardo was founded 40 years ago, the theoretical context was the "two cultures" debate of C.P.Snow. Few artists were trained in science or engineering contexts, and access to new technologies drove a number of initiatives such as the E.A.T. programs and the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and new venues such as the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Ars Electronica, and ZKM. A new generation of artists, born digital and scientifically literate, is now radically altering the way these issues will be addressed in the future. This panel provides a 40-year perspective on how the work of artists and institutions has evolved, new trends, and future directions.

Moderator
Michael Naimark
University of Southern California

Panelists
Roger Malina
Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology

Stephen Wilson
San Francisco State University

Eddie Shanken
Savannah College of Art and Design

Anna Ursyn
University of Northern Colorado

Birds of a Feather meeting
San Diego Convention Center
Room 29B
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
3 - 5 pm
Chair: Eddie Shanken

ACM Siggraph Gallery: Global Eyes

Leonardo/ISAST also collaborated with the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery to build bridges between people working creatively in art, science, and technology all around the world.

MORE INFORMATION about the ACM Siggraph 2007

13 July 2007

Disrupting Narratives
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London, UK
13 July 2007
10AM-6:30PM

Leonardo Book Series authors Mark Amerika and Alex Galloway gave keynote addresses at the Tate Modern, London, UK for the "Disrupting Narratives" symposium. Amerika's morning session keynote lecture titled "Remixology, Hybridized Processes, and Postproduction Art: A Counternarrative" was be made in conjunction with the release of his new book META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (MIT Press, Leonardo Book Series, 2007). Alex Galloway's keynote address in the afternoon sesion: "Counter-Protocol" explored themes addressed in his book Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (MIT Press, Leonardo Book Series, 2004).

For more information on META/DATA and Protocol, visit the Leonardo Book Series website.

26 June 2007

Roundtable: "The Art-Science-Technology Relations as seen through the Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press"
Ensba Paris Art School
14 rue Bonaparte 75006,
Conference Room 1st Floor,
Paris, France
6-8PM
26 June 2007

Participants: Roger Malina, Frank Popper (From Technological to Virtual Art), Eduardo Kac (Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond) and moderator Annick Bureaud.

This round table questioned the art, science, technology relations as seen through the Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press. Eduardo Kac and Frank Popper presented their books and points of view on the role and issues of publishing for new artforms. When new artforms emerge what role do artists play with their theoretical books in creating a public space for discussion? What are the connections between artworks and books in the body of work of an artist? What discourses and approaches on technoscientific art are emerging from the Leonardo Book Series? What are the aesthetical, theoretical and historical issues within this collection and more specifically within the two books that will be presented and discussed?

Watch a video of the event (in French): http://web.cast.free.fr/leonardo-01/leonardo1.html

For more information on the books, visit the Leonardo Book Series website.

21 April 2007

E-Poetry Symposium 2007 NYC: Performances And A Symposium on the LEA New Media Poetry Special Issue
New York, NY
21 April 2007
4:00-6:00PM
Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery at Bleecker, New York City

Event Guest-Curated by Loss Pequeño Glazier. Featuring Aya Karpinska, Elizabeth Knipe, and Jim Rosenberg. Shawn Rider, Respondent. Tim Peterson, Series Curator

Live performances, talks, and discussion about New Media art forms, issues, and poetics in a cordial setting. Poetry is on the move ... catch a glimpse of present poetic forms in action! This event seeks to further conversation about poetics through its sampling in digital forms. Join us for an historic presentation of digital poetics featuring an engaging mix of foundational and emerging digital poets!

About the participants

Aya Karpinska (http://technekai.com) is a digital media artist and interaction designer. She is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Brown University Fellowship in Electronic Writing. Elizabeth Knipe (http://www.dreamdilation.com/) is an engaging interdisciplinary artist. She is digital poet and experimental video artist who entertains an interest in physical electronic installations.

Jim Rosenberg (http://www.well.com/user/jer) has been working in non-linear poetic forms in one medium or another since 1966 and is one of the foundational figures in digital poetry. His best-known work is Intergrams.

Shawn Rider (http://www.shawnrider.com/) is a writer, artist, teacher and programmer, currently working as a Web Technologist for PBS TeacherLine. He is also the owner and Editor in Chief of GamesFirst.com, a long-running independent videogame review website.

Loss Pequeño Glazier (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier) is a digital poet, professor of Media Study, and Founder and Director of the Electronic Poetry Center. He is the author of the digitally-informed poetry collection /Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm / (Salt Press) and the digital theory treatise Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Alabama UP).

Tim Peterson (http://mappemunde.typepad.com/) is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press). He edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and currently curates part of the Segue Reading Series in New York.

About the LEA issue

Guest edited by Tim Peterson, the issue features Loss Pequeño Glazier, John Cayley with Dimitri Lemmerman, Lori Emerson, Phillippe Bootz, Manuel Portela, Stephanie Strickland, Mez, Maria Engberg and Matthias Hillner. Don't forget to scurry over to the equally exciting gallery, exhibiting works by Jason Nelson, Aya Karpinska, Daniel Canazon Howe, mIEKAL aND, CamillE BacoS, Nadine Hilbert and Gast Bouschet. Click here to access the LEA New Media Poetics Special http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/index.asp (LEA Vol 14 No 5 - 6). URL: http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/index.asp

Join us on April 21st for this celebration of LEA, the poetics of the present, and the diversity of digital forms!

14-19 February 2007

2007 College Art Association Conference
New York City, NY
14-19 February 2007

The Leonardo Education Forum participated in the 95th annual College Art Association Conference in New York City. LEF-sponsored events and activities included the special session Ecology and Ethics of Art|Science projects chaired by Victoria Vesna, a Leonardo Business meeting and a special exhibition Lines of Flight at Hunter College.

MORE INFORMATION about Leonardo Education Forum

January 2007

Publication release party for Arts and Science Research Fellowships Special Section in Leonardo 39:5
Jerwood Space
171 Union Street
Bankside
SE1 0LN
UK
6:30-8:30PM (speeches at 7PM)

Arts Council England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council celebrated, with a reception, the publication of 'Arts and Science Research Fellowships' A special section in Leonardo, Volume 39, Number 5 guest co-edited by Bronac Ferran, James Leach and Tony White.

See the Table of Contents for Leonardo 39:5

9-12 November 2006

Society for Literature, Sciences and the Arts (SLSA) Conference
New York City, NY

The Leonardo Education Forum presented the panel New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher and Research as Art in the 21st Century at the 2006 meeting of the Society for Literature, Sciences and the Arts (SLSA), November 9-12, 2006 in New York City.

MORE INFORMATION about Leonardo Education Forum

10 November 2006

Artistic Mobility in the 21st Century
Prague, Czech Republic

In conjunction with Leonardo's 40th anniversary, Leonardo co-sponsored a conference and exhibition in Prague, organized by the International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT). The exhibition featured work by Leonardo Founder Frank Malina.

4-6 October 2006

Expanding the SpaceMeeting & Workshop on Space & Art
October 4-6, 2006
Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània

Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
Palau de Pineda (Sala 5)
Pl. del Carme, 4 - 46003 València
tel. +34 96 385 98 00

Night performances:
Jardí Botànic de València
C/ Quart, 80
46008-València

Organized by Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània with Association Leonardo/Olats.

In conjunction with the 57th International Austronautical Congress in Valencia, Spain, the Octubre Center of Contemporary Culture and Leonardo/OLATS organized a meeting for the local and international artistic and scientific communities in order to discuss current issues related with space and the arts.

The main objectives of these meeting were:

1. Learn about and understand the hot issues from a scientific perspective and promote a debate in which other communities may be involved.
2. Meet the scientists interested in the intersection of science and art.
3. Gather, display and catalyze all the artistic works born under this intersection which are focused on space.

Organizing committee:
-Annick Bureaud, art critics. Association Leonardo/Olats
-Roger Malina, astronomer. Association Leonardo/Olats
-Josep Perelló, physicist. University of Barcelona

Advisory committee:
-Vicent Martìnez, director of the University of Valencia Astronomical Observatory.
-Seth Shostak, astrobiologist. SETI Institute
-Bernard Foing, scientist-in-chief of the European Space Agency (ESA).
-Salomé Cuesta. Laboratorio de la Luz, Fine Arts Department (Polytechnic University of Valencia).
-Jean-Luc Soret, curator of Space Art exhibition.
-Julien Knebusch, hystorian and specialist in climate change.

PROGRAM

1. Workshop: from the 2nd to the 6th of October. Multidisciplinary meeting of Valencian and international students, educative workshop and visits to some different scientific locations in the city of Valencia, such as the Astronomical Observatory or the Robotics Laboratory. Selection of a few number of applications

2. Congress.

Wednesday, October 4th
16h: Reception and accreditation of all the participants.
17h: Greeting from the Organizing Committee.
17.30h: Inaugural conference by Dr. Khalil Chamcham, Astronomy and Astrophysics professor in the Sciences Aïn Chock Department (University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco).
19h: Openning of the exhibition by the photographer Joan Fontcuberta.
20h: Performance of the composer Andreu Jacob. Absolute premiere of his work titled "Big Bang Sounds".

Thursday, October 5th
9h: The climate change and its effects seen from outside. Conference offered by a speaker chosen by Leonardo/Olats.
10.30h: Contributions on the same subject.
12h: Zero gravity: the sensorial experience of parabolic flights. Conference by a speaker chosen by Leonardo/Olats.
16h: Contributions on the same subject.
17.30h: Colonialism vs. exploration. Conference by Bernard Foing (ESA).
19h: Contributions on the same subject.
20.30h: Performance of Marcel lì Antúnez, on zero gravity.

Friday, October 6th
9h: Cultural impact of Space Sciences. Conference by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute.
10.30h: Contributions on the same subject.
12h: Connection of the computers of the OCCC to the SETI project.
16h: Conclusions by the Organizing Committee. Special contribution by Roger Malina
17.30h: Presentation of the conclusions from the workshop.
23h: Closing party.

Other parallel activities:
- Presentation of the multimedia program by Inklude.
- Exhibition on-line

Contact Leonardo/OLATS Director, Annick Bureaud: info@olats.org

Visit the IAC official website

6-15 October 2006

An Ear to the Earth: A Festival of Music, Sound and Ecology
New York City, NY
Co-sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST

An Ear to the Earth is an international festival bringing together work by creators from around the world - composers, sound and installation artists, scientists, naturalists, and environmentalists - exploring the interaction of humans, sound, and the environment. The recognition that our interaction with our environment, both natural and man-made, is a crucial issue of our time has inspired composers and artists to respond with an enormous and compelling body of works. This festival brought a sampling of those works into galleries, concert halls, and public spaces throughout New York City to explore the use of sound to know the world and engage people in environmental awareness.

The festival was conceived by Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) and organized in collaboration with the UNESCO DigiArts Portal, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, New York City Audubon, New York University Music Technology Program, New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, The Acoustic Ecology Institute, and Leonardo/ISAST.

MORE ABOUT THIS FESTIVAL

7-13 August 2006

ISEA 2006: Seven Days of Art and Interconnectivity
San Jose, CA, USA

The Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. The ISEA Symposium is an international conference on electronic art that is held every two years in different locations around the world and attracts attendees from over 50 countries. The Thirteenth International Symposium on Electronic Arts was held in San Jose, California, August 7-13, 2006, in conjunction with the inaugural biennial ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a milestone festival to be held biennially.

ISEA2006 focused on the critical, theoretical and pragmatic exploration of four important themes: Transvergence, Interactive City, Community Domain and Pacific Rim.

What tactics, issues and conceptual practices expose or inform the distinctions of these subject terrains relating to contemporary art practice? What analyses illuminate art practice engaged with new technical and conceptual forms, functions and disciplines; provide for innovative tactical implementations of cultural production involving urbanity, mobility, community and locality; examine the roles and responsibilities of corporations, civic and cultural organizations, discuss strategic and economic planning as it relates to creative community; serve to expose new portals of production and experience; provide for interpretive bridges between cultures and identities; and provide for provocative examination of contemporary political and economic conditions? How is new media art practice re-shaping the world?

More information on the ISEA 2006 website

7-8 August 2006

Pacific Rim New Media Summit
San Jose, CA, USA
Co-sponsored by CADRE Laboratory and Leonardo/ISAST

As the 10th largest city in the United States, San Jose is an important portal on the Eastern edge of the Pacific region, which shares deep historical and cultural connections that range from Latin America, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia to Asia. ZeroOne San Jose: An International Festival of Art on the Edge highlighted the Pacific Rim as a central theme by presenting the most significant achievements in art, theory and research from throughout the region.

The CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University hosted a two-day pre-symposium to ISEA 2006 entitled the Pacific Rim New Media Summit co-sponsored by Leonardo. The Summit explored and built interpretive bridges between institutional, corporate, social and cultural enterprises with an emphasis on the emergence of new media arts programs in 7 areas: Creative Community, Curatorial, Education, Directory, Eco-Social Activism, Mobile Computing and Urbanity, and Latin American - Pacific / Asia New Media.

Pacific Rim New Media Summit Working Groups:

- Distributed Curatorial (Co-chairs: Steve Dietz and Cunalan Nadarajan)
- Education (Co-chairs: Rob van Kranenburg, Gustaff H. Iskandar and Fatima Lasay)
- Place, Ground, and Practice (Chair: Danny Butt)
- Urbanity and Locative Media (Chair: Soh Yeong Roh)
- Latin American-Pacific/Asia New Media Initiatives (Chair: Jose-Carlos Mariategui)
- Residencies, Symposia, and Directories (Co-chairs: Nisar Keshvani and Julianne Pierce)
- Piracy and the Pacific (Chair: Steve Cisler)
- The Invisible Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area (Co-chairs: Susan Schwartzenberg and Peter Richards)

Symposium Website: http://01sj.org/content/blogcategory/69/87/

Leonardo 39:4 was published as a companion to the Pacific Rim New Media Summit and includes essays by many of the participants of the summit.

MORE INFORMATION about the Pacific Rim New Media Summit and special issue

6 April 2006

SFAI Art + Technology Salon: The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State
Co-sponsored by Leonardo and The San Francisco Art Institute Center for Media Culture
Raqs Media Collective and Steve Cisler
Thursday, April 6, 2006, 7 P.M.
San Francisco Art Institute Café
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, co-sponsored with the San Francisco Art Institute Center for Media Culture a lively evening salon with the Raqs Media Collective and Steve Cisler. During the event the Raqs Media Collective initiated a discussion on the topic of "The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State" accompanied by a presentation on intellectual property issues by San Jose based writer and librarian Steve Cisler. The salon consisted of short 20-minute presentations followed by an "open mic" and a lively Q&A.

The Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta) from Delhi, India, investigates the technological forms that underwrite contemporary urban experiences and the social practices through which the city is acted upon and imagined. The collective is the co-initiator of Sarai: The New Media Initiative, a program of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban culture. Currently acting as Spring 2006 Fellows for the SFAI Center for Media Culture, the Raqs Media Collective intersected with several of SFAI's degree, community education and public programs. At the April 6 salon, Raqs initiated a discussion on the topic of "The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State."

Steve Cisler is a librarian by training who began using computers when he was middle-aged. Starting in 1985 Cisler ran a WELL forum on information and libraries. In 1988 at Apple Computer library he started a grant program called Apple Library of Tomorrow, through which he made dozens of grants to U.S. and Canadian museums and libraries. Cisler worked on the de-regulation of the radio frequencies and standards that became known as 802.11 or Wi-Fi. Over the past 7 years Cisler has consulted in Latin America, Thailand, Jordan and Uganda on short-term projects involving telecenters, school computer labs and indigenous groups. Cisler is Chair of the "Piracy and the Pacific Working Group" at the upcoming Pacific Rim New Media Summit, a pre-symposium to ISEA2006. Cisler gave a presentation at the April 6 salon on intellectual property issues.

San Francisco Art Institute's Center for Media Culture links artistic practice and the study of culture. Students explore the ways in which different media, including film, video, photography, sound and technology, shape-and are shaped by-concepts of identity and community. The Center offers students opportunities to foster agility in their artistic practice through the study of the cultural and aesthetic shifts that characterize diverse societies. The results are technically informed media practitioners and comprehensive critical thinkers prepared for a broad variety of career and artistic opportunities.

Design+Technology Salon: http://www.sfai.edu/design/salon

3-19 March 2006

ISEA 2006 Pacific Rim Directory, Organizations and Residencies Working Group Meeting
Artists' Week/Media State, Adelaide Festival of Arts 2006, South Australia (March 3 - 19, 2006)

The biennial Adelaide Festival of Arts is Australia's leading multi-arts festival. Artists' Week is the major visual arts component of the Festival and features a program of free artist talks, panel discussions and workshops. Media State is a special initiative that will focus on new media projects and collaborations. In the lead-up to the ISEA 2006 Pacific Rim New Media Summit (San Jose, California, August 2006), members of the Directory, Organisations and Residencies Working Group will meet in Adelaide as part of the Artists' Week/Media State program and provide a public platform to introduce the Pacific Rim New Media Summit and Working Group initiatives.

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February 27-March 5 2006

6th International Istanbul Interaction Design Workshop Young Instructor Training Program
Design As Seeing As Thinking
Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
February 27-March 5 2006
Endorsed by YASMIN network

The focus of this workshop was to enhance the quality of teaching by young instructors in interactive media design through developing their knowledge base of the principles of design and the process of problem finding and problem solving. A series of design problems were explored using the local as a point of departure.

Participants explored the physical, geographic, cultural region of Istanbul and through systems of observation and methods of recording information addressed cross-cultural interpretations of place. The design problem and process were linked to methods and strategies for improving skills in the classroom.

Curator: Prof.Dr. Oguzhan Ozcan, Yildiz Technical University
Supervisor: Prof. Roberley Bell, Rochester Institute of Technology

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.idws.info

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22-25 February 2006

College Art Association Annual Conference
Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA,
22-25 February, 2006

The Leonardo Education Forum participated for the third time in the annual College Art Association Conference--this time in Boston MA. Sessions included the Leonardo Mentorship Roundtable, Mentorship Workshops, the Leonardo Town Hall Meeting and a special session entitled: "New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher and Research as Art in the 21st Century".

MORE INFORMATION about LEF panels and events at the 2006 CAA conference

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6-12 November 2005

ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program
Singapore, 6-12 November 2005
Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM In collaboration with Leonardo

ACM Multimedia is the premier annual multimedia conference. The ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program brings together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology.

The ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program consisted of a conference track and a multimedia art exhibition titled "Presence/Absence." The conference was held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore, and the art exhibition was held at the LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore.

"Presence/Absence" consisted of interdisciplinary art works that addressed the issue of presence in both artistic and technological, as well as in political (migration, home, sense of belonging and identification), contexts.¾ In particular, interactive multimedia works were sought in which the combination of multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas results in strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on some aspect of presence.

The following artists were featured in the exhibition: Mauricio Arango, David Birchfield, Stephen Boyd Davis, Rachel Jacobs, Matt Watkins, Magnus Moar, John Cox, Chris Riddoch, Karl Cooke, Richard Hull, Tom Melamed, Alan Dunning, Paul Woodrow, Morley Hollenberg, Miha Cighlar, Petra Gemeinboeck, Mary Agnes Krell, Jason Nelson, Hideaki Ogawa, Noriaki Ando, Satoshi Onodera, Krister Olsson, Takashi Kawashima, Martin Pichlmair, Raquel Renno, Rafael Marchetti, Gonzague Defos du Rau, Jack Stenner, Andruid Kerne, Keiko Takahashi, Shinji Sasada, Yu-Chuan Tseng, Jason Lee, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Hisako Yamakawa.

A selection of the works accepted for the conference will be published in a Leonardo Gallery in the Leonardo print journal and on line in Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

For further information please visit: http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm.

INTERACTIVE ART PROGRAM 2005 CHAIRS

Alejandro Jaimes, FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
Andrew Senior, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Irina Aristarkhova, National University of Singapore

CURATORIAL COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Shaw, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yukiko Shikata, NTT InterCommunication Center, Japan
Eugene Tan, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Singapore
I. Aristarkhova, A. Jaimes, A. Senior

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28 September - 1 October 2005

Refresh! International New Media Art History Conference
Banff Center, Canada
Co-Sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST

The first international art history conference covering art and new media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to contemporary art was held 28 Sept - 3 Oct 2005 at the Banff Centre, Canada.

The conference (28 Sept-1 Oct) was followed by a 2-day speakers' and organizers retreat in order to plan follow-up (2-3 Oct).

The event was co-sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST, Leonardo/OLATS, UNESCO DIGIARTS, Database for Virtual Art and the Banff New Media Institute. An International Advisory Board chaired by Oliver Grau of Humboldt University designed the program.

More information

Official Conference Website: http://www.mediaarthistory.org

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1-4 August 2005

SIGGRAPH 2005
2006 Pacific Rim New Media Summit preview
Tuesday Aug. 2, 2005, 1-4 p.m
Leonardo Town Hall Meeting
August 3, 2005, 4-6 p.m
Meeting Room of the International Center (Los Angeles Convention Center South Lobby)
Los Angeles, CA

Members of the Leonardo and others interested in the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology gathered together for an open Town Hall meeting at the SIGGRAPstrong005 Convention to discuss current Leonardo projects and future directions.

The awarding of the 2005 Frank J. Malina Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award to Abraham Palatnik was also announced.

Leonardo Network members attending SIGGRAPH 2005 also gathered for a public presentation introducing the 2006 Pacific Rim New Media Summit (an event that will take place as a pre-symposium event to ISEA 2006 in San Jose, CA).

For Information about attending SIGGRAPstrong005 visit http://www.siggraph.org/s2005.

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6 June 2005
Michele Emmer Book Signing Event
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
2850 Telegraph Avenue, 6th Floor
Berkeley, CA 94705, U.S.A.

Mathematicians throughout history have created shapes, forms, and relationships, and some of these can be expressed visually. Computer technology allows us to visualize mathematical forms and relationships in new detail using, among other techniques, 3D modeling and animation. The Visual Mind proposes to compare the visual ideas of artists and mathematicians -- not to collect abstract thoughts on a general theme, but to allow one point of view to encounter another. The contributors, who include art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, examine mathematics and aesthetics; geometry and art; mathematics and art; geometry, computer graphics, and art; and visualization and cinema. They discuss such topics as aesthetics for computers, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, cubism and relativity in twentieth-century art, the aesthetic value of optimal geometry, and mathematics and cinema.

See http://www.leonardo.info/lbs.html for more information about The Visual Mind II and about the other books in the Leonardo Book Series.

Member Discount! Leonardo/ISAST Associate Members are eligible for 20% off all Leonardo Book Series titles and also receive a number of other membership benefits! See http://Leonardo.info/members.html for more details.

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19 - 21 May 2005

9th Leonardo/Olats Space and the Arts Workshop
Chateau d'Yverdon, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Theme: Planetary Consciousness and the Arts
Deadline for abstract submission: October 2nd

"Space: Planetary Consciousness and the Arts" is the theme of the 9th workshop and symposium on space and the arts which is being co-organized by the O.U.R.S. Foundation, Leonardo/Olats, Maison d’Ailleurs and the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and its Commission VI. It is scheduled to be held at the Château and Museum of Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland from 19-21 May 2005.

MORE INFO

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16-19 March 2005

First IAA International Conference and 8th Leonardo/Olats Space and the Arts Workshop
Budapest, Hungary

http://www.congrex.nl/05c04/

http://www.impactofspace.hu

In collaboration with the First IAA International Conference that took place March 17-19 2005 in Budapest, Leonardo/Olats held its 8th Space and the Arts Workshop on March 16th 2005 on the theme of "The Impact of Space on Society: Cultural Aspects".

Under the sub-theme of "Art and literature, science fiction, cultural aspects of space activities", the selected participants to the Conference formed the core group of the Leonardo/Olats Space and the Arts Workshop.

Artists, writers and other cultural professionals addressed the role of the artist in the context of societal and cultural aspects of space activities from a future oriented perspective.

Committees

"Arts and Space" Selecting Committee
Ivan Almar (Chairman, IAA Commission 6)
Annick Bureaud (Leonardo/Olats)
Roger Malina (International Academy of Astronautics)
David Raitt (ESA)
Arthur Woods (OURS Foundation)
Nina Czegledy, (ISEA President)
Miklos Peternak (C3)
Jean-Luc Soret (@rt-Outsiders)

Conference International Program Committee
Ivan Almar (Chairman, IAA Commission 6)
François Becker (ISU)
Roger Malina (IAA)
David Raitt (ESA)
Arthur Woods (OURS Foundation)

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16 - 19 February 2005

2005 CAA Conference

Atlanta GA, USA

As an affiliated society of the College Art Association (CAA), Leonardo has joined the largest professional community of artists and art historians in the United States. The Leonardo-CAA committee is a working group of artists, scientists and engineers that belong both to the Leonardo Network and to the College Art Association. The purpose of this committee is to develop joint actions between the two organizations such as promoting the work of artists and art historians in the art-science and art-technology interdisciplinary fields. The working group is discussing and developing ideas for sessions at the CAA meetings and mentoring programs for students in the field. This group is open to any person both in the CAA and in the Leonardo Network.

Leonardo held several sessions at the 2005 CAA conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, February 16-19, 2005:

Mentorship Roundtable, Wednesday 16 February, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.

A Special Session: Hybridity: Arts, Sciences and Cultural Effects, Wednesday 16 February, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Leonardo Town Hall Meeting, Thursday 17 February, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.

ARTspace Lounge Screening, Thursday 17 February, 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Career Development Workshops, Thursday 17 February, and Friday 18 February, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Leonardo's Special session held at CAA was entitled "Hybridity: Arts, Sciences, and Cultural Effects," co-chaired by Yvonne Spielmann of the Braunschweig School of Art and Jay David Bolter of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Speakers in this session included Amy Ione, Diatrope Institute; Dan Sandin, University of Illinois at Chicago; Diane Gromala, Georgia Institute of Technology; and George Legrady, University of California at Santa Barbara.

More details and information about the 2005 CAA working group and conference events

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10-12 February, 2005

Space Art Workshop - Zero Gravity Consortium
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA

For three days in February, artists and scientists from several prominent national and international institutions will convene at the Carnegie Mellon University West Coast Campus at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, to discuss and prepare for future collaborative work in space. The Workshop, which is being organized by the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, the Center for Science Education at Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Leonardo and artists and scientists from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will be open to invited participants on Thursday, February 10, 2005, and will conclude with a public event, sponsored by Zero One: The Art and Technology Network on Saturday, February 12. Participants in the workshop sessions will include artists, curators, writers on science and technology, NASA and SETI personnel, and international representatives of the space art community. Topics to be discussed include The Arts and the Evolution of Space Culture, Space Art History, Artists' Residences at NASA, ESA, and JAXA, and Future Public Integration through Education, Exhibition, Media and Symposia.

For more information visit http://www.zgac.org.

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20 November 2004

Multiple Versions of the World: Conference Marking 100 Years of Gregory Bateson's Influence

Center for Science Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, California
(with a special reception on 19th November)

Among the many featured speakers on November 20th are:

Mary Catherine Bateson: Institute for Intercultural Studies
Peter Harries-Jones: Prof. of Anthropology (Emeritus), York University,
Ontario; author "A Recursive Vision"
Jerry Brown: Mayor of Oakland; former Gov. of California
Nathan Gray: Co-founder OXFAM America; founder, EarthTrain
Tim Campbell: World Bank Institute; author "Quiet Revolution"; "Leadership and Innovation"
Jay Ogilvy: Co-founder, Global Business Network; author, "Creating Better Futures"
Carol Wilder: Assoc. Dean and Chair, Dept. of Communication, New School University (NYC); author "Rigor and Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson"
Kenny Ausubel: Founder & President, Collective Heritage Institute (which produces the Bioneers Conference)

Urban Age Magazine

Special world premiere event: Nora Bateson's film tribute to Gregory Bateson: "That Reminds Me of a Story"
For more information about the Bateson Centennial Conference, go to: http://www.batesonconference.org/
To purchase tickets to the conference go to:
http://www.acteva.com/go/Bateson

<30 September 2004

Talk by Roger Malina Featured at the Exploratorium, San Francisco
Thursday, 30 Sept. 2004: Reception at 6:00 pm, Program at 6:30 pm

Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina will speak at the Exploratorium in San Francisco on the topic: "The New Leonardos: Why the Work of Artists Is Important for the Science and Technology of the Future." This talk is part of the Exploratorium's program "Meet the Minds: New Thoughts in Science and Art." Dr. Malina looks at how the work of artists today, like the work of the Renaissance master Leonardo, is injecting new ideas and approaches that will help define the science and technology of the next century. The recent discoveries of dark energy and dark matter motivate our need to re-examine the cultural context and contingencies that, in large part, determine what scientists work on, how they work, and which new technologies are viewed as "desirable" and fundable within society.
The Exploratorium is located at Exploratorium the Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, California. For directions to the museum (recording): call (415) 561-0399. See

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11 September 2004

Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP)

Leonardo/ISAST launched the most recent issue of its print journal Leonardo (37:4) at the Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). As part of the BioDifference conference within BEAP, Leonardo publications were featured along with many members of the Leonardo network. Leonardo Editorial Advisor George Gessert delivered the BioDifference keynote address, and Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board member Stephen Wilson was the conference plenary speaker. "BioDifference: The Political Ecology" took place at the University of Western Australia on 11 September 2004. For more information, see http://www.beap.org

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18-20 July 2004

Melilla Colloquium on Art, Science and Spirituality
1st International Festival of Cultures, Melilla, Spain

Web site with further information: http://www.olats.org
Host: 1st International Festival of Cultures, Melilla, Spain
Poster Submission Deadline: June 20, 2004
see also Leonardo Call for submissions

http://www.olats.org

Leonardo call for submission

julien_knebusch@yahoo.com.fr

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18-21 May 2004

Space Art Workshop: Space: Science, Technology and the Arts
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC)
Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Since the birth of space exploration artists and space scientists have inspired each other in the development of humanityås space programs, regularly exchanging information, ideas and visions. Artists working with space subjects and themes invariably become heavily involved in both the physics and the technologies of space - either as muse, metaphor or subject or as a tool necessary for the development of their artistic creations. Artists, wanting to explore space on their own artistic terms, often must become very knowledgeable about the utilization of space technologies, materials, mechanisms and procedures in order to develop feasible art works and projects. Such projects are subject to the same conditions and regulations governing scientific experiments designed for space. Such activities have broadened the idea of space exploration within the space community while making space exploration understandable in other ways and accessible by larger public.

Now that the International Space Station (ISS) is nearing completion the ISS partners have begun to investigate ideas how this orbital facility can be utilized, not only as a platform for scientific experimentation, but also as a platform for cultural exploration and expression. This creates a new opportunity and challenge for artists and other cultural professionals to work closely together with space scientists, engineers, technologists and administrators in developing new concepts, projects and strategies.

The "Space: Science, Technology and the Arts" workshop promises to be an important pivotal event as it provides a unique opportunity for professionals in the space and the arts communities to meet, discuss and exchange new ideas related to the cultural exploration of space. Presentations are being solicited from space scientists, engineers, technologists, artists, writers, journalists, art critics, curators and philosophers who have a developed interest in the aims and theme of the workshop.

23-25 April 2004

INTERACTIVE PROJECT: ACTIVATED ENVIRONMENTS AND HYBRID INSTRUMENTS CONFERENCE
NEW YORK, APRIL 23-25, 2004
(Leonardo and Harvestworks Event Collaboration)

Leonardo and Harvestworks are participating in The Interactive Project: Activated Environments and Hybrid Instruments conference, April 23-25, 2004 in New York City. The weekend-long seminar will feature artworks by the Harvestworks residents, panel discussions and demonstrations and involve arts organizations and artist's studios in the city.

Leonardo Music Journal editor-in-chief Nic Collins will present his own work on April 24 (12:30 p.m.) and also moderate a panel on April 25 (1:30 p.m.) on the topic of Hybrid Music Instruments.

The Electronic Music Foundation will sell back issues of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal and CDs at very special rates, along with selections from the EMF catalog.

For more information see http://www.harvestworks.org

18-21 February 2004

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
SEATTLE WASHINGTON
www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/2004/04PreProgram/index.html

LEONARDO/ISAST PANEL DISCUSSION AT CAA:
Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4:00-5:30pm
Art, Science, and Technology: Problems and Issues
Facing an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field

Chair: Mark Resch, Onomy Labs
Sheila Pinkel, Pomona College
Julio Bermúdez, University of Utah
Michael Punt, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts
Nina Czegledy
Discussant: Roger Malina, Leonardo

The first hour will consist of presentations: each speaker will present his or her work for 15 minutes, focusing on how it engages aspects of interdisciplinary collaboration. Following the individual presentations will be a roundtable discussion among the speakers, discussant and audience members. Issues that might be addressed during the discussion section of the session include: long-distance collaboration, university departmental politics, project funding, cultural pluralism and whatever else piques interest during the talks.

LEONARDO BUSINESS MEETING AT CAA
Saturday, February 21, 12:30-2:00pm

20-21 January 2004

Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
San Francisco, CA

Beyond Productivity examines the dynamic intersection of information technology with the world of the arts and design. This intersection has already yielded results of significant cultural and economic value, including innovative architectural and product designs, computer animated films, games and music, interactive art installations, cross-cultural experimentation, and Web-based texts. However, many opportunities for new collaborative ventures remain to be explored. Leading the discussions will be Professor William J. Mitchell, academic head of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (which includes the Media Lab) and Chairman of the study committee that produced Beyond Productivity. He will be joined by members of the study committee, as well as leaders from academia, philanthropy, and the technology and art communities. Each attendee will receive a complimentary copy of Beyond Productivity.

Thursday, January 22, 2004 - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Friday, January 23, 2004 - The San Jose Museum of Art

Further information about the study may be found at http://cstb.org/project_creativity.
Please contact Margaret Huynh mhuynh@nas.edu with any questions about these events.

4-5 October 2003

LEONARDO/OLATS CO-SPONSORS SYMPOSIUM
Visibility – Legibility of Space Art
Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights
International Festival @rt Outsiders

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
Métro : Saint-Pau

Information:
http://www.olats.org
http://www.art-outsiders.com

Curated by Annick Bureaud, this symposium is a joint project between the @rt Outsiders International Festival (http://www.art-outsiders.com) and Leonardo/Olats (http://www.olats.org).

The Visibility – Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights symposium proposes to:

present the details of parabolic flights and consider the main issues outside of their spectacular nature;
specify their different roles within the creative process. Often perceived as the space where creation takes place (site of performance and exhibition), parabolic flights are first and foremost the space of experimentation (a "studio" or creative workshop) as well as the material for creation;
conduct a preliminary aesthetic analysis of the works: what is their form, what do they say, how do they relate to contemporary art and to techno-scientific art in general, in what way are they "informed" by weightlessness and the environment that constitutes the flight? etc.;
highlight the importance of these works within a broader artistic process;
raise questions regarding the "visibility" and "legibility" of the work, to question art critic.

15-17 October 2003

ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSICS
A century of innovation involving sound and technology
Resources, Discourse, Analytical Tools
Resonances, Petite Salle, Pompidou Centre, Paris

Inspired by the EARS project (ElectroAcoustic Resource Site, MTI Research Group, De Montfort University) and initiated by the MTI and the MINT group of the Université de Paris Sorbonne, this conference is coordinated by an international team of organizations reflecting the level of its ambition: to bring together reflections concerning the better understanding of electroacoustic music and to make relevant initiatives more widely available from this music's genesis, its appearance and its development spanning a century.

Information:
http://www.omf.paris4.sorbonne.fr/omf-articles.php3?id_rubrique=73&id_article=22
and
http://resonances2003.ircam.fr

Resonances, International Convention on technologies for music, organized by Ircam - Pompidou Centre. Conference organized in collaboration with De Montfort and Sorbonne Universities, INA/GRM, the Musée de la musique, Paris, and Electronic Music Foundation. Organized with the support of OLATS - Observatoire LEONARDO des Arts et Technosciences (http://www.olats.org) and in cooperation with UNESCO (Digi-Arts sub-portal, UNESCO Knowledge Portal).

10 May 2003

Roy Ascott and Edward Shanken at San Francisco Art Institute

On Saturday, May 10 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Leonardo and the San Francisco Art Institute invite you to the Bay Area book launch and signing for Roy Ascott's new book, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, edited by Edward Shanken (University of California Press, 2003). Both Ascott and Shanken will give a brief talk and answer your questions about the book. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Saturday, May 10, 5-7 p.m.
San Francisco Art Institute, Quad
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

More about the book
For general information, please call 510-642-4701

23--24 March 2003

LEONARDO CO-SPONSORS WORKSHOP
ENCODING ALTRUISM: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF
INTERSTELLAR MESSAGE COMPOSITION

The workshop will focus on two broad themes: first, the interface of art, science, and technology in interstellar message design; and second, how to communicate concepts of altruism in interstellar messages. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jerome H. Barkow, Professor of Sociology and Sociological Anthropology at Dalhousie University.

A distinguished group of scientists, artists, and scholars from the humanities will discuss many facets of interstellar communication, including

- Creating interstellar messages that unfold and evolve in response to the "listener."
- Preparing for interstellar contact by studying animal communication.
- Expressing the human sense of beauty in interstellar messages.
- Uncovering the origins of language through archeology.
- Communicating religious views of altruism through artificial languages.
- Composing interstellar "music" inspired by the structure of DNA.
- Explaining the logic of altruism.

The workshop is being sponsored by The SETI Institute; Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and TechnoSciences; The John Templeton Foundation; The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST); and The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Permanent SETI Study Group.

See the workshop website for extended abstracts and narrative: http://publish.seti.org/art_science/2003/
Email: altruism@seti.org

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6-8 December 2002

ArtSci2002: New Dimensions in Collaboration
the American Museum of Natural History and the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

The legacy of Albert Einstein highlighted at the 4th international art-sci symposium, organized by ASCI.

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29 November - 2 December 2002

ARTMEDIA VIII CO-SPONSORED BY LEONARDO/OLATS
From "l'Aesthetics of Communication" to Net Art

International symposium organized by Mario Costa, Fred Forest & Annick Bureaud under the umbrella of the Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Dipartimento di Filosofia

The program and symposium details are now online at: http://www.olats.org/artmedia8.html Two online exhibitions and two bibliographies are presented in conjunction with the symposium. Locations:

From November 29th to December 1st 2002:
Centre Franòais du Commerce Ext´rieur (CFCE)
10, avenue d'I´na
75116 Paris

Monday December 2nd 2002:
Ecole Normale Sup´rieure (ENS)
46, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
For more Information on speakers, topics, events visit: http://www.olats.org

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2002

ISEA 2002

Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina will be a keynote speaker at ISEA2002 - The 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art which will be held for the first time ever in Asia, in Nagoya, Japan. It is organized by MEDIASELECT in collaboration with ISEA. see http://www.isea.qc.ca/ for more details.

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15-20 July 2002

Aesthetic Computing Workship
Dagstuhl, Germany

Leonardo Co-Sponsors Workshop on Aesthetic Computing in July 2002. Leonardo/ISAST is co-sponsoring a workshop led by Paul Fishwick of the University of Florida on Aesthetic Computing (Artist driven computer science) to be held at Dagstuhl, Germany from 15-20 July 2002. Information on the workshop, can be found at: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/cap6836/ac.pdf Dagstuhl seminars have from 25 to 60 participants, with roughly 20% young researchers in attendance. Participation at the workshop is by invitation only. Leonardo associate members who may be interested in attending should send email to leo@mitpress.mit.edu with the URL of your CV. There is a waiting list for participants and attendance will be on a space-available basis. There is a permanent mailing list on the topic at http://www.yahoogroups.com under the group "aestheticcomputing" (no spaces). Please feel free to subscribe.

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April 2002

Leonardo Space Art Workshop: The Collaborative Process in Space Art

The Sixth Space Arts Workshop examined dialogues between artists, scientists, and engineers, presenting examples of results produced by interdisciplinary collaboration in space art. Past as well as future space art projects were presented and discussed with an emphasis on promoting new collaborations between artists, scientists, and engineers.

Under the title "Rencontres du 13 avril," a series of small, one-day workshops on Space and the Arts were co-organized by Leonardo/Olats, the OURS Foundation and the International Academy for Astronautics. Held in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb near Paris, these workshops attracted leading space scientists, engineers and artists on specific themes chosen to generate exchanges between artists and scientists concerning the cultural impact of space activities. See http://www.olats.org for more information.

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22 February 2002

Frank J. Malina Symposium, Texas A & M University

The first Frank J. Malina Symposium was held at Texas A & M University on February 22, 2002. Hosted by the Department of Aerospace Engineering, the symposium brought together speakers from aerospace engineering and the arts to celebrate the contributions of the founder of Leonardo. Speakers included Joseph Spetz who gave the first Frank J. Malina lecture on high speed flight and advanced scramjet concets. Historian of technology Benjamin Zibit reviewed the history of rocketry and Frank Malina's role leading the team that launched America's first successful high altitude rocket as well as in the founding of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Roger Malina and Thomas Linehan reviewed his contributions to the arts and the founding of Leonardo and Leonardo award winner Janet-Saad-Cook gave a talk describing her work creating artworks using sunlight. John Junkins, the organizer of the symposium and a recipient of the International Federation of Astronautics Frank J. Malina Medal gave a talk reviewing the development of space engineering at Texas A & M and announced plans to name an auditorium after Malina and to make the Frank J. Malina symposium an annual event. Further information on Frank J. Malina can be found at http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.shtml. Further information on future symposia can be obtained by contacting Lisa Willingham at l-willingham@tamu.edu

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April 2001

Leonardo Space Art Workshop: Outer Space - Cyberspace

The Fifth Space Arts Worshop explored the ways that artists and scientists are using the internet both to extend human presence in outer space, but also to bring access to the results of space exploration to earth. The first interplanetary internet nodes are being planned, and the international space station will be connected to the Internet. Space agencies are now using the Internet to enable broad access to the results of space exploration; future missions are being planned to allow live webcasts of images. Simulated exraterrestrial worlds have been created by artists in virtual space, and artists and scientists have used the Web to create scenarios of the future of space exploration. This workshop explored how outer space and cyberspace are becoming interconnected, and how concepts and approaches that have been developed in outer space activities can be related to the concepts and approaches of cyberspace.

Under the title "Rencontres du 13 avril," a series of small, one-day workshops on Space and the Arts were co-organized by Leonardo/Olats, the OURS Foundation and the International Academy for Astronautics. Held in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb near Paris, these workshops attracted leading space scientists, engineers and artists on specific themes chosen to generate exchanges between artists and scientists concerning the cultural impact of space activities. See http://www.olats.org for more information.

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12 - 13 December 2000

Art in the Post-biological Era Symposium
Médiathèque de l'Ensba
CID, Palais des Etudes, Escalier droite, 1er étage
Paris, France

The symposium is organized by OLATS and CAiiA-STAR in cooperation with the Mediatheque of the Ecole nationale sup½rieure des beaux-arts (Paris National Art School).

Following the biological evolution, then the cultural and social evolution (from the first prehistorical tools up to nowadays), we are entering a new phase in which the future of Humans is framed by technologies, among which the biotechnologies.

With his theory of evolution, Darwin had confronted us with the continuum of the living... and with the necessity to redefine ourselves, as humans, in regard of other animals and, specially, the mamals. The technologies around us that emerged from cybernetics (telecomputation, artificial life, robotics) have lead us to a confrontation with the machine, the organic and the inorganic. Today, the biotechnologies confront us with the creation of new species, "artificial" living systems, that could, may be, give birth to a new "human". In this continuum between matter and life, carbon-based system and silicon-based system, a new way to deal with consciousness is emerging, toward a technoetic.

Those issues, central to the techno-sciences researches, the political and social debates, are also at the heart of art practices, be they Internet-based, or bio-technological related, or in connection with artificial life, or even with this very ancient art that is dance.

During those two days, through the presentations of the researches and artworks of the artists members of the research group CAiiA-STAR, this symposium will examine the current creations and explore the emerging art practices within the field of art related to techno-sciences : biotechnological art, online creation, virtual space - physical space relationships, links between ancient myths and contemporary practives, approaches to a consciousness reframed by contemporary technologies, etc.

* Participants :

Roy ASCOTT ; Peter ANDERS ; Donna COX ; Elisa GIACCARDI ; Diane GROMALA ; Pamela JENNINGS ; Eduardo KAC ; Jim LAUKES ; Dan LIVINGSTONE ; Kieran LYONS ; Simone MICHELIN ; Laurent MIGNONNEAU ; Joseph NECHVATAL ; Marcos NOVAK ; Michael PUNT ; Niranjan RAJAH ; Gretchen SCHILLER ; Thecla SCHIPHORST ; Bill SEAMAN ; Chris SPEED ; Christa SOMMERER

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Leonardo Lawsuit

French Police Raid Leonardo Editor's Mother's Home outside of Paris. Roger Malina, executive editor of Leonardo and Leonardo/ISAST Nonprofit Board Chairman, writes about the current trademark infringement claim lawsuit by a French corporation against the Association Leonardo in France. At issue is the name "Leonardo," which has been the title of our publication for more than 30 years and which has recently been copyrighted by a French company. (28 May 2001: the case was dismissed)

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April 2000

Space Art Workshop: Life in Space

Is there sentient life "out there?" Or indeed, any life at all? The workshop examined the different searches for life: their scientific basis and methodologies and their myths and "silent background." There are projects that concentrate on looking for "ones-like-us" (intelligent life, with the SETI/Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence activities), and projects that lean towards "ones-different-from-us" (astrobiology) who might even be non-carbon-based-lifeforms.

Under the title "Rencontres du 13 avril," a series of small, one-day workshops on Space and the Arts were co-organized by Leonardo/Olats, the OURS Foundation and the International Academy for Astronautics. Held in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb near Paris, these workshops attracted leading space scientists, engineers and artists on specific themes chosen to generate exchanges between artists and scientists concerning the cultural impact of space activities. See http://www.olats.org for more information.

29 January 2000

River Festival Webcast

The River Festival, organized by Camel Zekri and hosted by the Leonardo Virtual Africa project, continues: on January 29, you are invited to listen to Camel Zekri's Real Audio concert via Webcast from the French Cultural Centre of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). For a fascinating encounter with the arts and culture of Burkina Faso, visit http://www.olats.org/zekri.

The River Festival continues from 12 January-1 February 2000, while a group of international artists working with art and music and new technologies travel down the River Mouhoun in Burkina Faso, meeting and collaborating with local artists. See http://www.olats.org/festival-eau/.

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January 2000

010101: Art in Technological Times

Leonardo Announces 010101 Context Weblog: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is hosting an ambitious exhibition and Web project entitled "010101: Art in Technological Times" at http://www.sfmoma.org/010101. In response, Leonardo has assembled an international panel of artists, writers and scholars who will be reviewing, commenting on and discussing the exhibition and related events. The review panel includes: Barbara Williams, Josepha Haveman, Sonya Rapoport, Harry Rand, Mike Mosher and students, Josep Saldaña, Molly Hankwitz, Roger Malina, Rob Coburn, Joel Slayton, Annick Bureaud and others. Reviews are being posted and published in Leonardo Digital Reviews (Michael Punt, Editor-in-Chief) at http://leonardo.info/ldr.html. Leonardo has established a collaboration with CONTEXT WEBLOG, http://www.straddle3.net/context, a project of critical discourse run by Josep Saldaña in Barcelona, Spain. During the project the reviews and related discussions will be threaded, moderated, illustrated and contextualized at: http://www.straddle3.net/context/01/010101.en.html. Persons interested in sending their own reviews or comments on the 010101: Art in Technological Times exhibition are encouraged to send their comments to leo@mitpress.mit.edu.

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25-29 August 1999

Invenção: Thinking about the Next Millennium Conference
São Paulo, Brazil

Leonardo/ISAST joins CAiiA-STAR, ISEA and Itau Cultural in the presentation of Invenção: Thinking about the Next Millennium, a conference of the international community working with art, science and technology. Invenção will encompass 5 days of events, presentations, talks, panel discussions and and informal gatherings in Brazil.

Organizing Committee:
Arlindo Machado (chair), Alain Mongeau, Roger Malina, Roy Ascott

Scientific Committee:
Diana Domingues, Claudia Giannetti, Eduardo Kac, Takuo Komatsuzaki, Marcos Novac, Margarita Schultz

This event is produced by Itaú Cultural Institute (São Paulo, Brazil) in collaboration with ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts), CAiiA-STAR (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport, and the Centre for Science, Technology and Art Research, University of Plymouth, UK), and Leonardo/ISAST (the journal Leonardo, edited by ISAST (International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and published by the MIT Press).

Art at the Frontiers of Scientific and Technological Research
Panel Discussion
Invenção
Thinking about the Next Millennium
Conference, 25--29 August 1999, São Paulo, Brazil
Organizer: Stephen Wilson

Many artists are working at the frontiers of scientific and technological research. Their work often uses the concepts and tools from these areas of inquiry to reflexively probe their cultural implications. Their work sometimes strikes out in innovative directions neglected by mainstream researchers. Frequently the artists must invent presentation forms that defy the usual categories of art media. This panel will explore the new relationships between research and art forged by these artists. It will address questions such as the following: How do scientific research agendas inform, inspire and/or provoke the artist's work? What aspects of the field of inquiry most call out for artistic commentary? How is the artist's research approach similar to and different than that pursued by conventional researchers? How might the artist's work contribute to the shaping of future research agendas in the field?

Panel members include: Stephen Wilson, Roger Malina, Nell Tenhaaf, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Diana Domingues, Michael Naimark, Donna Cox

Leonardo Women, Art and Technology
Panel Discussion
Invenção
Thinking about the Next Millennium
Conference, 25--29 August 1999, São Paulo, Brazil

In this panel, women artists and theorists from around the world provided an overview of the variety of works women artists are currently creating with technology-based art media such as artificial life, virtual reality, video and multimedia installations, digital imaging systems, kinetic sculpture, and web-based and on-line art.

Panel members provided brief descriptions of their work, leading to a general discussion of the contributions of women artists and development of new media. The panelb considered how issues of gender and identity have been addressed in the artworks and art forms of the twentieth century, as well as the evolution of media and concepts in the next millennium.

Panel members included: Christa Sommerer, Christiane Paul, Nell Tenhaaf, Victoria Vesna, Donna Cox, Sonya Rapoport, Diana Domingues For further information Visit the Invenção Web site at: http://www.itaucultural.org.br/invencao/invencao.htm

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APRIL 1999

Leonardo Space Art Workshop: Cultural Perspectives on Space

The workshop addressed cultural issues surrounding the increasing presence of humans and machines in space. Several subjects were covered, such as:

Space habitat, space architecture
Human engineering: medical and psychological questions
Design of environments for machines in space.

http://www.olats.org

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1998

NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunity Program

A group of art students from San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University are participating in the 1998 NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunity Program, which allows up to 48 undergraduate student teams to successfully propose, design, fabricate, fly and assess a reduced-gravity experiment of their choice. The four students from San Francisco will climb aboard a KC135 turbojet and engage in preliminary creative investigations while their bodies float in mid-air.

More about this project

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29 March 1998

Leonardo Space Art Workshop: Space Art - Earth Art

Leonardo/ISAST, The OURS Foundation and the International Academy of Astronautics Space Activities and the Arts Subcommittee announce the second annual workshop exploring the cultural aspects of space exploration. The Workshop will be held in Paris, France and is free to associate members of Leonardo/ISAST. The topic this year is: "space art/earth art."

Space exploration now allows us to consider planet earth within the larger ecology of the solar system. Scientists are now studying solar weather- the interaction of the solar wind and solar variability on the earth's weather and climate; the impact of collisions with comets and meteors on the evolution of life; possible ways that life may spread from one planet to another; space debris and pollution. We now seek to understand the variations of climate on earth and other planets. This workshop will address artists work in environmental issues and ecology as they connect to the larger context of the solar system and space exploration. Artists and scientists interested in presenting at the workshop may contact Nathalie Lafforgue. Possible types of presentations include:

* The overview effect: artists interested in making art visible from space
* The Gaia concept: artists working on a global vision of earth
* The ecology point of view: artists working on environmental issues.

Under the title "Rencontres du 13 avril," a series of small, one-day workshops on Space and the Arts were co-organized by Leonardo/Olats, the OURS Foundation and the International Academy for Astronautics. Held in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb near Paris, these workshops attracted leading space scientists, engineers and artists on specific themes chosen to generate exchanges between artists and scientists concerning the cultural impact of space activities. See http://www.olats.org for more information.

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1997

LEONARDO 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Leonardo and the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the publication of Leonardo in 1997. The journal and the web site will be full of special features during the year as part of our celebration - keep your eye on the web site for announcements of special projects, events and activities.

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22-27 September 1997

ISEA 1997

The Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA97) will take place at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 22-27 September 1997. The ISEA97 web site now includes registration forms and instructions. Students and early registrants will receive substantial discounts; please see the ISEA97 web site at http://www.artic.edu/~isea97. The first registration deadlines are April 15 and May 15 - reserve your space now as space is limited. (Leonardo will be celebrating its 30th anniversary at ISEA 97.)

MIT Press Acquisitions Editor Douglas Sery will be attending the ISEA conference in Chicago 23-26 September 1997 and will be available to meet interested authors at the MIT Press/Leonardo booth. In addition to publishing the Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal, the MIT Press publishes the Leonardo Book Series, covering topics in art/science/technology of interest to the Leonardo professional community. The MIT Press also publishes books of interest in computer science, artificial life, architecture, and design.

Authors interested in meeting with Douglas Sery during ISEA may either come to the MIT-Press/Leonardo booth at ISEA or contact him ahead of time to set up an appointment at dsery@mit.edu.

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5 - 6 July 1997

Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era
University of Wales College, Newport, U.K.)

Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era, organized by CAiiA (The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport, U.K.), will be held 5 & 6 July 1997. The term "post-biological" is intended to cover all aspects of life that are mediated, extended or transformed by technology, including the mind and consciousness. This international conference will look at new developments in art, science, technology and consciousness. For example: the impace of digital technologies, biotechnology and artificual life on art, as well asexploring the value of art in understanding cognitive processes, conceptual modelling and theories of mind. The conference is being convende to enable ideas from a variety of artistic, scientific and other sources to surface, be exchanged and developed in ways that might further our individual practice and research in both science and art. For more information, contact Conference Coordinator Joseph Nechvatal at jnech@imaginet.fr.

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13 April 1997

Leonardo Space Art Workshop: The Artist as Space Explorer

The workshop discussed cultural aspects of space exploration. Presenters included artists and composers who have sent artwork into space or who have created musical performances that include performers in space, including Jean Marc Phillippe, Pierre Comte, Richard Kriesche, Richard Clar, Kitsou Dubois and Arthur Woods.

Under the title "Rencontres du 13 avril," a series of small, one-day workshops on Space and the Arts were co-organized by Leonardo/Olats, the OURS Foundation and the International Academy for Astronautics. Held in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb near Paris, these workshops attracted leading space scientists, engineers and artists on specific themes chosen to generate exchanges between artists and scientists concerning the cultural impact of space activities. See http://www.olats.org for more information.

Updated 17 August 2010