Tickets to the GLOBAL WARNING Symposium Now Available

The two-day GLOBAL WARNING Symposium (September 16 and 17, 2010, San Jose, CA), co-organized by ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, LEONARDO/ISAST, City of San Jose Public Art Program and CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University with additional support from the Montalvo Arts Center, will examine the interconnectedness of ideas and actions and the current relationships between art-making, science and ecology. A group of distinguished artists, scientists and policy-makers will present and examine case studies of collaborative environmental art projects. Symposium participants will be invited to help advance this cross-disciplinary enterprise through their active involvement in the dialogue. Tickets are now available for the symposium via the ZER01 web site. Seating is limited and the event is expected to sell out! Find out more

Stephen Schneider, 1945--2010

The board and staff at Leonardo/ISAST were deeply saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford professor and noted climate change scientist, while en route to the U.K. from a scientific conference. Throughout his 40-year career, Schneider was outspoken about the need for an aggressive response to climate change and his belief that scientists’ involvement in advocacy was necessary and important to engage the public and improve their understanding of science and the environment. Find out more

YASMIN July/September Discussion: The Hybrid City as Interface

In the beginning of the 21st century, urban environments, within which social life evolves, are radically being reordered by technological systems and networks. Join the YASMIN discussion list to discuss the relations between the virtual and physical experience of the city, as well as the new social dynamics of this hybrid urban context for everyday life. Find out more

SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery Provides a Feast for the Senses

SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery Provides a Feast for the Senses (Chicago, IL) - From virtual bugs to wearable devices, the SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery investigates the multi-sensory nature of human experience in a technologically enhanced environment. The official title is TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits, and from more than 250 submitted pieces, the jury selected 14 to be featured at SIGGRAPH 2010. Find out more

Fran Ilich Morales MuÑoz Awarded First International Master in MediaArtHistories

From a field of applicants from twelve countries from four continents, Mexican media artist, author, and researcher Fran Ilich Morales Muñoz has been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media Art Histories MA program at the Department of Image Science at Donau University. Find out more.

Past Announcements

For a list of recent past announcements, visit the Leonardo Announcements page

Leonardo 43:4, Special SIGGRAPH Issue Now Available!

Inside Leonardo 43:4: SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Papers and TouchPoint Art Gallery: a selection of art work and papers from the 2010 SIGGRAPH Conference and Art Gallery that offer insights into the humanity of technology, and explore the importance of human interaction and response in physical and emotional forms. Find out more

Leonardo Abstracts Service Top Rated Authors

Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts published in the English-language Leonardo Abstracts Service database during the first half of 2010: Nathaniel Stern, Perdita Phillips and Tom Davis. Find out more

Leonardo 43:3 Now Available!

Inside Leonardo 43:3: Cinderella on the Moon: Now anyone can fill Neil Armstrong's glass slipper, er, moon boot with Danqing Shi's installation/game. "Blobitectural" preservation: Lawrence Bird and Guillaume LaBelle on documenting and conserving Greg Lynn's embryonic architecture. Fresh eyes on Op Art: Squinting at spatial frequency and adjusting the apparent contrast bring a new appreciation of Bridget Riley's Fall. A language labyrinth: A textual maze melds the physical and the virtual in building_space_with_words. Find out more

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The Leonardo/ISAST Student Art/Science Contest

Leonardo is pleased to present an exhibit of the first Leonardo Student Art/Science Contest, including the five winning entries and two honorable mentions. This contest was organized by Piero Scaruffi in conjunction with the Leonardo Day symposium (co-organized by Scaruffi and Tami Spector), held as part of the University of California at Berkeley New Media Conference (Berkeley Big Bang 08) at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive in June 2008. Find out more.

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Subscribe now and get a 20% discount on a new or renewed subscription to Leonardo and LMJ PLUS a free book from the MIT Press! A Leonardo and LMJ subscription includes 5 issues of Leonardo published bi-monthly and one issue of Leonardo Music Journal + audio CD published at the end of the year. PLUS, the subscription includes associate membership in The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology which includes discounts, special invitations and more! Offer good through December 31, 2010. Find out more.

Leonardo @ Ars Electronica

What kind of new art genres are being developed by artists’ creative use of mixed media technologies, visual culture and communities and what is their impact on education? How is design research and education being embedded in the new modular curricula structures? What are the most effective elements of curricula to educate artists as well as art teachers for the future? Leonardo will host a panel at Ars Electronica to inspire an open discussion by educators and the public on burning issues towards developing an international dialogue. Find out more

Upcoming LASER: September 13, 2010

Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), September 13, 2010, at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Tanu Sankalia, "Urban Fabric of Past, Present, and Future"; Deborah Aschheim, "Memory", Anne Fougeron, "City of the Future" and Jeff Hull, "Situational Design: Interactions at the Conflux of Narrative, Consciousness and Genuine Space". Find out more

GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism

The GLOBAL WARNING symposium, organized by ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, the City of San Jose Public Art Program and CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University in collaboration with LEONARDO/ISAST, with additional support from the Montalvo Arts Center, will be held September 16–17, 2010, in conjunction with the 3rd 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA. This two-day symposium will examine the interconnectedness of ideas and actions and the current relationships between art-making, science and ecology. A group of distinguished artists, scientists and policy-makers will present and examine case studies of collaborative environmental art projects. Symposium participants will be invited to help advance this crossdisciplinary enterprise through their active involvement in the dialogue. Find out more