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Meet the SDM 2016 Residents

Laura Boudou, Marseille, France, is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. Since 2013, she has performed professionally with choreographers in France, including Edmond Russo, Samir El Yamni, Barbara Amar, Lionel Hoche, Patrice Barthès, Nicolas Hubert, and Dominique Guilhaudin.

Scientific Delirium Madness Is about to Begin!

Six scientists and six artists are about to embark on the month-long Scientific Delirium Madness residential retreat starting 1 July 2014 in Woodside, CA. Thanks to Margot Knight, Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP), Leonardo/ISAST and DRAP have joined forces for this art/science residency for our first collaboration.

LMJ25 Call for Papers: The Politics of Sonic Art

Call for Papers: LMJ25 -- The Politics of Sonic Art For Volume 25 of Leonardo Music Journal we are soliciting articles (papers of up to 3,000 words) and shorter statements (750-1,000 words) that address the role of politics in the creation and dissemination of music and related sonic arts, especially in those genres employing new technological tools. Possible areas of attention include (but are not limited to):
  • The mechanisms by which sonic art can represent and communicate political content without recourse to language.

Art-Science Is a Conceptual Blend

Editorial by Jack Ox

The art world is, as always, engaged in the boomlets of the moment; right now, that includes art-science. This is a good reason to establish a procedure for determining what art-science is. For instance, is it art-science if a painter makes a painting of a Petri dish?

Algorithmic Art

Editorial by Frieder Nake

“One might justifiably question the artist’s role in images that are not merely assembled by the computer in its capacity as a tool, but generated directly by it. Where is the human input?” Lambert, Latham and Leymarie recently raised this question [1].

The core of their question is as old as computer art (about 50 years). I prefer calling such work algorithmic art; although algorithmic art does not necessarily involve a computer, this term is more distinctive.

What Is the Challenge of Art/Science Today?

Editorial by Jack Ox and Richard Lowenberg

It is as difficult in 2012 to successfully implement artist/scientist collaborations as it was in the early 1990s for John Seely Brown, director of Xerox PARC, and Rich Gold, founder of PAIR (PARC’s artist-in-residence program). They had to ask and explain many of the same questions we grapple with today while trying to create atmospheres that enable interdisciplinary collaborations. Brown was actually surprised that scientists volunteered part of their research time in order to engage with artists.