[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Education Forum at CAA 2006 Boston

[Leonardo/ISAST]

*Join the Leonardo Education Forum at this year's College Art 
Association Conference**
Boston**, MA, USA****
22-25 February 2006*

The Leonardo Education Forum (made up of members of the Leonardo 
community and College Art Association) will participate in several 
exciting events at this year's CAA conference designed to advance the 
practice of students and professional artists working at the 
intersection of art, science and technology. These will include a 
special panel session on new media art, a mentorship roundtable, a town 
hall business meeting, career development workshops and a very special 
exhibition which will take place at Art Interactive in Cambridge, MA.

*Look for the Leonardo Education Forum at these events:*

*The Leonardo Mentoring Roundtable Session*
*Hynes** Convention Center**, Second Level, Room 208
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 from 12:30-2:00pm*

The Mentoring Roundtable is designed to benefit the professional 
development of the next generation of artists, scholars, and researchers 
working at the intersections of art, science and technology. Students 
and emerging professionals are encouraged to attend and to participate 
in discussion related to the following areas: (1) collaboration between 
artists/scientists/technologists, (2) essential connections/historical 
considerations, (3) marketing yourself in the job market, (4) teaching 
art/science/technology, (5) drawing/visualization/sonification/etc. 
across disciplines, (6) writing/communication (artists statements, 
practice-based research, critical research, reviews, etc), and (7) 
academia or not?

Chair: Andrea Polli MFA Director and Associate Professor of Integrated 
Media Arts Hunter College New York, NY; Panelists: Victoria Vesna (Chair 
of the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts) 
and Trebor Scholz Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo. Student 
discussants include Gabriel Harp, University of Michigan, Heidi J. 
Boisvert, Hunter College InterMedia Arts, Josh Levy, Hunter College 
InterMedia Arts, TBA. Organizing Committee: Amy Ione, Steven Oscherwitz, 
Andrea Polli


*Exhibition: New Media/New Work (co-organized by Leonardo Education 
Forum, New Media Caucus and AT Boston); "Technologized Bodies/Embodied 
Technologies," curated for Leonardo Education Forum by Legier Biederman 
and Dave Burns
Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA
Reception Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm*

"Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies" is one part of a unique 
collaborative venture in new media art curated by Legier Biederman and 
Dave Burns for the exhibition *New Media/New Work* at Art Interactive, 
in conjunction with the CAA conference in Boston. *New Media/New Work*, 
co-organized by Leonardo Education Forum, New Media Caucus and AT 
Boston, will feature cutting edge video and new media work by 
international artists which explores intersections among visualization, 
embodiment, and the technological.

*Leonardo Special Session: New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher 
and Research as Art in the 21st Century*
*Hynes** Convention Center**, Second Level, Room 202
Friday, February 24, 2006 from 5:30-7:00pm*

Speakers will include Timothy Allen Jackson (Department of Art History, 
Savannah College of Art and Design), Shawn Brixey and James Coupe 
(Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of 
Washington), Nina Czegledy (independent artist), and R. Bruce Elder 
(Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University).*
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Town Hall Business Meeting*
*Hynes** Convention Center**, Second Level, Room 200
Saturday, February 25, 2006 from 7:30 AM-9:00 AM*

Members of the Leonardo network who attend the CAA conference will 
gather to discuss issues pertaining to Leonardo and the International 
Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.


*Career Development Workshops*

Every year, the CAA conference features Career Development Workshops, in 
which students in art and art history meet one-on-one with advanced 
professionals in their field of interest. Seasoned professionals are 
matched up with students according to interest and specialty to critique 
portfolios, review CVs, guide through conference activities, introduce 
to other figures in the field, or other mentorship activities. These 
meetings are scheduled for a single 20-minute time slot during the 
Career Development Workshop. Leonardo Education Forum will participate 
in these workshops under the Art/Science category.

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*The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)* promotes the advancement of 
artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, 
science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students 
who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for 
collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including 
the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an 
affiliate society.

The Leonardo Education Forum is open to all individuals who are members 
of Leonardo.

For more information about the Leonardo Education Forum, a list of 
members and how to join, please visit: 
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events/leonardocaa.html