[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo/OLATS Awards the Leonardo-EMS Award for Excellence to criticalartware

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Leonardo/OLATS Awards the Leonardo-EMS Award for Excellence to 
criticalartware
 
We are pleased to announce that Leonardo/OLATS and the Electroacoustic 
Music Studies Network (EMS Network) have awarded the Leonardo-EMS Award 
for Excellence to criticalartware (Jon Cates, Ben Syverson and Jon 
Satrom) for their paper "/likn/: A Flexible Platform for Information and 
Metadata Exchange" which they presented at the Electroacoustic Music 
Studies Conference in Beijing, October 2006.
 
The project by criticalartware /likn/ is an artware application that 
addresses the nature of knowledge, ideas and language in the era of 
globalization. More specifically, /likn/ is a functional online 
collaborative environment which wages a persistent critique of the 
desire to standardize and universalize meaning, and offers an 
alternative by applying postmodern and postcolonial theories to the 
challenge of organizing discourse and media. The paper can be accessed 
online at:
 
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/LeoEMS2006_announce.html

The Leonardo-EMS jury convened on Thursday, October 26 after the 
official closure of the third Electroacoustic Music Studies 
Conference. The Leonardo-EMS jury consisting of Marc Battier, Kenneth 
Fields and Ricardo dal Farra, was thrilled at the high quality of 
presentations by young researchers during the Beijing event and the 
final decision was difficult to reach.
 
The EMS Network has been organized to fill an important gap in terms of 
electroacoustic music, namely focusing on the better understanding of 
the various manifestations of electroacoustic music. Areas related to 
the study of electroacoustic music range from the musicological to more 
interdisciplinary approaches, from studies concerning the impact of 
technology on musical creativity to the investigation of the ubiquitous 
nature of electroacoustic sounds today. The choice of the word, 
"network" is of fundamental importance as one of the goals of the EMS 
Network is to make relevant initiatives more widely available. More 
about the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network can be found at 
http://www.ems-network.org

Leonardo/OLATS has established a collaboration with the EMS network 
through which annual Leonardo-EMS Awards for Excellence will be made for 
the best contribution to the EMS symposium by a young researcher as 
decided by a joint jury.

Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are 
tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's 
projects, programs and activities, visit http://leonardo.info

 
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