[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | February 1, 2010

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February 1, 2010

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), February 10, 2010, at the SETI Institute,  
Mountain View, CA. Feature presentations include June Power, "A  
Matter of Form," John Edmark, "Geometric Patterns of Change," Carlo  
Sequin, "Knotty Sculptures," and Trudy Reagan, "My Life Among the  
Patterns." Find out more

COMMUNITY

YASMIN DISCUSSION: AROUND SIMULATION
We extensively use and live in simulation. In our everyday life we  
imagine situations, events, projects and project them into the  
future. We simulate possible worlds and test them in a sort of  
permanent "what if" situation, which is continuously reworked and  
modified. This process has been methodologically formalized in the  
sciences, where we build models and simulations, which try to  
describe facts, events and phenomena. Models and simulations have a  
very important cognitive role in knowing and understanding the world  
we live in. In January and February 2010 the YASMIN Group will  
discuss simulation, its layers of construction, its conflicts, its  
power relations and more. Find out more

JOIN THE LEONARDO EDUCATION AND ART FORUM AT CAA 2010, CHICAGO, IL
The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (formerly known as the Leonardo  
Education Forum) will be hosting a panel session at the College Art  
Association Conference in Chicago, IL, Saturday, February 13, 2010,  
from 12:30 pm – 2 pm. The panel, titled "Migratory Structures:  
Scientific Imagery and Contemporary Art Practice," will feature  
presentations by Marlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Jean-Pierre Hebert,  
Diane Gromala, Jack Ox and Hannah Higgins. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

THE NEW LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC IS NOW ON-LINE!
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), a member of the Leonardo/ISAST  
family, has been re-launched! The new format combines the features of  
a high-production-value art magazine with the scholarly rigor of an  
academic journal. The new version of LEA, under the direction of  
Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-editor, is a  
well-illustrated, attractive and readable magazine that is  
simultaneously available online as a hyperlinked screen-resolution  
PDF document, a high-resolution print-on-demand magazine and in a  
downloadable version for book readers on electronic devices like the  
Amazon Kindle. Find out more.

MEMBERS

UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM
JOINS LEONARDO AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
Leonardo/ISAST welcomes The Media Technology Master of Science (MSc)  
program at University of Leiden as a new Affiliate Member. The Media  
Technology Master of Science (MSc) program is a place where students,  
artists and researchers are allowed to formulate their own scientific  
questions. They are encouraged to translate personal inspiration and  
curiosities into their own manageable and compact research projects.  
The program recognizes creativity as an important factor in  
scientific innovation. It aims to be a place where students, artists  
and scientists do research by creating innovative solutions inspired  
by results and principles of science. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

DIATROPE INSTITUTE ON-LINE BOOKSTORE
The Diatrope Institute has partnered with Amazon.com to create an  
online bookstore specializing in art, science and technology titles.  
Our stock includes both new and used items. We will also search for  
and special order hard-to-find books in the field. Receive a 25%  
discount off all purchases of 2 or more books (through February 28,  
2010). Find out more

PROJECTS OF EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS GROUP
Evolutionary Systems Group (ESG) is an interdisciplinary group of  
professors and researchers operating at the University of Calabria  
(Italy), directed by Pier Augusto Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta and  
Pietro Pantano. Among its interdisciplinary fields of research it can  
cite scientific visualization and digital art (especially of  
dynamical systems, like cellular automata and Chua's attractors). ESG  
uses artificial life models in artwork as a very stimulating and  
fascinating method in the research of new forms of digital art. In  
particular, using mathematical models of dynamical systems and  
appropriate code systems, the group creates different kinds of  
artistic depictions, especially chaotic forms derived from Chua's  
oscillator. Find out more

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