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

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EVENTS

GLOBAL WARNING SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
Join Leonardo at the upcoming GLOBAL WARNING Symposium (September 16  
and 17, 2010, San Jose, CA), where creative minds will gather to  
explore scientific problem-solving, art-making and the environment.  
Featured speakers include Kathleen Dean Moore, Gail Wight, Gerard  
Kuperus, Peter Roopnarine, Karen Holl, Marisa Jahn, Tiffany Holmes,  
Andrea Polli, Tim Dye, Buster Simpson, Robin Lasser, Marguerite  
Perret, Jade Chang, and the Climate Clock Initiative artist groups:  
Freya Bardell, Brian Howe and Brent Bucknum; Usaman Haque and Robert  
Davis; and Chico Macmurtrie, Geo Homsy, Bill Washabaugh and Gideon  
Shapiro. Seating is limited and the event is expected to sell out!  
Tickets are now available for the symposium via the ZER01 web site.  
Find out more

ART, SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
FROM THE LEONARDO AND LMJ ARCHIVES
Leading up to the GLOBAL WARNING Symposium, we will be publishing  
abstracts from papers that have been published in Leonardo and LMJ  
over the years on art, science and the environment. Many of these  
papers are available for free to current Leonardo and LMJ  
subscribers. Papers published before 2005 are available through the  
JSTOR digital archive.

"Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic  
Art and Nature Wilderness as Reentrant Form" by David Dunn
ABSTRACT: Proceeding from an assumption that electronic  
representations of the natural environment (both recorded and real  
time) not only can help give humanity a greater awareness of the  
complexity of the non-human world but also can contribute toward  
alleviating the problems posed by recreational overuse of the  
wilderness, the author argues for institutional encouragement of  
technologically sophisicated artists working toward this possibility.  
Current examples of artistic works are discussed within a  
philosophical context. [This paper was originally published in  
Leonardo Vol. 21, No. 4, 1988, and is currently available to Leonardo  
and LMJ subscribers through the JSTOR digital archive.]

"Planet Earth in Contemporary Electronic Artworks" by Julian Knebusch
ABSTRACT: This article presents an overall view of contemporary  
electronic artworks related to Planet Earth as a topic of artistic  
inquiry. The author presents and interprets philosophically the  
different ways in which artists have approached Planet Earth and  
tried to reappropriate this object of modernity. In order to do so he  
outlines a phenomenological reading of these artworks and confronts  
them with the well-established phenomenological discourse about  
humans' relationship to Planet Earth. [This paper was originally  
published in Leonardo Vol. 37, No. 1, 2004, and is currently  
available to Leonardo and LMJ subscribers through the MIT Press web  
site.]

Find out more about how to access these articles

NEWS

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Leonardo/ISAST Twitter account to post live updates from the upcoming  
GLOBAL WARNING Symposium (September 16 and 17, 2010, San Jose, CA).  
Join Leonardo/ISAST on Twitter and get in on the conversation: http:// 
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OTHER EVENTS

NEXT LASER: SEPTEMBER 13, 2010, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
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

COMMUNITY

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

PUBLICATIONS

NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE LEONARDO BOOK SERIES AND MIT PRESS
ENFOLDMENT AND INFINITY, BY LAURA U. MARKS
In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one  
point can unfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century  
dome decorated with geometric complexity and a new media work that  
shapes a dome from programmed beams of light: both can inspire  
feelings of immersion and transcendence. In Enfoldment and Infinity,  
Laura Marks traces the strong similarities, visual and philosophical,  
between these two kinds of art. Her argument is more than  
metaphorical; she shows that the "Islamic" quality of modern and new  
media art is a latent, deeply enfolded, historical inheritance from  
Islamic art and thought. Find out more

LEONARDO ABSTRACT SERVICES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
LABS (Leonardo Abstract Services) is an on-line database dedicated to  
sharing of ideas via publishing of MA, MFA or Ph.D. thesis abstracts  
that relate to the intersection of art, science and/or technology. We  
invite faculty whose graduating students are involved in these issues  
to encourage students to post their abstracts on this database. New  
entries are annually peer reviewed, and authors of the highest ranked  
abstracts are invited to write an article for the Leonardo journal  
and/or have their abstracts posted on LEA (Leonardo Electronic  
Almanac). Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANNOUNCING THE CAMBRIDGE LITERARY REVIEW
The Cambridge Literary Review is a new print journal of poetry,  
fiction and essays. It is committed to publishing interdisciplinary  
work. Essays have covered such topics as Otto Neurath’s picture  
language "Isotype," poetry and politics, Hume, Hegel and Walter  
Benjamin, as well as traditional literary criticism. Find out more

"ECOTONES" BY JANINE RANDERSON
"Ecotones" (working title) is a new data-ecological project by Janine  
Randerson that employs information from satellite telemetry and  
sonification of the paths of migratory birds from the Northern  
hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere. The bar-tailed godwit, a bird  
with the longest non-stop migration of any species, arrives annually  
in Miranda, an estuary in New Zealand's North Island. This area is an  
"ecotone," or transitional space between terrestrial and marine  
ecosystems; where land meets sea, saltwater meets freshwater. Find  
out more

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