[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | September 15, 2010

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September 15, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 16 AND 17, 2010
SAN JOSE CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
SAN JOSE, CA
GLOBAL WARNING SYMPOSIUM STARTS TOMORROW
The GLOBAL WARNING symposium is organized by ZER01, LEONARDO/ISAST,  
City of San Jose Public Art Program and CADRE Laboratory for New  
Media with additional support from the Montalvo Arts Center. The two- 
day event will take place September 16 and 17, 2010 at the San Jose  
City Hall Council Chambers in San Jose, CA as part of the 2010 01SJ  
Biennial.

Buy tickets now: Tickets are $15 for one day or $25 for both days and  
are available through the ZER01 web site: http://01sj.org/programs/ 
symposium/.

Featured speakers for Day 1 (September 16) include: Kathleen Dean  
Moore (Editor/Author; Professor, Oregon State University: "Why It’s  
Wrong to Wreck the World"), Gail Wight (Artist; Professor, Stanford  
University: "Landscape Disrupted: Brief History of Artists and the  
Environment"), Gerard Kuperus ("Environmental Ethics through  
Aesthetics"), Peter Roopnarine (Curator/Researcher, California  
Academy of Sciences: "Embracing Uncertainty" and "Marine Food Webs  
and the Environment"), Karen Holl (Researcher/Professor, UCSC:  
"Conserving Tropical Forests to Reduce Global Warming"), Marisa Jahn  
(Artist/Author/Activist: "Wormholes as Solutions: Art and Social  
Change"), Tiffany Holmes (Artist; Associate Professor, School of the  
Art Institute of Chicago: "Beyond Eco-Art: 21st-Century Eco- 
Visualization"). Plus a special performance by the Shamanic  
Cheerleaders!

Featured speakers for Day 2 (September 17) include: Andrea Polli and  
Tim Dye (Artist and Senior Vice President and Division Manager for  
Meteorological Programs and Public Outreach at Sonoma Technology,  
Inc.: "Particle Falls"), Robin Lasser and Marguerite Perret (Artists:  
"Floating World"), Jade Chang (Writer: "From Gas Bills to a New Game  
Theory: Can Having Fun = Doing Good?"), Buster Simpson (Artist:  
"Poetic Utility") 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.

All symposium ticket holders will receive access to a virtual goodie  
bag which includes free access to dozens of articles on art, science  
and the environment published in Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal and  
Global Environmental Politics, discounts on journal subscriptions,  
books and more!

To find out more about the schedule, read speakers bios and purchase  
tickets for the event, visit our web site:
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/2010symposium.html

Can't make it to the event? No problem! For those unable to make it  
to the symposium, there are several ways you can still experience it.  
Join Leonardo/ISAST on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LeonardoISAST to  
receive live updates throughout the two-day event. Otherwise we will  
be broadcasting the symposium live via Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/ 
channel/climate-clock. Join us on Ustream each day of the event to  
watch the event live and participate in the facilitated on-line  
discussions.

OTHER EVENTS

PROMETHEUS INSTITUTE, GALEYEV READINGS, 2010
The "Prometheus" Center cordially invites you to take part in  
"Galeyev Readings" in Kazan, Russia from 1-7 October 2010. The event  
will include a conference, an exhibition and a festival in honor of  
scientist/artist and Leonardo Editorial Board member Bulat  
Makhmudovich Galeyev (1940-2009). Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

TRANSACTIONS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
LEONARDO AND THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CHEMISTRY
2011 is the international year of chemistry. Leonardo Transactions  
welcomes submissions that describe projects that relate the arts and  
humanities and chemistry. Find out more

LEONARDO 43:5 NOW AVAILABLE!
Inside Leonardo 43:5: Bouncing beamforms: Sound becomes a very  
spatial thing in the aural architecture of Auditory Tactics. The  
universe in a shadow box: Heather Green's space art ports Chris  
Impey's astrobiology into cabinets of cosmic curiosities to fuel the  
antimatter drives of our imaginations. The name of this app is  
talking heads: Buddha, Leonardo and Einstein kibitz with actors'  
virtualized visages in the authors' Face3D system. Silicon  
calligraphics: Ayça Ünlüer and Oguzhan Özcan bring a traditional  
Turkish art form to the screen-poking masses. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

FACULTY POSITION IN COMPOSITION, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
The Wesleyan University Music Department seeks an original composer  
with specialization in experimental music and digital media.  
Interests that cross disciplinary boundaries are welcome, as are  
additional fields of expertise. This is a full-time, tenure-track  
position beginning July 1, 2011. Find out more

THE WIRED LAB
The Wired Lab is an art + science project investigating æolian  
instruments that sonically capture the magnificent and dynamic  
universe of the natural world. Based in rural South West NSW,  
Australia, WIRED Lab was established in 2007 to ensure the legacy of  
The Wires, a unique and distinctly Australian invention that  
primarily exists in rural landscapes. Find out more

REPRESENTATIONZ
Representationz is a new blog covering how symbols, images, and  
language affect our daily lives -- from representation in art,  
science, and culture to cryptic puzzles. Find out more

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