[Leonardo/ISAST Network] February LASER/DASER, LEAF@CAA, Leonardo 45:1, Leonardo e-books and more

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1 February 2012

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EVENTS

UPCOMING LASER: 1 FEBRUARY 2012, PALO ALTO, CA (STANFORD)
Stretch your imagination into places far and near at the next  
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 1 February 2012, at  
Stanford University. Feature presentations include "First Light" by  
artists Daniel Small and Luca Antonucci, "City of the Future" by  
architect Anne Fougeron, "Collaborative Intelligence" by former NASA  
scientist Zann Gill and "Mycotecture" by artist Phil Ross. Find out more

NEXT DASER: 16 FEBRUARY 2012, WASHINGTON, DC
ART IN SCIENCE MUSEUMS
The focus of the next DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous will be on  
art in the context of science museums. Join us 16 February 2012, at  
the Keck Center, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., for  
presentations by Shih Cheih Huang (artist), Lynne Parenti (curator,  
National Museum of Natural History), Barbara Stauffer (exhibition  
manager, Smithsonian) and Bert Ulrich (multimedia manager, NASA).  
Find out more

LEONARDO EDUCATION AND ART FORUM AT COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION  
CONFERENCE, LOS ANGELES, CA
Join the Leonardo Education and Art Forum at the 100th College Art  
Association conference in Los Angeles, CA, 22-25 February 2012.  
Panels include Is It Time to Question the "Privileging" of Visual  
Art?, Friday, February 24. Chairs: Greta Berman, The Juilliard  
School; Ellen K. Levy, independent artist, New York; Headlines!  
Environmental News, Artist Presenters, Audience Respondents,  
Wednesday, February 22. Chair: Linda Weintraub, Artnow Publications;  
Sustainable Futures: New Cultural Movements in Art + Ecology,  
Saturday, February 25. Chair: Patricia Olynyk, Chair, LEAF; Leonardo  
Education and Art Forum Business Meeting, Thursday, February 23; and  
a LEAF Education Roundtable: Education at the Intersections of Art,  
Science, and Technology, Thursday, February 23. Workshop Leader:  
Eddie Shanken. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO VOLUME 45, ISSUE 1
NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE MIT PRESS
Inside Leonardo 45:1: From farming fish to replacing glaciers: In  
this interview, Helen and Newton Harrison look back on their work  
(and Renaissance feminism and prehistoric movies) and forward to  
their next project, thinking as big as the trouble we're in. A 4- 
billion-year project: Research on evolution keeps evolving. Joana  
Ricou and John Pollock’s Spiral of Life captures an art-education  
snapshot (hint: no top, no plan and no end to the papers). Going with  
the information flows: Cybernetics hit society in three waves---Etan  
Ilfeld’s archaeology of readymades, video and media art charts the  
deposits. Take control of your space: Watch the birth and death of  
the stars from the comfort of your neighborhood pub with Woohun Lee  
and JinHa Seong’s Crystal Zoetrope "Sea of Stars Table." Find out more

JOURNAL ARTICLES NOW AVAILABLE PRE-PUBLICATION THROUGH EARLY ACCESS  
SYSTEM
MIT Press is now offering early access to Leonardo and Leonardo Music  
Journal articles online. Articles in proof will now be accessible to  
subscribers via the MIT Press web site approximately three months  
prior to print publication. Articles forthcoming in Leonardo 45:2 are  
anticipated to be available through the new Early Access system by 8  
February 2012. More information will be posted on the Leonardo web  
site as it becomes available.

LEONARDO E-BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE MIT PRESS
We are pleased to announce that several titles from the Leonardo Book  
Series are now available as e-books from the MIT Press, Amazon,  
Google, Kobo and Barnes & Noble. Titles include: CODE: Collaborative  
Ownership and the Digital Economy, by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh; Global  
Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, by Eugene Thacker;  
Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution, by George Gessert; The  
Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science, by Cretien van Campen;  
The Language of New Media, by Lev Manovich; Tactical Biopolitics:  
Art, Activism and Technoscience, by Beatriz da Costa, Kavita Philip;  
and V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, by Norie  
Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: LEONARDO DAY AT NETSCI 2012
We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at  
NetSci2012 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, Tuesday, June  
19, 2012 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. The aim of the  
symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems  
within or with the help of arts and humanities. In addition to  
keynotes and interdisciplinary discussion, we are looking for a  
number of contributed talks. Selected papers will be published in  
print in a Special Section of Leonardo (MIT Press), as well as online  
in Leonardo Transactions. Submission deadline: March 16, 2012. Find  
out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

DIGITAL ART AND COMPUTER GAMING EMPHASIS
Full-Time, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Position, Department of  
Art and Art History at San Jose State University. Seeking qualified  
candidates for a tenure track position in the newly formed Art,  
Technology and Media program, which is a merger of two programs  
formerly known as Spatial Art (sculpture) and Digital Media Art.  
Graduate MFA, MS, or PhD degree in a field related to Gaming  
required. Find out more

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