[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Innovators, Inventors & Creatives

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15 November 2012

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NEWS

JOIN LEONARDO INNOVATORS, INVENTORS AND CREATIVES!
For over 40 years, Leonardo has tirelessly supported the inventors,  
pioneers and trailblazers working at the intersection of art, science  
and technology. Their findings have been published in Leonardo's  
print and electronic publications and promoted at many conferences,  
symposia and events around the world. Leonardo needs your help to  
keep these exciting opportunities alive for this unique and  
innovative community. Your donation to Leonardo/ISAST provides  
critical support for Leonardo programs. Leonardo/ISAST is a non- 
profit organization that relies on the support of our community.  
Donations are tax-deductible! Find out more

LEONARDO AUTHOR BILL FONTANA WINS PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA COLLIDE at CERN  
RESIDENCY AWARD
The second Prix Ars Electronica Collide at CERN Residency Award has been  
awarded to American artist Bill Fontana in recognition of his  
pioneering experiments in sound art work, which have been featured in  
some of the world’s leading arts institutions. During his residency  
at CERN, Fontana will explore the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s  
largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

NOW AVAILABLE: LMJ22: ACOUSTICS
Inside LMJ22: A million electromechanical monkeys: Daniel Wilson’s  
postelectronic agitators and their vibrational enigmas---will we see  
a sonic version of the random emergence of Shakespeare?; Life inside  
an enormous grand piano: Ellen Fullman uses rosin-coated fingers to  
brush across the metallic strings of her Long String Instrument,  
producing a chorus of minimal, organ-like overtones; Battle of the  
robot bands: Jim Murphy and company on escaping the loudspeaker to  
get your music machined; Alternative use for garden sprinklers: Since  
1973, John Driscoll has used everything from toilet ball floats to  
dried ferns to tickle out the world’s acoustic resonance. The issue  
includes a CD curated by Daniel James Wolf and the online supplement  
"Alvin Lucier—A Celebration" available to subscribers. Find out more

LEA CALL: LIVE VISUALS FOR PERFORMANCE, GAMING, INSTALLATION, AND  
ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENTS
The proposed LEA special issue Live Visuals for Performance, Gaming,  
Installation, and Electronic Environments seeks to explore the future  
of the moving image, simultaneously acknowledging and extending on  
recent artistic trends and technological developments. Leonardo  
Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals from computer  
scientists, artists, designers, live visualists and critical  
theorists interested in real-time visuals for an issue co-edited by  
Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief), Steve Gibson, (Reader in  
Interactive Media Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle) and  
Stefan Müller Arisonav (principal investigator at ETH Zurich‘s Future  
Cities Laboratory, Singapore). Deadline for papers: 30 November 2012.  
Find out more

LEA: TOUCH AND GO
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) in collaboration with Watermans and  
Goldsmiths University of London in occasion of the 2012 Watermans’  
International Festival of Digital Art is pleased to announce Touch  
and Go, a new LEA special issue available on Amazon. Touch and Go  
analyzes the role that interactivity and participation – as well as  
light art and new media approaches to the public space – play as  
tools that may foster engagement and shared forms of participation.  
Find out more

EVENTS

NEXT SF LASER: 12 DECEMBER 2012, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CA
Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER),  
12 December 2012, at Stanford University. Feature presentations  
include "Down to Earth: Art, Astronomy and Physics" by artist and  
educator Jennifer Parker, "Lights, Nano, Action!" by materials  
science educator Jennifer Dionne, and "Street Painting & Burning Man:  
Creating Community through Impermanent Art" by artist and street  
painter Mark Wagner. Find out more

MEMBERS

JOIN THE LEONARDO AFFILIATE PROGRAM - 20% DISCOUNT THROUGH DECEMBER 2012
Leonardo Affiliates are top-ranked universities, independent  
nonprofits and corporations engaged in research and creative  
activities at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology.  
Affiliates are Leonardo’s strategic partners, valued members of an  
exclusive international network of innovative institutions and  
research centers that are leading the advancement of Art|Science.  
Affiliates engage with Leonardo’s board, management team and peers in  
multiple new areas of research, creative work and programs at the  
forefront of the field that Leonardo launched over 40 years ago.  
Contact us with Discount Code AF2012 Find out more
OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

FACULTY POSITION, SCHOOL OF ARTS, MEDIA AND ENGINEERING
HERBERGER INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS AT ASU
The School of Arts, Media and Engineering (ame.asu.edu) in the  
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State  
University (ASU) invites applicants for a full-time tenure-track  
appointment in Interactive Media at the associate/assistant professor  
level beginning fall 2013. Screening of candidates will begin  
immediately; for best consideration, application materials should be  
provided by 5 December 2012. If not filled, reviews will occur  
monthly thereafter until the search is closed. Find out more

FACULTY POSITION, DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO
The University at Buffalo--SUNY invites applications for an Assistant/ 
Associate Professor position in the Department of Media Study. The  
department seeks applications from candidates fluent in the cultures  
of a wide range of established and new media practices, and with  
demonstrated research strengths in media theory and history. We are  
open to specialists (media philosophy / science and technology  
studies / media activism / mobile and ubiquitous computing / software  
studies) and to candidates who are also practitioners. Find out more

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO MEDIA STUDY - GRADUATE PROGRAMS: CALL FOR  
APPLICATIONS
The Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo is  
renowned for its pioneering contributions to film, video and sound  
art practices and theory. Today, Media Study adds to these existing  
strengths conceptual and computational media with a diversity very  
few art departments can match. Candidates accepted in Media Study ‘s  
Graduate program work together with artists, thinkers and theorists  
whose work and research deliver formative contributions to current  
practices and discourses in media arts. Application deadline: 15  
January. Find out more

NEUROAESTHETICS SYMPOSIUM, ZKM | CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA KARLSRUHE
Readers are cordially invited to attend the symposium entitled  
"Neuroaesthetics" on 22 - 24 November 2012 at the ZKM | Center for  
Art and Media Karlsruhe. The symposium, held in cooperation with the  
Hertie Foundation, aims at establishing a connection between current  
developments in the neurosciences and the arts. It tries, on the one  
hand, to initiate a potential way for art to gain access and draw  
inspiration from the neurosciences and on the other, for neuroscience  
to obtain novel means of articulating its experimental results. Find  
out more

DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ARTS, MEDIA AND ENGINEERING
HERBERGER INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS AT ASU
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State  
University (ASU) invites nominations and applications for the  
position of Director of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering.  
The director will lead an innovative school which explores  
interactive media and digital culture. To assure consideration  
applications must be received by 30 November 2012. Find out more

BALANCE-UNBALANCE 2013 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are now being accepted for the International Balance- 
Unbalance 2013 conference to be held at Central Queensland University  
in Noosa, Australia from May 31 - June 2, 2013. Balance-Unbalance  
2013 is being held in the beautiful resort town of Noosa, in parallel  
with the Floating Land 2013 Green Art festival and just prior to the  
ISEA 2013 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) conference in  
Sydney, so participants can maximize their time in Australia by  
attending all three events. Find out more

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