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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB">Leonardo/OLATS
Awards the Leonardo-EMS Award for Excellence to criticalartware<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB">We are pleased to announce that Leonardo/OLATS and the
Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (</span><span
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Network)</span><span
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have awarded the Leonardo-EMS Award for Excellence to criticalartware
(Jon Cates, Ben Syverson and Jon Satrom) for their paper “<i style="">likn</i>:
A Flexible Platform for Information and Metadata Exchange” which they
presented at the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference in Beijing,
October 2006. <o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB">The
project by criticalartware <i style="">likn</i> is an
artware application that addresses the nature of knowledge, ideas and
language
in the era of globalization. More specifically, <i style="">likn</i>
is a functional online collaborative environment which wages a
persistent critique of the desire to standardize and universalize
meaning, and
offers an alternative by applying postmodern and postcolonial theories
to the
challenge of organizing discourse and media. The paper can be accessed
online
at<o:p></o:p></span>:<br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/LeoEMS2006_announce.html">http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/LeoEMS2006_announce.html</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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</o:p></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">The
Leonardo-EMS jury
convened on Thursday, October 26 after the official closure of
the third
Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference. The Leonardo-EMS jury
consisting of Marc Battier, Kenneth Fields and Ricardo dal Farra, was
thrilled at the high quality of presentations by young researchers
during the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:City>
event and the
final decision was difficult to reach.</span></span><span
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-CA">The EMS Network has been organized
to fill an important gap in terms of electroacoustic music, namely
focusing on
the better understanding of the various manifestations of
electroacoustic
music. Areas related to the study of electroacoustic music range from
the
musicological to more interdisciplinary approaches, from studies
concerning the
impact of technology on musical creativity to the investigation of the
ubiquitous nature of electroacoustic sounds today. The choice of the
word,
“network” is of fundamental importance as one of the goals of the EMS
Network
is to make relevant initiatives more widely available. </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">More
about the Electroacoustic
Music Studies Network can be found at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ems-network.org">http://www.ems-network.org</a></span><span
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Leonardo/OLATS has established a collaboration with the EMS network
through
which annual Leonardo-EMS Awards for Excellence will be made for the
best
contribution to the <st1:place w:st="on">EMS</st1:place> symposium by
a young
researcher as decided by a joint jury.<o:p></o:p></span>
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Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are
tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's
projects, programs and activities, visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leonardo.info">http://leonardo.info</a><br>
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