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<p class="date"><strong>August 15, 2009</strong></p>
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<h3>Events</h3>
<h4>Next LASER: September 14, 2009</h4>
<p class="mainText">Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), September 14, 2009 at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, for feature presentations by <strong>Rachel Beth Egenhoefer</strong> (USF) on "Knitting Code," <strong>Chris McKay</strong> (NASA/AMES) on "This Martian Life," <strong>Bonnie DeVarco</strong> (artist) on "Imago Mundi - Visioning Earth from MappaeMundi to Cyberspace," and <strong>Zann Gill</strong> on "What Daedalus told Darwin" <a href="http://leonardo.info/isast/events.html">Find out more</a></p>
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<h4>Prometheus Institute, Galeyev Readings, 2010</h4>
<p class="mainText">The "Prometheus" Center cordially invites you to take part in <strong>Galeyev
Readings</strong> 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). <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/GaleyevReadings-2010.html">Find out more</a></p>
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<h4>Transactions Research Announcements</h4>
<p class="mainText"><strong>Transactions</strong> is a section in the printed journal <em>Leonardo</em> that publishes fully refereed papers in a fast track to disseminating key new results, ideas and developments in practice. Papers that are correctly formatted and still under review can, with the author's permission, be published in <strong>Research Announcements</strong>. Recent additions include: "How To Make Living Viral Tattoos," by <strong>Tagny Duff</strong>, "Learning from Interstitial Typography," by <strong>Luca Simeone</strong> and "Nanotechnology and Silver-Metal Clay for Artisans," by <strong>Dane Hansen</strong>. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/transactions.html">Find out more</a></p>
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<h4>Interactive Art Research</h4>
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<strong>Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau - <em>Interactive Art Research</em>,</strong>
2009. Springer Verlag Vienna/New York. This monograph represents a comprehensive overview of Sommerer and
Mignonneau’s art and research. In addition to providing detailed
project descriptions of each interactive artwork, it includes essays
and articles by well-recognized media scholars and theoreticians. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
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in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity,
technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today's (and
tomorrow's) cultural landscape(s). It is organized and supported by the
Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the Goldsmiths Graduate School,
Goldsmiths, University of London,UK. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
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