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<p class="date"><strong>April 15, 2010</strong></p>
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<h3>Events</h3>
<h4>Next LASER: May 10, 2010, The University of San Francisco</h4>
<p class="mainText"></p><p>Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next <strong>Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)</strong>, May 10, 2010, at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include <strong>Chris Palmer</strong>, "Tradition Meets Modern Digital Fabrication"; <strong>Therese Lahaie</strong>, "Longing for the Background"; and <strong>Mona El Khafif</strong>, "City Space Share" <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Community</h3>
<h4>Fran Ilich Morales Muņoz Awarded<br>
First Leonardo Scholarship for Media Art Histories</h4>
<p class="mainText">From a field of applicants from twelve countries on four
continents, Mexican media artist, author and researcher <strong>Fran Ilich
Morales Muņoz</strong> has been awarded the first <strong>Leonardo Scholarship in the
Media Art Histories MA program</strong> at the Department of Image Science at
Donau University (Austria). The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, Jon Cates and
Oliver Grau, selected Ilich from a highly competitive group of candidates
based on his extraordinary accomplishments, intellectual sophistication,
independent vision and entrepreneurial spirit. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/Leonardo-scholarship_April2010.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Publications</h3>
<h4>Now Available from the Leonardo Book Series and MIT Press<br>
Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert</h4>
<p class="mainText"><a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/gessert.html"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/e-LNN/img/gessert_cover_85-border.jpg" border="0" align="left"></a>Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria, slime molds and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social and political concerns raised by making art out of living material. In <strong>Green Light</strong>, however, George Gessert examines the role that aesthetic perception has played in bio art and other interventions in evolution. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/gessert.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Members</h3>
<h4>Eugene Thacker at Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium</h4>
<p class="mainText">Leonardo Book Series author <strong>Eugene Thacker</strong> (<em>The Global Genome</em>) will speak at the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium series at <strong>Berkeley Center for New Media</strong>, Berkeley, CA, on Monday, April 26, 2010. In his talk Thacker will explore the twists and turns of the idea of life itself as a key philosophical problematic in modernity, focusing on three main philosophical traditions: vitalism, phenomenology and a third, under-considered approach of the 'dark' or meontological concept of nothingness. <a href="http://atc.berkeley.edu/">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology<br>Joins Leonardo Affiliate Membership Program</h4>
<p class="mainText"><a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliate-members.html"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/affiliates/logo_srishti-border.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to welcome <strong>Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology</strong> into the Leonardo Affiliate Membership program. Founded in 1996 by the Ujwal Trust, <strong>Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology</strong> is an innovative and progressive institution for art and design. Srishti offers a strong foundation in liberal arts and humanities, and interdisciplinary platforms for critical design thinking. Srishti offers a number of undergraduate and graduate level programs in Product & Interface Design, Furniture & Interior Design, Animation, Digital Video Production, Textile Design, and an interdisciplinary lab called Sangama. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliate-members.html">Find out more</a>
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<h3>Opportunities and Community Announcements</h3>
<h4>Leonardo Education and Art Forum Call for Participation<br>
New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?</h4>
<p class="mainText"><strong>Leonardo Education and Art Forum</strong> has posted a call for proposals for participation in the panel <strong>New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?</strong> at the 2011 College Art Association conference. This opportunity is available to members of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum. <strong>Proposals are due May 3, 2010</strong>. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/LEAF_cfp_April2010.html">Find out more</a></p>
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