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<p class="date"><strong>December 1, 2010</strong></p>
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<p class="mainText">It's that time of year again! <strong>Leonardo's programs and activities are
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<h3>Events</h3>
<h4>Upcoming LASER: December 8, 2010</h4>
<p class="mainText">Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next <strong>Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)</strong>, December 8, 2010, at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA. Feature presentations include <strong>Bathsheba Grossman</strong>, "3D Printing Sculpture,"<strong> Phillip Prager</strong>, "What is Creativity? Debunking Myths and Implications for Interactive Media," <strong>Peter Foucault</strong>, "Systems and Interactivity in Drawing," and <strong>Wayne Vitale</strong>, "The Aesthetics of Oscillation in Balinese Music." <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Community</h3>
<h4>BALANCE-UNBALANCE Colloquium</h4>
<p class="mainText">The <strong>BALANCE - UNBALANCE Colloquium</strong>, co-sponsored by The Electronic Arts Experimenting and Research Center at National University of Tres de Febrero and Leonardo/ISAST, seeks to bring together artists, scientists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, technology specialists and policy-makers for a day of reflection, debate and discussion about the state of the environment and the responsibilities facing us at this critical turning point. The colloquium will take place December 7, 2010 at Borges Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural Borges) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/BalanceUnbalance2010.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Publications</h3>
<h4>Now Available from Leonardo and the MIT Press<br>Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 20: Improvisation</h4>
<p class="mainText"><a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/toclmj20.html"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/covers/LMJ20-cover-80-border.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Improvisation has been a critical component in many forms of music around the world throughout most of history, and is an essential quality of human intelligence that extends far beyond the borders of art. It remains, nonetheless, a controversial subject in contemporary Western music: detested and denounced by such titans as Pierre Boulez and John Cage, embraced with equal fervor by others, and seriously misunderstood by many. <strong>LMJ20: Improvisation</strong> explores aspects of improvisation in music, art and the general realm of decision-making – especially texts addressing the interplay of improvisation and technology. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/toclmj20.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Call for Submissions<br>SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery: Tracing Home</h4>
<p class="mainText">SIGGRAPH 2011, in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, seeks exceptional digital
and technologically mediated artworks that explore issues around the
concept of home in the networked age for the upcoming <strong>SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery: Tracing Home</strong>. Accepted work will be featured in a special issue of <em>Leonardo</em> which will be published in conjunction with the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/calls/SIGGRAPH2011.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Members</h3>
<h4>CFC Media Lab Joins Leonardo Affiliate Membership Program</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/affiliates/logo_CFCMediaLab-border.jpg" align="left" border="0">Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to welcome <strong>CFC Media Lab</strong> into the Leonardo Affiliate Membership program. Created in 1997, CFC Media Lab provides a unique training, research and production think-tank environment for emerging new media content developers, practitioners and companies. Graduates of this internationally acclaimed and award-winning facility emerge as leaders in the world of interactive media, produce innovative projects and start up 21st-century companies. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliate-members.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Opportunities and Community Announcements</h3>
<h4>University of California Announces<br>5th Cycle of STAGE International Script Competition</h4>
<p class="mainText">Each cycle, the winner of the biennial <strong>Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE)</strong> Competition will receive a US$10,000 prize, along with possible opportunities for developing and promoting the winning script for a new play about science and technology. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Sonya Rapoport Retrospective Exhibition <br>4 March-9 April 2011 at Kala Institute</h4>
<p class="mainText"><strong>Pairings of Polarities</strong>, a retrospective exhibition of the work of artist <strong>Sonya Rapoport</strong>, features works from 1972 to the present, in which Rapoport, a systems artist, Internet artist, and creator of interactive installations, explores a range of interests: from Native American migrations to the Egyptian Book of the Dead; from alchemy to recombinant gene splicing; from Jewish masculinities to soap opera jealousies; from shoes to soccer. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Faculty Positions at the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST</h4>
<p class="mainText">The Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) at KAIST invites applicants for tenure-track faculty
positions. Application materials should be received before December 15, 2010. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
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