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<p class="date"><strong>1 December 2012</strong></p>
<p>The Leonardo Network Newsletter is a bi-weekly publication of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST), bringing news and opportunities to the attention of readers interested in the creative spaces where art, science and technology connect.</p>
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<h3>News</h3>
<h4>EXPANDING HORIZONS THROUGH ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/ippolito-donations.jpg" align="left" border="0">Where else can you learn about <strong>cybernetic bacteria, digital swarms and virtual haptics</strong> in one place? Since 1968 Leonardo has supported the art/sci/tech community in its quest to <strong>expand the horizons of what we know</strong> and experience. Now it's time to give back. Remember that <strong>donations provide critical support</strong> for Leonardo programs, such as the Leonardo Educators and Students Program and the popular monthly LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) series. Leonardo/ISAST is a non-profit organization that relies on the support of its community. <strong>Donations are tax deductible!</strong> <a href="http://leonardo.info/isast/donations.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Congratulations!</h4>
<p class="mainText"><strong>Congratulations to Leonardo e-Newsletter Editor Kathleen Quillian and husband Gilbert</strong> on the newest member of their team. We are happy to welcome Baby Maya to the Leonardo Network! </p>
<h4>READ ABOUT SEAD</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/DispersiveAnatomies_100.jpg" align="left" border="1" hspace="7">The Network for Science, Engineering, Art and Design (SEAD) White Papers looking at how to design successful collaborations between science/engineering and arts/design/humanities practitioners are now available online. Comments are welcome! <a href="http://seadnetwork.wordpress.com/white-paper-abstracts/final-white-papers/">Find out more</a></p>
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<h3>Publications</h3>
<h4>Free Article Download from MIT Press!</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/covers/LMJ22-cover-100.jpg" align="left" border="0"><em></em> <strong>In LMJ22, Ellen Fullman</strong> discusses her work experiences in conceiving, designing and working with the Long String Instrument, an ongoing hybrid of installation and instrument integrating <strong>acoustics, engineering and composition</strong>. LMJ22 highlights writings on the role of acoustics and psychoacoustics in music and audio art, and the issue includes a compilation, curated by Daniel James Wolf, of <strong>tracks by provocative composers</strong>. Visit the website and click on Fullman's article: <a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/lmj/-/22">Find out more</a></p><p></p>
<h4>For that Special Someone</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/booklist_default/9780262621878.jpg" width="100" align="left" border="1" hspace="7"><em></em> <strong>The Perfect Holiday Gift for Those Interested in the Next Happening Thing</strong>: Leonardo Book Series titles are available from The MIT Press! There is a Leonardo Book for every interest, <strong>from Art & Mathematics to Art & Activism & Biopolitics</strong>. Leonardo Books are authored by the critical thinkers (and critical doers) of today. Many titles are now available as e-Books. <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/leonardo-book-series">Find out more</a>. </p><p></p><p></p>
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<h4>Up and at 'em!</h4>
<img src="http://leonardo.info/images/Art-and-Atoms_spiralx120.jpg" align="left" border="0">A selection of papers from the <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/calls/artandatoms.html"><strong>LEONARDO "Art and Atoms" Special Project</strong></a> has been published in a <a href="http://artandatoms.com">LEONARDO Art and Atoms e-Book, with bonus content</a>. Chemistry’s unique connection to art—a science simultaneously steeped in abstraction and application, process and product—is the focus of the Art and Atoms project, covering all aspects of cutting-edge chemistry, including <strong>nanoscience, synthetic biology, fuel cells and neurochemistry</strong>. <a href="http://artandatoms.com">Find out more</a><p></p>
<h3>Events</h3>
<h4>Next NY LASER: 9 December 2012, LevyArts, NYC</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/laser-logo-2_150-border.jpg" border="0" align="left">Calling All LEAF People! Join us for the next <strong>NY Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (NY LASER)</strong>, 9 December 2012, at LevyArts, New York. Speakers include <strong>Charles Lindsay, SETI Institute Artist in Residence</strong> interested in the confluence of art, science and consciousness, and <strong>Catherine Chalmers, photographer and Artist-in-Residence at Imagine Science Films</strong>. The salon is open to all members of LEAF on a respond-first basis. Reserve a place by sending an email to Ellen Levy at <a href="mailto:levy@nyc.rr.com">levy@nyc.rr.com</a>. Attendance is limited in order to allow for a meaningful exchange of ideas. <a href="http://leonardo.info/isast/events.html" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Next SF LASER: 12 December 2012, Stanford University, CA</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/laser-logo-2_150-border.jpg" border="0" align="left">Join us for the next <strong>Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)</strong>, 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. <a href="http://scaruffi.com/leonardo/dec2012.html" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Members</h3>
<h4>Highlight on Affiliate Member</h4>
<img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/affiliates/logo_ArtSci.jpg" align="left" border="0"><strong>UCLA Art| Sci Center + Lab</strong> is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving "Third Culture" by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. The center’s affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting-edge researchers and their laboratories and a dedicated gallery for exhibitions. Here too the center hosts the Sci|Art NanoLab Summer Institute for high school students by introducing them to the vast possibilities in the quantum field of art|science for the present and future generations. In cooperation with CNSI, the UCLA School of the Arts and the Department of Design | Media Arts, the Art|Sci Center supports visiting research scholars and artists in residency from around the world. The center presents lectures, mixers, and symposia to bring artists and scientists together in order to mesh these cultures and inspire individuals to think about art and science as already interrelated and relevant to our society. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliate-members.html">Find out more</a><p></p>
<h4>Join the LEONARDO Affiliate Program - 20% Discount through December</h4>
Leonardo Affiliates are top-ranked universities, independent nonprofits and corporations engaged in <strong>research and creative activities at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology.</strong>
<strong>Affiliates are Leonardo’s strategic partners</strong>, 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 <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliate-members.html">Find out more</a><p></p>
<h3>Opportunities and Community Announcements</h3>
<h4>Balance-Unbalance 2013 Deadline Extended</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/Balance-Unbalance-logo-2013x200.jpg" align="left" border="0"><strong>Submissions deadline has been extended 8 December 2012</strong> 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. <a href="http://www.balance-unbalance2013.org" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Faculty Position, Division of Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design
<br>Assistant Professor in Drawing</h4>
<p class="mainText">The Division of Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design seeks an Assistant Professor in Drawing (full-time), with appointment to begin fall 2013. REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS BEGINS IMMEDIATELY, AND ALL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY JANUARY 7, 2013 ARE ASSURED FULL CONSIDERATION. Candidates should have a terminal Master’s degree, or equivalent, a minimum of two years’ teaching experience at the college level (preferred), and evidence of significant and ongoing professional achievement with work that demonstrates drawing as core to their practice. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Faculty Position, Spatial Dynamics, Rhode Island School of Design
<br>Assistant Professor in Spatial Dynamics</h4>
<p class="mainText">The Division of Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design seeks an Assistant Professor in Spatial Dynamics (full-time), with appointment to begin fall 2013. REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS BEGINS IMMEDIATELY, AND ALL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY JANUARY 7, 2013 ARE ASSURED FULL CONSIDERATION. Candidates should have a terminal Master’s degree, or equivalent, a minimum of two years’ teaching experience at the college level (preferred), and evidence of significant and ongoing professional achievement. Find out more <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Faculty Position, School of Arts, Media and Engineering
<br>Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU</h4>
<p class="mainText">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. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>Faculty Position, Department of Media Study, University of Buffalo</h4>
<p class="mainText">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. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>University at Buffalo Media Study - Graduate Programs: Call for Applications</h4>
<p class="mainText">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 2013. <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/classads.html">Find out more</a></p>
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