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<p class="date"><strong>March 17, 2014</strong></p>
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<h3>Affiliate Member News</h3>
<h4>ATEC at UT Dallas</h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/e-LNN/img/UTDlogo-125.gif" width="130" height="60" alt="ATEC" align="left" border="0">Beyond merely a "multidisciplinary" or "interdisciplinary" scope, the <strong>Art & Technology program (ATEC) at University of Texas, Dallas,</strong> encourages the productive convergence of disparate fields and modes of thinking. It joins science with the humanities, creativity with technology, theory with practice, and learning with research. There are no maps showing the way, just students with diverse interests, talents and a skewed way of looking at the ever-changing world. Students master emerging tools, form unexpected relationships, collaborate and create the future. ATEC offers degree programs from the BA through the Ph.D. that prepare more than 1,100 students to succeed in the fields of e-culture design, research and development. In addition, ATEC organizes lectures, colloquia and exhibitions for the university community and the public. <a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c660-49b0-6733-5a203222e6bd">UT DALLAS ATEC LECTURE: 26 MARCH</strong></h4>
<p>The University of Texas, Dallas, Arts and Technology<strong> Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by UT Dallas’s Arts and Technology (ATEC) program</strong>, features speakers from a wide range of backgrounds speaking on topics aimed at exploring the evolving relationships between art, technology, engineering and behavioral and social sciences. The next installment of the UT Dallas ATEC Lecture series will take place on 26 March, 7 p.m. at the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building on the UT Dallas campus. Vinton G. Cerf, widely recognized as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” will be speaking. <a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/lectureseries/cerf/index.html" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<p class="mainText"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c660-49b0-6733-5a203222e6bd2"></strong></p><h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c660-49b0-6733-5a203222e6bd2">PARTNERS IN ART AND SCIENCE</strong></h4><p></p>
<p class="mainText">The <strong>Leonardo Affiliate Program</strong> provides a collaborative environment where leaders from top-ranked universities and independent nonprofits in the <strong>cross-disciplinary field of art-science</strong> share best practices, research and opportunities with their <strong>peers across institutional boundaries</strong>. To learn more about the program and its benefits, visit <a href="http://leonardo.info/isast/affiliates.html">www.leonardo.info/affiliates</a></p>
<h3>Events</h3>
<strong><h4>NEXT LASER @ LONDON: 18 MARCH</h4></strong>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/LASER_london_150x88.png" alt="LASER: London" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="3" align="left"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/spacer_white_1x1.gif" align="left" border="0" width="18" height="100">The second <strong>LASER: London </strong>will take place on Tuesday, 18 March, 6–9 p.m. at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. This LASER: London will host artist and professor <strong>Rob Kesseler</strong>, who will speak about his “life through a lens”; writer and curator <strong>Jasia Reichardt</strong> on the origins of the Gaberbocchus Common Room; and artist <strong>Sophia Kosmaoglou</strong>, who will discuss the current Encyclopedia Galactica exhibition at GV art gallery. The event is free; booking is essential. <a href="http://londonlaser.net/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong>NEXT DASER: 27 MARCH</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/DASER-banner_150-border.jpg" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="3" align="left">The next <strong>DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) </strong>will take place on Thursday, 27 March, 6–9 p.m., at 500 Fifth St., N.W. Room 100, Washington, D.C. This month, DASER explores the theme of creating spaces that challenge perceptions. Presenters will include <strong>John Craig Freeman</strong>, Professor of New Media at Emerson College; <strong>Ryan Hill</strong>, Director of Digital Learning Programs and ARTLAB+, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution; and <strong>Margot Knight</strong>, Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Reservations and photo IDs are required. <a href="http://www.cpnas.org/events/032714.html" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong>NEXT LASER @ UC BERKELEY: 2 APRIL</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/LASER_ucberk_150x88.png" alt="LASER: UC Berkeley" hspace="0" vspace="3" border="0" align="left"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/spacer_white_1x1.gif" align="left" border="0" width="18" height="100">Join us for the next <strong>LASER: UC Berkeley </strong>on 2 April, 7–9 p.m., in Mullford Hall, Classroom 240 on the UC Berkeley campus. Presenters on this evening will include UC Davis Professor and Chaos Scientist <strong>Jim Crutchfield</strong> on "Hidden Fragility"; UC Berkeley Psychology Professor <strong>Lucia Jacobs </strong>on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose"; visual artist <strong>Shan Shan Sheng </strong>on "Reinterpreting the Great Wall of China for the age of globalization"; and writer, musician, DJ and curator <strong>Ceci Moss</strong> on "Expanded Internet Art." <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong>NEXT LASER @ STANFORD: 3 APRIL</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/LASER_stanford_150x88.png" alt="LASER: Stanford" hspace="0" vspace="3" border="0" align="left"><img src="http://www.leonardo.info/images/spacer_white_1x1.gif" align="left" border="0" width="18" height="100">Join us for the next <strong>LASER: Stanford</strong>, 3 April, 7–9 p.m. at the Li Ka Shing Center, Room LK120. This installment of LASER: Stanford will feature composer <strong>Robert Rich</strong> on "Slow Music in a Manic World"; Stanford physics Professor <strong>Patricia Burchat</strong> on "What is the Dark Energy in the Universe?"; kinetic artist <strong>Kal Spelletich</strong> on "Interactive art as a catalyst towards an engaged life"; and curator <strong>Sharon Spain</strong> on "A Nexus For Art & Environmental Activism: Recology Artist Residency Program." <a href="http://leonardo.info/isast/events.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Publications</h3>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c662-9545-0488-6b237e4e86b5">SEEKING A JOB, RENAISSANCE STYLE</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">Art and science historian <strong>Paula Findlen</strong>, who serves as a consultant on the Starz program Da Vinci’s Demons, looks at the life and times of Leonardo da Vinci, finding some surprising parallels with the challenges many face in today’s economic and employment environment. Season Two of Da Vinci's Demons premieres on Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the STARZ network. Read <strong>Paula Findlen’s “Seeking a Job, Renaissance Style” on the Leonardo Just Accepted</strong> page of the MIT Press web site.<a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/0/ja" target="_blank"> Find out more</a></p>
<h4>LEONARDO REVIEWS: MARCH 2014</h4>
<p class="mainText">Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review <strong>books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences</strong>. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that arise from the convergence of the arts, science and technology. New reviews for March 2014 include: Art and the Senses, edited by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher, reviewed by Amy Ione; Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979 by Sérgio B. Martins, reviewed by Mike Leggett; Divine Fury: A History of Genius by Darrin M. McMahon, reviewed by Amy Ione; Illusion Confusion: The Wonderful World of Optical Deception by Paul M. Baars, reviewed by Madalena Grimaldi; and from the Leonardo Book Series, Relive: Media Art Histories, edited by Leonardo Book Series editor-in-chief Sean Cubbitt and Paul Thomas, reviewed by Jan Baetens. <a href="http://leonardo.info/ldr.php">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>OPEN CALL FOR REVIEWERS FOR LEONARDO REVIEWS</h4>
<p class="mainText">Published since 1968, Leonardo Reviews are written by international experts covering books, conferences, exhibitions, CDs and other multimedia publications. They are an invaluable record of the collective consciousness of our community of practice, as well as an important guidepost to help authors and artists reach their audience. The current editor-in-chief of Leonardo Reviews is Michael Punt of the University of Plymouth. We are pleased to invite interested professionals to <strong>serve on the Leonardo Reviews panel</strong>. If you are interested in writing reviews for Leonardo Reviews, send an email with a URL or attachment of your professional writing and bio to Michael Punt at <<a href="mailto:ldr@leonardo.info">ldr@leonardo.info</a>>. <a href="http://leonardo.info/reviews/reviewer_list.html">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>News</h3>
<h4>ADRIENNE KLEIN INTERVIEWED ON <a href="http://BADATSPORTS.COM">BADATSPORTS.COM</a></h4>
<p class="mainText">Head over to Bad at Sports, a weekly podcast produced in Chicago that features artists talking about art and the community that makes, reviews and critiques it, to hear a podcast recorded at February’s College Art Association Conference. The podcast features artist, educator, curator, university administrator and former LEAF chair<strong> Adrienne Klein, along with Deborah Robinson, Paul Thomas, Paul Catanese and Claire Pentecost</strong>, discussing the meaning of interdisciplinary art, how to teach it and why it matters to contemporary art. <a href="http://badatsports.com/2014/episode-444-interdisciplinary-panel-at-the-bas-booth-at-caa/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>HUHTAMO’S ILLUSIONS IN MOTION REVIEWED IN VISUAL STUDIES</h4>
<p class="mainText">The latest issue of Visual Studies (Volume 29, Issue 1) features a review of <strong>Erkki Huhtamo’s Illusions in Motion</strong>: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles, published by The MIT Press as part of the Leonardo Book Series in 2013. Joanne Littlefield’s review of Huhtamo’s book is available for download online. <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1472586X.2014.863030#.Ux-uoz9dUrV" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h3>Opportunities and Community Announcements</h3>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c664-10d2-fcad-f2b0b00b23e7">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: THE NEUE GALERIE LUZERN</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The Planetary Collegium is an international research platform that promotes the integration of art, science, technology and consciousness research at the doctoral and post-doctoral level with nodes in Zurich, Milan and Cephalonia, Greece. The Neue Galerie Luzern—Swiss Academic Association has created a new node constituted as the NGL-Node. The NGL-Node is looking for applicants to apply for the Ph.D. Research Program. Applications accepted year-round. <a href="http://www.neugalu.ch/phd_programme.html" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c664-718c-d721-8d4fabafeab3">WATERWHEEL WORLD WATER DAY SYMPOSIUM</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The third edition of the Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium (3WDS14) will take place 17–23 March 2014. Over 200 scientists, artists and activists representing 30 countries will present their latest work about water at 18 physical venues in Argentina, Australia, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Poland, U.S.A., Taiwan and Tunisia. The symposium will also be accessible online. This year’s theme, “Caring and Daring” will guide the symposium in promoting exchanges between people who are concerned with water issues. <a href="http://water-wheel.net/tap" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c664-ea22-5eda-9b5351f9e5f1">SPATIAL STORIES: AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITIES</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">Swissnex San Francisco, together with TransmediaSF, Codame, and NeuroGaming invite you to Spatial Stories: Augmented and Virtual Realities (20 March, 6:30–10:00 p.m. PST), an evening of immersive games and installations incorporating the latest trends and experiments in virtual and augmented reality, held in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Attend to test apelab’s collaborative game Geek Run using physical cubes and a Kinect controller, to experiment with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab through the Oculus Rift headset, and to check out the world's only technologically induced out-of-body-experience game studio. <a href="http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/Ourwork/events/SpatialStories" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-64ea8698-c665-4903-f694-a194b489d4db">CALL FOR PRESENTERS: CONVERGENCE</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) is seeking national and international presenters on subjects related to interdisciplinary arts practices that engage with digital arts for presentation at Convergence: An International Summit on Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology, 27–30 November 2014. The summit will explore what happens when contemporary professional practices cross-pollinate with emerging production and dissemination technologies along two axes: Digital Technology and the Arts, and Interdisciplinary Evolution. <em>Deadline to submit: 21 March 2014.</em> <a href="http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/convergence-arts-conference/call-for-presenters/?utm_source=The+Banff+Centre&utm_campaign=3cdefd01a3-Arts_Interdisciplinary_Convergence2_27_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ad4acfe1fe-3cdefd01a3-297713377" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4>CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RESIDENCIES AT IMÉRA</h4>
<p class="mainText">The Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University (IMéRA) is issuing a call for applications for residencies set to take place in 2015 and 2016. IMéRA is calling upon applicants in three categories: individual scientists and artists, for residencies scheduled between 23 February 2015 and 13 July 2016 (duration: 5 or 10 months); scientist and artist teams, for residencies scheduled between 23 February 2015 and 13 July 2016 (duration: 2, 3 or 4 weeks); and individual scientists for a residency formulated in collaboration with the LabexMed program scheduled between 15 September 2014 and 17 July 2015 (duration: 5 or 10 months). IMéRA is looking for applicants who share their goal of fostering the emergence and development of world-class cross-disciplinary research approaches between the arts and sciences. <em>Deadline to submit: 7 April 2014.</em> <a href="http://www.imera.fr/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">ROMANTIC DISEASE: AN ART & SCIENCE INVESTIGATION OF TUBERCULOSIS</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">On 24 March 2014 at Watermans (40 High Street, TW8 0DS, Brentford, London, U.K.), The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis, an exhibition by Anna Dumitriu, will culminate in a multidisciplinary symposium on World TB Day 2014. The event will bring together artists, educators, doctors, the project team and advisers to tell stories of their own relationships to the disease across art, science, ethics and healthcare, with opportunities for debate and discussion. <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-the-romantic-disease-an-art-and-science-investigation-of-tb-tickets-8138519531" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The call for entries for the 10th International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Athens Video Art Festival 2014 has been extended! Athens Video Art Festival 2014, which will be held in Athens, Greece, in May, aims to present a multifaceted program emphasizing the endless dialogue between art, technology and society. Organizers are seeking submissions in the following categories: video art, installation, animation, applications, web art, digital image, performance and music. <em>New deadline to submit: 25 March 2014.</em> <a href="http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: GMW14 CONFERENCE</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The annual meeting of The Society for Media in Science (GMW14) will take place 1–9 September 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland. GMW14 organizers are calling for submissions of papers and other contributions that address this year’s theme: Designing Learning Environments—Rethinking Educational Contexts. The Society for Media in Science invites you to discuss the issue of learning spaces from different perspectives and disciplines. <em>Deadline to submit: 28 March 2014. </em><a href="http://www.gmw2014.ch/de/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">MATHEMATICS AND CULTURE CONFERENCE 2014</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The 2014 Mathematics and Culture Conference will take place in Venice, Italy, 28–30 March 2014 at the Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Palazzo Franchetti. The goal of the conference is to analyze possible connections between mathematics and other aspects of human knowledge. Among the topics covered in the conference: mathematics and art, mathematics and applications, mathematics and literature, mathematics and music, mathematics and architecture, mathematics and film, and mathematics and theater. <a href="http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/ricerca/convegni/Venezia/2014/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: KEIO UNIVERSITY</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus Faculty of Policy Management, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and Graduate School of Media and Governance seek to fill available positions for faculty members in media arts, media design and media engineering. Keio University is specifically looking for individuals who are capable of conducting interdisciplinary research across the areas of media arts, media design and media engineering. Qualified applicants will have an outstanding ability to go beyond existing frameworks to develop cutting-edge expression and pioneer new fields. <em>Deadline to submit: 31 March 2014. </em><a href="http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/files/2216/2014kyoin_design0124en.pdf" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">EXHIBITION OPENING: A-EYE</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">A-EYE: An Exhibition of Art and Nature-Inspired Computation is organized as part of AISB50, a convention commemorating both 50 years since the founding of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) and 60 years since the death of Alan Turing. The exhibition will be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K., 1–4 April 2014. The exhibition incorporates various aspects of generating artworks using various artificial intelligence techniques (swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, multi-agent systems, artificial life and other algorithms) and methods that derive from the natural world. <a href="http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~map01mm/A-EYE2014/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR PROPOSALS: A2RU 2014</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) invites proposals for panels, breakout sessions, creative submissions and posters for its 2014 national conference hosted by Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, 5–8 November 2014. The theme for the 2014 conference is Edge Effects, which serves as an analogy for the wealth of arts-integrative interdisciplinary research, curricula and creative practices in which a2ru partners engage. Faculty, deans, administrators, funders, leaders and students from any discipline who engage in arts-integrative interdisciplinary efforts are welcome to participate. <em>Deadline to submit: 1 April 2014.</em> <a href="http://a2ru.org/events/2014-a2ru-national-conference-iowa-state-university/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">OPENING: SILICON VALLEY CONTEMPORARY</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">Silicon Valley Contemporary will open its doors at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center during a three-day fair, 10–13 April 2014. In recent years, art and technology have successfully merged to further creativity and thus have broadened our understanding of artistic practices and have made art visible in mediums previously reserved for technologists. Silicon Valley Contemporary, which places emphasis on the relationship between art and technology, aims to be at the center of a conversation on art and technology in an effort to connect the collectors of tomorrow with the most relevant work of today. <a href="http://siliconvalleycontemporary.com/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">AAH CONFERENCE: 10–12 APRIL 2014</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The 40th Association of Art Historians Conference (AAH2014) will be held at the Royal College of Art (the RCA), Kensington, in London, U.K., 10–12 April 2014. AAH2014 will represent the richness and diversity of art historical debate across the broadest sweep of time and space. The conference will unite the interests of art history with those of contemporary practice, as well as a wide diversity of visual and material culture, including art, architecture and design. <a href="http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2014-conference" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: WEB SCIENCE 2014</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The web has generated huge amounts of data at massive scale, but making sense of these datasets and representing them in a compact and easily interpretable way remains difficult. The goal of the Web Science 2014 Visualization Challenge is to encourage innovative visualizations of web data using publicly-available datasets which include: web traffic data, Twitter data, social bookmarking data and co-authorship of academic papers. The Web Science 2014 Visualization Challenge coincides with the 2014 ACM Web Science 2014 Conference, which will take place 23–26 June 2014 at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. <em>Deadline to submit: 15 April 2014. </em><a href="http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/websci14-data" target="_blank">Find out more</a>.</p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR PAPERS: EAI ENDORSED TRANSACTIONS ON CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">The European Alliance for Innovation’s EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies seeks to provide a bridge between science, technology and cultural and creative industries. The theme of this special issue on intelligent technologies for interactive entertainment—“Where technology meets culture” —aims to encourage and publish research about the challenges and opportunities associated with applying intelligent and interactive technologies to culture, arts and entertainment. <em>Deadline to submit: 18 April 2014. </em><a href="http://eai.eu/transactions/cfp/special-issue-intelligent-technologies-interactive-entertainment" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SPEAP</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">Science Po Ecole des Arts Politiques (SPEAP) is a laboratory for scientific, artistic, and pedagogical experimentation, located in Paris, France. A unique Master-level training program, SPEAP seeks to experiment with new ways of working that combine the arts, social sciences and politics. SPEAP is seeking applicants for the 2014–2015 academic year. <em>Deadline to submit: 25 April 2014.</em> <a href="http://blogs.sciences-po.fr/speap/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
<h4><strong id="docs-internal-guid-596918dc-c665-bb5b-6612-9c8fc217a4fa">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NANO ART FESTIVAL AND ART/SCI PHOTO CONTEST</strong></h4>
<p class="mainText">In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials (ICPAM-10), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania, will be hosting two satellite events: the 1st Art and Science Photography Exposition and the 3rd International Festival of NanoArt. The photo contest is open to all amateur/professional photographers and scientists; any science-related image is eligible for competition. Artworks selected to be included in the Festival of NanoArt will be shown in a curated exhibition. <em>Deadline to submit: 30 April 2014. </em><a href="http://cmp.phys.uaic.ro/icpam10/" target="_blank">Find out more</a></p>
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