[LEAuthors] LEA March '05: Abraham Palatnik: 2005 Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

[nisar keshvani]

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: March 2005
ISSN#1071-4391
art | science | technology - a definitive voice since 1993
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In LEA's March issue, we are pleased to highlight the life and 
work of pioneering Brazilian kinetic artist Abraham Palatnik, the 
winner of the 2005 Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award. We feature 
a tribute to Palatnik by Rejane Spitz (2005 SIGGRAPH Chair), an 
interview by artist Eduardo Kac, and the original introduction to 
the 1951 Sao Paolo Biennial, in which Palatnik first broke onto 
the Brazilian art scene, by art critic Mario Pedrosa.

In Leonardo Reviews, we find a typically diverse offering of 
reviews - Michael Punt weighing in on the 6th Swiss Biennial, 
themed "Consciousness and Teleportation" (!); a review by Jan 
Baetens of a book exploring the development of pictorial 
depictions of machines, both real and imagined, from 1400-1700; 
and Amy Ione's review of *The Junction*, a film taking a close 
look at the very real human consequences of the Israel-Palestine 
conflict.

Highlights of ISAST news include: Steve Mann receiving the 
Leonardo Award for Excellence and honorable mention for David 
First. Leonardo/ISAST with support from the Rockefeller Foundation 
awards the inaugural Leonardo Global Crossings Prize to 
brother-sister team Abdel Ghany and Amal Kenawy from Cairo, Eygpt. 
Runners-up include Regina Célia Pinto (Brazil), Kim Machan 
(Australia) and Shilpa Gupta (India).

>From this issue, we launch a series on the Pacific Rim New Media 
Summit in anticipation of the ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose festival. 
Chair Joel Slayton outlines the festival objectives with Education 
Chair Fatima Lasay articulating its directives towards tactical 
learning ecologies.

Finally, with the Bytes section (featuring announcements and calls 
for papers), we catch up with some events in the ever-changing 
world of art, science and technology.

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*** Global Crossings Prize ***

Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce that the recipients of the 
inaugural 2005 Leonardo Global Crossings Prize are Abdel Ghany 
Kenawy and Amal Kenawy, of Cairo, Egypt, a brother-sister team who 
have been collaborating on large-scale installations since 1997.

This award recognizes the contribution of artists and scholars 
from culturally diverse communities worldwide within the emerging 
art-science-technology field, and is part of the Leonardo Global 
Crossings Special Project, supported by the Ford Foundation and 
the Rockefeller Foundation.

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international panel of jurors, visit: 
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/ejournals/Leonardo/isast/awards2005GX.html

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