[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Education Forum at CAA 2006 Boston
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*Join the Leonardo Education Forum at this year's College Art
Association Conference**
Boston**, MA, USA****
22-25 February 2006*
The Leonardo Education Forum (made up of members of the Leonardo
community and College Art Association) will participate in several
exciting events at this year's CAA conference designed to advance the
practice of students and professional artists working at the
intersection of art, science and technology. These will include a
special panel session on new media art, a mentorship roundtable, a town
hall business meeting, career development workshops and a very special
exhibition which will take place at Art Interactive in Cambridge, MA.
*Look for the Leonardo Education Forum at these events:*
*The Leonardo Mentoring Roundtable Session*
*Hynes** Convention Center**, Second Level, Room 208
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 from 12:30-2:00pm*
The Mentoring Roundtable is designed to benefit the professional
development of the next generation of artists, scholars, and researchers
working at the intersections of art, science and technology. Students
and emerging professionals are encouraged to attend and to participate
in discussion related to the following areas: (1) collaboration between
artists/scientists/technologists, (2) essential connections/historical
considerations, (3) marketing yourself in the job market, (4) teaching
art/science/technology, (5) drawing/visualization/sonification/etc.
across disciplines, (6) writing/communication (artists statements,
practice-based research, critical research, reviews, etc), and (7)
academia or not?
Chair: Andrea Polli MFA Director and Associate Professor of Integrated
Media Arts Hunter College New York, NY; Panelists: Victoria Vesna (Chair
of the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts)
and Trebor Scholz Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo. Student
discussants include Gabriel Harp, University of Michigan, Heidi J.
Boisvert, Hunter College InterMedia Arts, Josh Levy, Hunter College
InterMedia Arts, TBA. Organizing Committee: Amy Ione, Steven Oscherwitz,
Andrea Polli
*Exhibition: New Media/New Work (co-organized by Leonardo Education
Forum, New Media Caucus and AT Boston); "Technologized Bodies/Embodied
Technologies," curated for Leonardo Education Forum by Legier Biederman
and Dave Burns
Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA
Reception Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm*
"Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies" is one part of a unique
collaborative venture in new media art curated by Legier Biederman and
Dave Burns for the exhibition *New Media/New Work* at Art Interactive,
in conjunction with the CAA conference in Boston. *New Media/New Work*,
co-organized by Leonardo Education Forum, New Media Caucus and AT
Boston, will feature cutting edge video and new media work by
international artists which explores intersections among visualization,
embodiment, and the technological.
*Leonardo Special Session: New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher
and Research as Art in the 21st Century*
*Hynes** Convention Center**, Second Level, Room 202
Friday, February 24, 2006 from 5:30-7:00pm*
Speakers will include Timothy Allen Jackson (Department of Art History,
Savannah College of Art and Design), Shawn Brixey and James Coupe
(Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of
Washington), Nina Czegledy (independent artist), and R. Bruce Elder
(Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University).*
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Town Hall Business Meeting*
*Hynes** Convention Center**, Second Level, Room 200
Saturday, February 25, 2006 from 7:30 AM-9:00 AM*
Members of the Leonardo network who attend the CAA conference will
gather to discuss issues pertaining to Leonardo and the International
Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.
*Career Development Workshops*
Every year, the CAA conference features Career Development Workshops, in
which students in art and art history meet one-on-one with advanced
professionals in their field of interest. Seasoned professionals are
matched up with students according to interest and specialty to critique
portfolios, review CVs, guide through conference activities, introduce
to other figures in the field, or other mentorship activities. These
meetings are scheduled for a single 20-minute time slot during the
Career Development Workshop. Leonardo Education Forum will participate
in these workshops under the Art/Science category.
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*The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)* promotes the advancement of
artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art,
science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students
who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for
collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including
the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an
affiliate society.
The Leonardo Education Forum is open to all individuals who are members
of Leonardo.
For more information about the Leonardo Education Forum, a list of
members and how to join, please visit:
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events/leonardocaa.html
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