[Leonardo/ISAST Network] ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 Symposium Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended to June 30, 2006

[Leonardo/ISAST]

The Leonardo community is encouraged to take advantage of early bird 
registration for the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 Symposium, which will 
be held in San Jose, CA, August 7-13, 2006. Early bird registration is 
$100 less than the regular price and includes a complementary copy of 
Leonardo 39:4, the special Pacific Rim New Media Summit companion 
issue. The deadline for early bird registration has been extended to 
June 30, 2006.

For early bird registration and to purchase discount tickets to 
festival events, visit: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=110251


Leonardo and the Pacific Rim New Media Summit

Leonardo is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the Pacific Rim New Media 
Summit (PRNMS), a pre-conference event to ISEA2006. In conjunction 
with PRNMS, Leonardo will release a special issue of the Leonardo 
journal to serve as a summit companion. Guest-edited by artist and 
educator Greg Niemeyer, this special issue of Leonardo follows the 
Working Group structure of the summit itself, featuring introductory 
texts by the Working Group chairs and preliminary papers of Working 
Group members.

This special issue of Leonardo will be included in the registration 
packs of all ISEA2006 early-bird conference registrants (until 15 June 
2006), with additional copies available for sale at ISEA2006.


Highlights of Leonardo 39:4 include:

Surfing the outernet: Where net art presented the medium of the 
Internet, locative art brings to the fore the media of mobile and 
wireless systems. Drew Hemment unfolds a taxonomy of locative-art 
approaches to the gap between the perfect grid and the reality of the 
mapped world.

Cyber-mythologies and portraits of dispossession: Rachel O'Reilly 
examines how Asian and Pacific understandings of place in recent work 
by Vernon Ah Kee, Lisa Reihana and Qiu Zhijie expand the frames of 
contemporary locative art.

Cartographies of the future: Annie Lambla discusses the San Francisco 
Exploratorium's Invisible Dynamics project, which considers the 
museum's relocation from a perspective integrating art, science and 
geographic context.

Culture, uncontained: Commerce, communication and technology 
intertwine in the works of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit exhibition 
Container Culture. Artists from Mumbai to Vancouver use the medium and 
metaphor of shipping containers to explore regional and global 
complexities.


For more information about the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 Symposium, 
visit: <01sj.org>

For more about the Pacific Rim New Media Summit and special issue of 
Leonardo, visit: 
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