[Leonardo/ISAST Network] SAVE THE DATE AND RSVP - Private Party, Sunday August 6, 2006

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Dear Leonardo Friend,

You are invited to attend a private party on the evening of 6 August 
2006 in San Jose, CA. This two-tiered event will be both a reception 
for friends of Leonardo attending the Pacific Rim New Media Summit as 
well as a fundraiser to help kick off Leonardo's 40th Anniversary 
celebration. Details of the event are not yet finalized, but we hope 
you will SAVE THE DATE for the occasion and send us an RSVP (see 
below) if you will be able to attend.

Forty years ago, in 1966, friends and colleagues of Frank Malina began 
meeting in the living room at No. 17 Rue Emile Dunois, Paris, France 
to dream up what has become the Leonardo organization 
(www.leonardo.info/isast/leostory.html). The first project, the 
journal Leonardo, saw its first issue published in 1968. Archives of 
the journal, as well as that of its sister publication, the Leonardo 
Music Journal, include the work of more than 4,000 artists in the 
Leonardo community. These archives are now available on JSTOR to 
members of the organization.

The August 6th party will be the first official event leading up to a 
grand gala to be held in 2008 to mark the 40th anniversary of the 
journal Leonardo.

The Pacific Rim New Media Summit (PRNMS, 7-8 August 2006), is the 
pre-summit to ISEA 2006. Leonardo is pleased to co-sponsor PRNMS with 
the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. For more information about the 
event and the special issue of Leonardo that is being published as the 
summit companion, please visit the Leonardo website: www.leonardo.info.

PLEASE RSVP BY 7 JULY (send email to Kathleen Quillian: 
kq at leonardo.info) to let us know that you will be able to attend 
(IMPORTANT: please also include your current mailing address). We will 
then send you a private invitation with more details closer to the 
time of the event.

We will have special guests and activities planned during the evening, 
so please try to join us. I hope to see you there!


Roger Malina,
Chair, Leonardo/ISAST