[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | April 1, 2009

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April 1, 2009

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News

Leonardo Governing Board Elects Two New Members: Nina Czegledy and  
Marcia Tanner
The Leonardo Governing Board elected Nina Czegledy and Marcia Tanner  
to the board at its February 2009 meeting. Nina Czegledy is a media  
artist, curator and writer who works internationally on collaborative  
art, science and technology projects. Marcia Tanner is an independent  
curator and writer based in Berkeley, California. FIND OUT MORE

Events

Next LASER: April 8, 2009
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a series of  
lectures and presentations on art, science and technology organized  
by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. Join us for the next  
LASER at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, with feature  
presentations by Warren Sack, Hassan Elahi, Chris McKay and Marty  
Banks. FIND OUT MORE

Community

April YASMIN Discussion: New Media: User's Behavior, Social Systems  
and the Body Politic
The April YASMIN discussion will explore how (new) media can affect  
local behaviors related to creativity and innovation within a social  
context and what the link is between politics and the ways that users  
behave.FIND OUT MORE

Publications

Special double issue of LEA: PerthDAC
Selected papers from the PerthDAC (Digital Arts and Culture) 2007  
Conference are now available in a special double issue of LEA, guest  
edited by Andrew Hutchison and Ingrid Richardson. The issue,  
dedicated to the themes "Social Media: Narrative and Literacy in  
Digital Culture" and "Embodiment and Presence," is available on  
Leonardo On-Line. FIND OUT MORE

Inside Leonardo 42:2
* Wearable computing meets the fashionable appropriation of  
electronics and smart materials.
* As a transitional zone between the earth and sea fades into  
extinction, architect Joseph Ingoldsby prepares an artistic  
meditation on the slowly drowning world of the salt marsh.
* Follow dialogue prompts and strings of clues in the game demo Art  
Thief to help yourself get through the traditional art-historical  
survey course.
* Chris Toumey draws on the insights of cubism to suggest how to  
better represent images rendered by the blind "scanning" of atomic- 
scale microscopes.
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Members

UT Dallas Art and Technology Program Renews Affiliate Membership
The Arts and Technology (ATEC) program at UT Dallas, which leads to  
the B.A., M.A. or M.F.A., stands alone in intent, design and approach  
among all other degree programs in Texas. It is Texas's first  
comprehensive degree program to explore and foster the convergence of  
computer science and engineering with the creative arts and the  
humanities. The program fosters the development of intellectually  
agile graduates who combine focused expertise with imagination. The  
desired outcome of the program will be students who can seize and,  
more importantly, create opportunities for economic, social and  
cultural benefit to the community. The program (800 students strong)  
is a joint creation of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and  
Computer Science and the School of Arts and Humanities. ATEC is a  
collaborative effort that transcends existing disciplines and  
academic units. Beyond merely "multidisciplinary" or  
"interdisciplinary" in its scope, ATEC 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. The program has special area  
concentrations in Computer Visualization/Animation, Interaction  
Design, Digital Sound Design, Computer Simulation and Serious Game  
Design, On-line Worlds and Social Networking. FIND OUT MORE

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