[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | August 15, 2009

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August 15, 2009

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), September 14, 2009 at the University of  
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, for feature presentations by Rachel  
Beth Egenhoefer (USF) on "Knitting Code," Chris McKay (NASA/AMES) on  
"This Martian Life," Bonnie DeVarco (artist) on "Imago Mundi -  
Visioning Earth from MappaeMundi to Cyberspace," and Zann Gill on  
"What Daedalus told Darwin" Find out more

COMMUNITY

PROMETHEUS INSTITUTE, GALEYEV READINGS, 2010
The "Prometheus" Center cordially invites you to take part in Galeyev  
Readings in Kazan, Russia, from 1-7 October 2010. The event will  
include a conference, an exhibition and a festival in honor of  
scientist/artist and Leonardo Editorial Board member Bulat  
Makhmudovich Galeyev (1940-2009). Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

TRANSACTIONS RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Transactions is a section in the printed journal Leonardo that  
publishes fully refereed papers in a fast track to disseminating key  
new results, ideas and developments in practice. Papers that are  
correctly formatted and still under review can, with the author's  
permission, be published in Research Announcements. Recent additions  
include: "How To Make Living Viral Tattoos," by Tagny Duff, "Learning  
from Interstitial Typography," by Luca Simeone and "Nanotechnology  
and Silver-Metal Clay for Artisans," by Dane Hansen. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

INTERACTIVE ART RESEARCH
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau - Interactive Art Research,  
2009. Springer Verlag Vienna/New York. This monograph represents a  
comprehensive overview of Sommerer and Mignonneau’s art and research.  
In addition to providing detailed project descriptions of each  
interactive artwork, it includes essays and articles by well- 
recognized media scholars and theoreticians. Find out more

THE THURSDAY CLUB
The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone  
interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity,  
interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art  
in today's (and tomorrow's) cultural landscape(s). It is organized  
and supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the  
Goldsmiths Graduate School, Goldsmiths, University of London,UK. Find  
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