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

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: OCTOBER 14, 2009
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), October 14, 2009 at the SETI Institute in  
Mountain View, CA, for feature presentations by Carlo Sequin on  
"Knotty Sculptures," Steve Wilson on "Overview of Art and Biology  
Experimentation," Wayne Vitale on "The Aesthetics of Oscillation in  
Balinese Music," and Bruce Damer on "The EvoGrid: Building a  
Precursor Artificial Origin of Life Simulator." Find out more

COMMUNITY

RE:LIVE09 - THIRD WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART,  
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
How do the media arts change? How did contemporary media arts come to  
look and sound like they do? What options, potentialities and  
eccentricities in the history of media have been lost, overlooked or  
suppressed? What is the history of speculation on alternate  
histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history?  
Over three stimulating days (November 26-29, 2009), historians,  
curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at  
the forefront of their practice will gather in Melbourne, Australia  
for Re:live09 - Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art,  
Science and Technology to explore the latest research and theories  
that challenge. Find out more

(UN)INHABITABLE?: THE ART OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Leonardo/Olats, in collaboration with the @rt Outsiders Festival, is  
pleased to host a discussion on "Habitability and Extreme  
Environments." The discussion will take place on the YASMIN  
discussion list from September 25 to October 15, 2009. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO ABSTRACTS SERVICE (LABS) TOP-RATED AUTHORS, FIRST HALF OF 2009
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts  
published in the English-language Leonardo Abstracts Service database  
during the first half of 2009: Paul Thomas, Ionat Zurr, Stephen  
Jones, Noah Shibley, Stephen Thompson, Zita Joyce, Susan Ballard,  
Brigitta Zics, Hollis Taylor, B. Lea Cox, Rolf Wolfensberger and  
Elizabeth Muller. Find out more

LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC SPECIAL ISSUE: DISPERSIVE ANATOMIES
The LEA special issue Dispersive Anatomies, guest edited by Sandy  
Baldwin and Alan Sondheim, considers the network as dispersive  
anatomy. As the call for papers stated, "A fundamental shift in the  
way we view the world is underway: the abandonment of discrete  
objects, and objecthood itself. The world is now plural, and the  
distinction between real and virtual is becoming increasingly  
blurred, with troubling consequences within the geopolitical  
register." Also includes the Dispersive Anatomies Gallery, curated by  
Mez Breeze. Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL 20 (2010) -- IMPROVISATION
Improvisation has been a critical component in many forms of music  
around the world throughout most of history and is an essential  
quality of human intelligence that extends far beyond the borders of  
art. It remains, nonetheless, a controversial subject in contemporary  
Western music: detested and denounced by such titans as Pierre Boulez  
and John Cage, embraced with equal fervor by others, and seriously  
misunderstood by many. For Volume 20 of the Leonardo Music Journal we  
welcome papers on aspects of improvisation in music, art and the  
general realm of decision-making -- especially texts addressing the  
interplay of improvisation and technology. Proposals are due by  
October 15, 2009. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

IMAGINING MEDIA. PRODUCED at ZKM
The future is the declared objective of the work produced at ZKM |  
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. On the occasion of its jubilee,  
now twenty years after its founding in 1989 the institution casts  
back to its past with the opening of the exhibition IMAGINING MEDIA.  
produced at zkm which brings the history of ZKM to life in a large-scale  
overview presentation commencing on October 10, 2009. In this  
exhibition, the best of media art works produced by international  
artists at ZKM will be presented. Find out more

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