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

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: DECEMBER 9, 2009
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), December 9, 2009, at the SETI Institute,  
Palo Alto, CA. Feature presentations include Chris Chafe, "Making  
Music in Data-Rich Environments," Paul Rabinow, "Ars Synthetica,"  
Deborah Munk, "The Art of Recycling," and Cindy Stokes, "Dynamic  
Form." Find out more

COMMUNITY

2009 YEAR-END CAMPAIGN: SUPPORT LEONARDO/ISAST
Your financial contribution to Leonardo/ISAST will help ensure that  
we keep going and growing! Please make your tax-deductible donation  
today, and tell us what matters most to you and your community. Help  
Leonardo turn the future you envision into a reality - your support  
will make a difference! Find out more

LEONARDO EDUCATION FORUM CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: ART-SCIENCE AND  
SCIENCE-ART CURRICULA
Leonardo Education Forum co-chair Victoria Vesna and Leonardo  
Executive Editor Roger Malina are interested in examples of courses  
and curricula that are in the art-science field, such as courses on  
art and biology, art and mathematics, art and chemistry, art and  
environmental sciences, etc. Find out more

LEONARDO EDUCATION FORUM AT RE:LIVE 09
The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) continues its successful  
international education event-initiative at the forthcoming Media Art  
History Conference Re:live 09 at the University of Melbourne,  
November 26, 2009. Leonardo community members are invited to join LEF  
at the public sessions. Working group topics include: "The Role of  
Research in Media Art & Science & Technology," "The Role of  
Curricula: Mapping the Terrain" and "The Role of Institutions:  
Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks." Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL VOLUME 19 NOW AVAILABLE!
LMJ19: OUR CROWD---FOUR COMPOSERS PICK COMPOSERS
Inside Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 19: Take back the noise: Armed  
with mics, parabolic speakers and tuning tubes, O+A turn modern aural  
mayhem into habitable soundscapes. The last tangible medium: The CD  
inspired what might be the last culture of a recording medium. Volker  
Straebel reports on the end of sound recording media. Pandora's  
blippoo: Rob Hordijk's Blippoo Box packages chaos theory in its  
certified-organic analog sound. Windstorms, dog-barks and sound arts:  
Liz Phillips's installations and sculptures draw on the natural  
energies around them to add sonic elastic to the atmosphere. LMJ 19  
includes the audio CD "Telematic Music: Six Perspectives" curated by  
Pauline Oliveros with contributions by Nameless Sound Youth Ensemble  
+ Guests, Norman Lowrey, Sarah Weaver, Tom Bickley, If, Bwana,  
Caterina De Re, Seth Cluett, Doug Van Nort, Marc Jensen, Kathy  
Kennedy, Paula Matthusen, Shannon Morrow, Monique Buzzarté, Kristin  
Norderval and Elainie Lillios. Find out more.

LMJ19 ERRATUM
An error appeared in Eliane Radigue's article "The Mysterious Power  
of the Infinitesimal," Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 19 (2009). Some  
words and phrases mistakenly appeared with underlines. The editors  
regret any confusion resulting from the error. To download the  
corrected article, please visit: www.leonardo.info/LMJ/ 
LEOMJ19_pp047-050.pdf.

CODED CLOTH GALLERY CURATED BY MELINDA RACKHAM
NOW ON-LINE
A single connecting thread winds through 300 years of textile and  
computing history. John Kay's invention of the flying shuttle and  
Joseph Marie Jacquard's binary punch cards and loom head led to  
mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage's design and  
programming for an Analytical Engine, the direct predecessor of our  
modern-day mechanical computer. Without the warp and weft of textile  
technology, the hardware and software that enable today's ubiquitous  
information-processing revolution would never have emerged. In the  
early 21st century, the newest hybrid art forms of embedded computing  
and wearable technology are generating creations that would, until  
only recently, be beyond imagination. Find out more

MEMBERS

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO RENEWS MEMBERSHIP IN THE LEONARDO AFFILIATE  
MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
The Master of Fine Arts in Sound at the School of the Art Institute  
of Chicago is a unique program in the creative use of sound that goes  
well beyond the boundaries of a typical program in visual art, music,  
or multimedia. Students may pursue the creation and recording of  
audio work; the composition of music in numerous genres; live  
performance, improvisation, and audio installation; the integration  
of sound in other media, such as video, film, performance, and web- 
based art; designing and building software and hardware instruments;  
live and recorded electroacoustic music; and the use of distribution  
technologies such as radio, internet, and others. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION, RYERSON UNIVERSITY, NEW MEDIA PROGRAM
Apply your MFA or equivalent and studio-based teaching experience in  
this probationary tenure-track position, at the Assistant Professor  
level, in Experience Design, commencing August 1, 2010, subject to  
final budgetary approval. Fluency in at least two current programming  
languages and an established art practice focused on the creative use  
of artificial intelligence, networked computational art and/or  
behavioral/social physical objects are required. Find out more

FULL/ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, AVATAR  
INITIATIVE
The Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies, and Research (AVATAR)  
Initiative at Louisiana State University (LSU) is a platform for  
intersections among the arts, technology, and computational sciences,  
uniting scholars across the university, including the Schools of Art,  
Music, Landscape Architecture, and Mass Communication; the  
Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,  
and English; as well as the Center for Computation & Technology. It  
builds upon a university-wide commitment to interdisciplinary  
research and teaching, progressive state tax credits for digital  
media and recent economic development in the region. LSU AVATAR  
invites dynamic, interdisciplinary scholars and artists dedicated to  
the advancement of digital media to apply to join our faculty. We are  
seeking world-class leaders and emerging junior faculty to help us  
build the critical mass of expertise necessary to create new  
technologies, advance understanding, and explore uncharted modes of  
expression in the realm of digital media. Find out more

APPLY TO SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO'S
MFA SOUND PROGRAM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago's MFA Program in Sound is one  
of the only sound programs in the U.S. situated within the context of  
a fine arts school. This orientation allows students the freedom to  
explore hybrid practices, such as electronics and instrument building  
and conceptual projects that consider sound outside of a musical  
context. The program's studio offerings are complemented by courses  
in the history and theory of sonic arts, physics, acoustics,  
electronics, and kinetics. Find out more

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