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

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NEWS

LEONARDO/ISAST GOVERNING BOARD ELECTS
NEW CHAIR GREG HARPER
The Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board elected Greg Harper as chair in  
the August 2009 board meeting. Among the board chair duties are:  
overseeing the running of the Governing Board and Executive  
Committee; chairing meetings of the Governing Board and Executive  
Committee; working in partnership with the Governing Board and staff  
to make sure Board resolutions and decisions are carried out and  
acting as spokesperson for the organization. Find out more

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

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: WATER AND SPACE:
SOCIETAL, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS
A joint session (E1.6-E5.4) between the IAF Space Education and  
Outreach Committee and the IAA Commission VI and co-sponsored by  
ITACCUS on the topic "Water and Space: Societal, Educational and  
Cultural Aspects" will be held during the International Astronautical  
Congress that will take place in Prague in 2010. Inter-disciplinary  
in nature, it will explore the societal and cultural contexts of  
water as related to space. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO ABSTRACTS SERVICE (LABS) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS), consisting of the English- 
language, Spanish-language, Chinese-language and French-language  
databases, is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Master's and MFA  
thesis abstracts on topics at the intersection of art, science and  
technology. Postgraduate students whose theses investigate  
philosophical, historical or critical applications of science or  
technology to the arts (visual, sound, performance, text), computer  
sciences, the hard sciences and/or technology are invited to submit  
abstracts of their theses for consideration. Next deadline for  
submissions: December 31, 2009. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
SIGGRAPH 2010 ART PAPERS AND ART GALLERY
SIGGRAPH 2010, in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, seeks papers  
that illuminate and explore how people understand the changing roles  
of artists and art-making in our increasingly networked, multi- 
sensory, online world. Accepted papers will be featured in a special  
issue of Leonardo which will be published in conjunction with the  
SIGGRAPH 2010 conference. SIGGRAPH is also looking for exceptional  
works of art, completed in the last two years, by artists who  
physically engage technology in their creative process. The aim is to  
gather a compelling and varied group of creative projects that relate  
to the SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery theme, "TouchPoint: The Haptic  
Exchange Between Digits." Find out more

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.

MEMBERS

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS EDREAM INSTITUTE JOINS
LEONARDO AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
eDream, the Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media  
Institute, was founded in January 2009 at the University of Illinois  
by the Office of the Provost to serve as an international center for  
envisioning and practicing the emerging digital arts. eDream sponsors  
visiting artists and scholars, conducts active research programs,  
contributes to significant creative productions, and fosters new  
academic programming. Led by Donna Cox, Guy Garnett, Bob Patterson,  
and Kelly Searsmith, eDream is housed at the National Center for  
Supercomputing Applications and draws upon the unique strengths of  
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Institute is  
developing international partnerships, which include the Cyprus  
Institute, and is seeking collaborators for research projects,  
scholarly exchange, and creative production. This coming April,  
eDream will lead the Arts for HASTAC 2010. Leonardo/ISAST welcomes  
University of Illinois eDream Institute as a new Affiliate Member.  
Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
UC'S STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION
Submitted plays must explore scientific and/or technological stories,  
themes, issues or events. Multi-media theatre pieces, non-traditional  
plays and new forms are encouraged. Current and previous STAGE judges  
include Pulitzer, Tony, Olivier & Nobel-winning judges David Auburn,  
John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Sir Anthony Leggett & Dr. Douglas  
Osheroff. The winner of the Scientists, Technologists and Artists  
Generating Exploration (STAGE) Competition will receive a $10,000 USD  
prize, along with possible opportunities for developing and promoting  
the winning script. The deadline is December 15, 2009. Find out more

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM, UC SANTA CRUZ
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of  
California, Santa Cruz, is accepting applications for Fall 2010 now  
through February 15, 2010. This interdisciplinary, two-year MFA  
program brings together faculty and students from across the academic  
spectrum to pursue artistic and scholarly research. Find out more

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. Find  
out more

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