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

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: JANUARY 11, 2010
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), January 11, 2010, at the University of  
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Bob  
Osserman, "The Gateway Arch in St. Louis," Helen Mayer Harrison and  
Newton Harrison, "How Can Art Help Create a Sustainable World?,"  
Darlene Lim, "Learning by Doing: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the  
Scientific Training of Moon and Mars Bound Astronauts," and Laura  
Granka, "Applying Ethnography to Search." Find out more

COMMUNITY

2009 YEAR-END CAMPAIGN: SUPPORT LEONARDO/ISAST
Leonardo/ISAST wouldn't be what it is today without the support of  
its community. For over 40 years Leonardo has been the pre-eminent  
source for artists, scientists and researchers working at the  
intersection of art, science and technology. 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

LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY SHOPPING?
SUPPORT LEONARDO BY SHOPPING ON AMAZON
If you are shopping for some last-minute gifts on Amazon, you can  
support Leonardo if you enter the Amazon web site through an Amazon  
Associates Program web link on the Leonardo web site. Through the  
Amazon Associates Program, Leonardo will earn a portion of whatever  
you spend, but only if you enter through an Amazon Associates Program  
web link on the Leonardo web site. It is a painless way to support  
Leonardo/ISAST this holiday season. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

ANNOUNCING THE RE-LAUNCH OF
LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), a member of the Leonardo/ISAST  
family will soon be re-launched. The new format combines the features  
of a high-production-value art magazine with the scholarly rigor of  
an academic journal. The new version of LEA under the direction of  
Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-Editor, will be  
a well-illustrated, attractive and readable magazine that will  
simultaneously be available online as a hyperlinked screen-resolution  
PDF document, a high-resolution print-on-demand magazine and in a  
downloadable version for book readers on electronic devices like the  
Amazon Kindle. The publications will be integrated into a regularly  
updated web portal that will provide additional and supporting  
services such as announcements, opportunities, interactive content- 
oriented blogs and Wikis. Find out more

GIVE THE GIFT OF LEONARDO THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
GET A 25% DISCOUNT ON A NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO LEONARDO AND LMJ
Looking for a unique gift to give to that individual on your gift  
list who is interested in all things art, science and technology? Get  
them a gift subscription to Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ)  
at a special 25% discount! A Leonardo and LMJ subscription is the  
gift that keeps on giving throughout the year, with 5 issues of  
Leonardo published bi-monthly and one issue of Leonardo Music Journal  
+ audio CD published at the end of the year. PLUS, a subscription  
includes associate membership in The International Society for the  
Arts, Sciences and Technology which includes discounts, special  
invitations and more! Find out more

RESOURCE CENTER FOR CYBERCULTURE STUDIES
BOOK OF THE MONTH: SIGNS OF LIFE BY EDUARDO KAC
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Book of the Month has  
selected Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond by Eduardo Kac as one of  
the books of the month for December 2009. Signs of Life, a title in  
the Leonardo Book Series published by MIT Press, is the first book to  
focus exclusively on art that uses biotechnology as its medium,  
defining and discussing the theoretical and historical implications  
of bio art and offering examples of work by prominent artists. 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

FRANCOLABS CALL FOR
ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY THESIS ABSTRACTS IN FRENCH
The Leonardo LABS project, an international database of thesis  
abstracts in the art/science/technology field, is pleased to announce  
a new call for PhD abstracts for consideration by the FRANCOLABS peer  
review committee. Authors of abstracts that are the most highly rated  
by the peer review committee are invited to submit texts for  
publication in Leonardo Journal on their thesis work. Deadline for  
submissions is January 31, 2010. Find out more

MEMBERS

UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS GROUP JOINS LEONARDO  
AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
Evolutionary Systems Group (ESG), directed by Pier Augusto  
Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano, is an  
interdisciplinary group of professors and researchers operating in a  
broad scientific area characterized by interdisciplinarity. The group  
operates at the University of Calabria (Italy) and aims at promoting  
scientific exchange and high formation through the Doctoral School  
"Archimede" in Science, Communication and Technologies; a PhD course  
in "Psychology of Programming and Artificial Intelligence"; a  
Laboratory of Psychology; a strong relationship with other PhD  
courses held at national and international universities; and  
international projects in collaboration with other universities and  
research centers (i.e. "Scientific Scenarios and Art" project in the  
Culture 2007-2013 Programme). ESG research is theoretical and  
applied, covering various fields, including Digital Edutainment and  
Science Communication; Scientific Visualization and Digital Art;  
Evolutionary and Generative Music; Mathematical Modelling of Natural  
and Artificial Behaviour; Cultural Heritage and Educational  
Technologies. Leonardo/ISAST welcomes the University of Calabria  
Evolutionary Systems Group as a new Affiliate Member. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA
MFA PROGRAM AT 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

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