[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | April 15, 2010

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April 15, 2010

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: MAY 10, 2010, THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), May 10, 2010, at the University of San  
Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Chris  
Palmer, "Tradition Meets Modern Digital Fabrication"; Therese Lahaie,  
"Longing for the Background"; and Mona El Khafif, "City Space Share"  
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COMMUNITY

FRAN ILICH MORALES MUÑOZ AWARDED
FIRST LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
 From a field of applicants from twelve countries on four continents,  
Mexican media artist, author and researcher Fran Ilich Morales Muñoz  
has been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media Art  
Histories MA program at the Department of Image Science at Donau  
University (Austria). The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, Jon  
Cates and Oliver Grau, selected Ilich from a highly competitive group  
of candidates based on his extraordinary accomplishments,  
intellectual sophistication, independent vision and entrepreneurial  
spirit. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE LEONARDO BOOK SERIES AND MIT PRESS
GREEN LIGHT: TOWARD AN ART OF EVOLUTION BY GEORGE GESSERT
Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the  
Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid  
delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work  
with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria,  
slime molds and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social  
and political concerns raised by making art out of living material.  
In Green Light, however, George Gessert examines the role that  
aesthetic perception has played in bio art and other interventions in  
evolution. Find out more

MEMBERS

EUGENE THACKER AT ART, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE COLLOQUIUM
Leonardo Book Series author Eugene Thacker (The Global Genome) will  
speak at the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium series at  
Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley, CA, on Monday, April 26,  
2010. In his talk Thacker will explore the twists and turns of the  
idea of life itself as a key philosophical problematic in modernity,  
focusing on three main philosophical traditions: vitalism,  
phenomenology and a third, under-considered approach of the 'dark' or  
meontological concept of nothingness. Find out more

SRISHTI SCHOOL OF ART, DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
JOINS LEONARDO AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to welcome Srishti School of Art, Design &  
Technology into the Leonardo Affiliate Membership program. Founded in  
1996 by the Ujwal Trust, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology  
is an innovative and progressive institution for art and design.  
Srishti offers a strong foundation in liberal arts and humanities,  
and interdisciplinary platforms for critical design thinking. Srishti  
offers a number of undergraduate and graduate level programs in  
Product & Interface Design, Furniture & Interior Design, Animation,  
Digital Video Production, Textile Design, and an interdisciplinary  
lab called Sangama. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

LEONARDO EDUCATION AND ART FORUM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
NEW MEDIA, ART-SCIENCE, AND MAINSTREAM CONTEMPORARY ART: TOWARD A  
HYBRID DISCOURSE?
Leonardo Education and Art Forum has posted a call for proposals for  
participation in the panel New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream  
Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse? at the 2011 College Art  
Association conference. This opportunity is available to members of  
the Leonardo Education and Art Forum. Proposals are due May 3, 2010.  
Find out more

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