[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | May 1, 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"; Mona El Khafif, "City Space Share"; and  
Evelyne Gayou, "Making and Listening" Find out more

COMMUNITY

PAPERS FROM THE 2010 LEONARDO EDUCATION AND ART FORUM
PANEL SESSION NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE
Papers from the 2010 Leonardo Education and Art Forum panel session  
Migratory Structures: Scientific Imagery and Contemporary Art  
Practice are now available on-line. This panel offers discussion by  
artists working with conceptual structures and representations of  
data that are mapped from one context into another. "Intermedia" is  
perhaps the most accurate term for describing this sort of work, but  
it is intermedia that crosses not only the boundaries between  
artistic media, but those between art and science. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO 43:2 NOW AVAILABLE!
Inside Leonardo 43:2: Photography welcomes insect  
overlords...simulated insects, that is. Carlos Fernandes’s  
programming pours pheromone maps to coax a-life ants into creating  
their own camera obscura. Pushing the "build envelope" Michael Shaw’s  
animated, inflatable and generally mind-bending sculpture and other  
work explore the gestalt of CAD, applying Donald Judd's Specific  
Objects concept. A faultline under the spectator Ella Mudie writes on  
artists using the power of the earthquake to liquefy the safe ground  
of the spectacle. Code bites text Taking a page from the  
anthropophagy movement, Roberto Simanowski considers textual  
cannibalism in some present-day installations. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

UCSC’S DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA 2010 MFA EXHIBITION
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at University of  
California Santa Cruz presents an exhibition of fourteen graduate  
students whose works employ advanced technologies for creative  
potential and social impact. Entitled "Things That Are Possible,"  
this year's UCSC DANM MFA exhibition is the culmination of two years  
of research and artistic exploration, and will include new media  
works that explore performativity, interactivity and participation.  
These works interrogate the borderlands, edges, and contested  
territories of contemporary new media art practice. Find out more

ESF-COST HIGH-LEVEL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON
NETWORKED HUMANITIES: ART HISTORY IN THE WEB
Since the earliest times, new technologies have contributed to  
profound scientific advances and have transformed the ways we can do  
research. It is claimed today that the World Wide Web offers  
revolutionary models of scientific cooperation, which promise to  
instantiate a utopian democracy of knowledge. This claim has  
repeatedly been associated with the development and introduction of a  
collaborative web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, as well as its  
offspring, a semantically enriched Web 3.0 still in the making. The  
aim of this conference is to bring together art historians and other  
researchers (including digital humanists) in order to investigate the  
intersection between the web and collaborative research processes via  
an examination of electronic media-based cooperative models in the  
history of art and beyond. Find out more

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