[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | July 1, 2010

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GLOBAL WARNING SYMPOSIUM 2010
ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM

ART, SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
FROM THE LEONARDO AND LMJ ARCHIVES
Leading up to the Global Warning Symposium, we will be publishing  
abstracts from papers that have been published in Leonardo and LMJ  
over the years on art, science and the environment. Many of these  
papers are available for free to current Leonardo and LMJ  
subscribers. Papers published before 2005 are available through the  
JSTOR digital archive.

"Nature, Technology and Art: The Emergence of a New Relationship?" by  
Ursula Huws
ABSTRACT: The three-way relationship between nature, technology and  
the human subject has been a problematic and shifting one in the  
history of Western art and thought. In this article, the author  
begins by summarizing this history, pointing to the inadequacy of  
most theoretical accounts in the face of the growing interpenetration  
of the "natural" by the "technological" resulting from such  
developments as genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. The  
author goes on to argue that the convergence between scientific  
developments in the field of artificial life and the emergent art  
movement points to the development of a new understanding of this  
relationship and a new role for the artist. [This paper was  
originally published in Leonardo Vol. 33, No. 1, 2000, and is  
currently available to Leonardo and LMJ subscribers through the MIT  
Press web site.]

"Touching the Sky: Artworks Using Natural Phenomena, Earth, Sky and  
Connections to Astronomy" by Janet Saad-Cook
ABSTRACT: In separate conversations, four artists discuss their  
monumental scale works involving natural phenomena. The projects of  
Charles Ross, Nancy Holt, James Turrell and Janet Saad-Cook are at  
various stages of completion, ranging from preparatory stages to  
works already completed. The artists speak about their own creative  
process and about their personal vision for their art. [This paper  
was originally published in Leonardo Vol. 21, No. 2, 1988, and is  
currently available through the JSTOR digital archive.]

Find out more about how to access these articles

OTHER EVENTS

NEXT LASER: JULY 12, 2010, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), July 12, 2010, at the University of San  
Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Linda  
Gass, "Can Art Change Our Water Consciousness?"; Peter Foucault,  
"Systems and Interactivity in Drawing"; Cindy Stokes, "Dynamic Form"  
and Imin Yeh, "Downloadable Mahjong". Find out more

COMMUNITY

LEAF CAA PANEL PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED
Call for proposals: In conjunction with the 2011 College Art  
Association conference in New York City, Science & the Arts at The  
Graduate Center of the City University of New York will host a panel  
titled "Into Focus: Art/Science in the University Classroom." We are  
seeking presenters who have developed university-level instruction  
bringing together art and science. The panel is a satellite event of  
the Leonardo Education and Art Forum and will be held on Feb. 10,  
2011. Deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to July  
15, 2010. Find out more

SIGGRAPH 2010 ART GALLERY PROVIDES A FEAST FOR THE SENSES
 From virtual bugs to wearable devices, the SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery  
investigates the multi-sensory nature of human experience in a  
technologically enhanced environment. The official title is  
TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits, and from more than 250  
submitted pieces, the jury selected 14 to be featured at SIGGRAPH  
2010. Works exhibited in TouchPoint will be published in a special  
issue of Leonardo along with peer-reviewed SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Papers.  
Publication of the special issue will coincide with SIGGRAPH 2010 in  
July. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEA CALL FOR PAPERS: ART IN THE AGE OF PERVASIVE DATA
Art in the Age of Pervasive Data is a call for papers and artworks  
for a new issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac edited by  
FutureEverything. This issue of LEA will seek cross disciplinary  
thinking on art in the age of pervasive data. LEA is soliciting texts  
and artworks by artists, researchers, and scholars involved in the  
exploration of themes including: the networked city, data  
visualization, open data, hyperlocal data and the interpretation of  
proximity, community use and generation of data and novel means of  
navigating the data terrain. 500 word abstract due September 10,  
2010. Find out more

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LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial was created in 2007 as  
an interdisciplinary space intended to foster artistic exchange and  
promote relations between society, art, science, technology and  
creative industries. It is, further, a center for research, training  
and artistic and technical production, as well as for the public  
exhibition of new forms of art and industrial creation. LABoral arose  
as a response to the need in Spain for a space dedicated to artistic  
experimentation. The group is also involved in the development of  
emerging activity by creators who make use of new tools offered by  
current Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Find out more

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