[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | September 1, 2010
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EVENTS
GLOBAL WARNING SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
Join Leonardo at the upcoming GLOBAL WARNING Symposium (September 16
and 17, 2010, San Jose, CA), where creative minds will gather to
explore scientific problem-solving, art-making and the environment.
Featured speakers include Kathleen Dean Moore, Gail Wight, Gerard
Kuperus, Peter Roopnarine, Karen Holl, Marisa Jahn, Tiffany Holmes,
Andrea Polli, Tim Dye, Buster Simpson, Robin Lasser, Marguerite
Perret, Jade Chang, and the Climate Clock Initiative artist groups:
Freya Bardell, Brian Howe and Brent Bucknum; Usaman Haque and Robert
Davis; and Chico Macmurtrie, Geo Homsy, Bill Washabaugh and Gideon
Shapiro. Seating is limited and the event is expected to sell out!
Tickets are now available for the symposium via the ZER01 web site.
Find out more
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.
"Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic
Art and Nature Wilderness as Reentrant Form" by David Dunn
ABSTRACT: Proceeding from an assumption that electronic
representations of the natural environment (both recorded and real
time) not only can help give humanity a greater awareness of the
complexity of the non-human world but also can contribute toward
alleviating the problems posed by recreational overuse of the
wilderness, the author argues for institutional encouragement of
technologically sophisicated artists working toward this possibility.
Current examples of artistic works are discussed within a
philosophical context. [This paper was originally published in
Leonardo Vol. 21, No. 4, 1988, and is currently available to Leonardo
and LMJ subscribers through the JSTOR digital archive.]
"Planet Earth in Contemporary Electronic Artworks" by Julian Knebusch
ABSTRACT: This article presents an overall view of contemporary
electronic artworks related to Planet Earth as a topic of artistic
inquiry. The author presents and interprets philosophically the
different ways in which artists have approached Planet Earth and
tried to reappropriate this object of modernity. In order to do so he
outlines a phenomenological reading of these artworks and confronts
them with the well-established phenomenological discourse about
humans' relationship to Planet Earth. [This paper was originally
published in Leonardo Vol. 37, No. 1, 2004, and is currently
available to Leonardo and LMJ subscribers through the MIT Press web
site.]
Find out more about how to access these articles
NEWS
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OTHER EVENTS
NEXT LASER: SEPTEMBER 13, 2010, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), September 13, 2010, at the University of
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Tanu
Sankalia, "Urban Fabric of Past, Present, and Future"; Deborah
Aschheim, "Memory", Anne Fougeron, "City of the Future" and Jeff
Hull, "Situational Design: Interactions at the Conflux of Narrative,
Consciousness and Genuine Space". Find out more
COMMUNITY
LEONARDO @ ARS ELECTRONICA
What kind of new art genres are being developed by artists’ creative
use of mixed media technologies, visual culture and communities and
what is their impact on education? How is design research and
education being embedded in the new modular curricula structures?
What are the most effective elements of curricula to educate artists
as well as art teachers for the future? Leonardo will host a panel at
Ars Electronica to inspire an open discussion by educators and the
public on burning issues towards developing an international
dialogue. Find out more
PUBLICATIONS
NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE LEONARDO BOOK SERIES AND MIT PRESS
ENFOLDMENT AND INFINITY, BY LAURA U. MARKS
In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one
point can unfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century
dome decorated with geometric complexity and a new media work that
shapes a dome from programmed beams of light: both can inspire
feelings of immersion and transcendence. In Enfoldment and Infinity,
Laura Marks traces the strong similarities, visual and philosophical,
between these two kinds of art. Her argument is more than
metaphorical; she shows that the "Islamic" quality of modern and new
media art is a latent, deeply enfolded, historical inheritance from
Islamic art and thought. Find out more
LEONARDO ABSTRACT SERVICES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
LABS (Leonardo Abstract Services) is an on-line database dedicated to
sharing of ideas via publishing of MA, MFA or Ph.D. thesis abstracts
that relate to the intersection of art, science and/or technology. We
invite faculty whose graduating students are involved in these issues
to encourage students to post their abstracts on this database. New
entries are annually peer reviewed, and authors of the highest ranked
abstracts are invited to write an article for the Leonardo journal
and/or have their abstracts posted on LEA (Leonardo Electronic
Almanac). Find out more
OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCING THE CAMBRIDGE LITERARY REVIEW
The Cambridge Literary Review is a new print journal of poetry,
fiction and essays. It is committed to publishing interdisciplinary
work. Essays have covered such topics as Otto Neurath’s picture
language "Isotype," poetry and politics, Hume, Hegel and Walter
Benjamin, as well as traditional literary criticism. Find out more
"ECOTONES" BY JANINE RANDERSON
"Ecotones" (working title) is a new data-ecological project by Janine
Randerson that employs information from satellite telemetry and
sonification of the paths of migratory birds from the Northern
hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere. The bar-tailed godwit, a bird
with the longest non-stop migration of any species, arrives annually
in Miranda, an estuary in New Zealand's North Island. This area is an
"ecotone," or transitional space between terrestrial and marine
ecosystems; where land meets sea, saltwater meets freshwater. Find
out more
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