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

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December 1, 2010

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EVENTS

UPCOMING LASER: DECEMBER 8, 2010
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science  
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), December 8, 2010, at the SETI Institute,  
Mountain View, CA. Feature presentations include Bathsheba Grossman,  
"3D Printing Sculpture," Phillip Prager, "What is Creativity?  
Debunking Myths and Implications for Interactive Media," Peter  
Foucault, "Systems and Interactivity in Drawing," and Wayne Vitale,  
"The Aesthetics of Oscillation in Balinese Music." Find out more

COMMUNITY

BALANCE-UNBALANCE COLLOQUIUM
The BALANCE - UNBALANCE Colloquium, co-sponsored by The Electronic  
Arts Experimenting and Research Center at National University of Tres  
de Febrero and Leonardo/ISAST, seeks to bring together artists,  
scientists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, technology  
specialists and policy-makers for a day of reflection, debate and  
discussion about the state of the environment and the  
responsibilities facing us at this critical turning point. The  
colloquium will take place December 7, 2010 at Borges Cultural Centre  
(Centro Cultural Borges) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

NOW AVAILABLE FROM LEONARDO AND THE MIT PRESS
LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL, VOLUME 20: IMPROVISATION
Improvisation has been a critical component in many forms of music  
around the world throughout most of history, and is an essential  
quality of human intelligence that extends far beyond the borders of  
art. It remains, nonetheless, a controversial subject in contemporary  
Western music: detested and denounced by such titans as Pierre Boulez  
and John Cage, embraced with equal fervor by others, and seriously  
misunderstood by many. LMJ20: Improvisation explores aspects of  
improvisation in music, art and the general realm of decision-making  
– especially texts addressing the interplay of improvisation and  
technology. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SIGGRAPH 2011 ART GALLERY: TRACING HOME
SIGGRAPH 2011, in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, seeks  
exceptional digital and technologically mediated artworks that  
explore issues around the concept of home in the networked age for  
the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery: Tracing Home. Accepted work  
will be featured in a special issue of Leonardo which will be  
published in conjunction with the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference. Find out  
more

MEMBERS

CFC MEDIA LAB JOINS LEONARDO AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to welcome CFC Media Lab into the Leonardo  
Affiliate Membership program. Created in 1997, CFC Media Lab provides  
a unique training, research and production think-tank environment for  
emerging new media content developers, practitioners and companies.  
Graduates of this internationally acclaimed and award-winning  
facility emerge as leaders in the world of interactive media, produce  
innovative projects and start up 21st-century companies. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES
5TH CYCLE OF STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION
Each cycle, the winner of the biennial Scientists, Technologists and  
Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) Competition will receive a US 
$10,000 prize, along with possible opportunities for developing and  
promoting the winning script for a new play about science and  
technology. Find out more

SONYA RAPOPORT RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
4 MARCH-9 APRIL 2011 AT KALA INSTITUTE
Pairings of Polarities, a retrospective exhibition of the work of  
artist Sonya Rapoport, features works from 1972 to the present, in  
which Rapoport, a systems artist, Internet artist, and creator of  
interactive installations, explores a range of interests: from Native  
American migrations to the Egyptian Book of the Dead; from alchemy to  
recombinant gene splicing; from Jewish masculinities to soap opera  
jealousies; from shoes to soccer. Find out more

FACULTY POSITIONS AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CULTURE TECHNOLOGY AT KAIST
The Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) at KAIST invites  
applicants for tenure-track faculty positions. Application materials  
should be received before December 15, 2010. Find out more

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