[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter | August 15, 2011

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August 15, 2011

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: 12 SEPTEMBER 2011, SAN FRANCISCO, CA (USF)
Attention San Francisco Bay Area readers! Join us for the next  
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 12 September 2011,  
at the University of San Francisco. Feature presentations include  
"Cultural Perspectives of Science in Antarctica" by Alan Cooper and  
Julianne Stafford, "Music the Dead Can Hear: Occult Presences in the  
Art of Noises" by Luciano Chessa, "The Art of the Body, The Art of  
the Pen" by Leonard Pitt and "Why and How to Transition from Wet-Ware  
to Substrate-Independent Minds" by Randal Koene Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO ABSTRACTS SERVICE TOP RATED AUTHORS
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts  
published in the English-language Leonardo Abstracts Service database  
during the first half of 2011: "Reversed Remediation. How Art Can  
Make One Critically Aware of the Workings of Media" by Saskia  
Korsten, "The Search for a Third Way of Curating New Media Art:  
Balancing Content and Context In and Out of the Institution" by Sarah  
Cook, "Ambivalent Animal" by Geoffrey Thomas, "The Sensorial  
Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art  
and Plant Neurobiology" by Laura Cinti, "Mixed Reality Art and the  
Graphical User Interface" by Ian Gwilt and "MINDtouch - Ephemeral  
Transference: 'Liveness' in Networked Performance with Mobile  
Devices" by Camille Baker. Find out more

RECENT LEONARDO REVIEWS
Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars  
and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review  
books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively  
they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the  
emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the  
convergence of the arts, science and technology. Recent reviews by  
the Leonardo Reviews panel include: "Digital Practices: Aesthetic and  
Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology" by Susan  
Broadhurst, reviewed by Rob Harle; "Harnessed: How Language and Music  
Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man" by Mark Changizi,  
reviewed by Richard Kade; and "Inside Jokes — Using Humor to Reverse- 
Engineer the Mind" by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and  
Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Editors, reviewed by Edith Doove. These  
reviews and many others are available on the Leonardo Reviews web  
site. Find out more

MEMBERS

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE OCCIDENTE JOINS LEONARDO AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP  
PROGRAM
Leonardo is pleased to welcome the Multimedia Engineering Program at  
Universidad Autonoma de Occidente as a new member in the Leonardo  
Affiliate Membership program. Since mid-2008, the Multimedia  
Engineering Program at the Universidad Autonoma de Occidente in Cali,  
Colombia and the research group in telematics and informatics GITI  
have been researching interdisciplinary studies in various areas such  
as: virtual reality, telemedicine, augmented reality, tangible  
interaction and computer graphics. Based on its technology  
infrastructure, the program is recognized as one of the most  
important and innovative programs in new media and engineering in  
Latin America. Find out more

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