[Leonardo/ISAST Network] January LASER, LEA Calls for Papers, Free LMJ Article & More

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January 1, 2012

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EVENTS

NEXT LASER: 9 JANUARY 2012, SAN FRANCISCO (USF)
Looking for something off the beaten track to do on Monday nights?  
Meet artists working at the intersection of art, science and  
technology when they present their multidisciplinary projects at the  
next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 9 January 2012,  
at University of San Francisco. Feature presentations include "The  
Alan Turing Year" by author Piero Scaruffi, "From Sketch to  
Showpiece: Building Lynn Hershman's RAW/WAR Installation" by artist/ 
designer Gian Pablo Villamil and "Music from High Latitudes" by  
composer Cheryl Leonard. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEA CALL FOR PAPERS
NOT HERE NOT THERE
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals for the  
forthcoming issue Not Here, Not There edited by Lanfranco Aceti,  
Director of Kasa Gallery, Sabanci University, and Richard Rinehart,  
Director of the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University. Artists  
working with Augmented Reality (AR) technology and curators and  
writers working on issues related to AR, sited art in relation to new  
media, or site-specific interventions are particularly welcome to  
submit proposals for consideration. Deadline for proposals: January  
31, 2012. Find out more

LEA CALL FOR PAPERS
SPEED, DROMOLOGY AND INVISIBILITY
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) invites proposals from  
scientists, artists, critical theorists and academics in cultural  
studies and digital humanities for an issue on themes related to  
light, speed and invisibility. Project editors: Lanfranco Aceti and  
Chris Townsend, Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University  
of London. Deadline: January 31, 2012. Find out more

LMJ 21 FREE ARTICLE ACCESS
ALGORITHMS AS SCORES: CODING LIVE MUSIC
ABSTRACT: Author Thor Magnusson discusses live coding as a new path  
in the evolution of the musical score. Live-coding practice  
accentuates the score, and while it is the perfect vehicle for the  
performance of algorithmic music it also transforms the compositional  
process itself into a live event. As a continuation of 20th-century  
artistic developments of the musical score, live-coding systems often  
embrace graphical elements and language syntaxes foreign to standard  
programming languages. The author presents live coding as a highly  
technologized artistic practice, shedding light on how non-linearity,  
play and generativity will become prominent in future creative media  
productions. This article is available for free download from the MIT  
Press web site. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

SPACES OF LIFE: THE ART OF SONYA RAPOPORT
Exhibition curated by Terri Cohn and Anuradha Vikram, 18 January‒11  
March 2012, at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, U.S.A. Opening  
reception on 18 January 2012, 6:00‒8:00 P.M. The art of Sonya  
Rapoport has long operated as a bridge between the public sphere of  
intellectual curiosity and scholarship and the domestic one of  
spiritual inquiry and nurturing. Spaces of Life presents a group of  
Rapoport's interactive works, created between 1980 and 2011, that  
function in the intersection between questioning and inviting. The  
installation is structured so as to infuse the spaces of the museum  
with the energy of the artist's Berkeley home and studio. Find out more

THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO
The Department of Media Study at the University of Buffalo is  
renowned for its pioneering contributions to film, video and sound  
art practices and theory. Today, the department adds conceptual and  
computational media to these existing strengths to offer diversity  
very few art departments can match. Candidates accepted in the  
program work together with artists, thinkers and theorists whose work  
and research deliver formative contributions to current practice and  
discourse in media arts. Media Study maintains vibrant exchanges with  
many departments across UB, the flagship institution in the State  
University of New York, including Anthropology, Architecture, Visual  
Studies, Geography, Comparative Literature, Music and Theatre+Dance.  
International ties with world-class institutions such as the Bauhaus  
Universität Weimar offer students opportunities for research abroad.  
Find out more

PHD IN ART-SCIENCE: NEW RENAISSANCE AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, DALLAS
The University of Texas, Dallas is pleased to announce a new PhD  
program that seeks to enable research and education that couples the  
Arts and Humanities with the Sciences and Engineering. We are seeking  
first rate candidates from diverse backgrounds (academia, private  
industry, non governmental organizations, make and hacker  
collectives) within the ATEC Arts and Technology PhD Program. Find  
out more

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