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March 3, 2014

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AFFILIATE MEMBER NEWS

UCLA ART | SCI CENTER
The Art | Sci Center at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)  
is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving "Third Culture"  
by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between  
(media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. The center's affiliation with  
the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting- 
edge researchers and their laboratories and a dedicated gallery for  
exhibitions. Here too the center hosts the Sci|Art NanoLab Summer  
Institute for high school students by introducing them to the vast  
possibilities in the quantum field of artscience for the present/ 
future generations. In cooperation with CNSI, the UCLA School of the  
Arts and the Department of Design | Media Arts, the Art | Sci Center  
supports visiting research scholars, and artists in residency from  
around the world. The center hosts lectures, mixers, and symposia to  
bring artists and scientists together in order to mesh these cultures  
and inspire individuals to think about art and science as already  
interrelated and relevant to our society. Find out more

SCIENTIFIC DELIRIUM MADNESS
Empiricism and intuition are not mutually exclusive. The goal of  
Scientific Delirium Madness–-a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/ 
The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology  
(ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP)–-is to explore  
and expand how the creativity of scientists and artists are  
connected. At its heart, it is a month-long residency in July 2015  
for six artists and six scientists at Djerassi’s 585-acre retreat in  
the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco. The program  
will also include public and academic forums, published blogs, and  
papers in Leonardo, published by MIT Press. Scientists selected must  
be involved in significant art-related research, and/or be practicing  
a form of art and/or have original ideas on how to integrate aspects  
of art and science. This includes but is not limited to poetry,  
playwriting, fiction, creative non-fiction, choreography, music  
composition, media arts/filmmaking, sculpture and photography. By the  
same token artists selected will have a track record of work driven  
by the influence of biology, chemistry, physics, math, environmental  
or agricultural science. A strong sense of play and experimentation  
is essential. Applications are now open for artists who wish to be  
considered for this special residency. Deadline to submit: 15  
February 2014. Find out more

PARTNERS IN THE FUTURE OF ART / SCIENCE
The Leonardo Affiliate Program provides a collaborative environment  
where leaders from top-ranked universities and independent nonprofits  
in the cross-disciplinary field of art-science share best practices,  
research and opportunities with their peers across institutional  
boundaries. To learn more about the program and its benefits, visit  
http://leonardo.info/affiliates

EVENTS

INAUGURAL LASER @ ATX: 4 MARCH 2014
Join us for the inaugural LASER in Austin, Texas, on 4 March, at 7  
p.m. Over the next year, the Umlauf Museum, in partnership with  
Leonardo/ISAST, will host events exploring such diverse topics as the  
impact and creative application of technology; the intersection of  
anatomy, art and genetics; the role of art in environmental education  
and activism; visualizing and understanding Big Data; building  
community and communication between disciplines; and much more. Like  
successful LASER programs in London, Washington D.C., San Francisco,  
Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and  
New York City, LASER: ATX will provide a space for progressive  
thought leaders to come together to form community and explore the  
intersections of disciplinary thinking. LASER: ATX welcomes  
innovators of all types—artists, scientists, curators, scholars,  
engineers, designers and educators—to participate. Speakers for the  
inaugural event will include Leonardo Executive Editor and Arts and  
Technology Distinguished Chair at UT Dallas Roger Malina; composer,  
media artist and Senior Lecturer at UT Dallas Andrew Blanton; Austin- 
based artist Francesca Samsel; and Institute for Geophysics in the  
Jackson School of Geosciences at UT Austin Program Manager Kathy  
Ellins. LASER: ATX is free and open to the public. Space is limited.  
RSVP by emailing atxlaser at umlaufsculpture.org. Find out more

NEXT LASER @ USF: 10 MARCH 2014
The next LASER: USF from 6:45–9:30 p.m. at the University of San  
Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., Fromm Hall - FR 115 - Berman Room, San  
Francisco, CA. Katherine Worel will kick off the evening with a  
presentation on the role of plastic art in the digital age. She will  
be followed by musician Ellen Fullman on her experiences in  
conceiving, designing and working with the Long String Instrument;  
visual designer Jeremy Mende on his two recent installation projects,  
100 Years From Now and Narcissus; and geobiologist and University of  
California, Davis professor Dawn Summer, who will describe some  
explorations of scientific data and artistic expression using the UC  
Davis Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences software  
and hardware environment. Find out more

ARTS, HUMANITIES AND COMPLEX NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM: CALL
We are delighted to invite submissions for Arts, Humanities and  
Complex Networks (AHCN), the 5th Leonardo satellite symposium at  
NetSci2014, which will take place in Berkeley at the Clark Kerr  
Campus of the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday, 3 June  
2014. The 2014 symposium will follow the established AHCN format,  
leveraging interaction between the arts, humanities, network  
research, data science and information design through keynotes, a  
number of contributions and a panel discussion. The organizers are  
looking for a diversity of research contributions revolving around  
networks in culture, networks in art, networks in the humanities, art  
about networks and research in network visualization. As in previous  
years, selected papers will be published in print, both in a special  
section of Leonardo Journal and in a dedicated Leonardo eBook.  
Deadline to submit: 28 March 2014. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO E-BOOK: WATER IS IN THE AIR
It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of Water  
Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts,  
the latest addition to the Leonardo e-book series. This e-book,  
edited by Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina and Leonardo/Olats  
Director Annick Bureaud, explores the ways that artists from all over  
the world, working at the cutting edge of science and engineering,  
create work that addresses critical issues of water in culture and  
society. Drawing on 30 years of work documented in Leonardo, Water Is  
in the Air brings together a wide range of topics from art and  
climate change and pollution to artificially seeded clouds, from  
water fountains to the physics and poetics of waves. Find out more

OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

CREATIVE COLLISIONS: CERN’S ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAM
What happens when the world’s largest particle physics laboratory  
collides with internationally renowned artists? Find out on Monday, 3  
March 2014, 7:00–8:30 p.m., at the Exploratorium, Pier 15, Kanbar  
Forum, where Ariane Koek, Director of the Collide at CERN artist-in- 
residency program, will introduce and moderate a conversation between  
sound sculptor Bill Fontana and CERN cosmologist Subodh Patil  
discussing their impact on each other’s work. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 10TH ANNUAL ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
The Athens Video Art Festival, an international festival celebrating  
digital arts and new media, invites artists from all over the world  
to participate in its 10th anniversary edition that will take place  
in May 2014. The Athens Video Art Festival will bring together a  
global community of artists and audiences with the aim of  
encouraging, stimulating and promoting all aspects of digital  
creation by investing in local as well as international artists and  
communities. This call welcomes projects in eight official  
categories: video art, animation, digital image, web art,  
installations, performances, music and applications. Deadline to  
submit: 10 March 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: SIMTECT 2014
Simulation—as a critical new technology and methodology—is rapidly  
being embraced across several domains, from defense, mining,  
resources and heavy industries, to emergency and national security  
services, transportation and education. SimTecT 2014, the Asia  
Pacific Simulation Training Conference & Exhibition, provides a forum  
for those involved with simulation to allow for discussion and  
distribution of information and to further advance the research,  
development and use of simulation technologies and practices in  
society, industry, academia and government across the Asia Pacific.  
The SimTecT Organizing Committee has announced a call for submissions  
for the 19th Annual SimTecT Conference, which will be held 25–28  
August 2014 at the Adelaide Convention Centre in South Australia.  
Topics include education and workplace training; modeling and  
decision supported systems; human interactions; engineering, design  
and industrial applications; and innovative and emerging trends.  
Deadline to submit full paper abstracts: 10 March 2014. Deadline to  
submit short paper abstracts: 16 April 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR ENTRIES: NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ART AWARD 2014
Every two years, The New Technological Art Award (NTAA) of the Liedts- 
Meesen Foundation (Ghent, Belgium) is awarded to artworks in which  
culturally influential technology plays a central role. The award is  
an attempt to fill a gap in the mainstream art world by recognizing  
the technological developments that impel our global culture. Award  
recipients will be selected by an international jury, and winning  
artworks will be shown in NTAA’s biennial exhibition entitled  
update_5, this year in its fifth iteration, which will be on view 8– 
23 November 2014 at Zebrastraat in Ghent, Belgium. Deadline to  
submit: 31 March 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RESIDENCIES AT IMÉRA
The Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University (IMéRA)  
is issuing a call for applications for residencies set to take place  
in 2015 and 2016. IMéRA is calling upon applicants in three  
categories: individual scientists and artists, for residencies  
scheduled between 23 February 2015 and 13 July 2016 (duration: 5 or  
10 months); scientist and artist teams, for residencies scheduled  
between 23 February 2015 and 13 July 2016 (duration: 2, 3 or 4  
weeks); and individual scientists for a residency formulated in  
collaboration with the LabexMed program scheduled between 15  
September 2014 and 17 July 2015 (duration: 5 or 10 months). IMéRA is  
looking for applicants who share their goal of fostering the  
emergence and development of world-class cross-disciplinary research  
approaches between the arts and sciences. Deadline to submit: 7 April  
2014. Find out more

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DRHA 2014
The aim of the Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA)  
conference is to facilitate conversations on design and  
collaborations between digital arts and the humanities, creative  
industries, and digital libraries and archives. This call invites  
submissions of original papers, panels, roundtables, installations,  
performances and workshop sessions that address the conference theme,  
Communication Futures: Connecting interdisciplinary design practices  
in arts/culture, academia and the creative industries. The conference  
will be held 31 August–3 September 2014 at the University of  
Greenwich and other venues around the Royal Borough of Greenwich in  
London, U.K. Deadline to submit: 14 April 2014. Find out more

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