[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Network Newsletter: Affiliate Beall Center for Art & Technology, Leonardo 47:2 is Out!, Scientific Delirium Madness 2014, Upcoming LASERs, Opportunities and More!

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April 1, 2014

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AFFILIATE MEMBER NEWS

BEALL CENTER FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY

The mission of the Beall Center for Art and Technology is to support research and exhibitions that explore new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering, and thus promote new forms of creation and expression using digital technologies. The Beall Center aspires to redefine the museum/gallery experience, both in content and form, formulating answers to the questions of how technology can be used effectively, not only to create new forms of art, but also to connect artist to artist, and artist with audience. Find out more

DJERASSI/LEONARDO 2014 ART/SCIENCE RESIDENCY SELECTION

Leonardo/ISAST and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program have announced the selection of 13 scientists and artists for the Scientific Delirium Madness residential retreat 1–31 July 2014 at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA. During the course of the residency, forward-thinking choreographers, composers, writers and visual artists will work closely with distinguished physicists, biologists and industrial engineers to explore and transform the boundaries of art and science. Find out more Find out more

PARTNERS IN ART AND 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 www.leonardo.info/affiliates

EVENTS

NEXT LASER @ UC BERKELEY: 2 APRIL
Join us for the next LASER: UC Berkeley on 2 April, 7–9 p.m., in Mullford Hall, Classroom 240 on the UC Berkeley campus. Presenters on this evening will include UC Davis Professor and Chaos Scientist Jim Crutchfield on "Hidden Fragility"; UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Lucia Jacobs on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose"; visual artist Shan Shan Sheng on "Reinterpreting the Great Wall of China for the age of globalization"; and Bay Area based-artist Renetta Sitoy on “The Ear Goes to the Sound: Laetitia Sonami’s Sound Art.” Find out more

NEXT LASER @ STANFORD: 3 APRIL
Join us for the next LASER: Stanford, 3 April, 7–9 p.m. at the Li Ka Shing Center, Room LK120. This installment of LASER: Stanford will feature composer Robert Rich on "Slow Music in a Manic World"; Stanford physics Professor Patricia Burchat on "What is the Dark Energy in the Universe?"; kinetic artist Kal Spelletich on "Interactive art as a catalyst towards an engaged life"; and curator Sharon Spain on "A Nexus For Art & Environmental Activism: Recology Artist Residency Program." Find out more

NEXT LASER @ UC DAVIS: 7 APRIL

Join us for the next LASER: UC DAVIS on Friday, 7 April, 6:30–9:30 p.m., at 3001 PES, on the UC Davis campus. Presentations include UC Davis Design Professor Christina Cogdell on “Growing Living Things”; artist and UC Davis Associate Professor in Cinema and Technocultural Studies Jesse Drew on “Who Owns Creativity? Collective Wisdom and Media Innovation”; author, cognitive scientist and LASER founder Piero Scaruffi on “A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 500 Years of Art Science Misunderstandings”; and Professor Emerita and ArtScientist in the Department of Land, Air and Water Science at UC Davis Wendy Silk on “Singing about Science.” Organizer Anna Davidson will be moderating the event. Find out more

NEXT LASER @ UC SANTA CRUZ: 8 APRIL

The next LASER: UC Santa Cruz will take place on Tuesday, 8 April, 6:45–9 p.m., at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Digital Arts Research Center (DARC). Presentations will begin at 7 p.m. with UC Santa Cruz Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture Martin Berger, followed by UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Science and Justice Research Center Jenny Reardon, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Computer Science Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and composer, performer and media artist Pamela Z. Find out more

NEXT LASER @ NEW YORK: 12 APRIL
Join us on Saturday, 12 April, 4–7 p.m. for wine and discussion at the next LASER: NY at LevyArts: 40 E 19th St #3-R, New York, New York. This edition of LASER: NY will feature three presenters: Director and Co-founder of the Dactyl Foundation Victoria Alexandra; ecological artist and environmental activist Lillian Ball; and award-winning innovator in the use of Laser technology and motion control “rayography” as an artistic medium Norman Ballard. LASER: NY is organized by former chairs of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) and hosted by Ellen Levy on behalf of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Space is limited; to reserve your place, send an email to <levy at nyc.rr.com>. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

NOW AVAILABLE: LEONARDO VOL. 47, NO. 2
Inside Leonardo 47:2 (2014): Art is long, and life is art: Billy Apple® was all in on branding before it was branding. Now Craig Hilton and Apple present his patented line of biological tissue. See “The Immortalisation of Billy Apple®: An Art-Science Collaboration.” Art that cells: Gilah Yelin Hirsch channels her near deaths and other scrapes with the sublime, crafting art’s mirrors of the molecular and the mitochondrial. See “Artist as Scientist in a Reflective Universe: A Process of Discovery.” Adding living color to dead space: How do astronomers show us the infrareds, ultraviolets and other invisibles of far-off nebulae and novas? Shana Cooperstein breaks down the fictions of public science. See “Imagery and Astronomy: Visual Antecedents Informing Non-Reproductive Depictions of the Orion Nebula.” Find out more

LEONARDO JUST ACCEPTED
Leonardo Just Accepted makes recently accepted articles available online in anticipation of their publication in Leonardo journal. Two new articles have been posted to the Leonardo Just Accepted page of the MIT Press website: “Wave of the Future? Reconsidering The Neuroscientific Turn in Art History” by Kate Mondloch and “Quicker than the Eye? Sleight of Hand and Cinemas of Scientific Discovery from Chronophotography to Cognitive Film Theory” by Colin Williamson. Find out more

JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE REVIEWS ILLUSIONS IN MOTION
“The book will be immediately canonical for scholars of visual culture, cinema, and media studies, and will also be valuable to scholars of literature, American studies, and 19th-century history ...  Huhtamo has replaced a relative silence on the moving panorama with a strong statement that realigns dominant narratives about the history of visual culture and demonstrates a powerful methodology for cinema and media studies. It will stand as a lasting contribution and inexhaustible source for future scholarship.”
—Quoted from Brooke Belisle’s review of Erkki Huhtamo’s Illusions in Motion,” Leonardo Book Series, The MIT Press. Review published in the Journal of Visual Culture, April 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LEONARDO ABSTRACT SERVICES
The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) is a comprehensive database of Ph.D., Masters and MFA thesis abstracts on the intersection of art, science and technology. Individuals receiving advanced degrees in disciplines that investigate philosophical, historical or critical applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit abstracts of their theses for consideration. Selected abstracts are published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Authors of most highly ranked abstracts are invited to submit an article for publication in Leonardo. The aim of the LABS database is to give visibility to interdisciplinary work. Annual submission deadline: 30 June. For more information, contact Sheila Pinkel at <spinkel at earthlink.net>.  
OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE SOUND OF LIGHT AND THE INVISIBLE: IMÉRA
The Institute of Advanced Aix-Marseille University Studies (IMéRA) invites you to “Le son de la lumière et l’invisible” (“The Sound of Light and of the Invisible”), a seminar presenting research in the field of auditory perception data and non-acoustic phenomena and the sonification of visual data. The seminar, organized as part of Alexander Mihalic’s residency at IMéRA will take place 2–3 April 2014 at IMéRA in Marseille. Find out more 
LAVAL VIRTUAL: 9–12 APRIL
Laval Virtual, the 16th International Conference and Exhibition on Virtual Technologies and Uses sponsored by ACM, will take place 9–12 April 2014 in Laval, France. The program includes competitions and awards ceremonies, networking opportunities and symposia addressing innovations and developments in virtual technologies. Find out more
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DRHA 2014
The aim of the Digital Research in the Humanities and the Arts (DRHA) conference is to facilitate conversations on design and collaborations between digital arts and humanities, creative industries, and digital libraries and archives. DRHA is calling for submissions that address the conference theme: Communication Futures: Connecting interdisciplinary design practices in arts/culture, academia and the creative industries, for London’s University of Greenwich conference 31 August–3 September 2014. Deadline to submit: 14 April 2014. Find out more
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SOUND DEVELOPMENT CITY
Each year, Sound Development City sends 10 artists on a three-week-long expedition between two European cities, where they can work on individual projects, explore new cities, cultures and different living environments, and establish new connections. Sound Development City is now seeking projects that engage with this year’s theme: Mind the Gap! The 2014 expedition will explore Riga, Helsinki and the Baltic Sea area. Deadline to submit: 25 April 2014. Find out more
EVOSTAR 2014: GRENADA, SPAIN
EvoStar 2014, a two-day event on bio-inspired computation, will be hosted in Granada, Spain, 23–25 April. EvoStar is comprised of five conferences encompassing numerous application and programming topics, including EvoMusart, the 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. Registration is open until 17 April. Find out more

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