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Affiliate Member News

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/isast/affiliates.html

Events

LASER TURNS SIX!

Happy Anniversary, LASER! Over the past six years, the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology has expanded from the San Francisco Bay Area to the East Coast and recently crossed the pond to London, the home of the first European LASER. Thanks to all of you who have spoken at, participated in or attended LASER events throughout the years. And thanks to Piero Scaruffi for his inspiration and continued dedication! Stay tuned for more to come. Find out more

NEXT LASER @ UC DAVIS: 6 FEBRUARY 2014

Join us on Thursday, 6 February, 6:30–9:30 p.m. on the UC Davis campus for the next LASER: UC Davis. This edition will feature San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist and art writer Genevieve Quick presenting “Visual Technologies in Contemporary Art: Telescopes of CGI”; UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences Associate Professor Maciej Zwieniecki presenting “Trees—Masters of Microfluidics”; Oakland-based artist Philip Benn presenting “Solid Water and Other Works by Philip Alden Benn”; and UC Davis Art-Science Fusion Professor Terry Nathan presenting “Photography: Born of Science and Nurtured by Art.” The schedule will include time for audience members currently working within the intersections of art and science to briefly share their work. Find out more

NEXT LASER @ UC BERKELEY: 11 FEBRUARY 2014

The next LASER: UC Berkeley will take place on Tuesday, 11 February, 7–9:30 p.m. Kinetic artist Bernie Lubell will kick off the evening with a presentation on “Intimacy and Entanglement,” followed by visual artist Katherine Sherwood on “How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered my Art”; next up will be Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University Curtis Frank on “Historical Pigments: The Good, the Bad, and he Ugly,” and Director of the Living Environments Lab Eric Paulos on “Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings.” Find out more

NEXT LASER @ STANFORD: 12 FEBRUARY 2014

Speakers at the next LASER: Stanford, on Wednesday, 12 February, 7–9:30 p.m., will include Dave Deamer, Research Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on “Meteorites, Soap Bubbles and the Origin of Cellular Life”; Mark Applebaum, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Stanford University, on “Visual Music and the Rehabilitation of Archaic Technologies”; Margot Gerritsen, Director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University, on “Linear Algebra: The Incredible Beauty of a Branch of Math with a Bad Reputation”; and Kim Anno, Professor of Painting and Fine Arts at the California College of Arts. Find out more

NEXT DASER: 20 FEBRUARY 2014

For East Coast members of the art-science community, the next DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) will take place on Thursday, 20 February, 6–9 p.m. This month, in celebration of its third anniversary, DASER explores the theme of art as a way of knowing. Panelists will include Washington, D.C.-based artist Michele Banks, Philadelphia, PA-based artist Diane Burko; bioartist and Professor of Physiology at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Robert Root-Bernstein; and curator, art and science historian and post-doctoral researcher at Image Knowledge Gestaltung Nina Samuel. Those unable to attend the event are invited to stream it online via live webcast, beginning at 5:30 p.m. EST. Find out more

LEAF AT CAA: BUSINESS MEETING

Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) will hold a business meeting on Thursday, 13 February 2014 at the annual College Art Association (CAA) Conference in Chicago, Illinois. We invite all members of LEAF and also welcome those who would like to learn about LEAF, the Leonardo community and their activities. You do not need to be registered for the conference to attend the business meeting. Find out more

LEAF AT CAA: THE ART/SCIENCE CLOUD CURRICULUM

Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) will present a panel at the upcoming College Art Association (CAA) Conference titled "The Art/Science Curriculum in the Classroom and in the Cloud." The panel, chaired by LEAF chair Adrienne Klein, will take place on Thursday, 13 February, 12:30–2 p.m. and feature presentations from individuals who have developed or who study instruction that brings together art and science. The presenters are Paul Thomas (University of New South Wales), Kathryn Evans (University of Texas at Dallas), Jill Fantauzza (Texas State University), Ingrid Koenig (Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and Steven Zides (Wofford College). Find out more

LEAF AT CAA: TIME AND SPACE CONCEPTS IN POSTWAR ART

The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) invites you to attend "Time and Space Concepts in Postwar Art," a panel taking place on 15 February 2014, 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. at the College Art Association (CAA) Conference in Chicago, Illinois. This LEAF-sponsored session explores diverse space/time perspectives, including the regional and political, in the work of specific artists. Presentations will range from Peiko Tomii (PoNJA-GenKon) on Matsuzawa Yutaka's cosmic conceptualism to James E. Housefield (University of California, Davis) on Robert Smithson's /Spiral Jetty/. The panel will be chaired by Larisa Dryansky of the Universitè Paris-Sorbonne and Melissa Warak of Sam Houston State University. Find out more

OPEN HOURS WITH LEONARDO AT CAA

Are you attending the College Art Association Conference (12–15 February) this year? We hope to see you at the LEAF panels and also connect with you personally. Danielle Siembieda, Leonardo Affiliate Program Manager, will be on-site during the conference to meet and greet. If you would like to pre-schedule a meeting with Danielle, please email <danielle@leonardo.info>. She will also be live tweeting at the conference via @LeonardoISAST.

Publications

NOW AVAILABLE: LEONARDO VOL. 47, NO. 1

Inside Leonardo 47:1 (2014): Swarming the gallery: The mobile massings of hordes of bees, birds, fish can help you program your next work of art. Look to the artists featured in the Leonardo Gallery for inspiration on getting the hivemind inside. Story of our lives: When art met physics: A marriage abetted Trudy Reagan’s lyrical thoughts on the science and experience of life, consciousness and the cosmos, on the page and on Plexiglas. See “Can Personal Meaning Be Derived from Science?” by Trudy Reagan. Adding layers: Art has plumbed the picture plane, the canvas, the paint---now it’s in your nanosurfaces. Silvia Casini writes on art that delves their infinitesimal depths in “Sensing Nanotechnologies through the Arts: Seeing and Making on the Surface of Things.” Along similar lines: The common and the unique trajectories of two firm friends and math-art monoliths: François Morellet and the late Zdenek Sýkora. See “Zdenek Sýkora and François Morellet: Parallels and Complementarity” by Jan Andres. 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: “SCIENCESTORE: An Art Space Designed for Science” by Jorge Pérez Gallego and “Interdisciplinary Teaching of Visual Perception through Art and Science” by Lesli Welch and Carl Fasano. Find out more

Opportunities and Community Announcements

COMPUTER ARTS SOCIETY LECTURE

Professor Martin Rieser will be speaking at the first Computer Arts Society (CAS) lecture of 2014 on Tuesday, 5 February, 6 p.m., at the British Computer Arts Society, London. Rieser will examine how the spread of Augmented Reality heralds the advent of a new kind of unfamiliar familiarity—that which Freud labeled the “uncanny.” Digital worlds may now seem immersive in that they are convincing, multi-faceted and "user friendly," but it seems that an unfriendly aftertaste lingers around the figure of the avatar. Rieser will review a number of his own and other recent creative digital art projects that focus on the notion of “otherness” as being intrinsic to the digital medium. Find out more

17TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

The 17th Japan Media Arts Festival will be held from Wednesday, 5 February, to Sunday, 16 February 2014, at the National Art Center, Tokyo, and other venues throughout Tokyo. This year’s Japan Media Arts Festival received 4,347 entries from 84 countries and regions in the four divisions of Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. The exhibition will present award-winning works and jury selections as well as information on the winners of special achievement awards. The festival program will also include film screenings and various other events. Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: RGS-IBG CONFERENCE

The annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and the Institute of British Geographers (IBG) will be held at the Imperial College of London, 26–29 August 2014. The title of this year’s session is “Defining the Spatiality of Co-Creation, Collaboration and Peer Production in the Digital Age.” Organizers invite papers that investigate the spatiality of novel forms of creativity presenting examples of creative landscapes. Paper topics include: case studies on spaces of collaborative and co-creative practices, insights and reflections on the current theoretical approaches on co-creation and peer production in the digital (network) age, and more. Deadline to submit: 10 February 2014. Find out more

CURIOSITY3 PRESENTS: SOUND IN ART AND SCIENCE

Sound is a concept that transcends the sciences, from the oscillations and energy responsible for generating sound waves to the perception of music by the brain. Artists can transform our understanding of such principles by manipulating our experiences of sound and offering transformations into visceral artworks. On Wednesday, 12 February, 7 p.m., join Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Digital Science Center and Office for Community Outreach and Education for short talks and an audience-led panel discussion where we’ll hear examples of how art and science converge through this fascinating medium. Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: MOCO14

The International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO) aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification or generation of movement information and to promote scientific and artistic collaborations within this interdisciplinary boundary. The theme of this year’s workshop is “Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology.” Organizers have issued a call for papers on research that explores movement, technology and computation and is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art and science. MOCO14 will take place at Ircam in Paris, France, 16–17 June 2014. Deadline to submit: 15 February 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR ENTRIES: PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CONFERENCE

The 13th Biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) will take place in Windhoek, Namibia, 6–10 October 2014. Although “participatory design” has not been a prevalent term in Africa, “participation” is a familiar concept in Africans’ everyday activities and deeply anchored in the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu, recognizing principles of relationships between people. By “reflecting connectedness”—the theme of this year’s conference—in participatory design, PDC 2014 will look at what it means to design within and for a multilayered network, such as the online world versus off-line interactions, the blurring distinction between designers and users, researchers and artists, and designing for social justice, inclusiveness and sustainability. Organizers are now accepting full and short papers, workshop proposals, tutorials, industry cases and installation proposals. Deadlines to submit vary. Find out more

LACDA CELEBRATES 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

The Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts (LACDA) is now accepting entries for the 2014 LACDA International Juried Competition. This year’s competition coincides with LACDA’s 10-year anniversary. The selected winner will be awarded 10 prints of up to 44×60 inches on canvas or museum-quality paper (an approximately $2,500–$3,000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in the main LACDA gallery 13 March–6 April 2014. The artist’s reception will be the 10-year anniversary gala at LACDA’s new expanded location in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk in Downtown Los Angeles. Deadline to submit: 24 February 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: ARTSIT 2014

The International Conference on Arts and Technology (ArtsIT) aims to foster trans-disciplinary alliances and co-operation among IT researchers, artists and industry members. Now in its fourth edition, ArtsIT has become a leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of arts, design and technology. The main focus of the conference, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, 10–12 November 2014, will be to present tools, systems, models, artworks, performances, shows and empirical studies to enrich the possibilities for artists and creative people to work with new media technologies. Deadline to submit: 28 February 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR APPLICANTS: ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT SBU

Stony Brook University (SBU), the leading research campus of the State University of New York (SUNY), invites applications for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in the Digital Humanities, to be appointed to an appropriate academic department. SBU seeks applicants able to contribute to Stony Brook's thriving interdisciplinary environment, whose research and teaching exemplify how contemporary scholars and teachers can critically engage and employ digital technologies. Deadline to submit: 1 March 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE ON TANGENTIAL POINTS

The Conference on Tangential Points Between Natural Sciences and Arts will bring together international scholars to discuss historical and contemporary tangential points between distinct fields. The topic of the first meeting is the influence of A. Bogdanov's systemic thinking on film arts via the Proletkult movement, linking early Russian systemic thinking with the film montage of the first half of the 20th century. Organizers invite abstracts for paper presentations during the two-day international conference to be held at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 15–16 May 2014. Deadline to submit: 1 March 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: BANFF CENTRE

The Banff Centre’s Film & Media Filmmaker-in-Residence program provides filmmakers with a rich, well-supported environment for content creation through every stage of production. Residencies are ideal for individuals and teams who want time and space to create new work, bring existing work to completion or experiment with new techniques and modes of production. Projects in all stages of production, from pre to post-production are welcome. The residency will take place 5–15 August 2014. Deadline to submit: 5 March 2014. Find out more

CALL FOR ENTRIES: PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2014

Entries are now being accepted for prize consideration at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s oldest and most renowned competition in media art. Prize winners and honorable mentions will be announced by the end of May and honored at an award ceremony that will take place in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Festival, set to take place from 4–8 September 2014 in and around the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. Deadline to submit: 7 March 2014. Find out more

“Uncommon/Commons” at CAA

"Uncommon/Commons" is a hybrid collective media art and research project that invites artists, researchers, writers, scholars and activists to explore ambiguous vocabularies and new forms for representation in contemporary art and new media conceived by interdisciplinary artist Jenny Marketou with the assistance of media researcher and producer Nathanael Bassett and director of Video Data Bank in Chicago Abina Manning. The exhibition will be realized as a series of workshops, video and film screenings and discussions 12–15 February 2014 at Media Lounge/ARTspace located at the Joliet Room, at the Hilton Hotel during the CAA conference in Chicago. It is free and open to the public.Find out more