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Events

Next LASER: 7 March 2011, San Francisco

Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 7 March 2011, at the University of San Francisco. Feature presentations include Henrik Bennetsen, "What the Next Phase of the Web Could Mean," Niki Ulehla, "Marionettes, Forms and Relationships," Melanie Swan, "DIYgenomics: An Open Platform for Democratizing the Genome," and Sarah Filley and Yvette Molina, "Public Art in the 21st Century." Find out more

Community

Leonardo/Olats Call for Papers
Space: Societal, Educational and Cultural Aspects

The deadline to receive papers on Space: Societal, Educational and Cultural Aspects is 2 March 2011. This call for papers is in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress 2011 scheduled to take place in Cape Town, South Africa October 2011. Find out more

Publications

LMJ 22 Call for Papers: Acoustics

Immersed as we are in electronically mediated sound, at the end of the day---whether it's coming from ukuleles or earbuds---sound reaches us through acoustic pressure. The sheer physicality of sound, and its quirky interaction with our sense of hearing, has driven many a composer and sound artist to go back to the "year zero" in music---before the codification of melody, rhythm and harmony---and explore fundamental aspects of the physics and perception of sound. For Volume 22 of Leonardo Music Journal we solicit articles and artist’s statements on the role of acoustics and psychoacoustics in music and audio art. Deadline to submit proposals: 15 October 2011. Find out more

Members

eDream Institute Renews Affiliate Membership

eDream, the Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute, was founded in January 2009 at the University of Illinois by the Office of the Provost to serve as an international center for envisioning and practicing the emerging digital arts. eDream sponsors visiting artists and scholars, conducts active research programs, contributes to significant creative productions, and fosters new academic programming. Find out more

Opportunities and Community Announcements

Postgraduate Course in Cultural Innovation

Postgraduate Course in Cultural Innovation: Arts, Digital Media and Popular Culture. Organized jointly by UOC and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. This postgraduate program provides the basic concepts needed to understand and analyze the changes and transformations related to culture and society as well as knowledge about artistic and contemporary cultural productions. Find out more

The Land Is the Source of Law
A New Book by C.F. Black

The Land Is the Source of Law: A Dialogic Encounter with an Indigenous Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2010) is a new book by Dr C.F. Black. Though a relatively "new" field, indigenous jurisprudence is the product of the oldest continuous legal system in the world. Utilising a range of texts - films, novels, poetry, as well as "law stories"--CF Black blends legality and narrative in order to redefine jurisprudence in indigenous terms. Find out more

Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science

The intersection of art, science and technology constitutes a burgeoning field of artistic practice and a productive site for the development of new theoretical approaches in science studies. For this panel, we invite submissions from artists practicing in this area as well as theorists grounded in science studies, history and philosophy of science, art history, literary theory and related disciplines whose research addresses the novel questions posed by these new artistic practices. Find out more