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@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
