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Events

Next DASER: 16 May 2013

Join us for the next DASER on Thursday, 16 May 2013, 6PM at the Keck Center, Washington, D.C. Speakers include Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina, JPL artist Dan Goods, NEA Senior Advisor Bill O’Brien and Director Carol Strohecker of the Center for Design Innovation. As always, time is included for community sharing and connecting with audience members. Presented by the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences. Find out more

NEXT NYC LASER: 18 May 2013

The next NYC LASER will take place Saturday, 18 May 2013, 4-7 PM at LevyArts. Speakers will include Nurit Bar-Shai (artist) and Ellen Jorgensen (PhD cell and molecular biologist) discussing Genspace, New York City’s community biolab. Organizers are also soliciting four presentations from interested individuals, with reports on work (in art or science) related to the topic of the speakers: five minutes from each speaker with a maximum of 10 slides. This event is free and open to the public. Email your interest in presenting your work to LEAF Chair, Adrienne Klein: aklein@gc.cuny.edu. Space is limited; to reserve your place, send an email to Ellen Levy at levy@nyc.rr.com. Find out more

Berkeley LASER: 5 June 2013

We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest LASER series, in Room 110, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 6:45PM. Like its LASER sisters, bi-monthly agendas of this series include presentations of Art/Science projects, news from audience members and casual socializing/networking. Speakers for this first evening include Indre Viskontas on “Music that Moves,” Robert Buelteman on “Photography without the Camera,” Jennifer Dionne on “Lights, Nano, Action!” and Vijaya Nagarajan on “Embedded Mathematics in Women’s Ritual Art Designs in Southern India.” Sponsored by the Minerva Foundation. Find out more

Next Stanford LASER: 6 June 2013, Stanford University

Join us for the next Stanford Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 6 June 2013, at Stanford University, featuring Walter Kitundu (sound artist) on "The Turntable as a Lens," Sean Gourley (Quid) on "A Global Intelligence Platform: the new AI - not Artificial Intelligence, but instead Augmented Intelligence," Jeremy Mende (Designer) and Bill Hsu (San Francisco State University) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror" and Melanie Swan (MS Futures Group) on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt." Find out more

Leonardo Affiliates

THE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE

The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), based at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (Germany) and funded by the German Excellence Initiative, provides a comprehensive and integrated doctoral program in the humanities and social sciences. Individual doctoral research is supported by systematic training in the format of workshops, master classes and practical courses. Each semester a series of keynote lectures are held at the Centre by prominent scholars from all over the world. Not only does the GCSC support its members in their own academic travels via travel and research grants but it also helps doctoral students organize their own events on all scales, from small workshops to international conferences. Regular colloquia, research and working groups for doctoral students as well as mentoring by professors, post-docs and fellow doctoral students create a stimulating research environment to ensure that you gain your doctorate successfully and quickly. Moreover, the Teaching Centre at the GCSC provides ample opportunities for training and experience in teaching and the Career Service will help you build up key career skills. In short, the GCSC offers a doctoral programme which is tailored to the needs of PhD students, with an excellent research environment and the support you need to excel in your academic as well as non-academic career. Find out more

Opportunities and Community Announcements

LOUIS BRILL'S SACRED DESTINATIONS

Leonardo community member and occasional guest editor Louie Lights (aka Louis M. Brill) is self-publishing a book, Sacred Destinations and Journeys Along The Way, a photography art book that portrays Lumia light as a form of evocative visionary art. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MOVEMENT OF PEOPLES WITHOUT SATELLITES (MSST)

The third International meeting of the MSST (Movement of Peoples without Satellites) will take place at Nuvem (Brasil) from 20-24 June 2013. The meeting is concerned with the reappropriation of outer space, amplifying the debate around micro and macro space technologies and imaginaries. It will constitute a laboratory for the sharing of experiences and the investigation of technological, spatial and territorial autonomy, political and economic implications, relations with extraterrestrials, the appropriation of space by the people and for the people, science fiction and the worlds of the cosmos. We welcome participation from interested individuals or groups in the form of activities, workshops, talks or presentations. A small production budget is available for production of projects. To take part, please fill out the following form before 20 May 2013 at http://bit.ly/1059jPU. Find out more

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: FIELD_NOTES — DEEP TIME

"Field_Notes – Deep Time" is a weeklong art and science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. "Field_Notes – Deep Time" seeks artistic and scientific responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and comprehension, and the time of biological, environmental, and geological processes in which we are embedded. We are looking for 25 artists, scientists and practitioners who are interested to develop, collaborate and work in one of our five groups. Deadline for applications: 31 May 2013: Send your CV, group preference and a max A4 letter of motivation and/or direction of research/contribution to erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi. Find out more

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: THE DATA BODY ON THE DISSECTION TABLE

The (medical) human body today is understood, tested and treated as a huge system of data. How do we grab hold of this data? How do we make sense of it and communicate it to others? The Data Body on the Dissection Table brings together scientists, artists, philosophers and designers to explore these questions on 4 June 2013 from 6:30 - 9:00 PM, at the Medical Museion’s auditorium in Copenhagen. The event is co-organized by Leonardo/Olats and Medical Museion under the EU Studiolab framework and in conjunction with the Leonardo Day "Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks" satellite event at NetSci 2103. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: GENERATIVE ART CONFERENCE

The 16th Generative Art conference will be held in Milan, Italy from 10-12 December 2013 at the Trienniale di Milano museum and is seeking proposals (papers, posters, artwork/installations, live performanes). This event, focused on Art-Science, is organized by the Generative Design Lab of the Politecnico di Milano University. Deadline to apply: 15 September 2013. The best papers will be published in the new journal GASATHJ, Generative Art Science and Technology Hard Journal. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: VIDA 15.0

Submissions are being accepted for this year’s VIDA 15.0, Art and Artificial Life International Awards. The organizers are seeking artistic projects that offer innovative perspectives on life by using the latest technology and cutting-edge scientific knowledge. VIDA 15.0 supports excellence in artistic research into artificial life. Projects that win a VIDA Award must be capable of expressing the complex organization of life systems and the hybrid nature of life. The VIDA jury will evaluate artistic projects that meet these criteria and will select those projects that challenge the current understanding and definition of life. Project submissions will be accepted from 23 April-31 July 2013. Find out more

EXHIBITION: THE RED AND BLACK MOMENTUM

Contributing editor to Leonardo Jacques Mandelbrojt is holding an exhibition on 4 and 25 May 2013 from 10 AM-12 PM at the Vincent Gallery in Aix-en-Provence as part of the "Paper Art Project" series. Find out more

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: BE RECEPTIVE ART & SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

The Be Receptive Art and Science Symposium is hosting a multidisciplinary afternoon of discussion and debate by artists, clinicians, medical researchers and carers, investigating personalised medicine, genetics, asthma, and issues of child health. This event will take place at the Royal Alexandria Children's Hospital in Brighton on 4 May 2013 starting at 2:30 PM and spanning the rest of the afternoon. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ART AND BIODIVERSITY

The fourth edition of Plastik, the review of the University of Paris I's center for Art, Creation, Theory and Aesthetics (ACTE), will deal with artistic practice in relation to the subject of safeguarding biodiversity. Since the 1960s, artists have testified to, and denounced, through their work, the ravages that human activity has brought on a planetary scale. Authors are invited to propose texts of 3,000-10,000 words. Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2013 to plastik.art.science@gmail.com. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: GROW YOUR OWN

Calling all synthetic biologists, bioartists, biodesigners, amateur biotechnologists and biohackers. Science Gallery is seeking proposals for projects for the exhibition "Grow Your Own," a curated, open call exhibition tackling provocative questions raised by synthetic biology. Deadline for applications: midnight, Sunday 26 May 2013. The exhibition will run at Science Gallery from October 2013 to January 2014. Find out more

SYMBIOTICA: AGENCY IN MOVEMENT SYMPOSIUM

Friday, 21 June 2013, at the University of Western Australia, the Agency in Movement symposium will explore the complex relations between movement and vitality. The Symposium will include invited speakers from diverse disciplines—art, performance, biology, biophysics, biomechanics, and philosophy—who will explore the conceptual and technical relations between life (biological or artificial), movement and perceptions of "vitality," with the hope that interesting meeting points and/or negations will emerge. Free registration. RSVP essential to christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: IEEE VIS 2013

The IEEE VIS 2013 Arts Program, 13-18 October 2013, in Atlanta, GA, showcases high-quality artwork and research that demonstrates and investigates the exciting and increasingly prominent intersections between art and visualization. The theme for the 2013 Arts Program is Art+Experiment. Artists and researchers are invited to think about the connections and chasms between art and research, and to explore the nature of experimental design and creative experimentation. Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2013 at 5PM PDT. Find out more

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "AUTONOMIES" IN SERBIA

NAPON Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies seeks artwork for its exhibition “Autonomies," to be held from 3-22 October 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Areas of interest include machine autonomy, monitoring of the public and institutional sectors, technological unemployment, the robotic arms race, machinic capitalism, technopolitics, finance automation, high-frequency trading, automation systems in decision making, sociotechnological knowledge production, technoecology, energy autonomy and the practices and economies of sustainable technology. Deadline for applications: 1 June 2013. Find out more