Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS)
Bi-annual Submission Deadlines (on-going): 30 June and 31 December
Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS), consisting of the English-language database, Spanish-language database, and French-language database is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Masters and MFA thesis abstracts on topics in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology. Individuals receiving advanced degrees in the arts (visual, sound, performance, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology that in some way investigate philosophical, historical or critical applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit abstracts of their theses for consideration.
The LABS project does not seek to duplicate existing thesis databases but rather to give visibility to interdisciplinary work that is often hard to retrieve from existing databases. Abstracts will be reviewed for inclusion in their respective databases twice a year. The databases will include only approved and filed thesis abstracts. Abstracts of theses filed in prior years may also be submitted for inclusion.
The English LABS, Spanish LABS, Chinese LABS and French LABS international Peer Review Panels review abstracts for inclusion in their respecitve databases. Authors of abstracts most highly ranked by the panel will also be invited to submit an article for publication consideration in the journal Leonardo.
English language LABS: The Peer Review Panel for 2011-2012 are: Yiannis Colakides, co-director of NeMe (New Media), Limassol, Cyprus; David Familian, artistic director of the Beall Center For Art and Technology at University of California Irvine, Irvine, California; Tom Leeser, Program Director of the Art and Technology Program in the School of Art and the Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; Andrea Polli, associate professor of Fine Art and Engineering at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque; Edward Shanken, researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria.
To submit a thesis abstract or browse ones currently published in the English-language database, visit: http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu.
Spanish language LABS: To submit a thesis abstract or browse ones currently published in the Spanish-language database, visit: http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/leonardolabs.
French language LABS: The Peer Review Panel for 2009-2011 are: Jan Baetens, professeur d'études culturelles à l'Université de Louvain (Belgique); Marc Battier, professeur des Universités, UFR de Musique et musicologie de l'Université Paris IV- Sorbonne, responsable du MINT-OMF (France); Philippe Bootz, agrégé de physique, docteur en physique, docteur en communication, et maître de conférences à Paris 8, membre du Laboratoire Paragraphe et du Laboratoire de Musique Informatique de Marseille (France); Allain Glykos, Maître de conférences (philosophie) à l'Université Bordeaux 1 (France); Jens Hauser, critique d'art contemporain, commissaire d'exposition et écrivain, chargé de recherches et de cours (sciences des médias) à la Ruhr Universität Bochum (Allemagne); Thierry Hurlimann, associé et coordonnateur de recherches, chargé de cours en bioéthique à la Faculté de médecine de l'Université de Montréal (Québec); Marc Jimenez, professeur des Universités (Esthétique et sciences de l'art), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne , directeur du Laboratoire d'Esthétique théorique et appliquée - LETA, directeur de la Collection d'Esthétique aux éditions Klincksieck - Les Belles Lettres (France); Jacques Mandelbrojt, peintre et physicien théoricien, professeur émérite à l'Université de Provence (France); Ricardo Mbarkho, artiste et professeur à l'Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beyrouth (Liban); Christine Palmiéri, artiste et professeure associée CIAM-UQAM en arts médiatiques (Québec); Béatrice Picon-Vallin, directrice de recherches au CNRS, ARIAS (France); Louise Poissant, doyenne de la Faculté des arts de l'UQAM et professeure à l'école des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'UQAM (Québec); Pouillaude Frédéric, Maître de conférences à l'U.F.R. de Philosophie de l'Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (France); Jean Vion-Dury, Maître de Conférences en Biophysique Médicale, praticien hospitalier, chercheur à l'Institut des Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée de Marseille (France)
To submit a thesis abstract or browse ones currently published in the French-language database, visit: http://francolabs.univ-paris1.fr/.
Announcement: Top-rated Abstracts, 1st half, 2010
Announcement: Top-rated Abstracts, 1st half, 2009
Announcement: Top-rated Abstracts, 1st half, 2008
Announcement: Top-rated Abstracts, 2nd and 3rd Quarters, 2006
The LABS project is part of the Leonardo Educators and Students program.
Updated 25 May 2011
