Leonardo/ISAST Board Elects Nina Czegledy and Marcia Tanner

The Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board welcomes Nina Czegledy and Marcia Tanner as two of its newest members. Czegledy and Tanner were elected to the board at its February 2009 meeting.

Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer works internationally on collaborative art and science and technology projects. She has produced time based and digital works, won awards for her artwork and exhibited widely. Czegledy has lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide, her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals. "What will you do to cool the earth?" a collaborative public art project. Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project, Digitized Bodies Virtual Spectacles, Points of Entry and the Aurora projects initiated by Czegledy, focus on the changing perception of the environment and the human body and are presented via on-line and on-site events internationally. Czegledy is President of Critical Media a Canadian based Knowledge Organization, she curated numerous touring exhibitions. Czegledy, is a Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Associate Adjunct Professor Concordia University, Montreal, Honorary Fellow, Moholy Nagy University of Design, Budapest, member of the international space art network, co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), executive board member of Increate.org (NZ) and ex-officio chair of ISEA.

Marcia Tanner is an independent curator and writer based in Berkeley, California. Former director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Tanner most recently organized We Interrupt Your Program at Mills College Art Museum in 2008. Her previous exhibitions include Brides of Frankenstein at the San Jose Museum of Art (2005), Bad Girls West, UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1994); Shadow Play and Location Location, San Jose ICA; We Look and See, Berkeley Art Museum; Tom Marioni: Trees and Birds, Mills College, Oakland; Mi Casa es Su Casa, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Aural Sex and Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; and Dromology: Ecstasies of Speed and LifeLike, New Langton Arts, San Francisco. The author of numerous reviews, articles, and catalogue essays, Tanner’s writings on art have appeared in Art+Text, ArtNews, Art Ltd., artnet.com, Artweek, Cabinet, Flash Art, Leonardo, LIMN Magazine, Rhizome News, the San Francisco Chronicle, stretcher.org, and other publications. She currently chairs the Collections Committee of the Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley and co-chairs the Advocacy Committee for the Northern California chapter of ArtTable.