Leonardo @ CAA 2006

The Leonardo Education Forum participated in the following sessions and events at the College Art Association conference in Boston, MA, February 22-25, 2005:

• Leonardo Mentoring Roundtable Session
• Leonardo Special Session: New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher and Research as Art in the 21st Century
• Town Hall Business Meeting
• Career Development Workshops
• Exhibition: Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies

The Leonardo Mentoring Roundtable Session

Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 208
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 from 12:30-2:00pm

The Mentoring Roundtable is designed to benefit the professional development of the next generation of artists, scholars, and researchers working at the intersections of art, science and technology. The following areas were discussed: (1) collaboration between artists/scientists/technologists, (2) essential connections/historical considerations, (3) marketing yourself in the job market, (4) teaching art/science/technology, (5) drawing/visualization/sonification/etc. across disciplines, (6) writing/communication (artists statements, practice-based research, critical research, reviews, etc), and (7) academia or not?

Chair: Andrea Polli MFA Director and Associate Professor of Integrated Media Arts Hunter College New York, NY; Panelists: Victoria Vesna (Chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts) and Trebor Scholz Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo. Student discussants include Gabriel Harp, University of Michigan, Heidi J. Boisvert, Hunter College InterMedia Arts, Josh Levy, Hunter College InterMedia Arts, TBA. Organizing Committee: Amy Ione, Steven Oscherwitz, Andrea Polli





Leonardo Special Session: New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher and Research as Art in the 21st Century

Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 202
Friday, February 24, 2006 from 5:30-7:00pm

Title: "Metaphors and Taxonomies: Art as Basic Research"
Dr. Timothy Allen Jackson
Professor of New Media
Department of Art History
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia, USA

Title: "From Simulation to Emulation: A Field Theory for Telematic Art in
the 21st Century"
Shawn Brixey Associate Professor | Associate Director
and James Coupe, Artist and Research Associate
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS)
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Title: "On Art Research: Hybrid Projects"
Nina Czegledy, Independent Media Artist, Curator and Writer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Title: "Extreme Research"
Professor R. Bruce Elder, Ryerson Research Chair
Director, Graduate Program in Communication and Culture
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada




Town Hall Business Meeting

Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 200
Saturday, February 25, 2006 from 7:30 AM-9:00 AM

Members of the Leonardo network who attended the CAA conference gathered to discuss issues pertaining to Leonardo and the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.




Career Development Workshops

Every year, the CAA conference features Career Development Workshops, in which students in art and art history meet one-on-one with advanced professionals in their field of interest. Seasoned professionals are matched up with students according to interest and specialty to critique portfolios, review CVs, guide through conference activities, introduce to other figures in the field, or other mentorship activities. These meetings are scheduled for a single 20-minute time slot during the Career Development Workshop. This year Leonardo participated in these workshops under the newly added Art/Science category.




Exhibition: New Media/New Work

(co-organized by Leonardo Education Forum, New Media Caucus and AT Boston);
"Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies," curated for Leonardo Education Forum by Legier Biederman and Dave Burns
Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA
Reception Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm

"Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies" is one part of a unique collaborative venture in new media art curated by Legier Biederman and Dave Burns for the exhibition New Media/New Work at Art Interactive, in conjunction with the CAA conference in Boston. New Media/New Work, co-organized by Leonardo Education Forum, New Media Caucus and AT Boston, featured cutting edge video and new media work by international artists which explores intersections among visualization, embodiment, and the technological.

Leonardo Education Forum

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society.

The Leonardo Education Forum is open to all individuals who are members of Leonardo.

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Leonardo Educators and Students Program

The Leonardo Education Forum and conference activities are part of the Leonardo Educators and Students Program which also includes the Leonardo Abstract Service (LABS) and the Leonardo International Faculty Alerts List.