Global Crossings - The Cultural Roots of Globalization
Les Fondements culturels de la mondialisation

GLOBAL CROSSINGS
As part of the Global Crossings Special Project, Leonardo is seeking out and showcasing the work of international artists, professionals, and scholars beyond the Western mainstream. The project aims to overcome the considerable natural barriers that prevent trans-cultural collaboration in the emerging art-science-technology field. Additional activities of the Global Crossings Special Project include an awards program and participation in conferences and events. Funding for the project has been made possible through the generosity of the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Interested artists, researchers and scholars are invited to contact the Leonardo Editorial Office with proposals for articles to be published in Leonardo and in Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

LES FONDEMENTS CULTURELS de LA MONDIALISATION
The editors of Leonardo also seek papers about the cultural roots (artistic and scientific) of globalization. Possible topics include, but are not limited to :

Planet Earth as artistic material
Creolization (phenomenon of "métissage," transnational cultural relationships)
Global climate (a sensorial experience of the climate as possibly corrective of global thinking)
Migrations (mobility in general)
Geography in a globalized world (places, cities, continents, world regions, approaches to space and time in general)
Transportation in a globalized world (travel poetry today in a world with different means of transportation)
Internet and tele-technologies in their planetary dimensions
Net Art, telematic art and planetary issues
Overview Effect (e.g. use and consequenses of GPS and satellite technologies)

The Guest Editors of the project are: Julien Knebusch, Annick Bureaud and Roger Malina.
A Leonardo Working Group for the project includes: Roger F. Malina, Annick Bureaud, Hervé Fischer, Jacques Arnould, Bernardo Cinquetti and Julien Knebusch.
Material published online as part of the project can be found at http://www.olats.org (projet singulier "Fondements Culturels de la Mondialisation"). Interested authors should contact guest editor Julien Knebusch with proposals at: julien_knebusch@yahoo.fr

Please note: Leonardo features articles written by artists about their own work, but we are also seeking articles by theorists, historians, and other scholars addressing how the work of artists and scientists has interacted with trends towards globalization.

See the Leonardo Editorial Guidelines: http://leonardo.info/isast/journal/editorial/edguides.html

Contact Information:
Leonardo/ISAST

Leonardo, LEA and OLATS Call for Papers

Global Crossings - The Cultural Roots of Globalization Les Fondements culturels de la mondialisation

Global Crossings - The Cultural Roots of Globalization
Les Fondements culturels de la mondialisation