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From: Leonardo/ISAST isast@leonardo.info
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:12:47 -0700
To: rmalina@alum.mit.edu
Subject: Leonardo 40th anniversary
To: Members of Leonardo Boards and Committees
From: Roger Malina
Re: Leonardo 40th anniversary
Leonardo was conceived in Paris in 1966 and born in 1968 with the first issue of the Leonardo journal. The rest is history--or rather the rest is future!
We are interested in ideas and inputs on how we can best celebrate our 40th anniversary in 2006/2007/2008.
We will certainly begin doing some celebration around ISEA 2006 in San Jose, California. As you know we are co-organising the Pacific Rim New Media Summit that will take place there.
Our Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board of Directors will be beginning some thinking and discussion at our Board of Directors meeting in August (2005). Please send us any of your thinking by Aug 2. You may reply to this email with your ideas or proposals.
From David Carrier:
Dear Roger,
Your journal has so many rich materials, it's easy to envisage many alternatives here. I have a simple rather literal minded proposal. Leonardo da Vince himself is a great subject, and I recall Gombrich's beautiful essay which actually looks close up at his uses of science and art. So one possible focus would be to invite art historians and historians of science who could discuss the theme: Leonardo da V in historical/artistic context.
David
From Joel Chadabe:
Hi Roger,
I think we should consider an event in new York during 2006-2007. I'm open to ideas.
Best,
Joel
From Harry Rand:
Roger, et al.
First idea for LEONARDO 40th anniversary: at beginning of the anniversary issue print 3 columns with 40 rows each, one for each year: entries in columns 1 & 3 decided by survey of OLATS/Leonardo types, then the space in column #2 to be assigned to writers or volunteer contributors (see below for content and what the assignment will be)
column 1
(most) significant scientific achievement of the year
column 3
(most) significant artistic achievement of the year
column 2
article discussing relationship or lack of relationship in the worldview, assumptions, or the technology responsible for entries in columns #1&2. Rationale: after all, in 2,000 years, this is exactly the kind of thing a historian/archaeologist will have to do, make sense of the remains of our civilization [? sic] from a cross-section of remnants. (Find two items in a tomb or strata and make some statement about what they have in common & what we learn about the time of their creation)
project could also (easily) be expanded with multiple short entries (in all 3 columns) from VIPs, into a significanty book: The Life & Times of NeoLeonardo
best
h
From Sheila Pinkel:
Dear Roger, Could ISAST publish titles of articles in each volume of "Leonardo" so that people can easily review the evolution of ideas of interest during this 40 year history?
From Christine Maxwell:
one thing I think would be something to consider is an online 'feshrift'...with input accepted from any artist who has had an article accepted in Leonardo journal - or has particpated in Leonardo's online life development - -and who wants to document the impact / influence that this persons' relationship with Leonardo has had in their lives... Perhaps there could be a three part response --
1) Personal feedback
2)the contribuor's comments on the impactof Leonardo todate
3) the contributor's statement on what they hope Leonardo's contribution
will be in the future...
We could perhaps hold a 'contest' for Reader's preferred articles - preferred art as displayed in Leonardo.... for the last X years...? or something like that....
best Christine.