Philip Warnell, "Deeper, deeper & deeper" performance with personalized hypnotherapy tape, 1994-1999. © Phillip Warnell.

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Announcements & Calls

Call for Papers: Leonardo Day at NetSci 2012

We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities. In addition to keynotes and interdisciplinary discussion, we are looking for a number of contributed talks. Selected papers will be published in print in a Special Section of Leonardo journal (MIT Press), as well as online in Leonardo Transactions. Submission deadline: March 16, 2012. Find out more

Call for Leonardo Gallery Proposals

The editors of Leonardo invite proposals for new, curated galleries for publication in Leonardo journal and on the Leonardo On-Line web site. Galleries should showcase a number of artists working within a common theme or milieu falling under the broad rubric of art + science and/or technology. Find out more

GLOBAL WARNING Symposium Video Documentation Now Available

The two-day GLOBAL WARNING Symposium which took place September 16–17, 2010, in conjunction with the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA examined the interconnectedness of ideas and actions and the current relationships between art-making, science and ecology. A group of distinguished artists, scientists and policy-makers presented and examined case studies of collaborative environmental art projects. Video documentation of the talks from Day 1 of the symposium are now available for viewing. Find out more

Past Announcements

For a list of recent past announcements, visit the Leonardo Announcements page

Leonardo Call for Papers

The Future of Art History in the Context of New Discoveries of Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences

Leonardo call for submissions exploring the theme "The Future of Art History in the Context of New Discoveries of Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences." We are interested not in purely historical perspectives, but in research looking to the future: What are the most promising new approaches? How can they aid our understanding of visual art? We are interested both in general programmatic statements and in innovative accounts of individual works of art. Find out more

LEA CALL FOR PAPERS

Speed, Dromology and Invisibility

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals from scientists interested in light, speed and invisibility, from artists, critical theorists and academics in cultural studies and digital humanities for an issue on these themes with senior editors Lanfranco Aceti and Chris Townsend, Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Deadline January 31, 2012 Find out more

LEA CALL FOR PAPERS

Not Here, Not There

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals for the issue Not Here, Not There with Senior Editors Lanfranco Aceti, Director of Kasa Gallery, Sabanci University and Richard Rinehart, Director of the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University. Artists that work with AR technology and curators and writers that work on issues related to AR, sited art in relation to new media, or site-specific interventions are particularly welcome to submit proposals for consideration. Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2012 Find out more

CALL FOR PAPERS

Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Leonardo Electronic Almanac welcomes proposals for special issues, including proposals from the ISEA2011 delegates. The editors are looking for issues that are focused around relevant, experimental and contemporary themes. Find out more

Calls for Papers

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Publications

Now Available: Leonardo 45:1

Inside Leonardo 45:1: From farming fish to replacing glaciers: In this interview, Helen and Newton Harrison look back on their work (and Renaissance feminism and prehistoric movies) and forward to their next project, thinking as big as the trouble we're in. A 4-billion-year project: Research on evolution keeps evolving. Joana Ricou and John Pollock’s Spiral of Life captures an art-education snapshot (hint: no top, no plan and no end to the papers). Going with the information flows: Cybernetics hit society in three waves---Etan Ilfeld’s archaeology of readymades, video and media art charts the deposits. Take control of your space: Watch the birth and death of the stars from the comfort of your neighborhood pub with Woohun Lee and JinHa Seong’s Crystal Zoetrope "Sea of Stars Table." Find out more

Journal Articles Now Available Pre-Publication Through Early Access System

MIT Press is now offering early access to Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal articles online. Articles in proof will now be accessible to subscribers via the MIT Press web site approximately three months prior to print publication. Articles forthcoming in Leonardo 45:2 are anticipated to be available through the new Early Access system by 8 February 2012. More information will be posted on the Leonardo web site as it becomes available.

Art Inside Chaos: A Special Article About the University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group

Leonardo Affiliate University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group (ESG) shares information on the work of their program in the special article "Art Inside Chaos." In this paper ESG, an innovative Edutainment (education plus entertainment) laboratory on chaos for high school students is presented, promoting the awareness that art and contemporary science have a common matrix. In particular, the group foresees the physical construction of Chua’s circuit, its simulation on a computer, as well as the production of three-dimensional attractors and music. The software that allows the visualization of chaotic phenomena and their use as artistic product is "Chaos Explorer." Find out more

Now Available: LMJ 21
Beyond Notation: Communicating Music

Inside LMJ 21: Their hits are real but they are not: Nick Collins eyes the rapid rise of virtual music stars. Will success go to their code?; Video blew the improv star's cerebral cortex: Catherine Pancake warps the movements of natural forces into HD imagery to complicate her friends' live music; Growing a sound garden: Turning a page from Cage, Michael Fowler translates a Japanese Zen garden into a seedbed for sonic blooms; Mechanical Turk's First Étude?: David Plans Casal decomposes Ligeti's Autumn in Warsaw and crowdsources the pieces into a new creation, just as Bartók predicted. Find out more

Leonardo e-Books Now Available from The MIT Press

We are pleased to announce that several titles from the Leonardo Book Series are now available as e-books from the MIT Press. Select titles are also available from Amazon, Google, Kobo and Barnes & Noble. Find out more

Low-cost Article Access to Leonardo and LMJ

The MIT Press journals division is now able to offer low-cost article access through third party service Deep Dyve. Users can now rent articles published in Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal and other MIT Press journals for a limited, one-time use or extended use with special membership. This service is in addition to the other article access options currently provided by the MIT Press. Find out more

Leonardo Reviews Quarterly (L|R|Q) Issue 4 Now Available

Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, web sites and conferences. Leonardo Reviews publishes all reviews received from the panel monthly on the Leonardo Reviews web site. In addition, four times a year a selection of reviews is printed in Leonardo print journal and now in the Leonardo Reviews Quarterly (L|R|Q) which publishes an even larger selection as a printable PDF together with introductory material and overview essays. The fourth issue of L|R|Q is now available with over 40 reviews by its international review panel. Find out more

Leonardo Abstracts Service Top Rated Authors

Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts published in the English-language Leonardo Abstracts Service database during the first half of 2011: "Reversed Remediation. How Art Can Make One critically Aware of the Workings of Media" by Saskia Korsten, "The Search for a Third Way of Curating New Media Art: Balancing Content and Context In and Out of the Institution" by Sarah Cook, "Ambivalent Animal" by Geoffrey Thomas, "The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Plant Neurobiology" by Laura Cinti, "Mixed Reality Art and the Graphical User Interface" by Ian Gwilt and "MINDtouch - Ephemeral Transference: ‘Liveness' in Networked Performance with Mobile Devices" by Camille Baker. Find out more

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Events & Projects

Upcoming LASER: 1 February 2012, Palo Alto, CA (Stanford)

Stretch your imagination at the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 1 February 2012, at Stanford University. Feature presentations include "First Light" by artists Daniel Small and Luca Antonucci, "City of the Future" by architect Anne Fougeron, "Collaborative Intelligence" by former NASA scientist Zann Gill and "Mycotecture" by artist Phil Ross. Find out more

LEAF at College Art Association Conference

Join LEAF at the 100th College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, CA, 22-25 February 2012. Panels include Is It Time to Question the "Privileging" of Visual Art?, Friday, February 24. Chairs: Greta Berman, The Juilliard School; Ellen K. Levy, independent artist, New York; Headlines! Environmental News, Artist Presenters, Audience Respondents, Wednesday, February 22. Chair: Linda Weintraub, Artnow Publications; Sustainable Futures: New Cultural Movements in Art + Ecology, Saturday, February 25. Chair: Patricia Olynyk, Chair, LEAF; Leonardo Education and Art Forum Business Meeting, Thursday, February 23; and a LEAF Education Roundtable: Education at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, Thursday, February 23. Workshop Leader: Eddie Shanken. Find out more

Next DASER: 16 February 2012, Washington, DC

The focus of the next DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous will be on art in the context of science museums. Join us 16 February 2012, at the Keck Center, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., for presentations by Shih Cheih Huang (artist), Lynne Parenti (curator, National Museum of Natural History), Barbara Stauffer (exhibition manager, Smithsonian) and Bert Ulrich (multimedia manager, NASA). Find out more

Panel Discussion: "Then and Now: Circa 1980-2012+," 29 February 2012, San Francisco State University

A panel discussion, "Then and Now: Circa 1980-2012+," in association with the exhibition: "SmARTspace at the Intersection of Art and Technology" (conceived by the late Steve Wilson) will feature Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina and long-time Leonardo Board Member Meredith Tromble, Ken Goldberg and Gail Wight. Find out more

Updated 1 February 2012