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Celebrating 40 years: Join us now and get a gift!
The Leonardo community is busy celebrating its 40th anniversary with lots of great projects, publications and events happening all over the world. If you are new to our community or if you haven't yet renewed your associate membership, we would like to offer you something to help entice you to join...
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LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration - An Arts and Humanities Symposium, Glasgow, September 30 – October 3, 2008
This symposium will offer a forum in which specialists from many disciplines will be invited to consider the future of space exploration in the context of our current understanding of social, economic and technological imperatives. One of the aims of the symposium is to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities.
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Past Announcements
For a list of recent past announcements, visit the Leonardo Announcements page
See the full list of current calls for papers in the Leonardo Special Projects section.
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CALL FOR PAPERS Environment 2.0: Through Cracks in the Pavement
The second call for papers of the Leonardo special project Lovely Weather: Artists and Scientists on the Cultural Context of Climate Change seeks new cross-disciplinary thinking on sustainability in urban environments, with a focus on creative intervention, social change and non-Western perspectives.
(no submission deadline)
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CALL FOR PAPERS Smart Textiles: Science and Technology of Textile Art
This Special Project, supported by the Marjorie Duckworth Malina Fund, expands on Leonardo's archive of textile art documentation by focusing on textile artists and scientists around the world who work with smart textiles or the new textiles science and technology.
(no submission deadline)
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CALL FOR PAPERS Lovely Weather: Art & Climate
Leonardo Publications are inviting papers, special issue proposals and book proposals that deal with artistic approaches to weather, climate and their modifications.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS)
Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS), consisting of the English language, Spanish language and Chinese language databases, is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Masters and MFA thesis abstracts on topics in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology. Individuals receiving advanced degrees in the arts (visual, sound, performance, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology that in some way investigate philosophical, historical or critical applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit abstracts of their theses for consideration.
(On-going deadlines: June 30 and December 31)
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CALL FOR PAPERS Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Art
Leonardo, in collaboration with the Exploratorium under the auspices of the Nanotech Informal Science Education Network, will publish a series of special sections periodically over the next 5 years exploring the intersections of nanotech/science and art.
(no submission deadline)
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CALL FOR PAPERS Archiving, Collecting, Documenting and Conserving the Media Arts
Guest Editors Jean Gagnon and Alain Depocas from the Daniel Langlois Foundation (Montreal) invite researchers, scholars, artists and others to submit articles for publication in a new special section in Leonardo concerned with documenting and conserving the media arts heritage.
(no submission deadline)
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CALL FOR PAPERS Artists and Scientists in Times of War
Guest editor Michele Emmer solicits proposals from artists and scientists on the topic of their appropriate roles in times of war. This call for papers was first announced several years ago during the war in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Prof. Emmer, a mathematician and filmmaker, continues his request for proposals, during the current war in Iraq and other conflicts around the world.
(no submission deadline)
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CALL FOR PAPERS ArtScience: The Essential Connection
Leonardo will publish a series of special sections over the next 3 years devoted to exploring such questions as: What is the value of artisticpractices, techniques, inventions, aesthetics and knowledge for the working scientist? What is the value of scientific practices, techniques, inventions, aesthetics and knowledge for the artist? When does art become science and science, art? Guest Editor
Robert Root-Bernstein leads this Leonardo special project.
(no submission deadline)
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CALL FOR PAPERS Leonardo Bibliographies
Leonardo seeks bibliographies of interest to our art/science/technology audience. Types of bibliographies might include (but are not limited to) reading lists for classes and courses that might be of interest to other educators; detailed bibliographies on a specialized topic; bibliographies of single authors of interest to our readership.
(no submission deadline)
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LEONARDO print journal
Celebrating 40 years
Forty years ago in Paris, a group of artists, scientists and engineers got together and decried the lack of professional venues where emerging work bridging "the two cultures" could be presented, debated and promoted. Today we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Leonardo the flagship journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology with events, symposiums and special projects.
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NOW AVAILABLE: Leonardo Journal, Vol. 41, Issue 2 (2008)
Editorial by Piero Scaruffi. Includes contributions by Marisa Gonzalez, Carol Siri Johnson, Jonathan Middleton and Diane Dowd, the special section: Leonardo Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci with a contributions by Tomas Garcia-Salgado; special section: Archiving, Collecting, Documenting and Conserving the Media Arts with a contribution by Jessica Santone; special section: REFRESH! Conference Papers with contributions by Edward Shanken, Maria Fernandez, Anne Collins Goodyear and Darko Fritz; Transactions by John Aycock, Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel, Christian Wallraven, Kathrin Kaulard, Cora Kurner and Robert Pepperell; and an article from the archive by Bill Fontana. Leonardo Reviews by Jan Baetens, John F. Barber, Anthony Enns, Enzo Ferrara, Istvan Hargittai, Paul Hertz, Amy Ione, Michael R. Mosher, Yvonne Spielmann, Eugene Thacker, Stefaan Van Ryssen, Ian Verstegen and Jonathan Zilberg.
View the Table of Contents and abstracts for Leonardo 41:2
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NOW AVAILABLE: Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 17 (2007)
Introduction by Nic Collins. Contributions by Bert Bongers, Eric Leonardson, David Toop, Peter Blasser, Phil Archer, Andy Keep, John Wynne, Richard Garrett, James Saunders, Richard Lerman, Brett Ian Balogh, César Dávila-Irizarry, Vic Rawlings, James Fei, John Bowers and Vanessa Yaremchuk, Guillermo Galindo, Jane Henry, Neil Feather, Robert Poss, Jeremy Hight, Kyle Lapidus and Tali Hinkis, hans w. koch, Kazuhiro Jo, Laura Emelianoff, Marc Berghaus, Bruce Cana Fox, Michael Duffey, Charles Stankievech, Juraj Kojs, Stefania Serafin and Chris Chafe. Plus new reviews from the Leonardo Reviews panel.
LMJ 17 Companion CD tracks by: Dan Wilson, NotTheSameColor, Rotted Orange, Kunst.ruch.ter, Owl Project, Norbert Möslang, Moshi Honen, Grace and Delete, Haco, Leonardo Di Crappio, Ferran Fages, Oscillatorial Binnage, Børre Mølstad, Rhodri Davies, Knut Aufermann and Tetsuo Kogawa, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ivan Palacky.
View the Table of Contents and abstracts for LMJ 17
SPECIAL OFFER!
Subscribe to Leonardo Music
Journal and Computer Music Journal together for a special price!
LMJ/CMJ Subscription Details.
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LEONARDO GALLERY
View the Fire Arts of Burning Man gallery curated by Louis Brill and LadyBee with work by Eric Singer, Jack Schroll, Charlie Smith, Nate Smith, tamara li, Tim Black, Larry Breed, Syd Klinge and Charlie Smith, Paul Cesewski and Jenne Giles, Dan Ng, Joe Bard and Danya Parkinson, Dan Das Mann, Kasia Wojnarski, Bill Codding, Kal Spelletich, Wally Glenn, Andrew Sano and Lucy Hosking (also available in Leonardo 40:4).
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BACK ISSUES AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Beginning with Volume 40 (2007) of Leonardo, MIT Press will offer a permanent 35% discount on back issues of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal to all subscribers. Contact MIT Press (journals-orders@mit.edu) for more information.
Back issues of Leonardo and Leonardo Music
Journal, beginning with volume 1 (1968), are also available in
electronic form to subscribers (for an additional $25 annual access
fee) on JSTOR.
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LEONARDO TRANSACTIONS
Transactions is a new section in the print journal
Leonardo under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Ernest Edmonds, that
publishes
fully refereed papers in a fast
track to disseminating key new
results, ideas and developments in practice.
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Leonardo Archives now available through JSTOR
Past issues of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal beginning with Volume 1 (1968) are now available to subscribers for an additional $25 access fee through JSTOR. Individual subscribers wishing to access the JSTOR archives should contact MIT Press (journals-orders@mit.edu) to register. Individuals can also access the Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal archives through participating university libraries and affiliated organizations. Check the JSTOR website for a list of affiliated universities and organziations.
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LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC
CURRENT ISSUE of Leonardo Electronic
Almanac: LEA Vol. 15,
issue 5: The LEA - ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Program
Special. Guest edited by Alejandro Jaimes, with contributions
from Jodi James, Chi-Min Hsieh and Annie Luciani, Jürgen Scheible,
Atau Tanaka, Kazuhiro Jo, Raquel Paricio and J. Manuel Moreno Aróstegui
and Andrew Webb.
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LEONARDO BOOK SERIES
NEW AND RECENT TITLES

TO ORDER these titles and other titles in the series, please visit the Leonardo Book Series pages.
FORTHCOMING:
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
MEMBER DISCOUNT: Leonardo subscribers are eligible
for a 20% discount on Leonardo Book Series titles. Visit the Leonardo Members Page for details.
More information about Information Arts is also available on Steve Wilson's website
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LEONARDO REVIEWS
New reviews from the Leonardo Reviews panel are
posted monthly on the Leonardo Reviews website.
Publishers wishing to send material to be reviewed by Leonardo Reviews panellists, should send material to the Leonardo Reviews office:
Leonardo Reviews University of Plymouth
School of Computing, Communications & Electronics
Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon
PL4 8AA
United Kingdom
Keep informed of new reviews available through LR by sending an email to: ldr@leonardo.org and including the word "update" in the subject line.
Join the Leonardo Reviews panel: If you are interested in joining the Leonardo Reviews panel, please email your cv and a writing sample to: ldr@leonardo.org
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OLATS (L'Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et des Techno-Sciences)
Association Leonardo, our sister organization in France, publishes the French language Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et des Technosciences (OLATS) web site. Projects covered on this site include Virtual Africa, Pioneers and Pathbreakers, the The Cultural Roots of Globalisation and activities of the Space Arts working group.
Visit http://www.olats.org for current links and texts.
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Information for Authors
Authors are invited to submit new material for publication consideration in all of our publications. If you are interested in submitting text to Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal or Leonardo Book Series, please take a look at our standard submission guidelines. Please note that material must be submitted in our standard format before it can be considered for publication.
Information for authors interested in submitting to Leonardo and LMJ
Information for authors interested in submitting to Leonardo Book Series
If you are interested in joining the Leonardo Reviews panel, please email your cv and a writing sample to: ldr@leonardo.org
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Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), San Francisco, May 12th
Leonardo/ISAST invites you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science community on May 12, 2008 at the downtown facilities of SFSU. The evening will include presentations of art/science/technology projects by Ken Goldberg, Carlo Sequin, Kris Paulsen and Trevor Paglan, plus some brief news announcements and time for casual socializing/networking. Students are especially encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com. Admission is limited.
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Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age, Berkeley Big Bang 2008
Berkeley Big Bang 2008 is a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Leonardo/ISAST will co-host a full day of panels and events on Tuesday, June 3rd, including a juried exhibition of student artwork, organized by Piero Scaruffi.
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Leonardo in Argentina: CEIArtE lecture and workshop series (2007-2008)
We are pleased to announce a Leonardo collaboration with the Electronic Arts Research and Experimenting Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of the Leonardo 40th Anniversary Celebration. The Electronic Arts Research and Experimenting Centre (CEIArtE) at the National University of Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is organizing the "Research and the Arts" series of lectures and workshops running through 2007 and 2008 and is joining Leonardo in its 40th anniversary celebration.
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Leonardo/OLATS collaborates with Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny on Art and Climate Change Project and Exhibition
In celebration of Leonardo's 40th anniversary, Leonardo/OLATS and Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny (Republic of Ireland) will collaborate on an exhibition and three year project to explore the ways
that artists and scientists can collaborate to address issues around
global warming and climate change.
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Leonardo Educators and Students Program includes the Leonardo Abstracts Service, Leonardo Education Forum, Leonardo International Faculty Alerts list and special student discounts.
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LEONARDO ABSTRACTS SERVICE (LABS)
On-going submission deadlines: 30 June and 31 December.
English LABS: The LABS project, under the direction of Leonardo
Editorial Board member Sheila Pinkel, publishes selected abstracts of
PhD and masters theses in the Art/Science/Technology field. Students
who have filed their PdD or Masters theses who wish to have their
thesis abstract considered can submit their abstracts to the database.
Spanish LABS: The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, through #Artnodes, in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, has created the LABS database for Spanish-language thesis abstracts. This project is an extension of the English-language thesis database. All those with completed theses in Spanish are invited to submit abstracts of their PhD theses or access LABS for publication consideration in the database.
Chinese LABS: The Chinese langague database, under the direction of Kenneth Fields, was introduced in July 2007. All those with completed theses in Chinese are invited to submit abstracts of their PhD theses or access LABS for publication consideration in the database.
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Leonardo now available through EBSCO host databases to
Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications (INASP) has completed the first phase of the Programme
for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). Through this new
arrangement Leonardo will be available on line for those living in
Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Please bring this to the
attention of your African and Central American colleagues.
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Les Basiques: "art et
multimédia"
Leonardo/Olats launches the
project Les Basiques with the publication on its website of the first
module on "art and multimedia" -- artworks on the Internet,
on CD-ROM or on DVD.
Les Basiques answers basic questions on given topics within the field
of art, science and technology, focusing on main issues and providing
a body of references (both online with hyperlinks and on paper with
bibliographies) to allow those interested to go deeper into each
subject.
The project is in French only.
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Spacearts: The Space Art Database
Leonardo/OLATS and the Ours Foundation have joined forces to create a database documenting the works of artists who, since the mid-19th century, have taken outer space as a theme, subject, or object for their creations. When completed, this database will host over a thousand entries. Artists are invited to submit their work for inclusion in the database. Entry forms to submit your artworks are available online at http://www.spacearts.info.
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ARTS LAB: Leonardo/ISAST Report Released for Community Discussion and Debate
Arts Lab, a study sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST and funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, assessed the current international landscape, lessons learned from recent programs, and new opportunities that would allow art and technology development in a viable and sustainable way. Arts Lab proposes a unique hybrid art center and research lab designed to be "fast, competitive, market-savvy, and not-for-profit." A 40-page report written by veteran media artist and project director Michael Naimark, is now available at http://www.artslab.net.
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