Yoichiro Kawaguchi, "Gemotion Dance" interactive installation with performance, 2002. copyright: Yoichiro Kawaguchi.
What's New
Announcements & Calls
Student Jessica Mathews Wins Frank J. Malina Oundle Art-Science Award
Leonardo/Olats is pleased to announce that the 2009 Frank J. Malina Oundle School Art-Science Award has been given to Jessica Mathews for her innovative work making computer-aided art work.
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Call for Participation: Lovely Weather Artist Residencies, Donegal, Ireland
Donegal County Council's Public Art Office in partnership with Leonardo/OLATS seeks expressions of interest from artists for one of five residencies (4 - 11 weeks) exploring how art can address issues around global warming and climate change in County Donegal. Deadline: Monday 3rd August 2009
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Introducing the Leonardo Network Newsletter
We are now sending out a bi-weekly newsletter to our general announcement email list to keep our community informed of all the various things going on in the Leonardo network. Current and past issues are also posted online. Sign up now to receive issues: https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/leonardo-isast
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Calls for Papers
See the full list of current calls for papers in the Leonardo Special Projects section.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Re-Imagining the Moon
We seek articles from a variety of disciplines exploring various social and cultural aspects related to the moon as well as those that engage with the relation between the moon and the artistic and scientific imagination.
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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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Past Announcements
For a list of recent past announcements, visit the Leonardo Announcements page
Publications
LEONARDO print journal
NOW AVAILABLE:
Leonardo, Vol. 42, No. 3 (2009)
Editorial by Roger Malina. Articles by Paul Thomas, David Dunn and James Crutchfield, Slavko Kacunko, Hafez Modirzadeh, Cami Nelson and Robert Root-Bernstein. Special Section: Creativity and Cognition 2007 Conference Papers with contributions by Elisa Giaccardi and Linda Candy, Olav Bertelsen, Morten Breinbjerg and Soren Pold, Mark Gross and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Dagmar Reinhardt and Joanne Jakovich, Thecla Schiphorst, Cathy Treadaway. Transactions by Hyunkyoung Cho and Joonsung Yoon, Susan Hayes Frederique Valentin, Hallie Buckley, Matthew Spriggs and Stuart Bedford, Kirak Kim, Chee-Onn Wong and Keechul Jung, Tim Otto Roth and Andreas Haungs. Plus new reviews from the Leonardo Reviews panel.
View the Table of Contents and abstracts Leonardo 42:3
LEONARDO GALLERY
View the Social Fabrics: Wearable + Media + Interconnectivity curated by Susan Ryan, with work by Sarah Kettley and Frank Greig, Joanna Berzowska and Di Mainstone, Joanna Berzowska, Younghui Kim, Ebru Kurbak, Matthew Kenyon and Doug Easterly, Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson with Galina Kumanova and Kelly Bogan, Anne-Marie Skriver Hansen, Rachelle Beaudoin, Jeanne Jo and Islay Taylor, Geraldine Juárez, Kristen Nyce, Cat Mazza, Kathy Bruce, James Cook and Alastair Noble, Anke Loh with Alan Sahakian, Jonathan Bender and Linda Buzzi, Heidi Kumao, Hoyun Son, Chris Wille, Teresa Almeida, Rachelle Beaudoin and Jeanne Jo. (also available in the current print issue Leonardo 42:2, April 2009).
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.
New! - Transactions now offers Research Announcements, a service that electronically publishes papers as soon as they are submitted while they are still under review, enabling very fast announcements of new research results and artworks even before the normal peer review process has taken place.
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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 BOOK SERIES: NEW AND RECENT TITLES
TO ORDER these titles and other titles in the series, please visit the Leonardo Book Series pages.
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
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
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.
Events & Projects
Next LASER: July 13, 2009
Join us on the campus of the University of San Francisco for the next LASER with feature presentations by Jamie McHugh, Daniel "Cosmo Kichman" Grupp, Rhonda Holberton and Terrence Deacon. Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST.
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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.
more information on this collaboration
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 language 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.
French LABS: The French language database, under the direction of Annick Bureaud, was introduced in January 2009. All those with completed theses in French are invited to submit abstracts of their PhD theses or access LABS for publication consideration in the database.
more information about Leonardo Abstracts Service
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