Yoichiro Kawaguchi, "Gemotion Dance" interactive installation with performance, 2002. copyright: Yoichiro Kawaguchi.
What's New
Announcements & Calls
Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board Elects Jim Crutchfield
The Leonardo Governing Board elected Jim Crutchfield to the board at its October 2009 meeting. Jim Crutchfield teaches nonlinear physics at the University of California, Davis, directs its Complexity Sciences Center, and promotes science interventions in nonscientific settings. He's mostly concerned with what patterns are, how they are created, and how intelligent agents discover them. find out more
Leonardo Education Forum Elects New Chairs
The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) elected two new chairs to help lead the group: Patricia Olynk and Joe Lewis. find out more
Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board Elects Melinda Klayman
The Leonardo Governing Board elected Melinda Klayman to the board at its August 2009 meeting. Melinda is Program Manager for Sony U(x)nited, the User Experience team for Sony and Sony Ericsson, where she combines her background in art and art history with experience in mobile computing to influence the future of consumer technology. find out more
Prometheus Institute, Galeyev Readings, 2010
The "Prometheus" Center cordially invites you to take part in "Galeyev
Readings" in Kazan, Russia from 1-7
October 2010. The event will include a conference, an exhibition and
a festival in honor of scientist/artist and Leonardo Editorial Board member Bulat
Makhmudovich Galeyev (1940-2009).
find out more
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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Past Announcements
For a list of recent past announcements, visit the Leonardo Announcements page
CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Papers and Art Gallery
SIGGRAPH 2010, in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST seeks papers that illuminate and explore how people understand the changing roles of artists and art-making in our increasingly networked, multi-sensory, online world. SIGGRAPH is also looking for exceptional works of art, completed in the last two years, by artists who physically engage technology in their creative process.
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LMJ 20: Improvisation
For Volume 20 of the Leonardo
Music Journal we welcome papers on aspects of improvisation in music, art and
the general realm of decision-making – especially texts addressing the interplay
of improvisation and technology.
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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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Calls for Papers
See the full list of current calls for papers.
Publications
LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC
The Creative Data special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) features papers and artworks that deal with the emerging practice of data visualization as an immersive experience. Data has long been the property and domain of screen-based collection, archiving, processing and interaction. The emergence of new processes, functionality and ways of interacting with information is opening up several new areas of great possibility in which the data allows newfound thematic and engaging forms of immersion, as well as innovative and perception-reshaping interaction. Guest edited by Jack Ox, Jeremy Hight and Erik Champion.
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Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS)
Top-rated Authors, First Half of 2009
Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts published in the English-language Leonardo Abstracts Service Databases during the first half of 2009. Find out more
LEONARDO print journal
NOW AVAILABLE:
Leonardo, Vol. 42, No. 5 (2009)
Editorial by Robert Pepperell. Contributions by Guillermo A. Lemarchand and Jon Lomberg; W. Paul Adderley and Michael Young; Dennis Dollens; Jean M. Ippolito; Oguzhan Özcan, Emre Akdemir, Mary Lou O'Neil and A. Ayça Ünlüer; John Tchalenko; Eduardo R. Miranda and John Matthias; Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi; Michele Emmer; Jean-Julien Aucouturier; Chris Meigh-Andrews; Gordon Monro; and Anne Nighten. Plus, the Coded Cloth Gallery featuring work by Donna Franklin, High Tea with Mrs Woo, Elliat Rich, Alyce Santoro and Gina Matchitt.
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.
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).
Events & Projects
Next LASER: November 9, 2009
Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), November 9, 2009 at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) on "Software Studies, Software Art, Software Design," Jim Campbell (artist) on "More Is Less: Delving into Lo-Fi," Phil Ross (artist) on "It's Alive!: Curating Life Into the Art Realm," and Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media." find out more
e-MobiLArt / European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists / 2nd Group Exhibition
Leonardo/OLATS is pleased to co sponsor the 2nd group exhibition of the European project "e-MobiLArt" (European Mobile Lab for interactive media Artists), which takes place 28 October - 15 November 2009 in Katowice, Poland. The exhibition will consist of 8 interactive installation artworks which are the result of collaboration amongst artists that participated in the e-MobiLArt project.(Un)Inhabitable?: The Art of Extreme Environments
Leonardo/Olats in collaboration with the @rt Outsiders Festival is pleased to propose this YASMIN discussion on "Habitability and exteme environments" The discussion will take place on the YASMIN Discussion list from September 25th to October 15th 2009. Find out more
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
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