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The Leonardo Network Newsletter is a biweekly publication of Leonardo/The International Society
for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST), bringing news and opportunities to readers interested in the creative spaces where art and science intersect.
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BEIJING CHINA, 28 SEPTEMBER 2018
In collaboration with Zhuangshi Journal at Tsinghua University, Leonardo/ISAST will celebrate its 50-year anniversary at the International Design Journals Forum and Zhuangshi Journal’s 60th anniversary. Find out more
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 4 OCTOBER 2018
Leonardo will be celebrating with our publishing partner the MIT Press this fall.
Find out more
GUANAJUATO, MEXICO, 11 OCTOBER 2018
Leonardo continues its 50th anniversary at the 6th International Computer Art Congress: Computer and Media Art Education, Espacios Magnos, Universidad de Guanajuato. Find out more
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 18 OCTOBER 2018
Please join a Leonardo 50th Anniversary toast at the Quite Frankly Conference, a conference that seeks to understand the legacy and continuing influence of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus on life, culture and technology.
Find out more
See all upcoming anniversary events this year at
https://www.leonardo.info/50th-anniversary
THE CONVENING: LEONARDO COMMUNITY INVITE, 3–4 NOVEMBER 2018
As Leonardo’s flagship 50th anniversary event draws closer, we have exciting announcements and details about the event, such as keynote speakers, futurecasting sessions, and more art-science experiences. Dive deeper into the Leonardo community, its history and future since 1968. Registration is limited and we encourage you to sign up early to ensure a spot. For a $50 discount use LEONETWORK2018 at registration. Please note registration is required to attend. Find out more
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LEONARDO AT ARS ELECTRONICA
The Leonardo Network received the Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneers of Media Art at ARS Electronica this past week. This award belongs to everyone, including YOU. We especially would like to thank Gerfried Stocker, Genoveva Rückert and Emiko Ogawa from ARS Electronica, Nina Czegledy for curating the CyberArts Leonardo Exhibition, and to presentations from Derrick de Kerckhove, Herbert W. Franke, Roy Ascott and others who shared such kind words and memories. Dr. Christa Sommerer, Benjamin Olsen and the amazing students from Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design Linz. Thank you for the live coverage archived here by Delma Rodriguez from Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa en Uruguay.
Highlights of Leonardo at ARS Electronica 2018:
- Leonardo SLAM Sessions. Find out more
- CyberArts 2018—Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition: 50 years of Leonardo journal archives since 1968 along with other prizewinning artworks of the Prix Ars Electronica. Find out more
- Prix Ars Electronica Gala—Leonardo received the Golden Nica award for Pioneers in New Media. Find out more
- Prix Forum IV—Visionary Pioneers of Media Art / Leonardo Birthday Party. Pictures here.
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UPDATE YOUR LED LISTING
 Reengage in the Leonardo community and tell your fellow members what you’ve been up to. The Leonardo Electronic Directory has been updated with new features such as social media links, profile images and topic areas. We are continuing to improve the directory for our members. Add or update your listing
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WELCOME TO NEW GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER FELICIA CLEPER-BORKOVI
Felicia Cleper-Borkovi is a Principal with Arup and has focused her 25-year career on redefining, deinstitutionalizing and modernizing healthcare design. Felicia is an architect by training and practice, with specific expertise in orchestrating interdisciplinary teams for the design and planning of hospitals and ambulatory clinics. Prior to Arup, Felicia led the integration of design and medical planning at Anshen+Allen and Anshen Dyer in the U.S. and in the U.K. and was the director of the Design Studio at Aditazz. She was President of Anshen + Allen and CEO/Chair of its British subsidiary, Anshen+Allen Ltd. Felicia’s projects demonstrate the integration of architecture, clinical planning, landscape, lighting, art and building design. Find out more
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MINISTER OF CULTURE FOR URUGUAY RECOGNIZES
LEONARDO’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY
The Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for the coordination of the national education; of the promotion of the country‘s cultural development; of the preservation of artistic, historical and cultural heritage of the nation; of the innovation, science and technology and the promotion and strengthening of the protection of human rights. We congratulate Leonardo’s 50th anniversary host Anilla Cultural Latino América-Europa en Uruguay and its director Delma Rodriguez and thank the Ministry of Culture for the declaration of interest. Find out more
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SCIENTIFIC DELIRIUM MADNESS 2018 RESIDENTS FEATURED
IN CONTENT MAGAZINE
We’re proud of our SDM residents! Resident Tom Skalak, along with author Andy Weir, talks science and tech in writing. Read their conversation. And Sarah Rosalena Brady, winner of the Steve Wilson fellowship, discusses technology and art to imagine new non-Western-dominant futures. Right now, she is focusing on a software of her design that developed its own language without any cultural bias. Read the article
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OCEAN MEMORY PROJECT WINS PRESTIGIOUS 500K CHALLENGE GRANT
 Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA, is proud to be part of a collaborative awarded a $500,000 Challenge Grant from National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. A 15-year, 40-million-dollar program funded by the W.M. Keck Foundation, NAKFI was initiated in 2003 to break down barriers between fields and to promote interdisciplinary research. The NAKFI Challenge awards support activities that will carry forward NAKFI’s work beyond its 15 years as an activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. For more information, check out oceanmemoryproject.org
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BLUE MORPH AND HOX ZODIAC AT SPECULUM ARTIUM, 14–16 SEPTEMBER 2018
Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski present Blue Morph. Nanotechnology basically changes our perception of life. Blue Morph butterfly is therefore not only a beautiful blue color composition composed of pigments and structural patterns, but above all the color energy expression of changes within the basic cells of the butterfly. The color structure also includes the sound of metamorphosis of this process, which is sometimes not pleasant to the ears, but is nevertheless a precise record of cellular changes that sometimes happen quickly and violently. The audience is invited to experience the sounds of metamorphosis. Find out more
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CALL FOR PAPERS: LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL 29 (2019)
Proposal Deadline: 1 October 2018
 For future volumes of Leonardo Music Journal we are soliciting articles (papers of up to 3,000 words) and shorter statements (750–1,000 words). This call is open-ended; for any individual issue, proposals are due 1 October the year prior and manuscript 2 January the year of publication. LMJ features articles written by composers and artists about their own work. It is particularly concerned with the interplay between new technologies, music and sound art. LMJ seeks to document ways in which contemporary science and technology are changing our understanding of sound and music,as well as the work of composers and sound artists developing new multimedia art forms that combine sound with other media. Find out more
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR EMERGING LEONARDOS
In celebration of Leonardo/ISAST’s 50th year, and as we look forward to our next 50, we would like to acknowledge rising interdisciplinary authors and artists we are calling “emerging Leonardos.” The following emerging Leonardos have recently received honors through Leonardo programs: Aura Pon, Tobias Klein, Mirjana Prpa, and Nicole L'Huillier. Find out more
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LEONARDO EDUCATION AND ART FORUM PRESENTS: COFFEE AND COCKTAILS
20 SEPTEMBER 2018,9:00 a.m. PDT (UTC-7) / 6:00 p.m. BST (UTC+1)
A new global series connecting the eastern and western hemispheres for virtual conversations with morning coffee and evening cocktails depending on the time zone. Our premier event will feature National Academy of Sciences Senior Program Officer Ashley Bear discussing The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree (2018). This conversation is limited to 50 participants. Join the conversation
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 The Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) series features short lectures and presentations on art, science and technology. Find out more
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 Thursday, 20 September 2018, 6:30–9:00 p.m. |
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 Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 6:00–7:30 p.m. |
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See photos from past LASERs at Facebook.com/lasertalks
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MOONS EXHIBITION AT ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
20 JULY–16 DECEMBER
MOONS, an exhibition probing the intersection of science and contemporary art, opened Thursday, 19 July at ArtCenter College of Design’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery in Pasadena and will continue through 16 December 2018. The exhibition curator is Stephen Nowlin, Williamson Gallery director. The exhibition's opening coincided with the 42nd Scientific Assembly of the international Committee On Space Research (COSPAR), at the Pasadena Convention Center. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and IPAC, was the official host of the prestigious conference. Find out more
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SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS & ART(EFACT), 14–15 SEPTEMBER 2018
[aiskju:b] is the expression of a special liaison of physics and art. In occasion of the premiere in Berlin, a transdisciplinary symposium will take place asking for the relationship of artefact and nature and focusing implicitly upon the relation of the arts and physics (and its neighbouring disciplines). Find out more
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INTERGALACTIC COMMUNE: A FESTIVAL OF ART AND SPACE SCIENCE
15–23 SEPTEMBER 2018
Nine days of lectures, debates, laboratories, art residencies, workshops, celestial observation, art exhibition, full dome projections, performance, rituals, celebrations, among other things. The theme of this year is EARTHCOSMISM, which is the junction of Terran perspectivism with the cosmist imaginary. The Festival celebrates the Spring Equinox!!! And launches its magazine on the subject Subjectivity, Art and Space Sciences.
Find out more
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KARKOWSKI RE:MIX: FILMS, DISCUSSIONS, CONCERTS BY POLISH ARTISTS
15 SEPTEMBER 2018
Karkowski re:mix is a homage to Zbigniew Karkowski, the Polish experimental musician and composer. Join artists for films, talks, and concerts as they share their work in sound art and installations, experimental music, theories, research, and more. Find out more
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EXHIBITION AT EQ: PAUL BROWN, GEOFF AND EILIDH LUCAS
15 SEPTEMBER–13 OCTOBER 2018
Tout ajuste tout parce que tout ajuste ce qui est (everything adjusts everything because everything adjusts what is) with works by Paul Brown and Geoff and Eilidh Lucas, will open at EQ on Saturday 15 September 2018, from 2-4pm. Thereafter, to 13 October, it will be open by appointment only. By framing the world as a self-organising system we question common notions of consciousness. The works in this exhibition can be judged to reflect on the nature of consciousness and more specifically, on how the making and interpreting of art relates to a common-place understanding of cognition. Find out more
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PROJECT DATAPRINT: YOU’RE INVITED, 22–23 SEPTEMBER 2018
DATAPRINT, is an immersive installation-type performance that blends theater, music, dance, and multimedia, and invites audiences to examine the impact of their online fingerprint, as well as question the ethics of data privacy. This event is produced by Kaimera Productions, a multidisciplinary live arts company founded by artists Jonathan Camuzeaux and Simón Adinia Hanukai. Find out more
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EXHIBITION: AN EYE ON THE SHADOWS?, 28 SEPTEMBER 2018–13 JANUARY 2019
The Wallraf-Richartz-Museums & Fondation Corboud in Cologne will track down a very fugitive phenomenon that is hard to depict: the shadow. The visitors will be invited on a journey of discovery through (art) history, beginning in the early modern era with works for instance by masters as Dürer, Rembrandt, Saenredam and de Lairesse. Find out more
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OPEN CALL: ART'S WORK IN THE AGE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Deadline: 1 October 2018
The NCSU Libraries, NC State’s Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design have issued a public call for art for the upcoming exhibition Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping our Genetic Futures. Art’s Work/Genetic Futures poses the question: How do artists and designers contribute materially, rhetorically and conceptually to modern biotechnology? Find out more
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BALANCE UNBALANCE 2018: SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
Sustainability and social impact drive this year’s theme at the Balance-Unbalance conference. Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra: “The arts could play a major part in helping the global society to understand the magnitude of the crisis we are facing, and in promoting the awareness around environmental matters.” Speakers include Brett Scott (Atoms, Molecules and the Two Meanings of Decentralisation) and Fleur Monasso (Getting Climate Resilience to Scale: Unexpected Collaborations Needed). Find out more
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CAA RECEIVES MAJOR ANONYMOUS GIFT TO SUPPORT
ART HISTORY FACULTY AND STUDENTS
The College Art Association is pleased to announce it has received a major anonymous gift of $1 million to fund travel for art history faculty and their students to special exhibitions related to their classwork. The gift will establish the Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions, a new program to be administered and juried by CAA. Applications will be accepted by CAA beginning in fall 2018 All application criteria and information will be listed on the CAA website. Find out more
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