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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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LABS PEER REVIEWERS FOR 2020
Deadline: 1 April 2020
 Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) is currently seeking peer reviewers for the 2020 review process. In July they will evaluate and rank MA, MFA, and PhD abstracts that in some way relate to the intersection of art, science, and/or technology. High-ranking abstracts are archived at collections.pomona.edu/labs. Please contact Sheila Pinkel at spinkel4@gmail.com if you are interested in participating.
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LEONARDO AT 108TH CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
12–15 February, Chicago, U.S.A
 The CAA Annual Conference brings together over 5,000 art historians, artists, designers, and visual arts professionals in all stages of their careers. Join Leonardo sessions this year, including LEAF panel "Generative and Machine Creativity: Is AI in the Arts and Design Evolution of 'Artistic Intelligence' or Rupture?, LEAF meeting, and Editor Hours with Leonardo Managing Editor Erica Hruby at the MIT Press booth. CAA 2020 also includes a full program of workshops, distinguished speaker panels, opportunities to network, and a celebrated Book and Trade Fair. Find out more
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HELP US TURN OVER A NEW LEAF
Survey Deadline: 12 February 2020
 We invite you to participate with us in envisioning how LEAF (Leonardo Education and Art Forum) can be of service to the entire community going forward.
Established in 2005, LEAF promotes the advancement of artistic practice, academic scholarship, and practice-led research by providing practitioners, educators, and students a national and international forum for dialogue at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Leonardo’s 50th convening initiated a community-wide visioning conversation, continuing now within the context of the Leonardo and ASU partnership. Please respond by 12 February 2020 and join us in designing the future of LEAF. Take the survey
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FAST TRACK YOUR PAPER IN LEONARDO JOURNAL WITH SIGGRAPH
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SIGGRAPH 2020 THINK BEYOND
Art Gallery Deadline: 21 January 2020
Short Papers Deadline: 23 January 2020
 The SIGGRAPH Art Papers program brings together communities of researchers and practitioners working at the intersections of art, design, humanities, science, and technology. Proposals can be submitted in one of six categories: 1) Project description; 2) Contemporary computational art, including theory/criticism; 3) Methods/techniques of creative practices; 4) Media art history/media archaeology of artifacts and the arts; 5) Experimental design practice; and 6) Indigenous and Aboriginal communities, arts, and technology. Find out more
The SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery is a juried exhibition. For the SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery, artists are invited to be inspired by the convention center’s public art collection as well as the broader concept of “public” art today, through the lens of new media that creates learning through ingenuity and exploration. Push the boundaries of art as we know it. Plan what works you will submit to further this critical dialogue. Find out more
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SCIENTIFIC DELIRIUM MADNESS 2021
Deadline: 16 March 2020
 Each year, writers, artists, composers, choreographers, filmmakers and scientists are awarded the gift of time and space: a one-month residency through partnership with Leonardo/ISAST and Djerassi Resident Artists Program at Djerassi Program’s 583-acre ranch in Northern California's Santa Cruz Mountains, all at no cost to the artists. Applications are open now
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WELCOME TO NEW AFFILIATE MEMBER: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
 Arizona State University is a top-ranked research university in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. ASU students have the opportunity to work with professors and industry partners on research and ideas that are making a major impact in our community, our nation and our world. By redefining the 21st-century university as a knowledge enterprise, ASU has inspired its faculty and students to lead discovery: notably, space exploration, electron microscopy, sustainability and human origins. Working together, ASU-Leonardo/ISAST champions the convergence of arts, sciences, and technology for the benefit of all. Find out more
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RECOGNITION OF LEONARDO’S OUTSTANDING PEER REVIEWERS
In 2017 we commenced a quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers in our network. This month we extend our gratitude and congratulations to the following for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication:
Alex Garcia Topete is a writer-filmmaker, entrepreneur, and researcher with more than 15 years of experience working in the creative industries in Mexico and the United States. His research focuses on transdisciplinary intelligence & collaboration methodologies.
Marina Isgro is a curator and art historian specializing in postwar and contemporary art. Most recently, she was the 2017–2019 Nam June Paik Research Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she co-curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play.
Juan Carlos Vasquez is an award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher. His electroacoustic music works are performed constantly around the world and to date have premiered in 28 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Find out more
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NEW ARTICLE ON IMPROVISATION, INTERDISCIPLINARITY, AND ENACTIVE MUSIC COGNITION
Dr. Lauren Hayes has a new publication in Contemporary Music Review, in a special issue on music improvisation and social inclusion edited by Franziska Schroeder, Koichi Samuels & Rebecca Caines. The article, “Beyond Skill Acquisition: Improvisation, Interdisciplinarity, and Enactive Music Cognition,” draws on her pedagogy within the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University as well as the interdisciplinary research project Laboratory for Live Electronic Audio Performance Practice (LLEAPP). It raises musical ontological questions about understandings of meaningful musical activity, what counts as improvisation, and who can be included as an improviser.
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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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WELCOME TO NEW LASER: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge, United Kingdom
LASER Chairs: Satinder Gill and Harriet Loffler
LASER New York City—Sunday, 2 February 2020, 4:00 p.m. Find out more
LASER Boston—Friday, 7 February 2020, 7:30 p.m. Find out more
LASER Paris—Thursday, 27 February 2020, TBA Find out more
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UMWELT EXHIBITION AT BIOBAT ART SPACE GALLERY
1 November 2019–30 March 2020, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Umwelt exposes the multilayered work of artists who engage with the sciences, while offering visitors a nuanced view of what science both is and can be. Meredith Tromble, Patricia Olynyk, and Christine Davis are artists who approach science as material for art. Through their works in digital media, installation, sculpture, and photography, Tromble, Olynyk, and Davis orient viewers to a playfully provocative and imaginative world of questioning. Find out more
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SOMARTS CULTURAL CENTER: RECORDING CRIPTECH EXHIBITION
Opening Reception: 23 January 2020, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Exhibition: 24 January–25 February 2020
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Working with a broad understanding of technology, from prosthetic tools to the built environment, this multidisciplinary community art exhibition explores how disability—and artists who identify as disabled—can redefine design, aesthetics, and the relationship between user and interface. Exhibiting artists engage with technology in manifold ways from conception to production and beyond. As the term “crip” reclaims the word for disability culture and recognizes disability as a cultural and political identity, so too do artists hack technologies to make them more accessible and inclusive. Curated by Vanessa Chang and Lindsey D. Felt. Find out more
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OPEN CALL FOR SCIENCE-BASED CLIMART ART INSPIRED BY DEEP TIME
Deadline: 31 January 2020
Broto, an annual art-climate-science-collaboration conference, is looking for eight art pieces for a noncommercial exhibit to go up in May 2020 and be highlighted during our 16–17 May conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The theme is “Climate and Deep Time.” Submissions should be science- or climate science–based. Find out more
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SONYA RAPOPORT: BIORHYTHM EXHIBITION
7 February–5 July 2020, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Please join us for an Opening Reception: 5:00–9:00 p.m., Friday, 7 February 2020. This event will feature an interactive recreation of Sonya Rapoport’s computer-mediated installation and “audience participation performance” Biorhythm (1983). Free admission. This solo exhibition will feature Rapoport’s paintings, drawings, and early interactive computer installation art at San Jose Museum of Art. Find out more
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CALL FOR PAPERS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, AND GENERATIVE MODELS IN THE ARTS AND DESIGN
Deadline: 20 March 2020
For issue 26 of Artnodes, we are calling for articles that explore the past, present, and future of generative and machine creativity, or ML and AI in all the domains of art and design. Artnodes is an open-access academic journal produced by the Universitat Oberta de Calalunya since 2002. It is published twice a year, in June and December. Find out more
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THE NOOK GALLERY IS NOW SUPERCOLLIDER
SUPERCOLLIDER believes in a future where art, science, and tech collide to inspire social and environmental responsibility. We bring together leading artists, scientists, and the public to celebrate the future and reframe the challenges facing our world. In this process, we build accountability networks and creative connections across disciplines and locations to spark new skill sets for humanity: collective self-discipline and collaborative action. “SUPERCOLLIDER is a critical cultural space for the arty-scientist, technocurious, ‘is-that-really-art?’ artists and those that bowl out of their lane.” — Danielle Siembieda, Managing Director, Leonardo/ISAST. Find out more
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DYING TOMORROW: RECAP
What happens when a Facebook profile outlives our friends? Or when our text messages can be used to train an AI “twin” that can chat with loved ones after we die? Today, information about our lives can be packaged, transmitted, and analyzed like never before. As the traces of our lives are measured, tracked, and simulated to lead digital lives of their own, we ask: what will it mean to die tomorrow? This video documents a daylong workshop and public event, "Beyond the Body," which brought together historians, psychologists, technologists, designers, artists, and anthropologists to speak on how technology has changed the way we mourn—and how people can shape tech to reflect our needs, rather than transform them. Find out more
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