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27 March 2020    Leonardo Network Newsletter
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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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VIRTUAL SOCIAL CONNECTING PLATFORM: COFFEE AND COCKTAILS
Mondays 5:00–6:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco)
Thursdays 9:00–10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco)

We’re holding a virtual space to connect. These twice-weekly online gatherings don’t have a theme, but we offer this as an opportunity to connect with the greater Leonardo community. Join with a coffee or a cocktail/mocktail as appropriate to your time zone!
ONLINE EXHIBITION PREMIERE: WE=LINK: TEN EASY PIECES 
30 March 2020

Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak rapidly raging throughout the world, we are experiencing an unprecedented historical moment and social and economic routines have been interrupted, including cultural programming. More than ever, art remains an essential force to galvanize and rejuvenate. In lieu of a physical exhibition restrained by lockdown, Chronus Art Center sent out an open call to the international media art community in early February to initiate a special online exhibition as a response to the current uncertainty and a time of anxiety. Titled We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces, alluding to the American actor Jack Nicholson’s iconic movie Five Easy Pieces with a subtle twist on WeChat, the popular Chinese social media platform, it will be exhibited online in collaboration with a network of other hosting institutions. Organized by Chronus Art Center. Find out more
VIRTUAL DIALOGUE: WE=LINK EXHIBIT CREATORS
6 April 2020, 5:00 p.m. PDT (San Francisco)
7 April 2020, 8:00 a.m. CST (Shanghai)

Join Leonardo’s virtual connecting platform for an informal discussion around the online exhibition We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces with special guest ZHANG Ga from the Chronus Art Center along with artists and partners to be announced. Moderated by Managing Director Danielle Siembieda. Find out more
COVID-19 RESOURCES, ART-SCIENCE TOOLKIT, SOCIAL DISTANCING AND CONNECTEDNESS
Leonardo is offering virtual spacecreative platforms and partnership to facilitate socially connecting, even while physically distancing. This includes a curated reading list of free articles from Leonardo journal, virtual LASER programming and community resources. Find out more
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ARTCENTER EXHIBITIONS PRESENTS SKY
Exhibition: 21 February–23 August 2020

ArtCenter Exhibitions announces SKY, an immersive examination of how humans have conceptualized the sky throughout history, on view 21 February through 23 August 2020 at ArtCenter College of Design’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery in Pasadena, California. SKY is an exhibition that invites visitors to ponder both the provincial and universal elements of space above and around Earth’s surface. This group exhibition will demonstrate how the unfolding realities exposed by new science are affecting change in the understanding of ourselves, our planet and beyond. Find out more
JOB OPPORTUNITY: ACADEMIC PROJECT ASSISTANT
Department for Image Science—Donau-Universität Krems, Austria
Deadline: 6 April 2020 

Donau-Universität Krems is Europe's leading university for continuing education. As the only public university for continuing education in the German-speaking area it specializes in we specialize in enhancing the qualifications of working professionals and is engaged in tackling current and future social challenges. Currently, around 8,000 students from more than 90 countries are enrolled in Master's and continuing studies. Find out more
CALL FOR PAPERS: ANAT SPECTRA 2020
Deadline: 2 June 2020

ANAT SPECTRA is Australia’s preeminent showcase of the best research and creative work being produced through interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and scientists. Artists and scientists approach creativity, exploration and research in different ways and from different perspectives; when working together they open up new ways of seeing, experiencing and interpreting the world around us. At the heart of ANAT SPECTRA is a desire to showcase and celebrate the vanguard of Australian and New Zealand artists leading the world in interdisciplinary arts practice. Find out more
OPEN REGISTRATIONS: 2020 UCLA SCI | ART LAB + STUDIO
Deadline: 15 May 2020

UCLA Sci | Art Lab + Studio is a highly competitive high school summer program that fully immerses students in science and art practices. By utilizing these disciplines as complementary tools for engaging with contemporary research topics, Sci | Art Lab + Studio fosters creative and innovative applications in science art and design. Led by UCLA professors Victoria Vesna (artist) and James Gimzewski (scientist) along with an amazing team of instructors and graduate and undergraduate students, this program encourages students to think outside of the box and imagine the impossible. As a pioneering STEAM program from 2008 onward, Sci | Art Lab + Studio has continued to prepare students for interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration before they begin college. Sponsored by UCLA’s Art | Sci Center, the Department of Design Media Arts and the California NanoSystems Institute, this fun and exciting program awards students with 4 transferable UC Credits. Find out more
50% OFF LEONARDO AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIPS FOR A LIMITED TIME
During these current circumstances, we know that art, science and technology must bridge to help solve the crises of our time. Now more than ever, art-science institutions virtually connect while social distancing to continue research, programming, and support. Together, we can do more. Affiliate members are Leonardo’s strategic partners and valued members of an exclusive international network of innovative institutions, academic departments, museums, science labs and research centers who are leading the advancement of art, science and technology. Join as a new member and receive 50% off with code 50MEMBER. Offer expires 30 April 2020. Find out more
 
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CALL FOR PAPERS: MUSIC AND SOUND ART
Open-Ended

The editors of Leonardo announce that beginning in 2021 we will publish 6 issues of the journal annually and elevate the visibility of music and sound art with yearlong inclusion. This call is open ended, and we accept submissions at any time. Find out more
CALL FOR PAPERS:
TRANSCREATION: CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND EMPIRICAL TRANSLATION

Deadline: 30 September 2020

This special section of Leonardo journal welcomes submissions that explore empirical translation as a method or approach in different disciplines of the arts and/or sciences and how empirical translation in search of patterns, norms and laws relates to creativity in arts and innovation in sciences. Find out more
NEW ON JUST ACCEPTED

Leonardo Just Accepted publishes recently accepted manuscripts online in anticipation of their publication in Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal. Among the manuscripts that have been published ahead of print to the Leonardo Just Accepted page of the MIT Press website are the following: 

“Harold Cohen and AARON: Collaborations in the last six years (2010–2016) of a Creative Life” by Louise Sundararajan; “Representing Theoretical Physics Research in and on Ceramics” by Nadav Drukker; “Creative Works Exploring Our Information Ecosystem: 1970–1979” by Richard Lowenberg; “Volumetric Reconstructions of Found Footage: Stressing the Non-Identity of 3-D Replicas” by Gabriel Menotti; “Conversations in Caves” by Flora Parrott and Harriet Hawkins; “Biomorphic Protein Art: The Ensemble of Aesthetic Intuition and Scientific Intelligence in Protein Structures” by Jongcheon Shin and Joonsung Yoon; “DiY (Do-it-Yourself) electronics, coin-operated relic boxes and techno-animist shrines” by Emit Snake-Beings; “Making Sense of Variations in the Visual Depiction of DNA” by Chris Toumey; and “Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A Garden Shows That Cancer Is a Part of Life” by Pamela Winfrey, Caspian Robertson, Carlo Maley, and Athena Aktipis. Find out more

Among the manuscripts that have been published ahead of print to the Leonardo Music Journal Just Accepted page of the MIT Press website are the following: 

“A generative sound mural: The Whole Inside. Sounding the body.” by Olivia Louvel; “Music gesture and the correspondence of lines in a multimodal compositional practice” by Daniel Portelli; “Music as Epistemic Construct: From Sonic Experience to Musical Sense-Making” by Mark Reybrouck; and “The Presence of a Mysterious Black Silhouette: From a Print to a New Form of Usage of Guitar Multiphonics” by Rita Torres. Find out more
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WISH FRANK POPPER AND HANNES LEOPOLDSEDER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Hannes Leopoldseder (b. 27 March 1940) is a driving visionary and cofounder of the Ars Electronica Festival. The concept he developed for the festival for art, technology and society serves as the guiding principle for similar festivals and digital media competitions worldwide.

Frank Popper (b. 17 April 1918) is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and Honorary Editor of the journal Leonardo. Popper ascertained that the artists using new techniques and new materials for creating their works of art had transformed the image of movement in art into a true art of movement. Read his work in Leonardo journal and Leonardo book series.

Wish them a happy birthday on Facebook or send wishes to rmalina@alum.mit.edu.

OPEN CALL: ART FOR “DEEP FAKE”—SCIART INITIATIVE EXHIBITION
Deadline: 1 April 2020

SciArt Initiative seeks work that challenges technological evangelism, rejects techno-skepticism, and/or addresses a range of positionalities towards AI. To what end do we embrace the learning of machines and the generation of artificially intelligent bodies? How are we implicated, and whose lives are at stake? Utilizing a variety of media, the exhibition seeks to brush the tipping point of AI and consider the ethics and morality of intellectual lacing across class, geography, space and epistemology. “DEEP FAKE” will be on view at SUPERCOLLIDER Gallery (Los Angeles) from 6 July–26 August 2020. Find out more
CALL FOR ENTRIES: THE LUMEN PRIZE
Deadline: 8 May 2020

Does your practice involve technology? Now's your chance to win one of the Lumen Prize Awards. Our ninth Call for Entries is open with a prize fund of $11,500 and opportunities to be part of a global program of exhibitions, commissions and events. The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology celebrates the very best art created with technology through global competition, exhibitions and events worldwide run by Lumen Art Projects. Find out more
CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSDISCIPLINARY IMAGING CONFERENCE 2020
Deadline: 1 June 2020

The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, to be held at Artspace, Sydney, is calling for papers that explore the darkness of the contemporary image through the concept of Dark Eden. Is the Dark Eden a Counter-Enlightenment? Is it a shadow zone, a spectral landscape, a cemetery or a zombieland? Is it the debris of an image culture, or does it provide the material for a new culture? The conference invites papers that respond to this provocation in areas related to: visual arts, new media, cultural history and theory, curating, cinema and video, computer visualization, real-time imaging, scientific imaging and modeling, intelligent systems and image science. The aim of the conference is to bring together artists, theorists, scholars, scientists, historians and curators. Find out more
THE ALCHEMY OF US BY AINISSA RAMIREZ
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions and reveals how they radically shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the story of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes, among other things, how clocks, the light bulb and the computer modified our sleeping patterns, our health and even how our brains think. The Alchemy of Us unpacks how materials were shaped and how they then shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Find out more
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VISIONARY ARCHITECT YONA FRIEDMAN (1923–2020)
Yona Friedman, the Hungarian-born French Jewish architect who helped develop the concept of “mobile architecture” in the 1960s and ’70s, has passed away at age 96. He is widely known for his imaginative paper architecture visions that blended Metabolist, High-Tech and Futurist tendencies to envision massive technological tapestries that brought a certain type of utopian urbanism to life. Despite the monumental scale of his proposals, architecture's role was one of stepping back and facilitating human life. In later years, Friedman worked to apply his ideas on self-construction and infrastructural architecture through work in the developing world and on humanitarian housing. He worked with the United Nations and UNESCO to create disaster and self-built housing in India and across the African continent, for example, always pushing toward his concept of the Utopies Réalisables, or "feasible utopias." See his work in Leonardo and learn more.
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