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The Leonardo Network Newsletter is a 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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LEONARDO EDUCATION AND ART FORUM (LEAF) AT CAA 2021
5 February–15 March 2021: Panel Presentation Available
10 February 2021: Live Q&A
 The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) presents A Vision for Change: A New Media Architecture Uniting the Arts and Sciences at the College Art Association 2021 conference. The panel event chaired by Gustavo Rincon and Erica Hruby features presentations by JoAnn Cecile Kuchera-Morin, Cletus James Dalglish-Schommer, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos and Yoon Chung Han. Registrants may view the panel on their own schedule from 5 February–15 March. A live Q&A session with the chairs and panelists will be held on 10 February. Find out more
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PERCEIVE COSMOS | EXPLORE CHAOS
SPECIAL LEONARDO JOURNAL ST. PETERSBURG VIRTUAL LASER
17 February, 9:00 AM San Francisco / 8:00 PM (20:00) St. Petersburg
Join an online conversation of the contributors of February's upcoming special English-Russian special issue of Leonardo journal, “COSMOS and CHAOS,” created in collaboration with CYFEST international media art festival.
In this dialogue, the authors of Leonardo/CYFEST special issue—artists, scientists, researchers, art historians—will discuss contributed papers and ask each other about the ways to perceive, explore and conceptualize humanity and the Universe as represented in the opposition of cosmos and chaos.
Zoom event by registration, more info to be announced. Stay informed with this link
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS: LEONARDO ABSTRACTS SERVICE
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Leonardo Abstracts Service is currently seeking peer reviewers for the 2021 review process. In July, reviewers will evaluate and rank MA, MFA and PhD abstracts that in some way relate to the intersection of art, science and/or technology. Accepted abstracts can be found at collections.pomona.edu/labs and the highest rated are published on the Leonardo website and journal. Please contact Sheila Pinkel if you are interested in participating.
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“LEONARDO: A ‘MIND SPACE’ IN TRANSIT” BY CHRISTIANA KAZAKOU
This ultimate Archaeology celebrates the legacy of Leonardo, an idea that became a Journal that developed into a global transdisciplinary community. The author reflects on the last half century of innovation in the practice of art and science that has galvanized generations of creative practitioners entangled in the turbulence of transdisciplinary thinking. In tracking the emergence of this mind space, this Archaeology projects to the future where Leonardo has a vital role to play in engaging and shaping new world perspectives. Read more in Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A2RU
Deadline: 26 February 2021
Ground Works, the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) peer-reviewed platform for arts-integrated research, announces a call for submissions to a special themed issue. With this issue, we ask: What are the elements necessary to create a vibrant ecology of research where art and design inquiry may flourish alongside, within, and out of social and physical science research that is so deeply embedded in research-oriented universities? Find out more
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How Collaborations Are Discovered
Join Leonardo and OpenScholar for a 45-minute workshop on increasing visibility for your important collaborations and research. We'll share the proven technique that Harvard faculty use to attract funding, talent and partners that grow their projects.
19 January 2021 at 10:00 AM PST/UTC-8. Reserve your spot
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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 NEW LASER HOSTS
New additions to our cultural map!
We are pleased to welcome Telematic LASER and LASER Talks in Espoo/Helsinki to our international LASER Programme by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 40 cities worldwide. Telematic LASER is chaired by Paul Sermon, University of Brighton (UK) and Randall Packer, 3SN (Washington DC) while LASER Talks in Espoo/Helsinki is hosted by Aalto University in Finland chaired by Laura Beloff, Pia Fricker, Ksenia Kaverina, Kirsi Peltonen, Nitin Sawhney & Koray Tahiroğlu.
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LAUNCH** Telematic LASER—16 January 2021, 2pm UTC Time Zone.
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LAUNCH** LASER Talks in Espoo/Helsinki—28 January 2021, 6pm EET/UTC+2 Time Zone. Find out more
LASER Talks Tempe—19 January 2021, 9am MST/UTC-7 Time Zone
Meet the ASU-LEONARDO Imagination Fellows: Nandita Kumar (India), Brook Thompson (United States) & Melanie Valencia (Ecuador). Find out more
LASER Talks in Paris—21 January 2021, 7pm CET/UTC+1 Time Zone.
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LASER Talks in Los Angeles—21 January 2021, 12:30pm PST/UTC-8 Time Zone. Find out more
LASER Talks in Boston—22 January 2021, 12pm EST/UTC-5 Time Zone.
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LASER Talks in Pasadena—Available for viewing now. Find out more
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OPEN CALL FOR ARS ELECTRONICA-STARTS PRIZE 2021
Deadline: 3 March 2021
The journey at the intersection of science, technology and art continues.... From now until 3 March 2021, innovative collaborations and projects can be submitted for the STARTS Prize of the European Commission—in 2 categories the winners will receive €20,000 prize money each. The emphasis of both prizes lies on the creative appropriation and employment of technologies as well as the search for unique constellations of collaboration from the STARTS fields. Find out more
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THE GRID - ART + TECH REPORT 2020
by Vanessa Chang, Senior Program Manager Leonardo/ISAST
Commissioned by The Grid, The Grid - Art + Tech Report explores Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area art and technology ecosystems. Based on interviews with people from art collectives and institutions, academia, government, foundations, residencies and the tech industry, this report traces the social, cultural, political and historical forces that have shaped this field. Painting a picture of a fractured ecosystem on the cusp of change, it urges building regenerative infrastructure grounded in cross-sector, cross-disciplinary collaboration. Read at The Grid
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“PROSTHETIC MEMORIES, WRITING MACHINES”
by Vanessa Chang
Last year, OpenAI released its latest language generator, GPT-3 to great fanfare. Across the internet, people rushed to create poems, prose and plays with it—in something of a literary Turing test. The usual rhetoric emphasized AI’s existential threat to human creativity. Far more interesting, however, is the capacity of AI as a writing tool. Ranging contemporary AI art, speculative fiction and the theory of extended cognition, this essay explores how, as an external and increasing intelligent form of memory, AI can broaden the effects of writing systems on the physical borders of the human mind.
Read at Noema magazine
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AAAS 2021 Annual General Meeting
8–11 February 2021
Join the Leonardo panel production on "Understanding Dynamic Ecosystems." Prereleased materials are available starting January 18. Find out more
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EDMOND COUCHOT (1932–2020)
Longtime Leonardo/Olats colleague and contributor Edmond Couchot passed in December 2020. Couchot was cofounder of the department of Arts and Technologies of the Image at Univeristy Paris VII. As a theoretician, Dr. Couchot was interested in the connection between art and technology, in particular between the visual arts and data-processing techniques. Read his contributions to Leonardo and Olats at the Leonardo blog
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