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21 February 2023    Leonardo Network Newsletter
LEONARDO NETWORK NEWS CURATES THE LATEST OPEN CALLS, OPPORTUNITIES,
CRITICAL READS, AND CAN'T-MISS EVENTS TAILORED FOR YOU IN YOUR INBOX.

 
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Courtesy of ZERO1. American Arts Incubator, Colombia, 2017

LEONARDO CREATIVE IMPACT LABS:
NEW ZEALAND & JORDAN

Leonardo seeks transdisciplinary artists to lead hybrid creative exchanges that utilize community-driven digital and new media art projects to address a local social challenge. Creative Impact Lab Amman will address creative industries in Jordan. Creative Impact Lab Dunedin will address climate change in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Apply here!
 
LEONARDO’S CEO RE-IMAGINES EDUCATION,
CIIE 2023 

Follow Diana Ayton-Shenker’s keynote "Reimagine Education: Lessons from Leonardo, language, law, and love" at the 9th International Congress of Educational Innovation of the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico, January 16 to 18, 2023). Watch here!
 

LEONARDO IS GROWING! JOIN OUR MEDIA TEAM! 

Leonardo/ISAST is hiring an Editorial Assistant to support our efforts to advance Leonardo’s vision of fostering global transformation at the nexus of art, science, and technology in pursuit of a more vibrant, just, and regenerative world. Find further information and apply here!
 

News From Our Institutional Members

Photo credit: Stelarc, Reclining StickMan, 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA 2020. Photograph Saul Steed.
EXPLORE ANAT ALUMNUS: STELARC 
 
Stelarc is a performance artist whose work is conceptually-driven, incorporating different media such as prosthetics, robotics, biotechnology and the internet. Read more
 
CALARTIAN ANIMATORS NOMINATED
FOR 95th OSCARS 

 
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been nominated for Best Animated Film by Joel Crawford (Film/Video BFA ‘06) and Mark Swift, also earning nominations for the 50th Annie Awards and Critics Choice Awards amongst others. Read more

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RECOGNITION OF LEONARDO’S OUTSTANDING PEER REVIEWERS 

Leonardo recognizes on a quarterly basis the exceptional peer reviewers in our network for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication:

Cristina Sá, professor, School of Arts of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, has studied new media art, and developed interaction designs, since 1997. 
David G. Stork, PhD, has published eight books, including the forthcoming Pixels & Paintings:  Foundations of Computer-assisted Connoisseurship (Wiley). He holds 64 U.S. patents and is a fellow of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IS&T, IAP, IARIA, AAIA, and Leonardo at Djerassi (2023).  
Jacob Thompson-Bell is a composer, curator, and researcher based in the United Kingdom. Jacob is a founder member of the multisensory collective Unusual Ingredients and a principal lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire, U.K.
Polona Tratnik is a senior researcher at the Institute IRRIS and full Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. A Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of California Santa Cruz, she is also a biotechnological artist and author, most recently of Art as Capital: The Intersection of Science, Technology and the Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).
 

LABS CALL FOR PEER REVIEWERS 

Leonardo Graduate Abstracts is a database of MA, MFA and PhD abstracts on the intersection of art, science and/or technology. Once a year, in July, Peer Reviewers from all over the world assess abstracts that have been submitted the prior year. Reviewers report that the process is enjoyable, informative, and not time consuming, keeping them apprised of ideas of interest from recent graduates. The database can be accessed here. If you are interested in being a Peer Reviewer for the 2022–23 period, please send an email with your current vitae attached to Sheila Pinkel, spinkel4@gmail.com

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LASER Talks
Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks, a program of international gatherings, bring artists, scientists, humanists, and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to regional cultural environments by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building in over 50 cities worldwide. Find out more
 



U(BQT)LAB PODCAST: QUANTUM COMPUTING, COGNITION & BIOCOMPUTERS 

 
The mystery of the music in the brain is far from being fully understood. Through his career and while exploring brain music interfaces, AI scientist and classically trained composer Eduardo Reck Miranda takes us into a field of possibilities for the future of music in an interview with LASER Nomad Chair, Luca Forcucci. Listen here
 

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OPEN CALL: PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2023 

 
Submission deadline: 3 March 2023
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world's longest-running competition for media art. It provides inspiring, current, and forward-thinking insight into the interface between art, technology, and society, using the award-winning works of international artists as a trend barometer. Winners will be eligible for the coveted Golden Nica awards including monetary prizes of up to 10,000 euros in each category and being featured at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria! Submit here
 
CALL FOR PAPERS: AUTOMATION CULTURE 
 
Submission Deadline: 6 March 2023
The University of Western Australia calls for papers for the ‘Automation Culture: Intersections between Art, Automation, and Living Systems’ conference taking place from the 17–19 November 2023 in Perth. Submit here
 


OPEN CALL: EU PRIZE FOR CITIZEN SCIENCE 

 
Submission Deadline: 13 March 2023
The prize (up to €60.000) honors, presents, and supports outstanding projects whose social and political impact advances the further development of a pluralistic, inclusive, and sustainable society in Europe. Submit here
 


FOUNDATION: A WEB3 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 

 
17 March 2023, 3–5 p.m. HKT
Videotage (Hong Kong) invites you to the grand finale of FOUNDATION: A Web3 Media Art Festival on Distant.Gallery. FOUNDATION proposes a collective way-finding exercise in the age of decentralization, with a keynote speech by Dr. Lev Manovich, the unveiling of three commissioned artist x lab collaborations, and the opening of a 6-month exhibition of inspiring art practices in and around the intersection of Web3 and Art. Register here
 


OPEN CALL: HOST ISEA INTERNATIONAL 2025 

 
ISEA International announces the call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) to host ISEA2025 (31st International Symposium on Electronic Art). Read more
 


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