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13 July 2023    Leonardo Network Newsletter
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CRIPTECH METAVERSE LAB ARTIST COMMISSIONS TO PREMIERE AT GRAY AREA FESTIVAL OCT 2023
 
Date: 19–22 October 2023
Where: San Francisco, CA

Commissioned through the CripTech Metaverse Lab, an experimental joint initiative with Gray Area, a cohort of disabled creatives offer powerful new possibilities for creative accessibility in virtual reality. These works are being developed in partnership with HTC VIVERSE and New Art City and will premiere at Gray Area Festival, Plural Prototypes, in San Francisco. Learn more about the cohort.

Photo Credit: Victoire Poumadere. Courtesy of Gray Area
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LEONARDO @ DJERASSI OPEN STUDIOS 
 
Date: 15 July 2023
Where: Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2325 Bear Gulch Road Woodside, CA 94062

Last chance to enjoy a stunning sculpture hike and learn about the Djerassi Resident Artists Program projects at Synthesis in Motion: Art + Science in Nature, the annual Leonardo @ Djerassi Open Studios on 15 July. Get your tickets now!

Photo Credit: Jason Lam
Pictured on stage (From left) is EQTY Lab founder Jonathan Dotan leading a panel discussion at ASU California Center about the impact of generative AI on the film industry with filmmaker Aaron Zelman and Writers Guild of America members John Rogers and John Lopez.
THE COMPLEXITIES OF AI IN CREATIVE LANDSCAPE
 
Disruption 2.0, a recent event held at the ASU California Center, brought together a diverse group of writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and thought leaders to delve into the critical dilemmas surrounding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the entertainment industry. Read more.

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EXPERIENCE THE NOISE AQUARIUM EXHIBITION

Date: 14 June 2023–3 January 2024
Where: Musée de la civilisation, 85 Rue Dalhousie, Québec City, Canada

Noise Aquarium is at the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City! Watch their 3D audiovisual experience of plankton in noise pollution, utilizing 3D scans obtained with unique scientific imaging techniques to immerse you in the 3D "aquarium" of diverse planktons projected as large as whales. 

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Noise Aquarium
  
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISEA2024 
 
Deadlines:
24 August 2023: Creative works
16 October 2023: Academic submissions

ISEA2024 will reflect on the theme, Everywhen: Exploring the interrelations between place, time, and story through artists, scientists, technologists, and theorists sharing their research and work. Submit your creative works and academic submissions now! 

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: DESIGN + ART + SCIENCE
 
Deadline: 1 August 2023
The journal LA TADEO DEARTE welcomes research and reflection papers in any language. You're invited to share your writings that explore the encounters, the misencounters, and the exploration of common areas shared by design, art, and science. Learn more.
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THE CAA-GETTY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
 
Deadline: 15 August 2023
The CAA-Getty International Program enables twelve international visual arts professionals to accompany program alumni presenting at the 112th Annual Conference in Chicago in February 2024. Participants will receive funds for travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, conference registrations, and one-year CAA memberships. We encourage all international art historians and museum curators to apply!

Photo Credit: Stephen Fọlárànmí. Courtesy of the College Art Association of America (CAA)
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LET'S DARE TO CO-CREATE THE FUTURE? 
 
Deadlines: 
31 July 2023: Proposal submission (100–250 words)
31 October 2023: Final manuscript submission

From Artificial Intelligence to augmented wisdom: How can we co-create the future for a healthy planet? We invite you to submit proposals exploring this theme for publication in a special bilingual issue of Leonardo in collaboration with Zhuangshi, Journal of Art and Design. We welcome submissions from all disciplines, theorists, historians, practitioners, and critics reflecting on this topic. Learn more.
 
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BIOPOLITICAL SCREENS: IMAGE, POWER, AND THE NEOLIBERAL BRAIN
 

In Biopolitical Screens, awarded the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reality to video installation art. He presents a critical account of how images curate our minds and have merged with the neural tissues of our brains.
BUY YOUR COPY FROM MIT PRESS
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READ LEONARDO VOL. 56, NO. 4 OUT ON 1 AUGUST

Cover: Suk Kyoung Choi, The Drowned World triptych, series 001. (© Suk Kyoung Choi)
Leonardo Vol. 56, No. 4 is on the horizon! Leonardo Vol. 56, No. 3 is available now, including transdisciplinary articles such as The AI Laocoön: Art and the Artificial Imagination, or Survival Aesthetics in the Anthropocene by Suk Kyoung Choi. See more.
LEONARDO REVIEWS

July 2023
Modernité du livre: De nouvelles maisons d’édition pour de nouveaux lectorats by Olivier Bessard-Banquy. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
The Smartness Mandate by Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka.

Virtual Exhibition No. 12: Art Research Center/A.R.C. Group 55th Anniversary Exhibition Reviewed by Robert Richardson.

Go to the Leonardo Reviews Archive.

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SHANGHAI LASER TALK(CHINA)
"'TECHNOETICC AESTHETICS' Psiborgian Incursions"
14 July 2023, 5:00PM CST (UTC +8) Find out more.

SANTA FE LASER TALK(US)
"Bioart and Gender in the Americas"
30 July 2023, 11:00AM MDT (UTC -6) Find out more.


Zürich LASER TALK(SWITZERLAND)
"Future Plan(t)s"
29 August 2023, 6:30PM CEST (UTC +2); and
5 September 2023, 6:30PM CEST (UTC +2)  Find out more.
 
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