Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board Elects Jim Crutchfield

The Leonardo Governing Board elected Jim Crutchfield to the board at its October 2009 meeting. Jim Crutchfield teaches nonlinear physics at the University of California, Davis, directs its Complexity Sciences Center, and promotes science interventions in nonscientific settings. He's mostly concerned with what patterns are, how they are created, and how intelligent agents discover them. find out more

Leonardo Education Forum Elects New Chairs

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) elected two new chairs to help lead the group: Patricia Olynk and Joe Lewis. find out more

Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board Elects Melinda Klayman

The Leonardo Governing Board elected Melinda Klayman to the board at its August 2009 meeting. Melinda is Program Manager for Sony U(x)nited, the User Experience team for Sony and Sony Ericsson, where she combines her background in art and art history with experience in mobile computing to influence the future of consumer technology. find out more

Prometheus Institute, Galeyev Readings, 2010

The "Prometheus" Center cordially invites you to take part in "Galeyev Readings" in Kazan, Russia from 1-7 October 2010. The event will include a conference, an exhibition and a festival in honor of scientist/artist and Leonardo Editorial Board member Bulat Makhmudovich Galeyev (1940-2009).
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Past Announcements

For a list of recent past announcements, visit the Leonardo Announcements page

LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL

Now Available:
LMJ19: Our Crowd---Four Composers Pick Composers

Inside Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 19: Take back the noise: Armed with mics, parabolic speakers and tuning tubes, o+a turn modern aural mayhem into habitable soundscapes; The last tangible medium: The CD inspired what might be the last culture of a recording medium. Volker Straebel reports on the end of sound recording media; Pandora's blippoo: Rob Hordijk's Blippoo Box packages chaos theory in its certified-organic analog sound; Windstorms, dog-barks and sound arts: Liz Phillips's installations and sculptures draw on the natural energies around them to add sonic elastic to the atmosphere. LMJ 19 includes the audio CD "Telematic Music: Six Perspectives" curated by Pauline Oliveros with contributions by Nameless Sound Youth Ensemble + Guests, Norman Lowrey, Sarah Weaver, Tom Bickley, If, Bwana, Caterina De Re, Seth Cluett, Doug Van Nort, Marc Jensen, Kathy Kennedy, Paula Matthusen, Shannon Morrow, Monique Buzzarté, Kristin Norderval and Elainie Lillios.

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LEONARDO GALLERY

Coded Cloth: A 21st Century Revolution in Art, Fashion and Design, curated by Melinda Rackham

A single connecting thread winds through 300 years of textile and computing history. John Kay's invention of the flying shuttle and Joseph Marie Jacquard's binary punch cards and loom head led to mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage's design and programming for an Analytical Engine, the direct predecessor of our modern-day mechanical computer. Without the warp and weft of textile technology, the hardware and software that enable today's ubiquitous information-processing revolution would never have emerged. In the early 21st century, the newest hybrid art forms of embedded computing and wearable technology are generating creations that would, until only recently, be beyond imagination. Find out more

LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC

The Creative Data special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) features papers and artworks that deal with the emerging practice of data visualization as an immersive experience. Data has long been the property and domain of screen-based collection, archiving, processing and interaction. The emergence of new processes, functionality and ways of interacting with information is opening up several new areas of great possibility in which the data allows newfound thematic and engaging forms of immersion, as well as innovative and perception-reshaping interaction. Guest edited by Jack Ox, Jeremy Hight and Erik Champion.
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Upcoming LASER: December 9, 2009

Join us for the upcoming Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), December 9, 2009 at the SETI Institute, Palo Alto, CA. Feature presentations include Chris Chafe, "Making Music in Data-Rich Environments," Paul Rabinow, "Ars Synthetica," Deborah Munk, "The Art of Recycling," and Cindy Stokes, "Dynamic Form." find out more