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  • Leonardo Network News
  • Melinda Klayman, Leonardo Network News Coordinator

New Address

The Leonardo/ISAST headquarters have moved. As of 1 May 2004, you can reach us at:

Leonardo/ISAST
211 Sutter Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94108, U.S.A.
phone: (415) 391-1110
fax: (415) 391-2385
General e-mail: <isast@leonardo.info>.
Web: <www.leonardo.info>.

Pacific Rim New Media Summit

The Pacific Rim New Media Summit is a program of ISEA2006, the International Symposium of Electronic Art, hosted by the City of San Jose, California. The Summit is a gathering of organizations and representatives from the Pacific Rim and Asia to focus on development of partnerships among institutions with the objective of addressing the challenges of how information technology and creativity are shaping new directions in art, science, architecture, design, literature, theater, music, academic research and information-technology—based industry.

The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a dynamic context for innovation and creativity framed by issues of economic globalization, regional interaction and environmental change. Silicon Valley has a vested interest and a cultural responsibility to help identify and enable new forms of cultural production in the region and locally. Encompassing all states and nations that border the Pacific Ocean and Asia, including all of Southeast Asia, Pacific Latin America and the Pacific Islands, this event will address the developmental role and capacity of new media art to foster greater mutual understanding.

The intention of the Pacific Rim Summit is to be more than just another conference; it aims to enable development of specific outcomes that foster cross-cultural and trans-regional cooperation, including the establishment of an ongoing network of organizations and a formalized program of interaction between Pacific Rim new media organizations. An International Steering Committee will identify Summit themes and invite presentations. Other objectives include: a publication of white papers from Summit working groups proposing specific collaborative programming; cooperative agreements for enabling collaborative research and creative practice between organizations; diaspora community involvement to shape specific outreach programming responsive to the city of San Jose's diverse international heritages; defining working models for the transfer of knowledge from expert practitioners to lay participants.

A special issue of Leonardo will be devoted to the summit.

San Jose, as the metropolitan capital of Silicon Valley, is the ideal location for this event. 2006 will be the first year of a planned biannual international festival of art and technology, which will be known as ZeroOne. The festival begins in 2006 with the hosting of ISEA2006. ISEA (Inter-Society for Electronic Arts, <www.isea-web.org>) is an international, artist-run organization, which sponsors a symposium and festival of digital arts every 2 years in a different city of the world. A consortium of San Jose—based organizations competed for and won the bid to host the ISEA Symposium in 2006. The sponsoring organizations for the ISEA2006 | ZeroOne San Jose Festival are:

CADRE Laboratory for New Media, San Jose State University; City of San Jose; Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley; San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau; San Jose Museum of Art; Tech Museum of Innovation; and ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network.

The Pacific Rim New Media Summit will be held 7—8 August 2006, preceding the traditional ISEA academic conference. The summit director is Joel Slayton; Roger Malina is co-chair. Steve Dietz is the director of ISEA 2006. The summit is cosponsored by Leonardo/ISAST and CADRE Laboratory for New Media. The proposed venue is the SJSU/City of San Jose Martin Luther King Library.

For more information, see <www.sanjoseca.gov/cityManager/releases/2003_ISEAaward.pdf>.

Leonardo and Harvestworks Event Collaboration

Leonardo/ISAST collaborated with Harvestworks in holding their Interactive Project: Activated Environments and Hybrid Instruments conference, 23-25 April 2004 in New York City. The weekend-long seminar featured artworks by the Harvest-works residents, panel discussions and demonstrations, and involved arts organizations and artists' studios in the city.

Representatives from the Leonardo community included Leonardo Music Journal editor-in-chief Nic Collins, who presented his own work and moderated a panel on the topic of Hybrid Music Instruments. The Electronic Music Foundation sold back issues of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal and...

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