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  • Leonardo Network News
  • Kathleen Quillian, Leonardo Network News Coordinator

The Newsletter of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology and of l'Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Technosciences

Leonardo Co-Sponsors Space Sciences Lab Artists-in-Residence Semiconductor

Following upon the success of Liliane Lijn's summer 2005 artist's residency at the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab (SSL), Leonardo is pleased to welcome the SSL's new artists-in-residence: U.K. artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt. Jarman and Gerhardt, who work collaboratively as Semiconductor, will spend 4 months at SSL, working at the lab as part of Isabel Hawkins's Center for Science Education. Work by Semiconductor includes films and digital animations "made out of sound," using abstract landscapes and architecture as a means to describe aural and visual interpretations of the world. Live digital performance is one strand of Semiconductor's output; they also produce surround-sound installations and single-screen sound films that are exhibited at galleries, festivals and biennials worldwide. Examples of their work can be found on-line at: <www.semiconductorfilms.org>.

Pacific Rim New Media Summit Experimental Publishing Project

How are information technology and creativity shaping new directions in the arts and sciences around the Pacific Rim? What challenges face organizations and individuals in the region who are working in the fields of architecture, design, literature, theater and music? How do academic research and information-technology-based industry fit into this picture?

The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a dynamic context for innovation and creativity. Experimentation in the many disciplines that encompass art, science and technology is resulting in the emergence of new forms of cultural production and experience unique to the region. The complex relations and diversity of Pacific Rim nations are exemplified as well throughout the hybridized communities that compose Silicon Valley.

The Pacific Rim New Media Summit will be a gathering of organizations and representatives from the Pacific Rim and elsewhere in Asia to investigate the characteristics of Pacific Rim nations while focusing on the development of partnerships in order to address the multiple challenges faced throughout the region as it develops its art-and-science networks in tandem with its increasing economic influence. This transdisciplinary event will have a specific focus on educational methodologies and practices.

The summit is organized into seven working groups according to the following topic areas:

  • • Container Culture (Chair: Steve Dietz)

  • • Education (Chair: Fatima Lasay)

  • • Place, Ground and Practice (Chair: Danny Butt)

  • • Urbanity and Locative Media (Chair: Roh Soh-Yeong)

  • • Latin American/Asia-Pacific New Media Initiatives (Chair: José-Carlos Mariategui)

  • • Directory, Organizations and Residencies (Co-Chairs: Julianne Pierce and Nisar Keshvani)

  • • Piracy, Ethics and Community (Chair: Steve Cisler)

For more information on the Pacific Rim New Media Summit, visit <http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnms.html>.

Leonardo Pacific Rim Publishing Initiative

In conjunction with the Pacific Rim New Media Summit, Leonardo will undertake a multifaceted publishing initiative directly related to its role as co-sponsor of the summit event. This initiative has three components:

Hybrid Print and DVD Journal Issue of Leonardo

To coincide with the summit, Leonardo is publishing a special hybrid issue based on the work of the seven Pacific Rim working groups, featuring new-media educational programs and artists from the Pacific-Asia region. The print issue of the journal will include statements by artists as well as articles by cultural theorists looking at issues germane to the seven working-group topics, plus introductory texts by the working-group chairs. The accompanying DVD will feature short video works by artists from around the Pacific Rim.

LEA Special Sections on Working Group Topics

As a lead-up to the summit, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac has been publishing on a regular basis materials submitted by the working groups as each develops its mandate. Working-group statements, names of working-group members and contact information for the working-group chairs have been available in issues of LEA since March 2005 (on the Web at <http://lea.mit.edu>). Additional materials will continue to be published in LEA as the working groups define and refine their focus in preparation for the summit.

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