Leonardo/ISAST News

The Newsletter of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology

Editorial Board Member Tom Linehan

Thomas E. Linehan has joined the University of Texas at Dallas faculty as a professor of aesthetic studies in the School of Arts and Humanities. He is also serving as director of the newly formed Institute for Arts and Technology (beginning January 2002). The institute was jointly created by the School of Arts and Humanities and the School of Engineering and Computer Science. Previously he had developed premiere degree programs in media arts technology at Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Texas A&M University's Visualization Laboratory and the Ringling School of Art and Design's Computer Animation Program. Each of these programs provides an advanced computing environment in support of an industry-relevant education.

Linehan has a background in both corporate management and educational administration. He created Ohio State University's Research Partners Program, where university faculty, graduate students and corporations form on-going research partnerships to study digital communications technologies. He firmly believes that education must become a true collaboration between industry leaders and educators.

E-mail: <Tlinehan@utdallas.edu>.

Ryszard Stanislawski (1921-2000)

Ryszard Stanislawski was a Polish critic and historian of art, who also served as an Honorary Editor of Leonardo. He studied the history of art at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre, in Paris, and at Warsaw University. From 1966-1991 he was the director of the Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi (Museum of Art in Lodz). He organized exhibitions of Polish modern and avant-garde art in many museums around the world. The first important such show, "Constructivism in Poland: Blok, Prasens, a.r.," was presented at the Folkwang Museum in Essen (Germany) and at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller in Otterlo (The Netherlands) in 1973. In the 1970s and 1980s the Muzeum Sztuki prepared many exhibitions, two of which were very significant for the promotion of Polish art-"Présences polonaises. L'art vivant autour du Musée de Lódz. Witkiewicz, constructivisme, les contemporains" at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1983) and "Europa, Europa" at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn (1994).

-Krzysztof Jurecki, Dept. Photography and Visual Art, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.

LDR News

Leonardo Digital Reviews (LDR) announces a new category called "Review Articles." The existing LDR categories of Books, CDs, Films, Events and Web Sites will continue to appear as usual, but some links now go directly to an article by one of the review panel members. This represents a move toward reviews that synthesize as well as analyze the interventions in our field. Single-item reviews will continue as before and these are intended to be reactive, informative and analytical and to situate the material within an existing body of practice or bibliography. A review article, on the other hand, is one that normally deals with two or more items. Using them as primary data source, the review author will show the significance (or otherwise) of the material to the reviewer's own intellectual position and research interests relative to the Leonardo project. Initially review articles will be subject to a process of informal review before publication on the web site; if the initiative takes off, we anticipate moving to a peer-review process using panel members.

-Michael Punt, Editor, Leonardo Digital Reviews. E-mail: <mpunt@easynet.co.uk>.

Leonardo/ISAST Board Member Rich Gold

Rich Gold is a composer, inventor, cartoonist, lecturer and researcher who in the 1970s co-founded the League of Automatic Music Composers, the first network computer band. As an internationally known artist he invented the field of Algorithmic Symbolism, an example of which, "The Party Planner," was featured in Scientific American. He was head of the sound and music department of Sega USA's coin-op video game division and the inventor of the award-winning Little Computer People (Activision), the first fully autonomous computerized person available for purchase. For 5 years he headed the electronic and computer toy research group at Mattel Toys and was the manager of, among other interactive toys, the Mattel PowerGlove. He also worked on Captain Power, the first interactive...