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

Leonardo Organizational Membership Program

LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre and the University of Evora's Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artistica (CHAIA) both joined the Leonardo Organizational Membership Program earlier this year.

LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, in Asturias, Spain, is a space for artistic exchange. It was created with the purpose of allying art, design, culture, industry and economic development. It aims to be a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation.

Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artistica (CHAIA) was established in October of 1987 as an art history research organization at the Universidade de Évora, an institution born in the 16th century and located in the south of Portugal. In recent years, besides developing research in the field of art history, with branches in Brazil, CHAIA has enlarged its scope to other forms of artistic research. Consequently, new investigative areas in architecture, visual arts, urbanism, landscape design, theater, music and musicology have emerged. Multiple scientific and artistic projects have been developed in these program areas over the last few years, producing seminars and publications. The center is particularly interested in exploring the relationship between artistic practice and scientific research in a university context. More information about CHAIA can be obtained at <www.chaia.uevora.pt>.

LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre and CHAIA join the Exploratorium, CalArts, the University of Washington's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DX-ARTS), UCLA's Art|Sci Center, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, swissnex, the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Plymouth, the Langlois Foundation, Ontario College of Art and Design, University of Texas at Dallas and Creativity and Cognition Studios in supporting Leonardo through the Leonardo Organizational Membership program. For more information about the program, visit: <www.leo nardo.info/isast/org-membership.html>.

Leonardo/OLATS Honors Michael Bullock with Leonardo-EMS Prize

The second Leonardo-EMS Prize was given to Michael Bullock, a young researcher from Troy, NY, who gave a presentation during EMS08 (the annual conference of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network), which was held this year in Paris, France. After deliberation, the jury, composed of Marc Battier (France), Ricardo Dal Farra (Argentina) and Kenneth Fields (Canada/China), selected Bullock's paper "Noise to Signal: Consumer Electronics and the Rise of Underground Electro-Acoustic Scenes." Of all the papers presented by young researchers, Bullock's was outstanding in its originality, clarity and insight. Besides his academic research at Troy's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bullock performs experimental music with his bass and with electronics. Bullock's paper will be posted on the Leonardo web site and will also be published in an upcoming issue of Leonardo.

New Co-Chair of Leonardo Education Forum

Members of the Leonardo Education Forum voted in Ellen K. Levy as the new co-chair of the group in June 2008, joining Andrea Polli (chair), Victoria Vesna (co-chair) and Nina Czegledy (co-chair) for the 2008-2009 season. She will remain co-chair of LEF through the spring of 2010 and then take over as chair for one year, from 2010-2011.

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society. For more about LEF, a list of members, discussions and more, visit: <artsci.ucla.edu/LEF/>.

Ellen K. Levy, a New York-based artist and teacher, is the immediate past president of the College Art Association. Levy has taught courses on art and science's interrelationships at Cooper Union, SVA and Brooklyn College and lectured and conducted workshops at numerous universities. She has played a seminal role in airing issues of complex systems in her art, in...

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