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

Leonardo Governing Board Elects Greg Harper New Chair

The Leonardo Governing Board elected Greg Harper as chair in the August 2009 board meeting. Board chair duties include overseeing the running of the Governing Board and Executive Committee; chairing meetings of the Governing Board and Executive Committee; working in partnership with the Governing Board and staff to make sure board resolutions and decisions are carried out and acting as spokesperson for the organization.

Greg Harper is an attorney and a politician. His formal education consists of a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science and B.A. in economics, both from the University of Illinois. His graduate work focused on artificial intelligence at San Jose State University and culminated with a J.D. from the University of California at Hastings. He is the principal of Harper & Associates, a law firm specializing in contract and land use law. Since 2000, Harper has served in the elected political position of Director of the Alameda-Contra Costa County Transit District for Ward 2, representing approximately 300,000 citizens of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont, California. Currently he is president of that board as well. He is also a member of Berkeley's Measure G Global Warming Task Force. His numerous political positions and appointments include the position of mayor of Emeryville from 1990 to 1991. Harper is excited about exploring the rarified intersection of art and pure science. His interests are in determining how Leonardo/ ISAST might benefit from a deepening of the organization's work at the intersection of art and applied sciences or engineering. His experience extends to drafting contracts for commissioned sculpture, an area in which knowledge is sorely lacking within art education. Most of all, he anticipates using his legal expertise to protect Leonardo/ISAST and his organizational expertise to help it further grow and mature.

LABS Call for Submissions

Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS), consisting of the English-language database, Spanish-language database, Chinese-language database and French-language database, is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Master's and MFA thesis abstracts on topics at the intersection between art, science and technology. Individuals receiving advanced degrees in the arts (visual, sound, performance, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology that in some way investigate philosophical, historical or critical applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit abstracts of their theses for consideration.

The LABS project does not seek to duplicate existing thesis databases but rather to give visibility to interdisciplinary work that is often hard to retrieve from existing databases. Abstracts will be reviewed for inclusion in their respective databases twice a year. The databases will include only approved and filed thesis abstracts. Abstracts of theses filed in prior years may also be submitted for inclusion. The next deadline for submission is 30 June 2010.

The English LABS, Spanish LABS, Chinese LABS and French LABS international peer review panels review abstracts for inclusion in their respective databases. Authors of abstracts most highly ranked by the panel will also be invited to submit articles for publication consideration in the journal Leonardo.

For more information visit: <www.leonardo.info/isast/LABS.html>.

Leonardo Education Forum News

Name Change.

The Leonardo Education Forum has changed its name to the Leonardo Education and Art Forum as of the beginning of 2010. The change is meant to more accurately represent the inclusiveness of the work carried out within the forum, encompassing all aspects of its collective interests in art and education. For more information on LEAF, visit: <www.leonardo.info/isast/LEAF.html>.

LEAF Call for Submissions.

Leonardo Education and Art Forum co-chair Victoria Vesna and Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina are interested in examples of courses and curricula in the art-science field—such as courses on art and biology, art and mathematics, art and chemistry, art and environmental sciences, etc. The interest is not in collecting art and new media curricula but in the broad range of arts (all forms from performing to sound, visual, etc.) and in connecting to all...

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