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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 Education and Art Forum Report for 2011

The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) completed a very productive year filled with robust discussions, Leonardo Art-Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) salons and other notable events.

Patricia Olynyk, Chair of LEAF, and former Chair Ellen Levy hosted a post-Thanksgiving New York LASER—the final NY LASER of the year—on Sunday, 11 December at the studio of Ellen Levy. To encourage deeper discussion, the meeting focused on summarizing projects presented at NY LASER events throughout 2011.

Victoria Vesna, former Chair of LEAF, launched the first Hong Kong LASER on 9 December at Videotage. The event was co-hosted with biologist Yun Wah Lam, who will lead future meetings. The City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media will be hosting the ArtSci network site. Space will be provided on a regular basis by Videotage, a leading Hong Kong nonprofit organization active since 1986.

The Art Media and Technology program at Parsons is hosting the ArtSci network site initiated by Vesna. See <artsci. parsons.edu> for further details.

Paul Thomas, an International LEAF Affiliate, moderated LEAF education workshops in collaboration with the Australian Forum at ISEA2011 Istanbul and at Rewire, the Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in Liverpool. The workshops focused on transdisciplinary visual arts, science-and-technology renewal and post-new media assimilation.

College Art Association Conference panels at the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2012 of potential interest to LEAF members included: "Is It Time to Question the 'Privileging' of Visual Art?," Friday, 24 February; chairs: Greta Berman, The Juilliard School; Ellen K. Levy, independent artist, New York. "Headlines! Environmental News, Artist Presenters, Audience Respondents," Wednesday, 22 February; chair: Linda Weintraub, Artnow Publications. "Momentum: Women/Art/ Technology," Thursday, 23 February; chairs: Ferris Olin, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University; Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University. "Sustainable Futures: New Cultural Movements in Art + Ecology," Saturday, 25 February; chair: Patricia Olynyk, Chair, LEAF. Leonardo Education and Art Forum Business Meeting, Thursday, 23 February. "LEAF Education Roundtable Education at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology," Thursday, 23 February; workshop leader: Eddie Shanken.

Leonardo Editorial Board Term Renewals

Jack Ox, Jacques Mandelbrojt, Robert Root-Bernstein and Louise Poissant were all reappointed in November 2011 to the Leonardo Editorial Board. Leonardo Editorial Board members assist the editor-in-chief and journal editors with reviewing manuscripts considered for publication in the journals and provide general guidance on the quality and direction of the journal.

Jack Ox is Associate Research Professor in Music and associated faculty at the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), University of New Mexico. She has studied beyond her MFA in visual arts at the University of California at San Diego and done considerable research in both music theory (Manhattan School of Music, New York City) and phonetics (University of Cologne) in order to produce work that visually maps structures from extant examples of music, creating information visualizations. Currently she is writing a dissertation on Conceptual Metaphor Theory for the School of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Her past work includes musical visualizations of Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, Gregorian plainsong, J.S. Bach, John Cage's 4'33", Debussy's Nuages and Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. During a 7-year stay in Germany, she made an 800-sq-ft visualization of Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate, the 41-minute sound poem based on German phonemes. Ox and Kristen Loree, a professor in Theatre at UNM who developed an Ursonate concurrently with but independently from Ox, are collaborating with UNM composers Peter Gilbert and Karola Obermueller and VJ/DJ Jane daPain to create a multi-generational, full-dome and multiple-projector version, including new electronic music and VJ collages of the original materials. She is collaborating with David Britton on The 21st-Century Virtual Color Organ, a virtual-reality performance in an immersive environment.

Ox was co-editor with Jacques Mandelbrojt of the Leonardo Special Section "Synesthesia and Intersenses." Ox is also co-director...

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