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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

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On-Line Access to Just Accepted Articles

Leonardo Just Accepted is a new publication mechanism for rapid access to articles recently accepted for publication in Leonardo. Select articles accepted for publication will be posted unedited on the MIT Press web site as Leonardo Just Accepted approximately a year before appearance in the print journal. Articles recently posted as Leonardo Just Accepted include “The Logic of Color: Theory and Graphics in Christine Ladd-Franklin’s Explanation of Color Vision,” by Jeremy Kargon; “Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art,” by Jon McCormack, Oliver Bown, Alan Dorin, Jonathan McCabe, Gordon Monro, and Mitchell Whitelaw; and “Open Source Architecture: An Exploration of Source Code and Access in Architectural Design,” by Theodora Vardouli and Leah Buechley. To access Leonardo Just Accepted articles, visit <www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/0/ja>.

Leonardo Affiliate Member: The International Graduate Centre for the Study of culture at JustusLiebig-Universität Giessen

Leonardo/ISAST welcomes the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at JustusLiebig-Universität Giessen (JLU GCSC) to the Leonardo Affiliate Program. The Centre offers a doctoral program tailored to the needs of Ph.D. students, with an excellent research environment and the support that students need in order to excel in their academic as well as non-academic careers. The GCSC’s academic framework reflects a pluralistic understanding of the study of culture. JLU aims to enhance dialogue among the disciplines, to foster self-reflexive, interdisciplinary and international approaches to the field and to promote these insights. See <www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliate-members.html> for further information.

New from the Leonardo Book Series

Illusions in Motion, by Erkki Huhtamo

Beginning in the late 18th century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands, of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates the neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. For more information see: <www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/huhtamo.html>.

The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, by Linda Dalrymple Henderson

In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception—the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space—were central to the development of modern art. See <www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/henderson.html>.

Labs Review Panelists, 2013

Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) has named its review panelists for 2012–2013. The panelists are: Yiannis Colakides, co-director of NeMe (New Media), Limassol, Cyprus; David Familian, artistic director of the Beall Center for Art and Technology at University of California Irvine, Irvine, California; Tom Leeser, Program Director of the Art and Technology Program in the School of Art and the Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; Andrea Polli, Associate Professor of Fine Art and Engineering at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque; Edward Shanken, researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a member of the Media Art History faculty at Donau University in Krems, Austria; Charissa N. Terranova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies, School of Arts & Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas; and Shawn Decker, Professor in the Art and Technology Department and the Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

LABS, consisting of an English-language database, Spanish-language database and French-language database, is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Master’s and MFA thesis abstracts on topics at the intersection of 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...