Leonardo Network News

LEAF Welcomes Anker and Talasek as Chair-Elects

The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) is a Leonardo Working Group that 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, LEAF is a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, such as the College Art Association of America (CAA).

This year, LEAF has welcomed Suzanne Anker and JD Talasek as LEAF Chair-Elects. Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS), Washington, D.C., which is focused on the exploration of the intersections between science, medicine, technology and visual culture. For the past 3 years, Talasek has organized and moderated D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASERs) in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST. We wish a warm welcome to Anker and Talasek as they join the LEAF leadership team. See <www.leonardo.info/isast/LEAF.html>.

Roger Malina Appointed to VINCI 14 Program Committee

The International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) provides an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs and applications. VINCI has previously been held in Shanghai, Sydney, Beijing, Hong Kong, Hangzhou and Tianjin. VINCI 2014, the seventh edition of the symposium, will be held on 5–8 August 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina has been appointed to the VINCI 14 Program Committee. Malina joins several other key players working at the intersection of art, science and design to organize this annual event. See <www.vinci-conf.org/>.

UT Dallas ATEC Announces Leonardo E-books

The Leonardo Initiatives in the Arts and Technology Program at the University of Texas, Dallas (ATEC), Leonardo/ISAST in San Francisco and Leonardo/Olats in Paris are pleased to bring your attention to the Leonardo e-book series! Three Leonardo e-books are currently available for Kindle: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, edited by Maximilian Schich, Isabel Meirelles and Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina; Art and Atoms, edited by Tami Spector and Roger Malina; and Leonardo Reviews Quarterly 2.01, with Essays on the Sublime in Art and Science, edited by Roger Malina, Leonardo Reviews Editor-in-Chief Michael Punt and Claudy Op den Kamp. We are also excited to announce two new e-books for 2014: Water Is in the Air: Art, Water and Climate Change, edited by Leonardo/Olats director Annick Bureaud; and Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts, edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger Malina and Louise Whiteley. See <http://texashats.org/artscilab/2013/12/27/ut-dallas-atec-leonardo-initiatives-announces-leonardo-e-books/>.

Back Issues Available to Subscribers

Almost 50 years ago in Paris, a group of artists, scientists and engineers got together and decried the lack of professional venues through which emerging work bridging the two cultures could be presented, debated and promoted. Since then, Leonardo has worked to fill that void and has continued to encourage cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology through publications and art-science collaborations. You can revisit the history of art-science collaboration Leonardo/ISAST has documented and helped foster in the pages of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal. MIT Press offers to all subscribers a 35% discount on back issues from 2007 onward of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal. Contact MIT Press at <journals-orders@mit.edu> for more information. Articles from back issues of Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal are also available in electronic form to subscribers on JSTOR for an additional $25 annual access fee. See <www.leonardo.info/archive.html>.

Leonardo Affiliates: Partners in the Future of Art/Science

The Leonardo Affiliate Program provides a collaborative environment where leaders from top-ranked universities and independent nonprofits in the cross-disciplinary field of art-science share best practices, research and...