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

Leonardo Affiliate Program: New Directions and Benefits

The Leonardo Affiliate Program is a growing community of leading universities, nonprofits and corporations engaged in research and creative activities at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology. Organizations may now participate in the Leonardo Affiliate Program at the Affiliate or Senior Affiliate levels, which include increased benefits and value. Leonardo Affiliates may propose, plan and implement new Leonardo programs, events and projects; pursue joint funding and collaborative research and creative activities; present the research and creative work of faculty and students in Leonardo publications; and more. Leonardo Affiliates are key partners in shaping the direction of Leonardo/ISAST and the future of Art/Science.

Current Affiliates include Arizona State University Art Museum; CalArts, Herb Alpert School of Music; Danube University at Krems; De Montfort University, Institute for Creative Technologies; Emily Carr University of Art & Design; Plymouth University; Pomona College; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sound Department; School of Visual Arts, Computer Art Department; Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Engineering Department; UCLA ArtSci Center; University of Caldas, Arts & Humanities; University of Technology, Sydney, Creativity & Cognition Studios; University of Texas at Dallas, Arts and Technology.

We invite organizations to join the Leonardo Affiliate Program as we embark on a new era of participation. <www.leonardo.info/isast/affiliates.html>

Leonardo e-Books Now Available from the MIT Press

We are pleased to announce that several titles from the Leonardo Book Series are now available as e-books from the MIT Press, Amazon, Google, Kobo and Barnes & Noble. Titles include: CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy, by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh; Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, by Eugene Thacker; Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution, by George Gessert; The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science, by Cretien van Campen; The Language of New Media, by Lev Manovich; Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience, by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip; and V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen. <www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/Leonardo-ebooks.html>

Journal Articles Now Available Pre-Publication Through Early Access System

Leonardo is pleased to announce a new early access publication service through MIT Press by which accepted Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal articles are made available to subscribers after successful completion of peer review but prior to their publication in print. Leonardo publications are being restructured to be web-centric to accelerate the distribution of reliable peer-reviewed articles. Professionals in the art, science, technology field — both authors and readers — will benefit from this early access program of accepted articles. <www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/0/0>

LMJ Editorial Board Welcomes New Members

Leonardo Music Journal welcomes four new members to the LMJ Editorial Board: Christoph Cox, Yan Jun, Andrea Polli and Tara Rodgers, who have been enlisted to help bring expertise in emerging areas of sound work, such as Phonography, Sound Art, Circuit Bending, Experimental Pop Music and Sonification, while also extending the journal's reach into new communities, voices and viewpoints. LMJ Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Collins expressed his gratitude for the many years of valuable support of LMJ Founder and Board Member Larry Polansky and LMJ Editorial Board Members Jody Diamond, Marc Battier and Ricardo dal Farra, who are stepping down from their posts this year. <www.leonardo.info/lmj>

Christoph Cox is Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College and a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is the author of Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California Press, 1999) and co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, 2004). The recipient of a 2009 Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, he has published essays in Artforum, Cabinet, Journal of Visual Culture, Organised Sound, The Wire, The Journal of the History of Philosophy and elsewhere. He has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Kitchen, New Langton Arts and G Fine Art Gallery. In 2011, Cox curated...