The Network

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

LEONARDO CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AROUND THE WORLD

During 2017–2018, we invite you to participate in our 18-month-long celebration of Leonardo’s 50th Anniversary. Half a century ago, kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer Frank Malina set out to solve the needs of the community of artists and scientists working across disciplines by using the “new media” of the time—offset print publishing. Leonardo journal represented a unique vision that served as an international channel of communication among artists, with emphasis on the writings of artists using science and developing technologies in their work.

Today, documenting and capturing the creative innovators and provocateurs of culture is not enough. If media is the messenger, then Leonardo must expand its scope to represent the unique works and challenges we face in the 21st century. As a network of networks, Leonardo is reimagining the next 50 years. We invite you to come along with us on this journey of rediscovery and reinvention.

October 2018: Dallas, Texas, U.S.A

50th celebration at the University of Texas at Dallas hosted by the ATEC program with pioneer honorary mention of Lynn Hershman-Leeson.

18–19 October 2018: Perth, Australia

Celebrate Leonardo’s 50th at the Quite Frankly conference, part of the Unhallowed Arts events presented by SymbioticA.

November 2018: Montevideo, Uruguay

50th celebration presentations and workshop organized by Delma Rodriguez of Anilla Cultural Latino América–Europa en Uruguay.

3–4 November 2018: SPECIAL EVENT: The Convening, San Francisco

You’re invited to Leonardo’s culmination celebration to inspire, experience and envision the future. Hosted by the San Francisco Art Institute. RSVP <www.leonardo.info/convening>.

For more information about upcoming Leonardo anniversary events, visit <www.leonardo.info/50th-anniversary>.

THE 2018 PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA RECOGNIZES LEONARDO AS VISIONARY PIONEERS OF MEDIA ART

As one of the world’s most time-honored and leading platforms for art, science and technology, Leonardo is being singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica with a 2018 Golden Nica. Ever since its inception, Leonardo has nurtured transnational and interdisciplinary collaborative projects in the U.S.A. and abroad, propagating and documenting the most creative and most promising ideas of our time. We thank Ars Electronica for the honor and extend our congratulations to all the winners.

WELCOME TO NEW GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER FELICIA CLEPER-BORKOVI

Felicia Cleper-Borkovi is a principal with Arup and has focused her 25-year career on redefining, deinstitutionalizing and modernizing healthcare design. She is an architect by training and practice. Cleper-Borkovi’s projects demonstrate the integration of architecture, clinical planning, landscape, lighting, art and building design. She is co-Founder and President of 2112, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring the intersections of Art and Science, and she serves as Board Director of the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco.

NEW IN LEONARDO BOOK SERIES: WEATHER AS MEDIUM: TOWARD A METEOROLOGICAL ART BY JANINE RANDERSON

In Weather as Medium, Randerson explores a series of meteorological art projects from the 1960s to the present that draw on sources ranging from dynamic, technological, and physical systems to indigenous cosmology. In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the “big picture systems view” and a ground-based perspective. See <mitpress.mit.edu/books/weather-medium>.

SIGGRAPH 2018 CONFERENCE AND NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL

Once a year Leonardo publishes the SIGGRAPH journal issue, which is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Leonardo and ACM SIGGRAPH to showcase the community of artists, designers and scholars working with computer graphics and interactive technologies. This publication coincides with SIGGRAPH 2018 and marks the tenth year of collaboration between SIGGRAPH and Leonardo. View the annual special Leonardo SIGGRAPH journal issue featuring new Art Papers, the Art Gallery and the ACM SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement Award. This year the SIGGRAPH Art...