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Leonardo/ISAST NEWS Leonardo/ISAST NEWS The Newsletter of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology 2000 Leonardo New Horizons Award who blends architecture with sound and video art to force re-ex- Leonardo/ISAST is proud to announce the recipients of the amination of modern environments; Igor Stromajer (Slovenia), 2000 Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovation in New a Web and performance artist whose work ranges from street Media: Gregory Barsamian and Graham Harwood. performances to “megapathetic symphonies” and radiophonic Gregory Barsamian creates dream-based animated sculp- sound/digital art; and Fabian Wagmister (Argentina/U.S.A.), tures—zoetrope-like machines that produce three-dimen- the creator of an enormous international Intranet project, Wor- sional animations. In these works, he fashions narratives com- ship, which has resonant historical and social content. posed of images from the unconscious and presents them on This year’s New Horizons jury included: Donna J. Cox, pro- spinning armatures in a darkened space. His most recent fessor, School of Art and Design/National Center for traveling exhibition, Innuendo Non Troppo, was shown in Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Ur- Tokyo and throughout the United States. He lives and works bana-Champaign; Hervé Fischer, Daniel Langlois Chair in in New York. Digital Technologies and Fine Arts, Université Concordia Graham Harwood is a member of the technological media FIAM, and co-chair of La Cité des arts et des nouvelles tech- group Mongrel, which focuses on collaborative, socially en- nologies de Montréal; Ginette Major, chair of Le Café gaged products—art, software and workshops. Harwood Électronique de Montréal and co-chair of La Cité des arts et started out in the 1980s working with publications on such top- des nouvelles technologies de Montréal; Roger Malina, as- ics as working-class culture and new media in culture and soci- tronomer and executive editor of Leonardo; Rejane Spitz, art- ety, moving on to studies and work in programming and edu- ist and professor of art at PUC-Rio University, Rio de Janeiro, cation. Most recently he was commissioned by the Tate Gallery, Brazil; Annette Weintraub, media artist and professor of art at London, to produce an exploration of the Tate collection, the The City College of New York; Benjamin Weil, Curator of history of Millbank and its prison, and a “reversioning” of the Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and San Tate’s web site. Harwood lives and works in London. Francisco Bay Area art critic Barbara Lee Williams. The New Horizons Award was established in 1986 to ac- Past recipients of the New Horizons Award for Innovation knowledge the numerous challenges faced by artists as they have included Evelyn Edelson-Rosenberg (U.S.A.), Jean-Marc strive for exposure and recognition. These challenges are Philippe (France), Jaroslav Belik (Canada), Peter Callas (Aus- amplified for artists working with new media and tech- tralia), Patrick Boyd (U.K.), Christian Schiess (U.S.A.), I niques—especially artists pushing the boundaries of the inte- Wayan Sadra (Indonesia) and Kitsou Dubois (France). gration of art and technology. With the New Horizons Award, Leonardo/ISAST seeks to recognize emerging artists for in- novation in new media. History of the Leonardo Awards Program The 10 finalists for the New Horizons Award for 2000 were The first Leonardo award, the Frank J. Malina Leonardo Award selected from a larger group nominated by members of the for Lifetime Achievement, was established in 1985 to honor Leonardo/ISAST community around the world. These artists artists who have melded technology and the visual arts over a share a commitment to the incorporation of technology and lifetime. The initial recipient, Hungarian artist Gyorgy Kepes, to the achievement of significant imaginative content, yet was a founder of both the New Bauhaus (Chicago) and MIT’s employ many diverse types of media with dramatically differ- Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His art and life were ent aesthetic results. dedicated to the advancement of new technologies and rela- The finalists were (in alphabetical order): Gregory Barsamian tionships among scientific discoveries and art. (U.S.A.), a sculptor whose kinetic and animated works probe In 1987, Leonardo gave its first Leonardo Award for Excel- fundamental dilemmas of human existence; Bruno Buesch and lence to recognize outstanding and particularly significant Tina Cassani (France/Switzerland), two multimedia artists who articles published in Leonardo. Recipients of this award have produce global radio-network events; José Wagner García (Bra- included composer and musician Alvin Lucier (U.S.A.), artist zil), who has employed a range of technology to create a multi- George Gessert (U.S.A.), and artist and theorist Eduardo Kac level installation probing environmental concerns in the Ama- (U.S.A./Brazil). The newest Leonardo award, the Makepeace zon basin; Graham Harwood (U.K.), whose interactive video Tsao Leonardo Award, was given to Hervé Fischer and fictions (e.g. Rehearsal of Memory) combine stunning aesthetics Ginette Major of La Cité des arts et des nouvelles technolo- with a profound social conscience; Toshio Iwai (Japan), who gies de Montréal. This award recognizes organizations and creates vivid yet playful interactive audio-visual and sound artists’ groups that have increased public awareness of art pieces; Tran T. Kim-Trang and Karl Mihail (U.S.A.), two video forms involving science and technology, particularly through artists who also create complex installation works that probe the ethical implications of science; Melinda Rackham (Australia), whose screen-based digital art, sculpture and online (Web) art Leonardo/ISAST News Coordinator: Andrea Blum (e.g. Carrier) examine a provocative range of subjects from iden- E-mail: <[email protected]> tity in the digital world to online sex; Marie Sester (France), 168 LEONARDO, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 168–171, 2001 © 2001 ISAST Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/002409401750184753 by guest on 01 October 2021 the sponsoring of exhibitions. The award is named for the late Christa Sommerer Joins the LEONARDO Makepeace Tsao—biochemist, professor, gallery owner and Editorial Board artist—who served at various times as editorial board member, advisor and benefactor of Leonardo/ISAST. Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist For more information about the Leonardo Awards Pro- working in the field of interactive computer installation. She is gram, contact Leonardo/ISAST, 425 Market Street, 2nd Floor, currently an artistic director and researcher at the ATR Media San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Web Integration and Communications Research Lab in Kyoto, Ja- site: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/>. pan, where she leads a research team on designing interactive environments that combine novel human-machine interaction experiences, artificial life and evolutionary image design. She Editorial Board Member Bulat Galeyev is also an associate professor at the IAMAS International Acad- emy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan, Guest Professor A science researcher and artist, Bulat Galeyev was born in at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria and a re- Tashkent, Uzbekistan, USSR, on 2 October 1940. After search Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies in graduating from Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, Kazan, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sommerer originally studied biol- USSR, in 1962 and obtaining his Ph.D. in 1986, he taught ogy and modern art at the University of Vienna. In 1992 she physics and aesthetics from 1962–1963; lectured in physics teamed up with French media artist Laurent Mignonneau. and philosophy in KAI, Kazan from 1963–1966; was a scien- They created interactive computer installations such as Interac- tific worker from 1966–1994; and has been head of SKB tive Plant Growing (1992–1993), Anthroposcope (1993), A-Volve Prometheus, director of a scientific and research institute for (1994), Phototropy (1995), Riding the Net (2000) and many oth- experimental aesthetics affiliated with the Academy of Sci- ers. They currently work on a large-scale A-life system for the ences of Tatarstan and Kazan State Technical University, telephone, called IKI-IKI Phone. Their interactive artworks Kazan, since 1994. He has directed film, theater and light- have been called “epoch-making” for their use of natural inter- music performances and video-art installations at SKB faces to create a new language of interactivity based on artifi- “Prometei,” 1964–1995; and has been professor of aesthetics cial life and evolutionary image processes. of Kazan Conservatory from 1990 to the present. Galeyev is These works have appeared in numerous exhibitions and author of the following books: Light-Music: Birth and Essence of are permanently installed in media museums and media col- New Art, 1976; Poem of Fire, 1981; Light-Musical Instruments, lections around the world. Sommerer and Mignonneau have 1987; Man, Art, Technology (Problem of Synaesthesia in Art); and won major international media awards, including the Soviet Faustus, 1995. He has contributed more than 300 ar- “Golden Nica” Ars Electronica Award for Interactive Art. ticles to professional journals. Christa Sommerer has published numerous research papers Galeyev has been a member of the editorial board of on Artificial Life, interactivity, interface design and complex- Leonardo since 1987; of Kazan since 1993; and formerly of the ity and has lectured extensively at universities, conferences journal Languages of Design (U.S.A.), 1992–1997. He has orga- and symposia around the world. She is a committee member nized 15 All-Union and All-Russia Light and Music confer- and reviewer for various international conferences and has ences, participated in many international symposia and festi- organized workshops and panels at international confer- vals and was recipient of the Diploma for Spectacle awarded ences such as AlifeVII (Portland, 2000), KES2000 (Brighton, by the All-Russia Theatrical Society, Moscow, in 1970.
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