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LEON4103_pp310-311.ps - 5/6/2008 2:21 PM CELEBRATING THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF Leonardo Network News THE LEONARDO NETWORK E The Newsletter of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology L O and of l’Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Technosciences 4 O Tenure in Art/Science/Technology The Smart Textiles special project expands on Leonardo’s Departments archive of textile art documentation by focusing on textile A discussion has been initiated on the Leonardo Education artists and scientists around the world who work with smart Forum (LEF) list about promotion and tenure for faculty in textiles or the new textiles science and technology. art/science/technology departments. See <artsci.ucla.edu/ The project is supported by the Marjorie Duckworth LEF/node/104>. Malina Fund, which honors the memory of a key longtime The discussion was initiated by LEF in response to a supporter of Leonardo/ISAST. The project recognizes Mar- paper outlining criteria being developed at the University jorie’s dedication to the ideals of international cooperation of Maine in the U.S.A. The paper, titled “New Criteria for by emphasizing the participation of artists throughout the New Media,” authored by Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito and world. Owen Smith in collaboration with Steve Evans and Nate Artists and researchers interested in writing about their Stormer, is available on the LEF web site: <artsci.ucla.edu/ work involving the science and technology of smart textile LEF/node/95>. and clothing arts are invited to view the Leonardo Editorial LEF is interested in approaches by other universities for Guidelines and related information at <leonardo.info/ evaluating and promoting young faculty in hybrid practices Authors> and send in a manuscript proposal to <leonardo that may involve professional activity in both the arts and [email protected]>. sciences or engineering, traditional scholarly publishing or A list of articles previously published in Leonardo and new on-line publishing mechanisms. LMJ over the years is available on the Leonardo web site at: Leonardo Education Forum is focused on the professional <www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/calls/smartextiles_call. interests of educators and young faculty as well as young html>. professionals intending to enter teaching careers. To join the LEF discussion list, visit the LEF web site: <artsci.ucla.edu/ Leonardo Day at UC Berkeley LEF/>. New Media Festival 2007–2008 Chairs: Eddie Shanken (Chair); Andrea Polli (Co-Chair), Nina Czegledy (Co-Chair), Victoria Vesna Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to host a day-long symposium on (Co-Chair) 3 June 2008 devoted to art, science and technology, as part 2007–2008 Graduate and Emerging Professional Chairs: of the Berkeley Big Bang 2008 new media symposium and Mariah Klaneski, Josh Levy, Justin Cone art festival in Berkeley, CA. The three-day event will be aug- mented with digital art exhibitions, social events and campus events and is scheduled to occur immediately before the Leonardo Reviews ZeroOne Festival in San Jose, CA. Two days of the festival Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of will be hosted by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disci- and directed by Richard Rinehart (Digital Media Director plines to review books, exhibitions, audio CDs, web sites and & Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum University of conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual com- California at Berkeley). The other day will be hosted by mitment to engaging with the emergent debates and mani- Leonardo/ISAST as part of the Leonardo 40th anniversary festations that are the consequences of the convergence of celebrations. The theme of Leonardo Day is “Remix: From the arts, sciences and technology. Each month, Leonardo Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age”; it will include Reviews, under the direction of Editor-in-Chief Michael presentations by Steve Wilson, Bronac Ferran, Jim Crutch- Punt, publishes new reviews on-line. Selected reviews are field, Chris Chafe, Michael Joaquin Grey, Laura Peticolas, also published bi-monthly in the print journal Leonardo. Douglas Kahn, Ruth West, Gordan Wozniak and Wayne If you would like to be advised of updates to the Leonardo Lanier. More information about the event is available on Reviews site please e-mail <[email protected]> with the word the Leonardo web site: <www.leonardo.info>. “update” in the subject line. Leonardo Reviews can be found on-line at: <leonardo. info/ldr.html>. Leonardo Network News Coordinator: Kathleen Quillian. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Smart Textiles: Science and Technology of Textile Art A number of articles have been published in Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal on topics related to the textile arts. 310 LEONARDO, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 310–311, 2008 ©2008 ISAST Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-pdf/41/3/310/1574194/leon.2008.41.3.310.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 LEON4103_pp310-311.ps - 5/6/2008 2:21 PM In Memoriam: In Memoriam: Dimitris Skoufis Karlheinz Stockhausen Dimitris Skoufis, the co-publisher, webmaster and member by Annick Bureaud of the board of directors of the non-governmental organiza- The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died 5 tion Artopos <www.artopos.org>, is no longer with us. After December 2007 at his home in Kürten (Germany). Unani- an unequal battle with cancer, he passed away on the morn- mously regarded as one of the most important figures in ing of Thursday, 22 November 2007. His early departure contemporary music, Stockhausen composed a large num- at the age of 54 bereaves his friends and colleagues of an ber of works that have profoundly marked the second half of impressive mind and a big heart. Art in the Age of Biotechnolog- the 20th century. A pioneer of electronic music in Cologne ical Revolution, a bilingual book-catalogue, subsidized by the in the early 1950s, the inventor of the Momentform and a I. Kostopoulos Foundation, to be published by Futura Publi- genuine visionary who was involved in numerous innova- cations, is dedicated to his memory. Dimitris Skoufis was an tions, Stockhausen will be remembered for his unwavering electrical engineer from the University of Patras who had desire to discover new aesthetic horizons. struggled against the military Greek regime of the late 1960s In 2002, Bruno Bossis wrote a very detailed notice and early 1970s. He was a multifaceted, talented person, a about Stockhausen—to which he very kindly contributed pioneer in Internet theory and practice and multilingual. by providing information and images—in the framework Skoufis was a man of a concrete literary and philosophical of the Leonardo/Olats Pioneers & Pathbreakers project background, a remarkable columnist for ANTI magazine <www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/stockhausen/stockhausen. and a gifted teacher at the Mass Media Studies Department php>. of the University of Athens. He had been dearly loved by Leonardo would like to thank Stockhausen again and his students at the university and his professor Michalis pay homage to the great artist he has been. Meimaris, as well as by his colleagues at Oracle, where he contributed as a localization consultant. His loss leaves a serious, irreplaceable gap, and all of us who cared for him are in mourning. 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