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LEA Editorial Board Member by minorities. Since 1996, she has worked for Leonardo/ Michael Naimark OLATS as a curator and graphic designer and is now in charge Michael Naimark has been a professional media artist and re- of three of its projects: “Virtual Africa,” a multidisciplinary ex- searcher for over two decades. As an independent media artist hibition on traditional and contemporary African cultures; from 1980 to 1992, he produced artworks in conjunction with “Frank J. Malina, Kinetic Artist and Engineer in Astronautics”; the Paris Metro, the Exploratorium (San Francisco), the ZKM and “Abraham Palatnik.” She is also research assistant at the (Karlsruhe, Germany) and the Banff Centre (Canada) and con- Varian Fry Foundation in France, the purpose of which is to sulted for companies including Atari, Lucasfilm, Apple and bring to the largest public audience and to schools and uni- Panavision. In 1992, he became a member of the research staff versities in France the memory of the humanitarian resistance of the newly founded Interval Research Corporation in Palo of Varian Fry and of the American rescue and relief organiza- Alto, CA, employed for arts and media projects, where he stayed tion he established in Marseilles during World War II. through 2001. As a fellow at the Roberto Longhi Foundation in Florence Naimark is an expert in place representation and its conse- and at the École Française de Rome, Rotily first wrote a bio- quences and has worked extensively with field cinematography, graphical study on the American art historian Bernard Beren- interactive systems and immersive projection. He was instru- son, focusing on his relationships with French intellectuals mental in making the first interactive video at the Massachu- (André Gide, Marcel Proust and others) and on his contribu- setts Institute of Technology in the late 1970s and was on the tion to the development of Renaissance art collection in the original design team for the MIT Media Laboratory. He has United States. She has published articles in literary journals been a member of the Society for Visual Anthropology since such as L’Infini and Critique on building connections between 1984. His art projects have been exhibited internationally. the visual arts and literature. As a specialist in the history of Naimark’s published work includes “Realness and French-American artistic relationships, she more recently pub- Interactivity,” in B. Laurel, ed., The Art of Human Computer In- lished Artistes américains à Paris, 1914–1939 (Paris: L’Harmat- terface Design (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1990); “Field Record- tan, 1999), in which she examines the role played by Paris and ing Studies,” in M. Moser, ed., Immersed in Technology its artistic avant-garde in the birth of a typically “American” art. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996); and “Art ‘and’ or ‘versus’ Rotily was a teacher at Harvard University in the Art History Technology,” in C. Sommerer, ed., Art@Science (Vienna: Department and in the Romance Languages Department. In Springer Verlag, 1997). France, she has also taught undergraduate classes on Ameri- In 2001 Naimark’s 3D interactive installation Be Now Here, a can art in the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Aix- unique collaboration between Interval Research and the en-Provence. UNESCO World Heritage Center, was exhibited at the San Fran- E-mail: . Web site: . Art. Naimark is currently in residence at the Institute of Ad- vanced Media Arts and Sciences in Japan and an advisor for Frank J. Malina Symposium Media Lab Europe in Ireland. at Texas A&M University For further details please see . The first Frank J. Malina Symposium was held at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, on 22 February 2002. Frank New in Virtual Africa Malina was the founder of Leonardo in 1967 and also was an In the new Virtual Africa project “Alma da Agua: A Space Aware- American rocketry pioneer, the first director of the NASA Jet ness Initiative” by Richard Clar and Dinis Ribeiro, natural water Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a tireless worker for inter- samples gathered from the eight Portuguese-speaking coun- national collaboration in UNESCO and the International Acad- tries will be combined in space aboard a Brazilian sounding emy of Astronautics. rocket. In metaphorically celebrating their common bond of This symposium honored Malina’s lifetime artistic and sci- language between these countries, the project addresses the entific achievements. The program consisted of distinguished possibility of greater technical unification and deeper collab- scientists, engineers, architects and artists, making a series of oration of Portuguese-speaking countries in addressing the is- presentations drawn from the left-brain/right-brain creative sues of water management using space technology. spectrum that Malina’s many diverse contributions collectively Web site: . Speakers included scientist-artist Roger Malina, artist- sculptor Janet Saad-Cook, aesthetic architect–artist Thomas Jocelyne Rotily, Leonardo/OLATS Virtual Africa Project Coordinator

Jocelyne Rotily is Doctor in Art History and American Civili- Leonardo/ISAST News Coordinator: Andrea Blum zation. She is a specialist in the history of American art col- E-mail: lecting and in the study of modern American art, including art

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