LEA March '05: Abraham Palatnik: 2005 Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

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Leonardo Electronic Almanac: March 2005
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In LEA's March issue, we are pleased to highlight the life and work of pioneering Brazilian kinetic artist Abraham Palatnik, the winner of the 2005 Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award. We feature a tribute to Palatnik by Rejane Spitz (2005 SIGGRAPH Chair), an interview by artist Eduardo Kac, and the original introduction to the 1951 Sao Paolo Biennial, in which Palatnik first broke onto the Brazilian art scene, by art critic Mario Pedrosa.

In Leonardo Reviews, we find a typically diverse offering of reviews - Michael Punt weighing in on the 6th Swiss Biennial, themed "Consciousness and Teleportation" (!); a review by Jan Baetens of a book exploring the development of pictorial depictions of machines, both real and imagined, from 1400-1700; and Amy Ione's review of *The Junction*, a film taking a close look at the very real human consequences of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Highlights of ISAST news include: Steve Mann receiving the Leonardo Award for Excellence and honorable mention for David First. Leonardo/ISAST with support from the Rockefeller Foundation awards the inaugural Leonardo Global Crossings Prize to brother-sister team Abdel Ghany and Amal Kenawy from Cairo, Eygpt. Runners-up include Regina Celia Pinto (Brazil), Kim Machan (Australia) and Shilpa Gupta (India).

From this issue, we launch a series on the Pacific Rim New Media Summit in anticipation of the ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose festival. Chair Joel Slayton outlines the festival objectives with Education Chair Fatima Lasay articulating its directives towards tactical learning ecologies.

Finally, with the Bytes section (featuring announcements and calls for papers), we catch up with some events in the ever-changing world of art, science and technology.

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Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2005.

The English language peer review panel for 2004/2005 are Pau Alsina, Jody Berland, Sean Cubitt, Frieder Nake, Sheila Pinkel and Stephen Petersen.

*** Global Crossings Prize ***

Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce that the recipients of the inaugural 2005 Leonardo Global Crossings Prize are Abdel Ghany Kenawy and Amal Kenawy, of Cairo, Egypt, a brother-sister team who have been collaborating on large-scale installations since 1997.

This award recognizes the contribution of artists and scholars from culturally diverse communities worldwide within the emerging art-science-technology field, and is part of the Leonardo Global Crossings Special Project, supported by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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