Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria. He was formerly Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University, and Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on art and technology in the 1960s, information aesthetics, interactivity and agency, and the cultural implications of cybernetics, robotics, and biotechnology. He edited Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003). His second book, Art and Electronic Media was published by Phaidon Press in 2009. Full CV available on my website.
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CFP: LEF Exhibition @ CAA 2006
Deadline:
Fri Nov 25, 2005 19:32
Call for participation in the LEF exhibition concurrent with CAA in Boston, February 22-25:
TECHNOLOGIZED BODIES/EMBODIED TECHNOLOGIES
Curated by Legier Biederman and Dave Burns/Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)
JANUARY 1, 2006 DEADLINE
Works on video that convey and/or solicit embodied subjects and/or embodied responses, and thus potentially rupture and/or problematize the notion that acts of viewing cohere us as the discrete and transcendent origins of vision and knowledge.
The exhibition will be held at Art Interactive in Cambridge and includes screens curated by the New Media Caucus and by Art Technology Boston. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm, so mark your calendars!
To download details and submission information, please see:
http://artexetra.com/LEFcfpArtInteractive2006.doc
Entry is open to LEF members and non-members alike.
For more information on LEF: http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/leonardocaa.html
Please address queries to Legier Beiderman: lbiederm at ucla.edu
TECHNOLOGIZED BODIES/EMBODIED TECHNOLOGIES
Curated by Legier Biederman and Dave Burns/Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)
JANUARY 1, 2006 DEADLINE
Works on video that convey and/or solicit embodied subjects and/or embodied responses, and thus potentially rupture and/or problematize the notion that acts of viewing cohere us as the discrete and transcendent origins of vision and knowledge.
The exhibition will be held at Art Interactive in Cambridge and includes screens curated by the New Media Caucus and by Art Technology Boston. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm, so mark your calendars!
To download details and submission information, please see:
http://artexetra.com/LEFcfpArtInteractive2006.doc
Entry is open to LEF members and non-members alike.
For more information on LEF: http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/leonardocaa.html
Please address queries to Legier Beiderman: lbiederm at ucla.edu
CFP: VIdeo for Leonardo exhibition in Boston
Deadline:
Thu Nov 17, 2005 15:05
Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies
Curated by Legier Beiderman and Dave Burns/Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)
JANUARY 1, 2006 DEADLINE
Works on video that convey and/or solicit embodied subjects and/or embodied responses, and thus potentially rupture and/or problematize the notion that acts of viewing cohere us as the discrete and transcendent origins of vision and knowledge.
The exhibition will be held at Art Interactive in Cambridge and will include screens curated by the New Media Caucus and by Art Technology Boston as well. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm, so mark your calendars!
To download details and submission information, please see:
http://artexetra.com/LEFcfpArtInteractive2006.doc
Entry is open to LEF members and non-members alike.
For more information on LEF: http://leocaa.blogspot.com/
Curated by Legier Beiderman and Dave Burns/Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)
JANUARY 1, 2006 DEADLINE
Works on video that convey and/or solicit embodied subjects and/or embodied responses, and thus potentially rupture and/or problematize the notion that acts of viewing cohere us as the discrete and transcendent origins of vision and knowledge.
The exhibition will be held at Art Interactive in Cambridge and will include screens curated by the New Media Caucus and by Art Technology Boston as well. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm, so mark your calendars!
To download details and submission information, please see:
http://artexetra.com/LEFcfpArtInteractive2006.doc
Entry is open to LEF members and non-members alike.
For more information on LEF: http://leocaa.blogspot.com/
Call for Curatorial Proposals for CAA 2007 NYC
The Leonardo-College Art Association workgroup (LEO-CAA) seeks curatorial proposals for an exhibition that will feature, but not be limited to, work by LEO-CAA members. The exhibition will coincide with the CAA conference in NYC February 14-17, 2007. Exhibition is eligible for $10,000 award from CAA plus another $5000 for a catalog. Curator need not be a member of CAA or Leonardo. Curator will work with LEO CAA Chairs to establish venue and submit proposal to CAA by September 1 deadline. For details, see http://www.collegeart.org/conference/2007c.html
Please submit 250 word statement describing the exhibition's theme and explaining any special or timely significance. Suggestions for venues or additional sources of funding or in-kind support are encouraged. Please send proposal via e-mail by August 5 to address in heading.
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LEO-CAA is a group of individuals who are members of both Leonardo/ISAST (the journal) and the College Art Association. Our purpose is to forge stronger alliances between the constituencies of the two organizations. LEO-CAA began in 2004 and was chaired by Leonardo editor Roger Malina in 2004. In 2005, Yianni Yessios, Amy Ione, and Edward Shanken were elected as chairs.
LEO-CAA organizes several events for the CAA annual conference: 1) a panel discussion, the papers for which are published in Leonardo; 2) a mentoring session for graduate students; and 3) presents an exhibition featuring member work. The 2005 panel, "Hybridity: Arts, Science, and Cultural Effects," included papers from Diane Gromala, Amy Ione, George Legrady, and Dan Sandin and was chaired by Yvonne Spielmann and Jay David Bolter.
Links to the 2005 Leonardo CAA events, our main site, Blog, and listserve signup:
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/caa05.html
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/leonardocaa.html
http://leocaa.blogspot.com/
http://webexhibits.org/about/leocaa.html
We encourage you to submit a curatorial proposal and to consider joining LEO-CAA.
Dr. Edward A. Shanken
Professor of Art History
Savannah College of Art & Design
http://artexetra.com
Please submit 250 word statement describing the exhibition's theme and explaining any special or timely significance. Suggestions for venues or additional sources of funding or in-kind support are encouraged. Please send proposal via e-mail by August 5 to address in heading.
***********
LEO-CAA is a group of individuals who are members of both Leonardo/ISAST (the journal) and the College Art Association. Our purpose is to forge stronger alliances between the constituencies of the two organizations. LEO-CAA began in 2004 and was chaired by Leonardo editor Roger Malina in 2004. In 2005, Yianni Yessios, Amy Ione, and Edward Shanken were elected as chairs.
LEO-CAA organizes several events for the CAA annual conference: 1) a panel discussion, the papers for which are published in Leonardo; 2) a mentoring session for graduate students; and 3) presents an exhibition featuring member work. The 2005 panel, "Hybridity: Arts, Science, and Cultural Effects," included papers from Diane Gromala, Amy Ione, George Legrady, and Dan Sandin and was chaired by Yvonne Spielmann and Jay David Bolter.
Links to the 2005 Leonardo CAA events, our main site, Blog, and listserve signup:
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/caa05.html
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/leonardocaa.html
http://leocaa.blogspot.com/
http://webexhibits.org/about/leocaa.html
We encourage you to submit a curatorial proposal and to consider joining LEO-CAA.
Dr. Edward A. Shanken
Professor of Art History
Savannah College of Art & Design
http://artexetra.com
The Story of E.A.T. Exhibition opens June 5
Dates:
Sun Jun 05, 2005 00:00 - Tue May 24, 2005
The Story of E.A.T.
Experiments in Art and Technology 1960-2002
by Billy Kluver
Exhibition June 5 - September 4, 2005
Opening reception June 5, 2-5pm
New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens
47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY 11368
(718)699-0005
Subway: #7 to 11th Street
http://www.nyscience.org
Experiments in Art and Technology 1960-2002
by Billy Kluver
Exhibition June 5 - September 4, 2005
Opening reception June 5, 2-5pm
New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens
47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY 11368
(718)699-0005
Subway: #7 to 11th Street
http://www.nyscience.org
Roy Ascott lecture at SCAD April 14
Dates:
Wed Apr 14, 2004 00:00 - Mon Apr 11, 2005
Roy Ascott
Orleans Hall
Savannah College of Art & Design
Savannah, GA
Thursday, April 14th, 7:00pm
“Transdisciplinary Transformations:
Art and Design in a Culture of Connectivity”
Abstract: New developments in art, science, and technology generate new discourse calling for new language. Terms such as technoetics and moistmedia, signal the emergence of new media practices. The material, conceptual and spiritual infrastructure needed to support this emergence calls for research strategies, institutional forms, and cultural organisms hitherto unknown. This requires dynamically constructive as well as reflective and expressive practices in art and design, which progressively over the next years will involve us in such fields as telematics (planetary connectivity), nanotechnology (bottom up design), and quantum computing (accelerated and expanded cognition). There would be some wisdom in attempting closer integration with the spiritual domain that has been blocked by the excessive materialism and insistent reductionism of our times. In seeking a matrix that integrates questions of society, the self, materiality, and consciousness, we can place transdisciplinary research at the intersection of five objectives: to amplify thought (concept development); to share consciousness (collaborative processes); to seed structures (self-organising systems); to make metaphors (knowledge navigation); to construct identities (self-creation).
Bio: A pioneer of cybernetic and telematic art, Ascott is an internationally renowned artist, theorist, and educator. He is Founding Director of the Planetary Collegium Ph.D. program and Professor of Technoetics at the University of Plymouth, England, and Adjunct Professor in Design|Media Arts at UCLA. Ascott’s work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale, and European Media Festival, Osnabruck. His book, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, was published by University of California Press, 2003.
For more information on Roy Ascott and the Planetary Collegium:
Orleans Hall
Savannah College of Art & Design
Savannah, GA
Thursday, April 14th, 7:00pm
“Transdisciplinary Transformations:
Art and Design in a Culture of Connectivity”
Abstract: New developments in art, science, and technology generate new discourse calling for new language. Terms such as technoetics and moistmedia, signal the emergence of new media practices. The material, conceptual and spiritual infrastructure needed to support this emergence calls for research strategies, institutional forms, and cultural organisms hitherto unknown. This requires dynamically constructive as well as reflective and expressive practices in art and design, which progressively over the next years will involve us in such fields as telematics (planetary connectivity), nanotechnology (bottom up design), and quantum computing (accelerated and expanded cognition). There would be some wisdom in attempting closer integration with the spiritual domain that has been blocked by the excessive materialism and insistent reductionism of our times. In seeking a matrix that integrates questions of society, the self, materiality, and consciousness, we can place transdisciplinary research at the intersection of five objectives: to amplify thought (concept development); to share consciousness (collaborative processes); to seed structures (self-organising systems); to make metaphors (knowledge navigation); to construct identities (self-creation).
Bio: A pioneer of cybernetic and telematic art, Ascott is an internationally renowned artist, theorist, and educator. He is Founding Director of the Planetary Collegium Ph.D. program and Professor of Technoetics at the University of Plymouth, England, and Adjunct Professor in Design|Media Arts at UCLA. Ascott’s work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale, and European Media Festival, Osnabruck. His book, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, was published by University of California Press, 2003.
For more information on Roy Ascott and the Planetary Collegium:
