Announcing the first Leonardo Art/Science Student Contest

Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST, www.leonardo.info) is organizing a new digital media conference in Berkeley, CA which will take place on June 3, 2008 as part of the UC Berkeley Spring New Media Festival. As part of that conference, Leonardo would like to invite students to submit projects that blend the arts and the sciences.

A jury will select ten significant projects by students. Five of them will be exhibited at the closing event of the conference. The other five will receive an honorary mention. All ten will be given recognition in the journal Leonardo.

Projects must have been implemented and demonstrable. Projects that are close in spirit to the three panels of the conference (see below) are particularly welcome, but other topics are welcome too, and there is no restriction on the audio/visual format of the project. The five winning students will be responsible for setting up and (if needed) operating their installations. Leonardo/ISAST regrets that it will not be able to provide for transportation to Berkeley.

Submissions can be emailed or mailed to Leonardo/ISAST. Each submission should contain a brief abstract (500-words maximum) in Winword, PDF or HTML. A CD/DVD or a hyperlink to a website that contains the audio and/or video demonstration is very welcome (all major video/audio formats are acceptable).

Deadline for submission is March 31, 2008.
Winning students will be notified in April.

Conference panels:
"Osmosis": What can the arts do for the sciences?"
"Brilliant Noise: how data becomes experience for artists and for scientists"
"The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very Very Small"

Leonardo/ISAST
Art/Science Student Contest
211 Sutter Street, suite 501
San Francisco, CA 94108
Email: isast@leonardo.info (Please specify in subject line: “Art/Science Student Contest”)