Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_announcements] LEF@ISEA09, LEF@ARS09, LEF@Re:live09

Apologies for cross posting


TO ALL YASMINERS

We would like to invite you to our LEF sessions.
Please feel free to circulate.


Contact/Organizers: Nina Czegledy <czegledy@interlog.com>
Daniela Reimann <Daniela.Reimann@ufg.ac.at>

If you are interested in attending one of the leonardo education and art
forum workshops at ISEA, Ars or Re-Live please contact us.

We are delighted to report that the Leonardo Education and Art Forum
(LEAF) continues its successful international
education event-initiative and correspondingly we would like to invite
you to join us at the public sessions scheduled
at the forthcoming festivals and conferences.

LEAF@ISEA2009 Belfast
15th International Sympoisum on Electronic Art
August 29, 2009, 13.45- 16.45h

LEAF @ ARS Electronica 2009 Linz
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Friday, September 4, 2009, ARS Electronica Center and University of
Art and Industrial Design
Saturday, September 5, 2009 University of Art and Industrial Design

LEAF@Re:live2009 Melbourne
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Participans of or previous LEAF events (Mutamorphosis, re:place07,
ISEA2008 and ARS2008) contributed to the first
LEAF strategic summary. We intend to continue
this practice
aiming to work towards a thematically linked joint policy paper.

Please indicate your interest in joining us and we will send you
further information.

Looking forward to see you at one or more of the LEAF events

Sincerely,
Nina Czegledy


PRELIMINARY PROGRAMS

LEF@ISEA2009 Belfast
August 29, 2009, 13.45- 16.45h

13.45 Welcome
Kerstin Mey Director of Research Institute of Art and Design,
University of Ulster. Artistic Director ISEA2009
Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair

13.55 Keynote Andrea Polli, Director, Interdisciplinary Film and
Digital Media Program, University of New Mexico,
LEF outgoing co-chair

14.15 LEF international initiatives & the White Paper
Nina Czegledy, Senior Fellow KMDI, University of Toronto
Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University, LEF co-chair

14.35 Introduction to LEF working group session
Daniela Reimann, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz
LEF correspondent, Germany

14.45 Working groups
Focus:
1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational
Capacities and Benchmarks

16.15 Summary.'


LEF @ ARS Electronica 2009 Linz
Friday, September 4, 2009, ARS Electronica Center

9.00 Welcome by Leonardo Education Forum
Nina Czegledy, Ellen Levy, Andrea Polli, Roger Malina, Daniela Reimann

9.10 LEF initiative: state of the art & the White Paper
Lynn Hughes, Nina Czegledy, Daniela Reimann
(presented by Lynn Hughes)


9.30 Keynote host: Nicoletta Blacher,
Head Education Programme, ARS Electronica

9.50 Christopher Lindinger, Director, Futurelab ARS Electronica

10.10 Wolfram Burgard, Institute of Computer Science, Freiburg
Head of Autonomous Intelligent Systems Research Lab

10.40 coffee break /Change of venue
.

11.00 Change of venue: University of Art and
Industrial Design, Hauptplatz, "Hörsaal
B"/lecture room B


Welcome by LEF: Nina Czegledy, Daniela Reimann Lynn Hughes

12 New media design study program in Linz (Lehramt Mediengestaltung),
Angelika Plank, Head of the Department of Art Education, Kunstuniversität Linz
University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz

12.20 Light lunch hosted at the Art Education Department

13 "Migrating Art Accademies"
Mindaugas Gapsevicius, Vilnius Academy of Arts/ top e.V.Berlin


13.30 Introduction to Working Groups - Daniela Reimann
Working Group Session (3 Rooms)
1. The Role of Research in media art & science
2. The Role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
3. The Role of Institutions: Institutional /
Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks

15 Coffee break hosted at the department of Art Education /BE

15.15 Working Group session (3 rooms) continued.

16.15 Working Group Summary Session


19.30 Prix Ars, Brucknerhaus

Saturday, September 5, 2009
Kunstuniversität, Hauptplatz ,"Hörsaal B"/lecture room B,

10 Welcome by LEF: Nina Czegledy, Daniela Reimann Lynn Hughes

10.10 The Cultural Interface. Christa Sommerer Professor,
Institute for Media, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz

11 Coffee break


11. 10 Erika Pasztor, Head, Media Design Department, Budapest College of
Communication and Business

12.00 Concluding session

Contact/ Organizers Nina Czegledy <czegledy@interlog.com>
Daniela Reimann Daniela.Reimann@ufg.ac.at


LEF@Re:live2009
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
Science and Technology, Melbourne
November 26, 2009

Welcome Paul Thomas, Festival co-director
Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair

LEF initiatives & Policy Papers Nina Czegledy
Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto,
Adjunct Associate Professor Concordia University

Media Art Scoping Paul Thomas, Studio Electronic
Arts (SEA), Curtin University of
Technology, Perth, Australia

Oliver Grau, Professor of Image Science, Dean of
Department of Cultural Studies, Danube
University, Krems, Austria

Ross Harley, College of Fine Arts, Senior
Lecturer, University of New South Wales

Ian M Clothier, Senior Lecturer, Western
Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand
Director: Intercreate.org, SCANZ2006 & 2009

Working groups
Focus:
1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational
Capacities and Benchmarks

Summary.
_______________________________________________
Yasmin_announcements mailing list
Yasmin_announcements@estia.media.uoa.gr
http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_announcements

Yasmin URL: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE: click on the link to the list you wish to subscribe to. In the page that will appear ("info page"), enter e-mail address, name, and password in the fields found further down the page.

HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE: on the info page, scroll all the way down and enter your e-mail address in the last field. Enter password if asked. Click on the unsubscribe button on the page that will appear ("options page").

HOW TO ENABLE / DISABLE DIGEST MODE: in the options page, find the "Set Digest Mode" option and set it to either on or off.