[spectre] Ascott & Shanken event - May 10

[Melinda Klayman]

Roy Ascott and Edward Shanken to speak at SFAI


Date: Saturday, May 10, 2003
Time: 5-7pm
Location: San Francisco Art Institute, Quad, 800 Chestnut Street, SF


Description: Leonardo and the San Francisco Art Institute invite you to the
Bay Area book launch and signing for Roy Ascott's new book, Telematic
Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, edited by
Edward Shanken (University of California Press, 2003). Both Ascott and
Shanken will give a brief talk, and answer your questions about the book.
Books will be available for sale and signing.

Learn more about the book at http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8867.html

For general information, please call 510.642.4701


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has continued for 35 years to focus on writings by artists who work with
science- and technology-based art media. The International Society for the
Arts, Sciences and Technology was founded in 1982 to further the aims of
Leonardo by providing avenues of communication for artists working in
contemporary media. Leonardo/ISAST serves the international art, science,
and technology communities through its publications Leonardo and Leonardo
Music Journal and its compact disc series; the Leonardo Book Series; the
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collaboration with the MIT Press. We have a sister organization in France,
the Association Leonardo, which publishes the Observatoire Leonardo
(OLATS)Web Site. We have a number of other activities including an awards
program. While encouraging the innovative presentation of technology-based
arts, Leonardo/ISAST also functions as an international meeting place for
artists, educators, students, scientists and others interested in the use of
new media in contemporary artistic expression.


Since its founding in 1871 the San Francisco Art Institute has provided an
innovative and stimulating educational environment to thousands of
artists-both students and faculty. From Ansel Adams to Catherine Opie; Mark
Rothko to Barry McGee;  Rube Goldberg to Jason Rhoades, Art Institute
faculty and students have had enormous impact on American art and culture.
Other notable alumni include filmmakers Lance Accord, Kathryn Bigelow, Menno
Meyjes, and Scott Kramer; painters Nina Bovasso, Enrique Chagoya, Richard
Diebenkorn, Chris Johanson, and Kehinde Wiley; 2002 MacArthur Awardees Toba
Khedoori and Liza Lou; performance artists Karen Finley, Tony Labat, and
Paul McCarthy;  photographers Aziz&Cucher, Lewis Baltz, Annie Liebovitz, and
Sharon Lockhart;  sculptors Jason Middlebrook, Manuel Neri, and Richard
Shaw; and digital artist Paul Pfeiffer, winner of the 2000 Whitney
Biennial's Bucksbaum Award. The Art Institute offers BFA, MFA, and  MA
degree programs, Post-Baccalaureate Certificates, as well as Pre-College and
non-degree courses for youths and adults.

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