[Reader-list] [Announcements] Leonardo Announces New Board & Committee Members

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Leonardo/ISAST 
Welcomes New Members to Its Governing Board,
International Advisory Board, and Leonardo Editorial Board
 
Anne Pfister, Michael Grey, Sundar Sarukkai, Julio Bermúdez, and Doug Vakoch
 

Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology is
pleased to announce the addition of new members to its Governing Board,
International Advisory Board, and Leonardo Editorial Board.

Anne Brooks Pfister and Michael Joaquin Grey will join the Leonardo/ISAST
Governing Board, a group that consists of prominent figures in the fields of
art, science, and technology. The International Advisory Board welcomes
Sundar Sarukkai from India and Julio Bermudez from Argentina to its ranks of
art-and-science luminaries throughout the world. Governing Board members
meet face-to-face at regular meetings several times a year, whereas
International Advisory Board members communicate via email and telephone on
an ad-hoc basis. Both groups participate actively in reaching decisions for
Leonardo/ISAST. Douglas A. Vakoch will enter service on the Leonardo
Editorial Board, a group of experts in the fields of art, science, and
technology who determine content for the journal Leonardo.

ANNE PFISTER AND MICHAEL GREY JOIN THE
LEONARDO/ISAST GOVERNING BOARD

Anne Brooks Pfister is entering service on the Governing Board. She holds
degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology as well as art history, and is
currently employed at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in
Berkeley. Pfister¹s background is in marketing, both for science and arts
organizations,  and in both the non-profit and commercial sectors, including
experience at KALA Institute, Quantum Dot Corporation, and Onyx
Pharmaceuticals. She is active on the Board of Directors of the University
Art Museum Council, UC Berkeley, and as a volunteer judge for the Berkeley
Middle School Science Fair Program. She is eager to bring a Latino
perspective to the Governing Board of Leonardo/ISAST.

Also joining the Governing Board, Michael Joaquin Grey is an artist,
designer, inventor, and entrepreneur best known for his popular and highly
acclaimed educational toy ZOOB. Winner of honors from ID Magazine, Consumer
Reports, Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Astra, and the American Toy
Institute Award, ZOOB merges genetic engineering with tinker toys. Grey
founded Primordial, LLC, which produced ZOOB, and currently serves as
President of the Sound of Time, a multimedia editing system. As an artist,
Grey has exhibited internationally and won the Golden Nica Award from Ars
Electronica. Michael Grey has a long background in combining industrial
design, mechanical engineering, entertainment and education. He orchestrates
collaborative efforts between various educational institutions, including
Cal Tech, the Art Center College of Design, and the Berkeley
Interdisciplinary Design Institute. Grey has served on the boards of Zero
One, ATC, and Eyebeam Atelier, among others.

Grey and Pfister join Roger Malina, Chair; Martin Anderson, Treasurer; Mark
Resch, Secretary; Mina Bissell; Penelope Finnie; Lynn Hershman; Ed Payne;
Sonya Rapoport; Beverly Reiser; Joel Slayton; and Stephen Wilson on the
Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board.

 
SUNDAR SARUKKAI AND JULIO BERMUDEZ JOIN THE
LEONARDO/ISAST INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
 
Beginning a term on the International Advisory Board, Sundar Sarukkai is a
Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science Unit, National Institute of
Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received
his Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics from Purdue University. Recipient
of various fellowships, including the Homi Babha Fellowship and David Ross
Fellowship, Sarukkai has been a visiting scholar at MIT and Stanford
University. He authored the books Translating the World: Science and
Language and the forthcoming The Philosophy of Symmetry. Sarukkai publishes
and lectures worldwide in science and philosophy journals and conferences.
Sarukkai currently serves as a consultant to a project on the relevance of
Gandhian thought to contemporary India.

Julio Bermúdez, hailing from Argentina, joins the International Advisory
Board as an Associate Professor at the University of Utah College of
Architecture & Planning. His research and creative work have focused on
digital media and the application of architectural concepts to data
environments. Bermúdez has received international recognition as a design
expert on hybrid representations, methodologies, and technologies involving
analog and digital systems. Of particular relevance is his invention of
CyberPRINT, a virtual reality-based performing art project that brings
together dance, choreography, music, engineering, medicine and architecture.
This and other works have been widely published, exhibited, and/or performed
in the U.S. and elsewhere. Bermúdez is currently involved in several
interdisciplinary projects dealing with information architecture applied to
medicine, finance, process control, and network monitoring.

Sarukkai and Bermúdez will serve on the Leonardo/ISAST International
Advisory Board along with Beverly Reiser, Chair, USA; Mark Beam, Mexico;
Annick Bureaud, France; Nic Collins, USA; Nisar Keshvani, Singapore;
Christine Maxwell, France; Michael Naimark, USA; Michael Punt, UK; and
Rejane Spitz, Brazil.

 
DOUG VAKOCH JOINS THE LEONARDO EDITORIAL BOARD
 
Starting his term on the Leonardo Editorial Board in 2004, Douglas A. Vakoch
is the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute,
as well as the only social scientist employed by a SETI (Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence) organization. Vakoch researches ways that
different civilizations might create messages that could be transmitted
across interstellar space, allowing communication between humans and
extraterrestrials even without face-to-face contact. He is particularly
interested in how we might compose reply messages that would begin to
express the human experience.

 
ABOUT LEONARDO/ISAST

Leonardo/ISAST serves the international art community by providing channels
of communication for artists, art historians, technologists, scientists,
educators, students and others interested in the arts, with an emphasis on
documenting the voices of artists all over the world who use science and
developing technologies in their work. Leonardo began international
publication of its print journal in 1968 and evolved into the International
Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology in 1982 to broaden its
exposure of artists who work with science- and technology-based art media.
Leonardo/ISAST also functions as an international meeting ground for
artists, educators, students, scientists and others interested in the use of
new media in contemporary artistic expression. Further information may be
found at www.leonardo.info

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